I need two DIV to be put side by side and aligned vertically at their bottom.
The orange div doesn't have a width or height. It can grow depending of his content
I should be able to use padding and margin of the green div
I would like to have a solution that doesn't use javascript
See: http://jsfiddle.net/thirtydot/J9eds/
I've used display: inline-block combined with vertical-align: bottom.
HTML:
<div id="container">
<div id="left">
left<br />left<br />left<br />left<br />left<br />left<br />
leftleftleftleftleftleft
</div>
<div id="right"></div>
</div>
CSS:
#container {
border: 1px solid red;
float: left;
}
#left, #right {
border: 2px solid red;
background: #ccc;
vertical-align: bottom;
display: inline-block;
/* ie6/7 */
*display: inline;
zoom: 1;
}
#right {
margin: 20px 20px 0 20px;
padding: 20px;
width: 100px;
}
Not 100% sure, but something like this should work:
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="orange"></div>
<div class="green"></div>
</div>
div.wrapper div {
position: relative;
float: left;
bottom: 0px;
}
May not even need the float.
This was some fun practice :) Its probably not the best answer, but it should get the job done.
html:
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<div id="div3">testing a whole<br/> bunch <Br/>of text and content t<br/>hat this co<br/>uld co<br/>ntain<br/> hadahdee<br/> wha da da deet</div>
</td>
<td>
<div id="div4">nick</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
css:
td
{
vertical-align:bottom;
}
#div3
{
border:solid 5px blue;
float:left;
}
#div4
{
width:50px;
height:20px;
border:solid 5px red;
float:right;
}
see code in jsfiddle. add margins to the divs if you'd like
I am sure you'll get something better but to get started this seems to work.
in the css sheet
#box1{
background-color:#FFFF99;
width: 350px;
height: auto;
float: left;
position:absolute;
bottom: 0;
}
#box2{
background-color:#CCFF99;
width:350px;
left: 500px;
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
}
in the html
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="try2.css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="box1">
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labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris
nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit
esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt
in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
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labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris
nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit
esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt
in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
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labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris
nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit
esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt
in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
</div>
<div id="box2">
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labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris
nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit
esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt
in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
</div>
</body>
</html>
I think you need an absolute left position for the second box.
What worked for me was applying this style to both divs:
.bottom-align {
vertical-align:bottom; display:inline-block; float:none;
}
Then between both divs I had to remove the pseudospace by adding a blank comment:
</div><!-- ---><div>
https://jsfiddle.net/panosang/96bnt3xa/
After some hours of working and a terrible headache i think that the perfect solution is to add some margin-botton and margin-top elements.
I really hate to add specific pixels or change percentage each time into my CSS file but i found it as the perfect solution in my problem.
I used <table> instead of <div>, but it works with <div> too.
Related
Goals:
The code should work for any element (div, span, etc)
contain: fill as much space as possible while keeping the aspect ratio and not overflowing the container
cover: fill as much space as possible while keeping the aspect ratio and not leaving gaps
fill: fill as much space as possible (keeping the aspect ratio is not important)
Here is how the result should look with different aspect ratios
Resize the elements to check out how they behave under different aspect ratios
.container {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
border: 3px solid blue;
resize: both;
overflow: hidden;
position: relative;
margin: 8px;
}
.element {
border: 6px solid red;
box-sizing: border-box;
background: radial-gradient(circle closest-side, #32ebc9, gray);
aspect-ratio: 16/9;
width: auto;
height: auto;
overflow: hidden;
/* modify this code to change the alignment */
position: relative;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
transform: translate(-50%,-50%);
}
.element.contain {
max-width: 100%;
max-height: 100%;
}
.element.cover {
min-width: 100%;
min-height: 100%;
}
.element.fill {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="element contain">
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</div>
</div>
<div class="container">
<div class="element cover">
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</div>
</div>
<div class="container">
<div class="element fill">
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</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Try this:
body {
display: flex;
flex-wrap: wrap;
}
.container {
width: 300px;
height: 300px;
border: 3px solid blue;
resize: both;
overflow: hidden;
position: relative;
margin: 8px;
}
.element {
border: 6px solid red;
box-sizing: border-box;
background: radial-gradient(circle closest-side, #32ebc9, gray);
aspect-ratio: 16/9;
width: auto;
height: auto;
overflow: hidden;
/* modify this code to change the alignment */
position: relative;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
transform: translate(-50%,-50%);
}
.element.contain {
max-width: 100%;
max-height: 100%;
}
.element.cover {
min-width: 100%;
min-height: 100%;
}
.element.fill {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="element contain">
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</div>
</div>
<div class="container">
<div class="element cover">
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</div>
</div>
<div class="container">
<div class="element fill">
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</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I am trying to float the image to left, wrap the description around the image, and float the location to the bottom left by using float and clear properties: https://jsfiddle.net/darf4ama/5/
<aside>
<h2>Photo Posts</h2>
<p><img src="http://lorempixel.com/200/300/animals/" alt="Image Title"></p>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.</p>
<p>Image</p>
</aside>
aside img {border: 2px dotted yellow; float: left;}
aside:first-of-type p:first-of-type {border: 2px dotted blue;}
aside:first-of-type p:nth-of-type(2) {border: 2px dotted green; float: left; overflow: auto;}
aside:first-of-type p:last-child {border: 2px dotted red; float: left; clear: both; font-style: italic;}
I think I have floated the image and the location and have cleared these two properties correctly. However I can't seem to float and clear paragraph 2. What am I doing wrong here?
