I'm getting troubles with this issue for a long time. I believe that it's a quite common problem for float layout and I wish someone would give a "standard" solution.
As title, the problem is about nested floats. Consider the following simple layout:
<div class='parent clearfix'>
<div id='child1' style='float:left; width:500px'>
{ ... child 1 content goes here ... }
</div>
<div id='child2' style='margin-left:501px;'>
{ ... child 2 content goes here ... }
</div>
</div>
Here clearfix is a common technique for auto clearing floated children. The problem is, the layout is broken if child2 contains another clearfix element. For example, if child 2 content is:
<div class='inside clearfix'>
<div class='sub1' style='float-left; width:100px'>
{ ... extra content goes here ... }
</div>
<div class='sub2' style='margin-left:101px'>
{ ... extra content goes here ... }
</div>
</div>
So generally, if we use clear:both inside a floated layout (inside the non-floated element), it also clears the parent container.
I know how to do it if using absolute position and a bit of js, but it's not a good practice.
How to fix it using float?
Thanks!
you can also use overflow: hidden;
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="float"></div>
<div class="float"></div>
</div>
.wrapper{
overflow: hidden;
}
.float{float: left;}
check demo on jsfiddle
While working with floats, i follow a simpler approach of using an extra div with class clear. This is much easier, understandable and less error prone.
Following is what i do :
<div class="parentClass">
<div class="float1">
. . .
</div>
<div class="float2">
. . .
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>
In CSS, the clear class is like following :
.clear { clear:both; overflow:hidden; }
You can try this approach and I am sure things will pane out good. Best of luck !
Related
I have added the "clear:both;" css command to my responsive theme,however it doesn't work,elements wrap around my block.
Here is the HTML of my block:
<div id="block-views-categories-normal-view-block-1" class="block block--views contextual-links-region block--views-categories-normal-view-block-1">
<div class="contextual-links-wrapper contextual-links-processed">
<div class="block__content">
<div class="view view-categories-normal-view view-id-categories_normal_view view-display-id-block_1 view-dom-id-4d6cdd2580eef8f5826096ea0f8157c1">
<div class="view-content">
<div class="responsive-table-wrapper">
<div class="responsive-table-scroller">
<table class="views-view-grid responsive-table-processed">
etc
I have tried
#block-views-categories-normal-view-block-1{
clear:both;
}
and
.views-view-grid {
clear:both;
}
Am I missing something?
Need to see some more code and corresponding CSS to answer.
My guess is that you're not clearing the float of the proper element.
By putting clear: both on the table class, you're telling it to clear the float of some child table elements.
Unless you altered the display property of the table elements, your clear is in the incorrect place.
You need to clear the parent of your floats to fix the painting issue in the browser.
i am using zurb foundation for building website, but now i am facing a problem as follows
There are four columns in a row and one of them is not visible sometimes as per some conditions, the code is
<div class="row">
<div class="small-3 columns">1 ... </div>
<div class="small-3 columns" style="display:none;">2 ... </div>
<div class="small-3 columns">3 ... </div>
<div class="small-3 columns">4 ... </div>
</div>
Now the problem is when the div is disabled the empty space between them should be used by other divs, but it is not happening in my case,
I know, i am missing small point, but cant get it
here is the image of problem
I need the 4th div to be shifted to left, as 3rd div is shifted automatically, if 2nd div is display:none
The ZURB-Foundation (looks like you are using version 4) doesn't work like that by default.
What I usually do is create a .left {float: left !important;} class. If you apply that to your 4th div then it will do as you say.
However depending on your reason for doing this AND WHETHER THIS IS ONLY SUPPOSED TO APPLY TO DESKTOP/TABLET/MOBILE or ALL THREE, you might want to use
#media queries in the stylesheet to specify where and when.
