Wrapping a display:table DIV inside another div with exact height - css

This is giving me such a headache i just have to ask. I never seem to have trouble with C# or Java or SQL or JS as I have with CSS, and i spend too much time trying to figure things out.
I have a table div and some row and cell divs inside it. And i just want to make table div to be of exact height.
My current style:
div .table
{
width: 410px;
height: 410px;
max-height: 410px;
display: table;
border-spacing: 10px;
border-style:dotted;
border-width:medium;
overflow: visible;
}
What else do I have to do to make div exactly 410 px high?
I tried wrapping it in a outer div (with blue borders in picture with specific height and display:block) but table div does not seem to notice it. I added a div with clear:both at the bottom, sometimes it helps but not today...

It appears that:
display:table;
will force the element to expand to fill the width of the content. Even if you set "overflow" to be hidden.
Here's a fiddle with some examples:
http://jsfiddle.net/dRLfv/
I think you'll need to do a regular "display:block" and then set overflow appropriately. That would probably require you to adjust some of your other styles for the table/form elements inside but that should be double and I'm sure others will be happy to help.
I hope that helps!
Cheers!

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CSS Table layout: make rows span full width without centering cells

I have a layout as shown in this fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/4dbgnqha/4/. For reasons that you can read about in this post, I don't want to change the way the page is laid out.
Now, it works fairly well, but the issue is that when I add a border to the bottom of the .item divs, I realize that they don't span the full width of the page. As you can see in the above fiddle, the second .item down doesn't have enough content to fill the width, so its border doesn't reach the full width.
I thought I could fix this by just adding .item { width: 100%; }, but when I do that, the image gets added enough additional width to center the p, which looks really weird. Demo of that: https://jsfiddle.net/4dbgnqha/7/
I know it will fix if I add a set width to the image, but as I mentioned in my original post, I want it to be really flexible, able to have many image widths. I also know that if I wrap the image in an element and set that element to a really small width, like 1px, it will work, but that seems like a hack, and the reason I'm doing this stupid table layout in the first place is that I'm trying to avoid any such hacks.
How can I fix this issue?
You can add this into the CSS, it's a hack, but works very well with table layout.
.item p {
width: 100%;
}
https://jsfiddle.net/4dbgnqha/8/
you need to add width 100% to the .item p element so it gets the maximum available width, otherwise that element will get width:auto. So just add width:100% like this:
.item p {
margin: 0px;
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: top;
width: 100%;
}
edit: well, now I see it was already answered, but for anyone looking for info, this is why it happens

Learning CSS div placement , positioning

i am learning CSS, i am trying to place the div with red background just below the body, i can't seem to make it fit to the body, whenever i adjust the width it doesn't align with the body,when i tried to place it center and 100% width, it occupies 100% of the width of the page it does not align with the white background area, whenever i do 80% it does align left and does not align with the white background area. Please point me to the right direction. I'm stuck :(
the code i have so far is here: http://pastebin.com/VPMgbzQ2
Thanks in advance.
Make your footer div out of the tabs div and no need of position: absolute on it. Make following changes:
#footer
{
margin-top:80%;
height: 20px;
width:50%;
text-align:center;
background:#C00;
}
Here is fiddle.
Also it seems that you are trying to make responsive design but let me tell you that the way you are proceeding is not the right one for it. You may read Responsive Design By Ethan Marcotte for learning it.
EDIT
Make following changes:
Give height: 400px; or as required to table div.
Make your footer div out of the table div.
Either remove margin-top or change it to 5% or 10% as required in footer div.
Add min-height: 100%; to .tabs.
Check out the fiddle.
Try hardcoding the height value
#spaceheader {
width: 100%;
height: 100px;
background: #000000;
}
I see your issue now. The parent element <div class="tab"> is what's causing your issues. If I were you, I'd take the radio buttons out of the tab, make it not have a float:left on it, and this will probably fix things. You then need to remove the absolute positioning on your footer div.
Also, it looked like you put the footer div inside of the tab, when in actuality, it should be outside of all of the tabs, beneath them in the code.

div width is not working?

