I've looked through other posts regarding CSS floats, but have not yet found an answer.
I have several div with same width (1/3 of screen). They are all set to float left. When one is longer than the others, it pushes the following blocks down.
I've made an example which you can see at http://apsam.dk/misc/float-pushdown-problem/index.php (the yellow div is pushed down by the blue div).
If I missed the answer in a post, please point me to it. I've looked throug alot.
EDIT to clarify. The question is: How to avoid that the yellow div gets pushed down.
To start a new line, please enter a div with the clear: both; attribute.
See my answer on another post here, which shows an example:
Link
Floats don't "jigsaw puzzle" together like that. Each of your floats has a height, that height is seen and honored. You can't get .yellow to ignore the height of .blue, especially in the same container. You could use positioning to move .yellow up.
Demo here
Or, you could use another div and treat it as your left column and have it contain the green and yellow divs.
Demo here
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I have a span element which I want to be present at teh right corner of the page. For that I have used margin-right:10px. But it shows no effect. Where as margin-left works. Why is this? And how to make the span element appear at the right side of the page?
Try this (jsFiddle)
.right-corner {
float:right;
}
or this (jsFiddle)
.right-corner {
position:absolute:
top:0;
right:0;
}
The reason that margin-right doesn't work is because it's just giving your element a right margin not repositioning it. To help you understand, if you put something after your element with margin-right there will be a gap between them which is the margin.
margin-left does this as well, it's just doing it on the left side and since elements are places from left-to-right there is the gap on the left side which looks like it just shifted to the right.
Have a look at this little example to try to understand. You should read up on the CSS box model if you don't understand.
Margin-right is the right margin.
If you want to align it to the right you can use right:10px that is if position is absolute.
otherwise you can use float:right
You can also set the display:inline-block to the span.
You can learn more about margins
http://phrogz.net/css/htmlvsbody.html
http://www.htmldog.com/guides/cssbeginner/margins/
I think what you're looking for is float:right;
In order to complete #Tyriar answer, here's a fiddle also showing you the use of text-align: right. And why a margin can exist but have no observable effect. Also how to use the clear property after a floating element and/or a clearfix on containers of floating elements (both are not necessary here)
http://jsfiddle.net/rLQbk/
One more advice: do NOT use absolute positioning if you're not really (really) sure of what you want to achieve and how; most of the time it's not the best solution to a CSS problem. Completely out of the flow, its content will display over other content without any care...
So I'm pretty new to both css and html but this is not the first time that I have used floats to achieve 2 divs sitting next to each other. This time it is not working properly and I've been tinkering around for about 3 hours and I figure I should call on some help.
I have edited the portion of my website in jsFiddle to assist in describing my problem:
http://jsfiddle.net/9QRcP/10/
The problem isn't that you're not assigning your divs to float: right, but that your divs are small enough that you can fit multiple of them within the page width, so they're doing exactly what they should do.
To fix this, though, we would add clear:right to #about_side and #about_side_footer, but that won't force them to be level, so it doesn't quite fix the problem.
To fix that problem as well, instead of floating each individual piece of your #greeting_wrapper and #about_wrapper left and right, respectively, float the wrappers left and right instead.
#greeting_wrapper {
float: left;
}
#about_wrapper {
float: right;
}
#greeting_header, #greeting, #greeting_footer, #about_side_header, #about_side, #about_side_footer {
float: none;
}
I found that you need to float #greeting_wrapper and #about_wrapper. These wrappers are the important elements. As far as I can tell, the children of these divs shouldn't need to be floated as well.
Also currently those divs are taking on the width of the body which is 960px thus forcing both divs onto a new line.
I had a fiddle with your code: http://jsfiddle.net/9QRcP/15/
I haven't bothered to correct the alignment, but left is now on left and right is now on right.
By my own admission this isn't a very good approach to this. A few pointers:
you can use 'clear: left' to force an element on the left to move to a new line http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_class_clear.asp
you should probably contain your left and right elements in 2 seperate containers (e.g. class="container left" and class="container-right" ). Clear left for any sub-element in the left container that you want to move to the next vertical level, and likewise for elements in the right container. This will allow you to easily break your page up into columns. Here 's one I prepared earlier http://jsfiddle.net/9QRcP/19/ from http://www.quirksmode.org/css/clearing.html
you could probably save yourself a lot of work by using a grid system, e.g. http://960.gs/
The issue is with the width of your wrapper. If you increase the width, the floated div will take its place on the right.
Have a look at this fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/h4VS7/
How do I make the yellow element align (horz) with the grey background no matter how the window is resized? I refuse to believe it can't be done with css. Yes, js hacks and Scroll Follow plugin works but lags.
Please, anyone?
Edit:
Found a solution. If the container margins are expressed as percentages the content part can be expressed as the remainder percentage. See here: http://jsfiddle.net/h4VS7/1/
Though not sure why it doesn't align perfectly. It should I think. Could be jsfiddle margin/padding related.