Examples:
#media (query goes here) {
.row .columns:last-child {
float: left;
}
}
** OR **
.left {
float: left !important;
}
THEN
<div class="row">
<div class="small-3 columns">1 ... </div>
<div class="small-3 columns" style="display:none;">2 ... </div>
<div class="small-3 columns">3 ... </div>
<div class="small-3 columns left">4 ... </div>
</div>
Try this fiddle
HTML
<div class="row">
<div class="small-3 columns">1 ... </div>
<div class="small-3 columns" style="display:none;">2 ... </div>
<div class="small-3 columns">3 ... </div>
<div class="small-3 columns">4 ... </div>
</div>
CSS
div.columns
{
padding:10px;
background:#00bfff;
width:20%;
display:block;
float:left;
}
#jnelson thanks for the help, now i realized the power of !important, so i have created simple solution
.abc{
float:left !important;
}
This also worked correctly on all type of devices
You should not be changing the fundamental structure of how the columns are sized or work.
Instead you should just uses different classes. If you know that one column will be disabled, and I am assuming you are using javascript to do this. Then also use javascript to add the proper column width. If you have 3 columns instead of 4(due to one being display none) give the three columns a small-4. This line of thinking will also allow you to handle two columns (small-6).
If you absolutely have to use 3 columns I agree with the above posts that you need to change.
[class*="column"]+[class*="column"]:last-child {
float: right;
to
[class*="column"]+[class*="column"]:last-child {
float: left;
I want to create alternating 100% colored blocks. An "ideal" situation is illustrated as an attachment, as well as the current situation.
Desired setup:
Currently:
My first idea was to create an div class, give it a background color, and give it 100% width.
.block {
width: 100%;
background: #fff;
}
However, you can see that this obviously doesn't work. It's confined to a container area. I tried to close the container and that didn't work either.
The container class is intentionally not 100% width. It is different fixed widths depending on the width of the viewport.
If you want to work with the full width of the screen, use .container-fluid:
Bootstrap 3:
<body>
<div class="container-fluid">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-lg-6"></div>
<div class="col-lg-6"></div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-lg-8"></div>
<div class="col-lg-4"></div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-lg-12"></div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
Bootstrap 2:
<body>
<div class="row">
<div class="span6"></div>
<div class="span6"></div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="span8"></div>
<div class="span4"></div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="span12"></div>
</div>
</body>
QUICK ANSWER
Use multiple NOT NESTED .containers
Wrap those .containers you want to have a full-width background in a div
Add a CSS background to the wrapping div
Fiddles: Simple: https://jsfiddle.net/vLhc35k4/ , Container borders: https://jsfiddle.net/vLhc35k4/1/
HTML:
<div class="container">
<h2>Section 1</h2>
</div>
<div class="specialBackground">
<div class="container">
<h2>Section 2</h2>
</div>
</div>
CSS: .specialBackground{ background-color: gold; /*replace with own background settings*/ }
FURTHER INFO
DON'T USE NESTED CONTAINERS
Many people will (wrongly) suggest, that you should use nested containers. Well, you should NOT.
They are not ment to be nested. (See to "Containers" section in the docs)
HOW IT WORKS
div is a block element, which by default spans to the full width of a document body - there is the full-width feature. It also has a height of it's content (if you don't specify otherwise).
The bootstrap containers are not required to be direct children of a body, they are just containers with some padding and possibly some screen-width-variable fixed widths.
If a basic grid .container has some fixed width it is also auto-centered horizontally.
So there is no difference whether you put it as a:
Direct child of a body
Direct child of a basic div that is a direct child of a body.
By "basic" div I mean div that does not have a CSS altering his border, padding, dimensions, position or content size. Really just a HTML element with display: block; CSS and possibly background.
But of course setting vertical-like CSS (height, padding-top, ...) should not break the bootstrap grid :-)
Bootstrap itself is using the same approach
...All over it's own website and in it's "JUMBOTRON" example:
http://getbootstrap.com/examples/jumbotron/
This is how you can achieve your desired setup with Bootstrap 3:
<div class="container-fluid">
<div class="row"> <!-- Give this div your desired background color -->
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-12">
... your content here ...
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
The container-fluid part makes sure that you can change the background over the full width. The container part makes sure that your content is still wrapped in a fixed width.
This approach works, but personally I don't like all the nesting. However, I haven't found a better solution so far.
There is a workaround using vw. Is useful when you can't create a new fluid container.
This, inside a classic 'container' div will be full size.
