In my .css, I'm using a fixed width, centered layout with:
#page-container {
width: 760px;
margin: auto;
padding-top: 10px;
}
All pages using the .css are the same width. If I insert bullet points into a div, it seems to move to the left by a few pixels and is no longer centered. This also happens if I insert an iframe.
Perhaps someone more experienced could suggest the cause?
[Edit]
It's being caused by the scrollbar appearing as I add content. Is there anything I can do about this?
To keep the page from shifting, you should set the body style to overflow:scroll so there's always a scrollbar.
What you're probably seeing is the default margin and padding of ul and li elements.
Use a web developer tool such as Firebug and hover over the element, you'll see the margins and paddings.
For example a ul element has some default margin (in yellow) and padding (in purple):
What you can do is apply CSS to reset those defaults:
ul { margin: 0; padding: 0; }
ul li { margin 0; padding: 0; }
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I am trying to left align a list inside a css grid. However, the text-align and setting the margins and padding don't seem to work. How can I left align the ul list. Codepen: https://codepen.io/centem/pen/oNvZLgP Thankyou.
ul {
list-style: none;
text-align: left;
}
li {
padding-left: 0;
margin-left: 0;
}
Use the below CSS
ul{
padding-left: 2%;
}
You can accordingly change the padding value depending upon the requirements.
Also if you want your list items completely aligned to the left, get rid of the following padding line under the .grid-page > div selector:
padding: 0px 20px;
To complete Not A Bot's answer (it's always good to know why something works), the reason behind your issue was the default padding of unordered lists.
UL Default CSS Values
These values are there to make lists look like written documents lists but obviously, that's not what we want in many cases.
Usually, margins and paddings of elements should be reset. In your case:
ul {
padding: 0;
}
should be enough, since you're already setting a padding for the container.
I have a div (#socmed) with an ul containing li's which i have positioned at the top right of my page. You can find the div inside the header tag. These are social media buttons by the way.
http://digilabs.be/tutu/collection.php
As you can see, it only shows up in chrome and safari (haven't tested in IE yet).
I have tried changing the z-index, because I felt like it got overlapped by the parent div, which is colored pink. But that didn't seem to work. I have no idea what to do.
Thanks in advance for all help.
In your main.css:Line 73
Add a width to the <li> item.
#socmed li {
list-style: none outside none;
margin-top: 5px;
width: 25px; /* Add this width..! */
}
This seems to fix your problem.
Your outer #socmed div has width: 25px, but your <li> within it does not, and by default it is larger then the 25px as specified on #socmed, so would not display.
2 CSS adjustments you can make. First make a relative container (not fully tested on your page, but usually a good practice...
header {
position:relative;
}
Second, define a width for your ul list items in your header...
#socmed ul {
width:30px;
}
Hopefully this helps
This issue is related to the width of div#socmed:
#socmed{
width: auto;
height: 125px;
position: absolute;
top:8px;
right: 40px;
}
Originally, you set width to 25px, and this was not wide enough to show your icons.
This question from:
ul, ol {
margin: 0 0 10px 25px; // to margin:0
padding: 0;
}
please don't in the ul,ol such values margin: 0 0 10px 25px; It is a gobal.
I have put relative div in relative container. It worked.
Whenever i try to make a div with width 100%, it does not go across the whole page, it leaves small margins on either side(top bottom left and right), i would like the div to go across the whole page, such as the header bar on the top of this page.
You have to set margin and padding of body element to 0. Like this (in CSS):
body
{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
And also remember about setting margin of div element to 0.
This is a body margin from the browser reset margin and padding:
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
Try a CSS Reset:
* { margin: 0; padding: 0; }
That's a simple ones, there are thousands of more advanced ones across the web.
Do you have the body margins set to 0px? In your stylesheet set body { margin:0px; }. If you want to keep the body margins, you need to adjust the width of the div. Something like div#idOfDiv { margin-left:-10px; margin-right: -10px }
Set the padding to 0 for the body tag:
body {
padding: 0;
}
There is no need for padding as the padding is on the inside of the div and is measured as a distance from edge. Just set margin to 0px if you want a specific margin set then do it like #sho suggested and set them individually.
