My basic layout is a couple of divs within a div - http://jsfiddle.net/nxPhy/ - I'm looking for a css way to have the const div always visible regardless of any horizontal scrolling of the parent div (so only the content div is actually scrolled).
Add position: relative; to container, and remove floats and add position: fixed; to the block you want to fixate.
Result:
http://jsfiddle.net/nxPhy/1/
You want to add:
position:fixed
to the div that you want fixed. Doing this will position this div and it's containing elements fixed.
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I'm asking this for learning purposes; there aren't any negative aspects on this behaviour, but I just wonder if this could have any negative consequences in the future.
So I have a container div: content_wrap, which has two other div's: side_bar and main_content. The container div is 980px width, and is used to center its contents using margin-left and margin-right.
It's doing this correctly, however, when I was debugging the page (in Firefox), I noticed that the browser renders the div as being 0x0px and renders the parent div off-screen. However, it does position the child divs correctly. See this JSFiddle for an example: http://jsfiddle.net/7fsXp/7/
I Googled this and most of the answers have something to do with floats and are solved by using clear:both, but I don't use any floats. I did notice that if I change the main_content div from position:absolute; to position:relative;, the content_wrap is displayed correctly. Or I can fix it by setting a height for content_wrap.
I don't actually need to be able to see the content_wrap, so there isn't really a problem, as it is doing its job in means of centering the child divs. I just wondered if it would be a bad practice to leave it like this? Is it a bad thing, or does it matter?
Try adding other elements to this HTML and enjoy the horror :D
There are actually many things in your code, that I wouldn't do. First of all, when an element is with position: absolute or position: fixed its layout is "ignored" by other elements or in other words cannot "push" any element and that is why your container is having 0 height. It's like they are ethereal (best explanation ever, I know).
You should check this article on positioning -- http://css-tricks.com/absolute-relative-fixed-positioining-how-do-they-differ/
The fact that they are in the place you expect them to be is that there are actually no other elements in the HTML and the absolute element is positioned relatively to the body and so is the fixed one (but that's what elements with position: fixed always do). Looks what happens when I add some other content to the parent div -- http://jsfiddle.net/7fsXp/13/
So long story short - you shouldn't form your layout with absolute or fixed elements if you can do it without them.
position: fixed and position: absolute take the elements out of the flow, so using either of these positions on all child divs will collapse the parent div entirely.
If you have content below a collapsed div, it will flow up and over/under that content like this.
You don't need to position the main_content div absolutely, but you'll need to change a few things to top align the sidebar and main_content.
DEMO
Since sidebar is fixed, it's using the document, not the container div as a reference for top, while main_content would use the body (unless you add position: relative to the container). Getting rid of the body's default padding/margin will fix the small alignment difference.
body {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
#main_content {
//remove position: absolute;
margin-top:70px; //top: 70px won't work unless you specify position
}
It depends on what you are willing to do, but because the default position for div is position: static; changing the position: relative; will avoid the collapse of parent div.
I have a container div who's content is quite large.
The container is set to position: relative.
The content has another div which I would like for it to be fixed with respect to the container horizontally--it should still scroll vertically.
When I set the div in question to:
position: absolute;
left: mypreferredleftpx;
I got weird results.
http://jsfiddle.net/Ey7vU/3/:
PRETTY PICTURE should scroll vertically, but not horizontally. It should remain fixed horiztontally with respect to the container.
Remove
position:relative
from .container
Updated fiddle here.
I have a weird CSS problem. I have a banner that I need to position at the bottom of every page.
To this end I have set body to position: relative; and my banner to position absolute; bottom: 0px;
The problem is my banner positions differently on different pages such as the following:
http://www.plotsandhouses.com/node/1,
http://www.plotsandhouses.com/node/29,
http://www.plotsandhouses.com/node/30
The 'custom-page_closure_wrapper' div is what I am trying to position at the bottom of the pages. I can do this by setting position: fixed; but I don't really want the div visible at all times - only when the bottom of the page is visible or the user scrolls down to see it.
What am I missing?
To add on to Marc's answer, there is a CSS solution to it called the Sticky Footer.
The reason why your footer doesn't "stick" to the bottom of the page is because the height of the container where the footer is absolutely positioned in is not more than the height of the viewport. Therefore, by forcibly stretching the container to the full height, the technique ensures that the footer always stays at the bottom.
You can try adding the following in your CSS file:
body {height:100%;}
#custom-body-wrapper {height:100%;} /*this is the container of your absolute div*/
and removing the position:relative on your body tag.
i´ve got elements inside a containing div with a class.
i could use text-align: center on the div and that will center all elements.
how could i position the elements with exact pixels from the left?
(i dont want to use css on the element but on the containing div)
You can use padding-left on the container div. However this will augment the width of the div itself, since you're adding left padding to it. To solve this problem you should use margin-left on the inner divs, for example:
/* apply a margin left to all the divs
* inside div.container
*/
div.container div {
margin-left:20px;
}
The closest you could get with only the div is to play with the padding, but the correct solution would be to apply left/top to the inner elements.
Also, this belongs on doctype.com.
Set position: relative
Set top: ..px
Set left: ..px
I think this solution is prettier than setting margins/paddings.
(I'm typing this on an iPhone can't format it for ya)
Hello this is what your looking for
< div style="position:absolute;height:100px;width:100px;top:100px;left:100px;">
You can put that style on any tag you want Enjoy!
and to be into the middle use I.E
< div style="position:absolute;top:0px;left:50%;">
I have a page with a wrapper div which contains a background image and all the content divs.
In this wrapper div I also have a logo div which should be placed at the bottom left corner of the wrapper without interfering with the contents.
I have managed to place the logo in the bottom left corner of the whole page (position: absolute; bottom: 0; left: 0;) The problem is that if you resize the width of the window, the background stays centered while the logo div goes left and sticks to the browser edge (as it should).
How would I go about making it stay to the edge of the wrapper div?
The reason it is not a part of the background is that the client wanted to be able to change the background without editing in the logo.
I have thought about not centering the wrapper, this would solve the problem.
I'm thinking about position: relative, but it doesn't seem to work.
I hope I'm clear enough, here is a link to the layout in case it helps.
http://development.pulsemedia.se/current/kingromeo/layout/
Make your wrapper div's position to be relative.
At the moment, your bandname div is not inside the wrapper. Put it in the #wrapper div, and set the wrapper to a position: relative;
I found my mistake. I had forgot to make the background-div fixed width so when the browser windows expanded, the background-div expanded too. Everything was behaving exactly as it should.
Put the logo div inside the wrapper div, and then set use some combination of these:
position: relative;
bottom: 0px;
float: bottom;
I'm not sure about the float: bottom, but I think you'll need it to prevent interference with the rest of your content.