.row-full{
width: 100vw;
position: relative;
margin-left: -50vw;
left: 50%;
}
After this there is the sidebar problem (thanks to #Typhlosaurus), solved with this js function, calling it on document load and resize:
function full_row_resize(){
var body_width = $('body').width();
$('.row-full').css('width', (body_width));
$('.row-full').css('margin-left', ('-'+(body_width/2)+'px'));
return false;
}
In bootstrap 4, you can use 'w-100' class (w as width, and 100 as 100%)
You can find documentation here:
https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/utilities/sizing/
If you can't change the HTML layout:
.full-width {
width: 100vw;
margin-left: -50vw;
left: 50%;
}
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-xs-12">a</div>
<div class="col-xs-12">b</div>
<div class="col-xs-12 full-width">c</div>
<div class="col-xs-12">d</div>
</div>
</div>
Demo: http://www.bootply.com/tVkNyWJxA6
Sometimes it's not possible to close the content container.
The solution we are using is a bit different but prevent a overflow because of the
firefox scrollbar size!
.full-width {
margin-top: 15px;
margin-bottom: 15px;
position: relative;
width: calc(100vw - 10px);
margin-left: calc(-50vw + 5px);
left: 50%;
}
Here is a example: https://jsfiddle.net/RubbelDeKatz/wvt9253q
Instead of
style="width:100%"
try using
class="col-xs-12"
it will save you 1 character :)
Sorry, should have asked for your css as well. As is, basically what you need to look at is giving your container div the style .container { width: 100%; } in your css and then the enclosed divs will inherit this as long as you don't give them their own width. You were also missing a few closing tags, and the </center> closes a <center> without it ever being open, at least in this section of code. I wasn't sure if you wanted the image in the same div that contains your content or separate, so I created two examples. I changed the width of the img to 100px simply because jsfiddle offers a small viewing area. Let me know if it's not what you're looking for.
content and image separate: http://jsfiddle.net/QvqKS/2/
content and image in same div (img floated left): http://jsfiddle.net/QvqKS/3/
I would use two separate 'container' div as below:
<div class="container">
/* normal*/
</div>
<div class="container-fluid">
/*full width container*/
</div>
Bare in mind that container-fluid does not follow your breakpoints and it is a full width container.
I'd wonder why someone would try to "override" the container width, since its purpose is to keep its content with some padding, but I had a similar situation (that's why I wanted to share my solution, even though there're answers).
In my situation, I wanted to have all content (of all pages) rendered inside a container, so this was the piece of code from my _Layout.cshtml:
<div id="body">
#RenderSection("featured", required: false)
<section class="content-wrapper main-content clear-fix">
<div class="container">
#RenderBody()
</div>
</section>
</div>
In my Home Index page, I had a background header image I'd like to fill the whole screen width, so the solution was to make the Index.cshtml like this:
#section featured {
<!-- This content will be rendered outside the "container div" -->
<div class="intro-header">
<div class="container">SOME CONTENT WITH A NICE BACKGROUND</div>
</div>
}
<!-- The content below will be rendered INSIDE the "container div" -->
<div class="content-section-b">
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
MORE CONTENT
</div>
</div>
</div>
I think this is better than trying to make workarounds, since sections are made with the purpose of allowing (or forcing) views to dynamically replace some content in the layout.
Though people have mentioned that you will need to use .container-fluid in this case but you will also have to remove the padding from bootstrap.
The following answer is not exactly optimal by any measure, but I needed something that maintains its position within the container whilst it stretches the inner div fully.
https://jsfiddle.net/fah5axm5/
$(function() {
$(window).on('load resize', ppaFullWidth);
function ppaFullWidth() {
var $elements = $('[data-ppa-full-width="true"]');
$.each( $elements, function( key, item ) {
var $el = $(this);
var $container = $el.closest('.container');
var margin = parseInt($container.css('margin-left'), 10);
var padding = parseInt($container.css('padding-left'), 10)
var offset = margin + padding;
$el.css({
position: "relative",
left: -offset,
"box-sizing": "border-box",
width: $(window).width(),
"padding-left": offset + "px",
"padding-right": offset + "px"
});
});
}
});
This must work (Mobile phone as well as Desktop screen):
class: alignfull and class: img-fluid will do the magic.