Float does change the behaviour of elements
you might consider of using flex box
if you want to have the image and paragraph next to each other with a margin to it
check the following snippet
aside{
display:flex;
border:1px solid red;
}
aside img {border: 2px dotted yellow; }
aside p:nth-child(2){
margin:10px;
border:2px solid green;
}
<h2>Photo Posts</h2>
<aside>
<p>
<img src="http://lorempixel.com/200/300/animals/" alt="Image Title">
</p>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.</p>
</aside>
<p>Image</p>
Hope this helps
I've got my footer with four columns inside a container. It needs to be inside the container to line up with the content above.
My problem is I want the left column to have a background of red, however currently it will not stretch because it's obviously in a container.
How can I stretch it full width to the left whilst keeping it lined up with the content above.
<footer class="cf">
<div class="container">
<div class="test11" style="width: 25%; float: left; background: red;">
<p>
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</p>
</div>
<div class="test11" style="width: 25%; float: left;">
<p>
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</p>
</div>
<div class="test11" style="width: 25%; float: left;">
<p>
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</p>
</div>
<div class="test11" style="width: 25%; float: left;">
<p>
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</p>
</div>
</div>
</footer>
.container {
width: 1170px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
footer {
background: grey;
}
You cannot do it directly like you said "stretch" it as far as I know.
However, I made a little workaround for you here
It consists of:
using pseudo-element :before (assigned to the first footer column using :nth-of-type(1)) which we'll use for creating same red background to place on the left of the first column
positioning the :before element to position: absolute; in order to use left: 0; which will place the red background on the left edge of last positioned element
now our :before element is positioned relatively to the closest positioned ancestor - which is in our case the html element itself. But we want it to be positioned relatively to the footer which is not positioned yet, we do so using position: relative; on it (more on that here)
adding content: " "; height: 100%; width: 25%; so it appears actually
adding z-index: -1; to which places the before element behind the actual element. Read about it here
adding z-index: 0; to the footer element to include it to the positioning context
adding background-color: red;
final added code:
footer{
z-index: 0;
position: relative;
}
.test11:nth-of-type(1):before{
position: absolute;
left: 0;
content: " ";
height: 100%;
width: 25%;
z-index: -1;
background-color: red;
}
Few tips:
Don't use inline styles. Just don't
Use cf class to wrap just the floated elements (not e.g. footer containig them in your case)
For your future questions, it would be great, if you'd provided all the relating code, so people who want to help you could reproduce (and eventually find the solution) it as quickly as possible. (I had to include clearfix to css)
Hope this helps. Good luck!
Set container class width to 100%
.container {
width: 100%;
margin: 0 auto;
}
I am having a problem setting up the css properly
Here is my small code that I play with:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
* { margin: 0; padding:0; }
html, body { width: 100%; height: 100%; background: #abc; }
#container { background: #eee; width: 100%; height:100%;}
#sidebar { background: #a0f; width: 200px; height: 500px; position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px; }
#content { background: #777; margin-left: 200px; width: auto; height: 100%; }
#wrapper { background: #357; height: auto; padding: 10px;}
#column1 { background: #0f0; width: 66%; float: left; }
#column2 { background: #f00; width: 33%; float: right; }
#text1 { background: white; width:80%; min-width: 300px; margin: 0 auto;}
#text2 { background: white; width:80%; min-width: 300px; margin: 0 auto;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="sidebar">
</div><!-- end sidebar -->
<div id="content">
<div id="column1">
<div id="text1">
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</div>
</div><!-- end column1 -->
<div id="column2">
<div id="text2">
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</div>
</div><!-- end column2 -->
</div><!-- end content -->
</div><!-- end container -->
</body>
</html>
This is supposed to be a page with fixed sidebar on left and fluid content area on the right. In short pages I want the background color of #content extend to the bottom of screen (this works). On long pages I want that background to extend to the end of page (this does not).