It's not particularly difficult if you don't mind adding an extra element to wrap .top:
http://jsfiddle.net/Ud3ZQ/
And also, a properly aligning (well, almost) version of your solution:
http://jsfiddle.net/h4VS7/3/
The problem was that jsFiddle loads http://fiddle.jshell.net/css/result-light.css:
body {background: white; padding: 10px; }
Anything is more specific than * (including body), so the padding was being applied, regardless of * {padding:0; margin:0}
The best way to illustrate this question is with...a Fiddle! Before you visit the fiddle, notice there is text behind the grayest element, which is on top of a light gray element that has a border.
There is a main wrapping div (root), and two wrapping divs inside (wrap1 and wrap2). The problem here is that I need the content of wrap2 (highlight) to be behind the content of wrap1 (text), but in front of the background of the root.
This, however, must not change:
The HTML, the elements and wraps should be left untouched. Excluding the order of wrap1 and wrap2 inside root.
The highlight div must keep the absolute positioning.
Styling highlight with background-color is not an option, the existence of highlight is a must.
PS: the italics reference the id's of <div>s in the fiddle example, for whomever was too lazy to visit it.
I was able to display the text in front of the highlight by adding a z-index to text. (Adding the z-index to wrap1 also works.) The trick is to remember that z-index doesn't apply to statically-positioned elements, so you need to give the same div position: relative.
#text {
position: relative;
z-index: 1000;
}
(Large z-index because I've been bitten by IE not respecting low values in the past. May or may not still be an issue. ;-)
z-index can be difficult to grasp. I think somebody already answered your question, but if you want to learn more how they work, this is a pretty comprehensive guide:
http://www.onextrapixel.com/2009/05/29/an-indepth-coverage-on-css-layers-z-index-relative-and-absolute-positioning/
And also, here is a link where you can try out different z-index and how they are affected by different position properties (the main reason for difficulty)
http://tjkdesign.com/articles/z-index/teach_yourself_how_elements_stack.asp
#wrap1{position:absolute;z-index:2;}
I'm using a background image to add a custom bullet to list items in my content. In the content there are also images floated left. When an image and a list item are next to each other, the bullet appears where it would do if the image wasn't there, but the text wraps around the image.
Here is an example:
http://golf2.test.textmatters.com/content/greenkeepers/turfgrass/turfgrass_speci/cool_season_gra
is there a way to make the bullet appear where is should (i.e. next to the text)?
In Firebug / Firefox (you'll have to check other browsers) I solved your problem adding a:
li {
overflow:hidden;
}
Don't know why exactly, but that magical line solves lots of problems around floated stuff :-)
Edit: Solution if you can change the html slightly
If you have any control over the html, you could perhaps use paragraph tags instead of list items:
p.list_item {
background: transparent url(/++resource++stylesheets/images/bullet.gif) no-repeat scroll left 0.45em;
padding-left: 11px;
}
However, that would kind of change the semantic meaning of the list items...
This is an old topic... but thought I would add how I usually do this in case someone stumbles in here via a search...
If I have an image on the left, and plan to have graphic bulleted unordered list (UL) to the right of it, I place the image statement inside DIV tags, and add a float:left style to that DIV.
Then, I wrap my UL tags inside a DIV, and give that DIV a float:left style as well, causing it to appear to the right of the first DIV.
If I have additional text that I would like to resume UNDER my UL, then I give the second DIV a width that equals the total width of the page/column minus the graphic width - basically, to account for all of the space to the right of the image. That will force continuing text to flow directly under the UL DIV, and if the UL is shorter than the graphic, the text will flow to the right of the graphic and then under the graphic as expected.
If the UL extends lower than the graphic, then the text will just start under the image, as expected.
If you want the text to simply start UNDER the left graphic regardless of the height of the UL, then you could just apply a clear:both style to the ensuing , i.e.
In general this approach works so long as the UL isn't too much taller than the left image, because obviously in this scenario, the list itself isn't going to wrap under the image, leaving whitespace - so to make a long list look right may require some purposeful image sizing, or stacking a couple of images in the first DIV, or whatever other solution you might have.
If you really want to get whacky, I've had a few times where I've used the two DIV method described above, but setting the first DIV to position:relative, and placing the second DIV containing the UL INSIDE the first, with a position:absolute and of course top:??px and right:??px, set of course to absolutely position my UL to the right of the image. It takes the right kind of layout to use this method, obviously...
OK that's all I had to say, hope this makes sense & good luck to whomever!
Try wrapping your list items in a <p> tag, and then give that tag a left margin.
Why do you have div.fig width set to 0 in the html?
<div class="fig" style="width: 0px;"><img src="/images/43_Fescue.jpg" float="0"/></div>
Remove that and the list will float around the image.
Well, it's not the best fix from a stylistic point of view, but floating the images right avoids this problem. Thanks for everyones suggestions
If you want the whole ul to NOT float under the image try adding overflow:hidden to the ul