I need a purple line along the top of the site. Instead of using an image I'm using the border-top property on the body. This works in full view but when I resize the browser window the purple line appears only in the viewport, when I scroll to the right I get a white space. Here's the fiddle so you can see what I mean. I've tried width: 100% on both the body and the container, but to no avail. Can someone suggest ways to accomplish what I need?
Thank you.
Not sure if this is the best way to accomplish it, but you can add position: absolute; to the body. This may have some undesired side effects.
If you know your documents width then you can specify a min-width.
body { min-width: 960px; }
Try the body border hack :)
http://css-tricks.com/558-body-border/
Designed for fixed position but should work for you as well.
Adding display: inline-block; to both body and container also worked. See http://jsfiddle.net/K5zVq/16/.
A secondary answer, related to skoh-fley's though maybe with less consequences, is to add float: left to the body: http://jsfiddle.net/K5zVq/20/. Though I think I would lean toward my first answer posted here (though you know your situation better than I).
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This is the webpage I am designing using Bootstrap. For the life of me, I can't figure out what is causing that small blank space to the right of the screen, which makes the website be scroll-able horizontally. Would anyone take a look please?
Your help is much appreciated.
This image is causing your problem
You can set that img with width: 100% that will make your UI fit again. (It also depends what you're expecting from your designs)
Try using * { outline: 1px solid black } to see which element is overflowing your site. This should help you to identify it.
Above both methods are usable to get answer as well as to identify the problem by using border. and I would suggest you to always insert width and height of the image and also insert some text inside alt:""; so if your image will not load you may see this text so you can find the problem for the same.
for this you can add width: 100% and height: auto;
Thanks,
Happy Coding...
This is some html and css, you can see what it does:_ (The first box is really the one that matters)
http://jsfiddle.net/rcGsH/2/
The problem is to make this work properly with the image there, I have to use some tricks to get it to work properly that don't seem very good... like
floating the img left or right so it's not really taking up space.. (is there another way around this? or is it fine how i'm doing it?)
.ad img {
height: 175px; width: 175px;
float: left;
}
And making another wrapper div around the text inside the ad_info div and setting it to bottom: 175px so that the text stays in the transparent part... is there another way to this as well?
If anyone has proper fixes to these problems or these are fine please tell...
OR I have another idea where i could put the image as a background image with JQuery, (since the image will come from php), i have a good idea of how that would work but could anyone tell me which solution is better?
Thanks!
There is a lot of ways to do this, you are doing right (maybe some extra divs), but I thinks this is what you are looking for:
Boxes, images and captions
Like an extra, they use a little bit jquery, to animate the boxes ;)
I am unable to get the white space at the bottom of this page to disappear. I have both min-height and height tags in body. Any suggestions? Thanks!
http://womancareolympia.webs.com/
I find it quite remarkable that out of 6 answers, none of them have mentioned the real source of the problem.
Collapsing margins on the last p inside #fw-footer is where that extra space is originating from.
A sensible fix would be to add overflow: hidden to #fw-footer (or simply add margin: 0 on the last p).
You could also just move the script inside that last p outside of the p, and then remove the p entirely; there's no need to wrap a script in a p. The first p (#fw-foottext) has margin: 0 applied, so the problem won't happen with that one.
As an aside, you've broken the fix I gave you in this question:
CSS3 gradient background with unwanted white space at bottom
You need html { height: 100% } and body { min-height: 100% }.
At the moment, you have html { height: auto } being applied, which does not work:
(This happens with a window taller than the content on the page)
The problem is how 100% height is being calculated. Two ways to deal with this.
Add 20px to the body padding-bottom
body {
padding-bottom: 20px;
}
or add a transparent border to body
body {
border: 1px solid transparent;
}
Both worked for me in firebug
In defense of this answer
Below are some comments regarding the correctness of my answer to this question. These kinds of discussions are exactly why stackoverflow is so great. Many different people have different opinions on how best to solve the problem. I've learned some incredible coding style that I would not have thought of myself. And I've been told that readers have learned something from my style from time to time. Social coding has really encouraged me to be a better programmer.
Social coding can, at times, be disturbing. I hate it when I spend 30 minutes flushing out an answer with a jsfiddle and detailed explanation only to submit and find 10 other answers all saying the same thing in less detail. And the author accepts someone else's answer. How frustrating! I think that this has happend to my fellow contributors–in particular thirtydot.
Thirtydot's answer is completely legit. The p around the script is the culprit in this problem. Remove it and the space goes away. It also is a good answer to this question.
But why? Shouldn't the p tag's height, padding and margin be calculated into the height of the body?
And it is! If you remove the padding-bottom style that I've suggested and then set the body's background to black, you will see that the body's height includes this extra p space accurately (you see the strip at the bottom turn to black). But the gradient fails to include it when finding where to start. This is the real problem.
The two solutions that I've offered are ways to tell the browser to calculate the gradient properly. In fact, the padding-bottom could just be 1px. The value isn't important, but the setting is. It makes the browser take a look at where the body ends. Setting the border will have the same effect.
In my opinion, a padding setting of 20px looks the best for this page and that is why I answered it this way. It is addressing the problem of where the gradient starts.
Now, if I were building this page. I would have avoided wrapping the script in a p tag. But I must assume that author of the page either can't change it or has a good reason for putting it in there. I don't know what that script does. Will it write something that needs a p tag? Again, I would avoid this practice and it is fine to question its presence, but also I accept that there are cases where it must be there.