<div class="alignfull">
<img class="img-fluid" style="background-size: cover;
background-position: center ;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
height: auto;
min-width: 100%;
width: -moz-available; "
src="{{ $image->image }}" alt="An image">
</div>
I'm using foundation 3 to build a responsive website but I want to have the Footer and Navigation background width to occupy the entire width? I have named my rows as
class="row navigation"
class="row footer"
I tried looking for how to fix this but I'm out of options. I'm assuming it is a small fix in the foundation.css file but it's a bit too overwhelming at the moment as I'm new to it.
Any poiinters much appreciated.
I ran into the same problem yesterday. The trick is, for full width spanning blocks, you just keep them out of the row/column structure, since row/column will always apply the default padding. Keep your footers and headers on their own, and use row/column inside them.
<header>
This will span the full width of the page
</header>
<div class="row">
<div class="twelve columns">
This text will flow within all typical padding and margins
</div>
</div>
<footer>
This will span the full width of the page
<div class="row">
<div class="twelve columns">
This text will flow within all typical padding and margins
</div>
</div>
</footer>
What I have been doing is to add a custom class so that I can chain it with .row and override the max-width setting.
<div class="row full-width"></div>
.row.full-width {
width: 100%;
max-width: 100%;
}
I put width in here too to cover bases, but it is already declared in foundation.css so you can just omit it.
If you're using Zurb Foundation Framework, simply remove the row class and wrap the element in a class container that is 100% width. Now you probably want to center the stuff, use class centered like this:
<div class="container navigation">
<div class="centered">
Some navigation stuff
</div>
</div>
I completely disagree with the answer. You shouldn't have to use !important
Please refer to my article and demo at http://edcharbeneau.github.com/FoundationSinglePageRWD/
You should be able to get what you need from there. The demo is for 2.2 but is very similar in function to v3.
Foundation 6 supports this feature naturally with row expanded. code example:
<div class="expanded row">
...
</div>
Read more here: http://foundation.zurb.com/sites/docs/grid.html#fluid-row
Use "Section" as in:
<section>
<div class="row">
<div class="small-12 columns">
</div>
</div>
</section>
Then, assign an ID to the section and use that for your background.
This is in regards to Foundation 5. None of the answers given so far, provide edge-to-edge, full widths. That's because inner .columns add padding.
For a true edge-to-edge, full width content, add this to your CSS.
.row.full { width: 100%; max-width: 100%; }
.row.full>.column:first-child,
.row.full>.columns:first-child { padding-left: 0; }
.row.full>.column:last-child,
.row.full>.columns:last-child { padding-right: 0; }
Simply add .full class to a .row you wish to extend full width.
<div class="row full">
<div class="medium-6 column">This column touches Left edge.</div>
<div class="medium-6 column">This column touches Right edge.</div>
</div>
Just override the max-width property as max-width: initial;, for example,
.fullWidth {
width: 100%;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
max-width: initial;
}
<div class="row fullWidth"> </div>
this works for me :)
I know that there are already many answers, but I think I have something new to add in this topic if someone is using Foundation 5 and stumbled upon this question (like me).
As Foundation is using REM units, it would be best to alter .row class using them and by adding extra class, so you can have only selected rows full-width. For example by using .full class:
.row.full {
max-width: 80rem; /* about 90rem should give you almost full screen width */
}
You can see that it is used like this even in documentation page of Zurb Foundation (they altered .row class, though): http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/ (just look into page source code)
You really would want to keep the row class otherwise you lose a lot of the power of the grid system. Why not change the setting for $rowWidth from 1000 (default) to 100%. This can be found in the file foundation_and_overrides.scss
Just set the
$row-width: 100%;
http://foundation.zurb.com/forum/posts/927-full-width-layouts
I am not sure if I am missing something, but I had to add a .row div for the .centered to work. I can still style the .header to have a full width background in this case, but the .container method did not work for me.
