I need a div placed at the top and center of the page to appear over top of the scrolling content below it, and stay in place at the user scrolls.
However, due to freakishly annoying bug I can not reproduce in jsFiddle (or I'd ask for help with that instead) I can't use position:fixed and I need it to work without JavaScript.
How else can I do it?
I think I understand what you mean and I've made a little example, it's pretty self explanatory but just say if you don't understand anything, sure you will.
And if I've misunderstood, I apologise... jsFiddle 1
EDIT With Real Fix
Since I read the question wrong and a fixed position couldn't be used, I have now altered the code slightly to the following jsFiddle 2
Basically you're placing a transparent fixed div to fill the entire width of the page, and then placing your absolute position div inside that, creating the same effect but hopefully getting round the bug you've come across.
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I have a topbar with position:fixed which also contains anchor links (jdjd).
The problem is that the target is placed in the top of the viewport (behind the fixed topbar).
how can I fix so the the browser scrolls so that the target is shown just below the topbar?
As far as i know there is no clean soloution. If you use inline scrollbar it can be achieved, but it needs a fixed height then.
2 soloutions found using CSS: http://css-tricks.com/hash-tag-links-padding/
Else you could pretty easy use JQUERY to measure the users height, put it into a container div, and have scrolling on that.
See: http://jsfiddle.net/jpGdu/
Another soloution could be giving the element ur linking to a padding top (if it's h1 or whatever) :)
Not sure why you're being downvoted, it seems like an honest a good question.
I'd put a margin-top on the viewport, equal to the height of the fixed topbar.
http://jsfiddle.net/justiceerolin/KfMLJ/ as an example
here is the layout
http://timsegreto.com/cssmock/mock.html
i need the background image to scroll concordant with the text block in the right column.
ive tried many different ways with no success.
any ideas would greatly appreciated.
not sure if its possible or what t research to make it work.
thanks!
It seems to me that you have fixed positioning on the wrong element. Try making #framecontent position fixed and remove it from #maincontent.
EDIT It's 'quirks' mode that's causing you IE issues. Get rid of the:
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from the beginning of your html. I'm sure this is supposed to be solving other cross-browser issues but it's ruining fixed positioning.
Have you adding an extra div and setting the background image on that instead of on the body? You could absolutely position this extra div in the body with top: 0 - it would scroll with the page then...
not sure if thats what you're looking for exactly...
I had posted a similar question previously, when I was looking for help in doing the javascript portion.
I now have figured out how to get the javascript working to reproduce this affect in the images below, I need help getting my "MIDDLE" clickable div into place though.... scroll down to see the question portion
Ok here is a page with the code I have this far on jsfiddle.
Mu updated attempt, got it mostly working but it seems kind of hacky the way I had to do it
http://jsfiddle.net/jasondavis/HRq6G/5/embedded/result/
I have a container div with header, content, sidebar, footer areas. Right now when you click on the header div it will toggle the sidebar and content areas.
I would really like to figure out how I can get a middle DIV in between the article content and the sidebar, I will then make that div be the trigger to toggle it all.
In the image you can see that the new center div should always stay attached to the right side of the article div
If you are good with this kind of stuff I would greatly appreciate any help I can get with it, I have spent hours trying to get a div to position like I am describing with no luck. The div should also be the height of the article div
-----UPDATE-----
http://jsfiddle.net/jasondavis/HRq6G/6/embedded/result/
I have it working now. It can most likely be improved, I had to do some hacks like setting some negative margins, I would imagine someone with better knowledge could do it without that
Your explanation was a little hard to understand, but I think this is what you want. Basically there is a thin div between the sidebar and the main content area. Clicking on it causes the sidebar to relocate. Clicking it again restores the sidebar.
http://jsfiddle.net/HRq6G/4/
To accomplish this I chose to absolutely position the middle div along the right edge of the article div. I called the middle div 'trigger.'
EDIT*the issue apparently comes down to the fact that, i need to use relative position on the large image, so i can adjust the top value. this causes the thumbs to be put on top of the main image. When i remove the relative positioning of the main image, the flow looks fine, but the top positioning is disregarded- i sort of need both to have the dynamic manipulation of this app im developing*
I wish I could understand why this happens like 90% of the time I go to code div layouts.
You have content in your div with a certain height, and then you have another div directly after it - and somehow it just goes right on top of the first one.
I wish I knew where the problem was, but I can't figure out what CSS is the cause.
Anyways, if you care to take a look, this is the sandbox of the issue I'm having:
the reference is changing because i keep updating it to check sorry.
http://www.drewswinson.com/DP/
I'm making a dynamic jQuery gallery viewer and the thumbs just don't want to put themselves below the image.
It happens all the time though; is there any reason content inside a div would allow subsequent divs to not be placed below the content its supposed to be filled?
You problem is the position: relative attribute on imageDiv.
It pushes the image down from where it should be. If you remove that, the static flow of the page will be used, which is what you want in this case.
I'm working on an application with a map and there is a div in the corner with some stuff in it. You can click on this map to bring up some information in a little window. The window is, in some cases, being covered by the div in the corner.
I want the opposite effect (window covers div). I figured this would simply be a z-index issue but I'm unable to get it to work. This is with IE7 and from reading up a bit it seems like z-index won't work unless it's inside of an element that is positioned.
The elements seem to be positioned properly to get the z-index to work right but I'm having little luck. I've played around with adding styling via Firebug but haven't had any luck in getting anything to change. The window really is just two divs one absolutely positioned one and a relative one inside of it.
Is the z-index the only thing that could be the problem here or is there something else I don't know about?
Are there any other methods to achieve the effect I want? I cannot simply hide the div via jquery or something because part of it should be visible from behind the window that opens on the map.
You are hitting the stacking context bug
http://therealcrisp.xs4all.nl/meuk/IE-zindexbug.html
Every positioned div in IE will create a new stacking context and prevent z-index from diferent stacking contexts to come on top of others.
The solution is to have the window you want on top up in the tree (into the body for example) and z-index value grater than z-index of all parents of the other div covering your window.
Extensive information to understand the problem here:
http://richa.avasthi.name/blogs/tepumpkin/2008/01/11/ie7-lessons-learned/
positioning and negative margins is the only way to get elements to overlap that i know of. z-index is just used to explicitly tell the browser how to layer the elements.
as to your problem, IE requires the container elements and/or elements that you are overlapping to have position:relative; or position:absolute; for z-index to work properly. When someone say positioning they're usually implying having the position property set in CSS. Also when working with z-index make sure that the overlapping elementa are at the same level with each other.
Hope this helps
Quite simply, the order of the elements in your HTML file will determine stacking order. If you want an element to be above another then make sure it comes later in the HTML.
You can only swap the stacking order on elements that are all in the same containing element. For example if you have two divs and they both contain 3 images you cannot make images from the second div go below images from the first div.
You need to plan your HTML ahead if you need complex stacking orders.
As hinted by the other answers, position:relative and position:absolute reset the "stacking-context" in IE.
If you want a lazier answer you could use javascript and hide the div when you click on the map, and show it when you close the map.
You will have to do this with any selects on the page anyway because in ie they don't work with z-index.
I ran into this same issue a couple days ago and found the negative margin as suggested by Darko Z worked great. (My rep isn't good enough yet to vote for Darko)
I wrote a quick post on it.
http://www.swards.net/2009/03/layering-html-elements-without-using.html