I have a problem with content from a div, for example if I put a table inside of a div and set a width (width:200px !important)for that div the table it will overwrite that div. So how is possible to keep all content inside that div?
fiddle example:
http://jsfiddle.net/ebG9N/45/
You set the header to white-space: nowrap; therefore, the browser is unable to break the headers, so the width of the table will be bigger than the container div.
You can set, overflow: hidden; to cut the overflowing parts, or overflow: auto; to create a scrollbar, but without them it's the correct rendering.
There are two solutions.
i) IF you want to STRICTLY contain table WITHIN div then overflow:auto; is the way to go.
ii) BUT if you change your mind and want to WRAP div to the width of table then.
display:table; is the way to go.
Generally its bad idea to contain wider element within explicitly known less wider element.
Try using overflow:auto; in the css of the div.
You can't just expect it to somehow fit within a div of any size you wish. What you can do is, at least allow the browser to scroll (overflow: scroll) it using:
div.divano{
width:200px !important;
border:2px solid yellow;
background:#eaeaea;
height:200px;
overflow: scroll;
}
You may also use oveflow: hidden, but it would just hide the parts that are not visible. Also, overflow: scroll, will always show a scroll bar (with or without clipping). You can use overflow: auto to specify that the content should be scrolled only if clipping occurs.

The second floating div in chrome clears down before first div

Two divs are next to eachother, both floating left within a wrapper. In IE and firefox they appear correctly, but in Chrome, the 2nd floating div clears down below Div A. When I remove "float:left" in the css, it goes to the correct position in Chrome, but clears down in IE and firefox (as it should). I dont know why it is appearing this way in Chrome. Any ideas?
The HTML and CSS would be useful to answer this.
If you have just two divs and you want them to float next to one another, then set a width on each of them and float one left and float the other right. Remember to leave some space in between the two.
in my case i use display:inline-table for the parent element of the floated elements.. Even if it is not a table.
I used the display:inline-table in order to fix the bug that google chrome had encountered..
I've same issue in Chrome and I solve it by giving display:inline-table to parent div
The solution is simple - just add the div which contains all these divs an attribute: display: table; - it should solve the problem.
I had multiple css float left divs with text links inside and the container was over lapping on the right of each. The fix was to remove space in the link display text. eg. ...> TEXT </a> to ...>TEXT</a>
You must give 1 div the height
For example
Div 1
.oneColFixCtrHdr #mainContent {
background: #FFFFFF;
width: 375px;
height: 0px; /* deze hoogte op 0 instellen, die bepaal je met de onderstaande div. */
position: relative;
display: block;
float: left;
padding-left: 10px;
margin-bottom: 20px;
padding-bottom: 0px;
padding-top: 20px;
}
Div 2
.oneColFixCtrHdr #maincontent2 {
background: #FFFFFF;
width: 390px;
height: auto;
position: relative;
display: inline-block;
float: right;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-left: 5px;
padding-bottom: 0px;
padding-top: 20px;
padding-left: 20px;
border-left-style: groove;
In Chrome - Seems this issue has something to do with display attribute of parent element. I had same issue and did lot of search. Finally i got it fixed by removing display CSS attribute of parent TD tag. I also obsorved one wiered thing. When i had display:block; for parent a TD table element, in Chrome, colspan was not working (in IE it was working fine). I scratched my lots of hairs finding this problem.
I faced the same problem with Div and its Children Span both had float right, to solve i just added display inline to the Div parent and now it works fine in Chrome and Safari both.
I wrapped everything in <div style="display:inline;"> ... code .. </div> and solved the problem.
Without a code example this really is just guessing
I am not sure how Chrome works but I do know IE ads its own styles. Did you use a css reset? most cross browser issues can be fixed by this.
Sounds like the combined width of the 2 floating divs exceeds the width of the wrapper. Try setting the wrapper width to 100% or no width... or reducing the width of the two floating divs.
do you have any display: inline, block etc style properties set on any of those divs?
What about setting display:inline-block and the width for both divs?
EDIT: Setting a max-width of %50 for each one would work in all browsers except IE6, assuming there's no padding/margin set.
I've faced with the same problem. Chrome incorrectly displays divs with float. The block is displayed under the first. Not aside how I expected.
Solition is simple! Surround both blocks with div that no any other sisterly blocks inside.
I had a problem where I had a container div with a bunch of inner divs that had the float:left property set. My last inner div (most right) also wrapped down.
I fixed my problem by making sure that the combined inner divs with margins does not exceed the width of the container div.
Chrome's developer tool similar to firebug was great in helping me fix the problem.
For my container div I did not explicitly set a width but chrome's developer tool could show me the inherited width. I then looked at all the widths of the inner divs combined and then adjusted some of the inner div's width.
also similar issue with floating child div's. In my case .. I was floating a surrounding div to right, that contained h3 element (with text-align property) - followed by 2 child block elements.
Intent center h3 text, in relation to child block elements below it.
-
Problem? I did not have a set width for block child elements.. Why? I wanted the width to hold distinct padding on left / right relative to text amount in that container. eg. padding:10px 30px;
Solution I resorted to setting a width to surrounding and child divs, also center aligning text on child divs to give similar results of first case attempt.
I experienced the same problem. I had two divs with float: left inside a table td -- I had to set the table td style to include style="text-align: left;" for them to correctly align.
I'm no HTML hero so in my case the problem was really silly.
It was just a syntax error so be sure you check all your syntax before you start pulling your hair out like I did.
And SAFARI was completely ignoring it and displaying the divs correctly floated so I got really confused.
BASICALLY it was an unclosed div tag that was creating the problem :
<div class="seperator" </div> instead of <div class="seperator"> </div>