<header class="header">
<div class="row">
<div class="centered">
Logo and stuff
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
Some navigation stuff
</div>
</header>
If you don't give it the "row" class and put columns inside it works on a 100% width
If you're using sass, this is a better way:
<div class="row full-width"></div>
.row{
&.full-width{
width: 100%;
max-width: 100%!important; //might be needded depending on your settings
&>.column:first-child,
&>.columns:first-child{
padding-left: 0;
}
&>.column:last-child,
&>.columns:last-child{
padding-right: 0;
}
}
}
yes, just use like this:
<div class="large-12 columns">
<h2>Header Twelve Columns (this will have full width of the BROWSER <---->></h2>
</div>
I'm currently building a website using Twitter bootstrap (which is amazing!).
I had the layout using:
<div class="row">
<div class="span6"></div>
<div class="span6"></div>
<div class="span6"></div>
<div class="span6"></div>
</div>
Which works great, I have 2 divs per row basically, and we didn't have to include a counter in our loop to get rid of the margins. It was perfect! But we decided to change our mind about having a fixed layout, so I switched from the .row to .row-fluid. And this is when the problem comes.
I know have something like this:
<div class="row-fluid">
<div class="span6"></div>
<div class="span6"></div>
<div class="span6"></div>
<div class="span6"></div>
</div>
And the div's with .span6 work well for the first row, but then the margin-left on the .span6 are showing up starting from the second row, therefore the layout is, well, ...not good.
I'm surprised it works amazing for fixed layout but not row-fluid. Is there a work-around for this? I used this on all my site, so having to add counters for all of them would...too much work.
Here is JS Fiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/denislexic/uAs6k/3/
Any help appreciated, thanks.
Your 2 examples actually have 4 <div class="span6"></div> within a full-width 'row'... adding up to '24', or twice the width meant for a 'row' or 'row-fluid', based on the 12 column grid setup. You're basically creating dropping floats when there are too many to fit within the parent row's width.
(This is also why it seems that 'margin-left:0' is not being applied to your 3rd 'span6', which looks like it's the first 'span6' of a 2nd row.)
In a default/fixed 'row', the nested column's 'span*'s + 'offset*'s will need to be less than or equal to its parent's column 'span*', OR if it's a first-level row, then 12, because the floated 'span*' widths are in pixels.
In a flexible/fluid 'row-fluid', the column widths are set by percentage, so each row and nested row can have nested column 'span*'s and 'offset*'s that add up to 12, each time.
http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/scaffolding.html#fluidGridSystem
This should solve your issue with the 'row-fluid' setup.
http://jsfiddle.net/csabatino/uAs6k/9/
<h1>NOW this is working.</h1>
<div class="row-fluid">
<div class="span6">Content</div>
<div class="span6">Content</div>
</div>
<div class="row-fluid">
<div class="span6">Content</div>
<div class="span6">Content</div>
</div>
<h1>Default fixed 'row' is working, too.</h1>
<div class="row">
<div class="span6">Content</div>
<div class="span6">Content</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="span6">Content</div>
<div class="span6">Content</div>
</div>
If you know the number of span for each row, you can use an expression like this:
.row-fluid [class*="span"]:nth-child(3n+1) {
margin-left: 0;
}
for example: if you have 3 spans for each row, the above expression will removes margin from the first span of each row. And the below one removes the margin-right for the last element on each row:
.row-fluid [class*="span"]:nth-child(3n+3) {
margin-right: 0;
}
.row-fluid [class*="span"]:first-child {
margin-left: 0;
}
It only removes margin for the first child so you will need to add another class or change span6 to have margin-left:0;
I solved it by putting an empty div with span12 at the begining, uggly in the code but effective in the gui
If the app can't count elements and divide into rows, removing margin-left and adding padding-right worked just fine for me:
.gal [class*="span"] {margin-left:0; padding-right:20px;}
http://jsfiddle.net/uAs6k/116/
I just did this with jQuery instead:
$(document).ready(function(){
function doFluidFirstSpan() {
var top = $('.thumbnails > li:first-child').position().top;
$('.thumbnails > li').each(function(){
if($(this).position().top > top) {
$(this).addClass("alpha");
top = $(this).position().top;
}
});
}
doFluidFirstSpan();
}
and the css:
.alpha { margin-left: 0 !important; }