My hope in writing this "defense" is that the people who marked down this answer might consider that decision. My answer is thought out, purposeful, and relevant. The author thought so. However, in this social environment, I respect that you disagree and have a right to degrade my answer. I just hope that your choice is motivated by disagreement with my answer and not that author chose mine over yours.
I had white space at the bottom of all my websites; this is how I solved the matter:
the first and best thing you can do when you are debugging css issues like this is to add:
*{ border: 1px solid red; }
this css line puts a red box around all your css elements.
I had white space at the bottom of my page due to a faulty chrome extension which was adding the div dp_swf_engine to the bottom of my page:
<div id="dp_swf_engine" style="position: absolute; width: 1px; height: 1px;"></div>
without the red box, I would have never noticed a 1px div. I then got rid of the faulty extension, and put display:none on #dp_swf_engine as a secondary measure. (who knows when it could come back to add random white space at the bottom of my page for all my pages and apps?!)
Try setting the height of the html element to 100% as well.
html {
min-height: 100%;
overflow-y: scroll;
}
body {
min-height: 100%;
}
Reference from this answer..
This will remove the margin and padding from your page elements, since there is a paragraph with a script inside that is causing an added margin. this way you should reset it and then you can style the other elements of your page, or you could give that paragraph an id and set margin to zero only for it.
<style>
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
</style>
Try to put this as the first style.
The problem is the background image on the html element. You appear to have set it to "null" which is not valid. Try removing that CSS rule entirely, or at least setting background-image:none
EDIT: the CSS file says it is "generated" so I don't know exactly what you will be able to edit. The problem is this line:
html {
background-color: null !important;
background-position: null !important;
background-repeat: repeat !important;
background-image: url('http://images.freewebs.com/Images/null.gif') !important;
}
I'm guessing you've put null as a value and it has set the background to a GIF called 'null'.
There is a second paragraph in your footer that contains a script. It is this that is causing the issue.
It is happening Due to:
<p><script>var _nwls=[];if(window.jQuery&&window.jQuery.find){_nwls=jQuery.find(".fw_link_newWindow");}else{if(document.getElementsByClassName){_nwls=document.getElementsByClassName("fw_link_newWindow");}else{if(document.querySelectorAll){_nwls=document.querySelectorAll(".fw_link_newWindow");}else{document.write('<scr'+'ipt src="http://static.websimages.com/static/global/js/sizzle/sizzle.min.js"><\/scr'+'ipt>');if(window.Sizzle){_nwls=Sizzle(".fw_link_newWindow");}}}}var numlinks=_nwls.length;for(var i=0;i<numlinks;i++){_nwls[i].target="_blank";}</script></p>
Remove <p></p> around the script.
(class/ID):after {
content:none;
}
Always works for me
class or ID can be for a div or even body causing the white space.
I had the same problem when parsing html to string. Removing the last <p></p> (and replacing it with an alternative if desirable, like < /br>) solved it for me.
I faced this issue because my web page was zoomed out to 90% and as I was viewing my page in responsive mode through the browser developer tools, I did not notice it right away.
I am trying to make a h2 header for sidebar widgets but I want the width of the div class to be whatever width the content becomes. It seems I can't just set a width because those headlines with longer content then shorter content makes it break.
How can I simply make width stretch/change depending on the length of content there is? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
As far as I know, display: inline-block is what you probably need. That will make it seem like it's sort of inline but still allow you to use things like margins and such.
If you are coming here, there is high chance width: min-content or width: max-content can fix your problem. This can force an element to use the smallest or largest space the browser could choose…
This is the modern solution. Here is a small tutorial for that.
There is also fit-content, which often works like min-content, but is more flexible. (But also has worse browser support.)
This is a quite new feature and some browsers do not support it yet, but browser support is growing. See the current browser status here.
The easiest is:
width: fit-content;
If display: inline; isn't working, try out display: inline-block;. :)
I faced the same issue and I resolved it by using: max-width: fit-content;
The best way to do this is to set display: inline;. Note, however, that in inline display, you lose access to some layout properties, such as manual height and vertical margins, but this doesn't appear to be a problem for your page.
width: -moz-fit-content;
width: fit-content;
I have been using a lot of position:relative; in my design, I just find it the easiest way to get everything where I need them to be.
However, the more items I add on my site (each one with their individual div) each one ends up further and further at the bottom of my page, so I have to manually position them higher.
This leaves a lot of empty space at the bottom, and I thought that adding height: 1000px; would limit the scrolling a bit, but this method doesn't seem to work.
I've even tried adding height: 1000px; to the wrapper and it's still not working.
How can I limit vertical scrolling, to the number of pixels I choose?
Thanks so much in advance.
Wait, so you are creating a div, using position relative to move the content of the div to the correct location, and the issue being that the div tag itself is still in the same place and creating a vertical scroll even though there is no content there?
If so you should look into floats.
Here are some tutorials.
Floatutorial
Learn CSS Positioning in Ten Steps
You can specify both the height and the overflow:
.someClass
{
height:1000px;
overflow:scroll;
}
The most common values for overflow are scroll, auto, and hidden.
To limit the distance someone can scroll, I think you'd need to use JavaScript. I'm not sure how, but I can't think of anything in CSS that would do that.
If you are looking to set when something should scroll instead of just be cut off or expand the tag, use overflow:auto;.