I currently have a footer that uses a 3 column layout with a fixed center and fluid sides in order to get a nice box shadow effect. When the window is too small however, it pushes the footer to the left, and messes everything up.
I can't seem to figure out how to make sure the footer divs do not get pushed around. I keep running into this problem with my layouts.
The layout I am working on is here, and a screencast showing the problem is here.
The easiest solution is simply to add min-width:980px to #container.
#container {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #A8D9A7;
height: 100%;
min-height: 100%;
position: relative;
z-index: 5;
min-width: 980px; /* add this */
}
The 980px figure comes from the width:960px + padding-left:10px + padding-right:10px of the #content-container.
The container element for your main page body (<div id="body">) has computed padding-left of 10px, and the second container element, (<div id="content-container">) adds another padding-left of 10px, meaning your main body is padded from the left by 20px.
Whereas the container for your footer (<div id="footer-container">) has computed padding-left of 0.
If you add this, it will fix your problem. #footer-container {padding: 0 20px;}
Revised as the above solution messed up bottom box-shadow.
In the #footer-left-outer { rule change:
margin-right:470px;
to:
margin-right:-490px;
In the #footer-right-outer { rule change:
margin-left:-470px;
to:
margin-left:-490px;
In the #footer { rule change:
padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
width: 940px;
to:
padding: 10px 30px;
width: 980px;
I now understand why you were using the outer-right and outer-left.
I found a different solution that includes the partial box-shadow effect:
http://jsfiddle.net/nottrobin/Cr4NF/10/
It avoids the need for footer-left-outer and footer-right-outer but I'll leave it up to you to decide if it's neater.
It makes use of :before which only works in IE8 onwards:
http://caniuse.com/#search=:before
But then box-shadow doesn't work in IEs < 9 anyway:
http://caniuse.com/#search=box-shadow
(I'm looking at this site in IE 8.) As you can see the content floats center knocking the sidebar below it. It works perfectly in Chrome. I can't think why the float:left; command isn't working in IE.
#content {
margin: 5px 0 5px 5px;
font: 1.2em Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
width:65%;
float:left;
}
Thanks for your help.
Tara
If you add overflow: hidden to your ul#list-nav then that will prevent the floating navigation messing up the rest of the document.
As for why the navigation is displaying strangely, it's because you're specifying your widths and layout badly. What you should be using is this:
ul#list-nav {
overflow: hidden;
}
ul#list-nav li {
width: 16.66%;
float: left;
display: block;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
ul#list-nav li a{
display: block;
margin-left: 1px;text-decoration: none;
padding: 5px 0;
background: #754C78;
color: #EEE;
text-align: center;
}
That way, the width of each element is exactly 16.66%, rather than 16.62% + 1px
what i currently see in IE8 is:
the problem is that menu links are too wide in IE. You've set the width to 16.62% to each anchor in the menu and that's too wide for IE. Since the width of your content is fixed I suggest you set fixed width in pixels (132px) for these links so they fit on one line and look consistent across browsers, also removing li style setting margin: 0.5em 2em to fix positioning problem in IE.
After my fix I see this:
To me it looks like theres nothing really wrong with the content.
In ie6-ie9 the menu seems to be failing in some way.
and also the menu goes in two rows which pushes everything down. I'm not sure if that is all due to the s letter or not at this point..
Note that the extra letter s seems to be somewhere between #menu and #content .containers.
Edit2: the problem is clearly the menu a width which is too much and the menu goes into two rows.
The way menu is often done is that the ulor outer div holds the color and then the menu li are either centered within that or just plain floated to the left. this way you get the full height feel without the tourbles of the menu braking like this ( though if you do it without ignoring the width.. it is possible with too many menu items and so on. )
add clear:both; on menu container.
note: is broken in Firefox to