Seeking CSS Browser compatibility information for setting width using left and right

Here's a question that's been haunting me for a year now. The root question is how do I set the size of an element relative to its parent so that it is inset by N pixels from every edge? Setting the width would be nice, but you don't know the width of the parent, and you want the elements to resize with the window. (You don't want to use percents because you need a specific number of pixels.)
Edit
I also need to prevent the content (or lack of content) from stretching or shrinking both elements. First answer I got was to use padding on the parent, which would work great. I want the parent to be exactly 25% wide, and exactly the same height as the browser client area, without the child being able to push it and get a scroll bar.
/Edit
I tried solving this problem using {top:Npx;left:Npx;bottom:Npx;right:Npx;} but it only works in certain browsers.
I could potentially write some javascript with jquery to fix all elements with every page resize, but I'm not real happy with that solution. (What if I want the top offset by 10px but the bottom only 5px? It gets complicated.)
What I'd like to know is either how to solve this in a cross-browser way, or some list of browsers which allow the easy CSS solution. Maybe someone out there has a trick that makes this easy.
The The CSS Box model might provide insight for you, but my guess is that you're not going to achieve pixel-perfect layout with CSS alone.
If I understand correctly, you want the parent to be 25% wide and exactly the height of the browser display area. Then you want the child to be 25% - 2n pixels wide and 100%-2n pixels in height with n pixels surrounding the child. No current CSS specification includes support these types of calculations (although IE5, IE6, and IE7 have non-standard support for CSS expressions and IE8 is dropping support for CSS expressions in IE8-standards mode).
You can force the parent to 100% of the browser area and 25% wide, but you cannot stretch the child's height to pixel perfection with this...
<style type="text/css">
html { height: 100%; }
body { font: normal 11px verdana; height: 100%; }
#one { background-color:gray; float:left; height:100%; padding:5px; width:25%; }
#two { height: 100%; background-color:pink;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="one">
<div id="two">
<p>content ... content ... content</p>
</div>
</div>
...but a horizontal scrollbar will appear. Also, if the content is squeezed, the parent background will not extend past 100%. This is perhaps the padding example you presented in the question itself.
You can achieve the illusion that you're seeking through images and additional divs, but CSS alone, I don't believe, can achieve pixel perfection with that height requirement in place.
If you are only concerned with horizontal spacing, then you can make all child block elements within a parent block element "inset" by a certain amount by giving the parent element padding. You can make a single child block element within a parent block element "inset" by giving the element margins. If you use the latter approach, you may need to set a border or slight padding on the parent element to prevent margin collapsing.
If you are concerned with vertical spacing as well, then you need to use positioning. The parent element needs to be positioned; if you don't want to move it anywhere, then use position: relative and don't bother setting top or left; it will remain where it is. Then you use absolute positioning on the child element, and set top, right, bottom and left relative to the edges of the parent element.
For example:
#outer {
width: 10em;
height: 10em;
background: red;
position: relative;
}
#inner {
background: white;
position: absolute;
top: 1em;
left: 1em;
right: 1em;
bottom: 1em;
}
If you want to avoid content from expanding the width of an element, then you should use the overflow property, for example, overflow: auto.
Simply apply some padding to the parent element, and no width on the child element. Assuming they're both display:block, that should work fine.
Or go the other way around: set the margin of the child-element.
Floatutorial is a great resource for stuff like this.
Try this:
.parent {padding:Npx; display:block;}
.child {width:100%; display:block;}
It should have an Npx space on all sides, stretching to fill the parent element.
EDIT:
Of course, on the parent, you could also use
{padding-top:Mpx; padding-bottom:Npx; padding-right:Xpx; padding-left:Ypx;}

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