I've added colors to all elements to see what's going where, but eventually the #content background will be white with 0.9 transparency, and there will be a background image on body.
How to fix that?
Update: see working example here: http://jsbin.com/AXUmALU/1/edit?html,output - just scroll the output up to see the break in colors.
I think I have what you want here. In the css I have added some selectors for a clearfix class, which is very common. It looks like this:
.clearfix:before,
.clearfix:after {
content: " ";
display: table;
}
.clearfix:after {
clear: both;
}
.clearfix {
*zoom: 1;
}
And I added that class to the #content This css is from HTML5 Boilerplate, which you can google. I also changed
#content { height: 100%; } to #content { min-height: 100%; }
so that the content can expand beyond the size of the screen if it needs to.
I need to create a page that has quotes side-by-side for a large number of rows.I am looking for a clean CSS2 presentation where the quotes of each row line up vertically and don't run below each other.Also, I am looking for a solution with the least amount of code and preferably one that doesn't float DIVs and does utilize the display attribute.
Re: the code below, my thinking is to contain each quote in its own DIV (in hopes to have the quotes of one row display side-by-side) and have the DIVs of one row be contained by a parent DIV (in hopes of having the quotes in the next row line up vertically). shred the code apart.Start a new.Do whatever you need to let me know where I'm going wrong.
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
body
{
font-family:Verdana;
font-size:11px;
}
div#mainContainer
{
width:570px;
}
div#mainContainer div.subContainer
{
margin:30px;
}
div#mainContainer div.subContainer div
{
vertical-align:top;
width:285px;
}
div#mainContainer div.subContainer div.contentLeft
{
float:left;
margin-right:45px;
}
div#mainContainer div.subContainer div.contentRight
{
display:inline;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="mainContainer">
<h1>Title</h1>
<div class="subContainer">
<div class="contentLeft">
"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut."
<p>Bill, New York</p>
</div>
<div class="contentRight">
"Labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation."
<p>Fred, Detroit</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="subContainer">
<div class="contentLeft">
"Ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint."
<p>Sarah, Seattle</p>
</div>
<div class="contentRight">
"Occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut."
<p>Phil, Austin</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="subContainer">
<div class="contentLeft">
"Labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad."
<p>Jon, Petrolia</p>
</div>
<div class="contentRight">
"Minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia."
<p>Chris, Burlington</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Title</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
font-family:Verdana;
font-size:11px;
}
#mainContainer {
width: 600px;
}
.quoteBox {
width: 300px; /* Half the width of the mainContainer to ensure there is always space to exactly TWO quotes on each row */
float: left;
}
.clearer {
height: 0;
font-size: 0;
clear: both; /* Clear the line to ensure no quotes end up partly below another one. Follow the pattern: Two quotes, clear, two quotes, clear etc... */
}
blockquote,cite { margin: 12px }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="mainContainer">
<h1>Title</h1>
<div class="quoteBox">
<blockquote>"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut."</blockquote>
<cite>Bill, New York</cite>
</div>
<div class="quoteBox">
<blockquote>"Labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation." </blockquote>
<cite>Fred, Detroit</cite>
</div>
<div class="clearer"> </div>
<div class="quoteBox">
<blockquote>"Ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint."</blockquote>
<cite>Sarah, Seattle</cite>
</div>
<div class="quoteBox">
<blockquote>"Occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut."</blockquote>
<cite>Phil, Austin</cite>
</div>
<div class="clearer"> </div>
<div class="quoteBox">
<blockquote>"Labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad."</blockquote>
<cite>Jon, Petrolia</cite>
</div>
<div class="quoteBox">
<blockquote>"Minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia."</blockquote>
<cite>Chris, Burlington</cite>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Like this, for example? Reduced the number of excess DIV-elements a bit, plus cleaned the CSS a little. Looks cleaner, and should work the way you described your problem.
blockquote and cite-elements used to add semantic meanings to the document.
without deviating much from your original elements (although the suggestion that you add semantic meaning to inner elements is good), I got success by replace your element with this:
body
{
font-family: Verdana;
font-size: 11px;
}
div#mainContainer
{
width: 645px;
}
div.subContainer
{
margin: 30px;
}
div.subContainer div
{
vertical-align: top;
float: left;
width: 285px;
}
div.contentLeft
{
margin-right: 45px;
}
Note that your calculations on widths were too low. I tested this with IE8, not FF, but it should work. If you are using IE8, there's a new very powerful Developer Toolbar built in, which includes a Layout pane that shows effective Offset, Margin, Border, and Padding values on all sides of an element.