CSS position: fixed - css

I have position:fixed <div> that appears in the middle of the screen. When there are messages, a second position:fixed <div> is put next to the first <div>.
I'm finding on different screen sizes (say a netbook - small screen) the <div>'s sit on top of each other.
Is there a way to lock their position to each other? I tried using a fixed container to hold both of them, but they still moved.
<div id="container">
<div id="container"></div>
<div id="container"></div>
</div>
EDIT:
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="container1"></div>
<div id="container2"></div>
</div>
CSS - container1 and container2 still move when I change the screen size.
#wrapper {
position: fixed
}
#container1 {
position: fixed
}
#container2 {
position: fixed
}
do I need to use relative positioning on the container 1/2 divs?

Most importantly, id is unique. You cannot use id="container" on three different elements. Each must have their own id.
<div id="container">
<div id="container"></div>
<div id="container"></div>
</div>
Should be something like this...
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="container1"></div>
<div id="container2"></div>
</div>
Also, where is your CSS code?
If you don't want these things to push each other around as the window size changes, one method would be to specify the exact size and position of each container.
EDIT:
Again, without seeing an example of this page, a demo, or a better description of what you want, this is speculation.
You could put fixed position on the wrapper and then put an exact size and position on the <div>'s within.

The position: fixed CSS rule "fixes" the element's position on the screen. Once you set it to fixed, it will never move from the position you put it in. Since you're applying fixed to all of your elements, you're seeing the elements stack (likely in the top-left of your screen considering you're not providing a top or left value).
If you want the child elements to appear inside your fixed container, just don't add position: fixed to them and they'll sit inside the parent just fine.
Of course, all of this is pure speculation considering we can't see an example of your problem, nor your desired result.

you cant fix the position of your div like this. first of all you have to find the screen size for your parent div which contains that div u want in middle.like
<div id="parent"> <div id="middle_div"></div> </div>
function getScreenSize()
{
var winW, winH;
winW = document.getElementById('parent').availWidth;
winh = document.getElementById('parent').availHeight;
}
this is how you vil get the size availabel for parent div.Then set the width and height of parent div according to it.now if you have width of parent div its easy to set middle_div in middle of parent div.

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How to resize the width of div left to another which has float:left;?

I still have problem to well understand how the float property works in CSS. I do apologize because I know this is css basics but I really want to understand that and get a good explanation. I've created an example to show you.
Here is my page :
I just want to resize the second div at the right. When I look at it in the Chrome Developer Tools, I see that this div begins at the top left of the window and not after the red square. I'd like it to begins just after the red square to change the width properly without calculating the size of the square and doing something like
width = square size + width i want
Do you know how this it happens and how to properly resize the width of the second div ?
EDIT: the solution consists in add the float property to the second div too. The explanation is the following : floated elements are removed from the flow, so they don't stack with the non-floated elements.
You need to set float for another div too.
We generally do like below:
html
<div class="float-left">
<p>floated left</p>
</div>
<div class="float-left"><!--- to float next to previous div--->
<p>floated left</p>
</div>
css
.float-left{
float: left;
}
As per your comment:
We do clear the float values because the container contents would never been collapsed.
You need to float the second div.
Heres an example.
<div class="parent-div">
<div class="left">
</div>
<div class="left">
<p>This is the description of the image</p>
</div>
</div>
You need to set
p { display:inline; }
or
div { display:inline; }
since paragraphs and divs are block elements.
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visuren.html#block-boxes
the reason is that floated elements are removed from the flow, so they don't stack with the non-floated elements. - therefore they don't "take up space" like before. This is why your text div starts at the top left of its container.
from MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/float
The float CSS property specifies that an element should be taken from the normal flow and placed along the left or right side of its container, where text and inline elements will wrap around it. A floating element is one where the computed value of float is not none.
You have to set float for both DIVs
Here is the updated code:
HTML:
<div id="main_container">
<div class="left"></div>
<div class="right">
<p>This is the description of the image <i>Random text</i>
</p>
</div>
<!--Comment below <DIV> to see the result-->
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>
CSS
#main_container {
border:5px solid #000;
}
.left, .right {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
background: red;
float:left;
}
.right {
background: blue;
width: calc(100% - 100px);
}
.clear {
clear:both;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
Also, just to add one more important fact related to "float" is, make sure you add "clear:both" property after "float".
Why?? Because, a common problem with float-based layouts is that the floats' container doesn't want to stretch up to accomodate the floats. If you want to add, say, a border around all floats (ie. a border around the container) you'll have to command the browsers somehow to stretch up the container all the way.
Here is the Fiddle for the same: http://jsfiddle.net/1867ud9p/7/
Hope this will help!

twitter bootstrap - is it possible to undo "container" margins

my html looks like this:
<div class="container">
<div class="header-content">
hello!
</div>
</div>
i've recently come into a situation where I need the 'header' to be 100% the window for a full-width background. usually i would do this css:
<div class="header-background-color">
<div class="container">
<div class="header-content">
hi!
</div>
</div>
</div>
unfortunately, i am fairly deep into a framework and can't wrap the container. i need to construct it within the container.
<div class="container">
<div class="header-background-color">
<div class="container">
<div class="header-content">
hi!
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
i can't figure out a way to accomplish this, and am wondering if this is possible.
if i use this css for header-background-color
background: blue;
left:0;
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
the element looks right, but the page flow is interrupted.
does anyone know if my target goal is reachable?
i made a bootply to illustrate this http://www.bootply.com/129060
You can use a child (>) selector to select the first container element and set its width to 100% and remove the padding.
.example-3 > .container {
width: 100%;
padding: 0;
}
This assumes you'll always have a wrapper around it with a unique class name (or use body if it's the first div), but this also allows you to remove the position: absolute which is causing the overlap and the height can stay dynamic.
See forked bootply: http://www.bootply.com/129065
I've added a button that inserts a paragraph into the div so you can see how it's not affected by changes in height.
Only thing I can think of is using a dumby element to maintain the vertical space (i.e. set the height), and then use absolute positioning on the full width content (as you mention). This is really ugly and won't be a good solution if the height of the content is dynamic.
See #content_dumby element in forked bootply: http://www.bootply.com/129063

Position DIVs in same place, toggle them

I'm having a little issue with couple of DIVs.
I need two DIVs to be positioned in exactly same place, and toggle them. As one div disappear, another should appear. This I will do using jQuery toggle().
The issue is that both DIVs should be part of the page flow and positioned exactly the same way. How I would achieve that?
So, there is some previous div, that occupies some place, has relative positioning and non-fixed sizes (dependent on window measures)
<div class="header">
... </div>
Then my div
<div id="galleria" style="height:700px;width:920px; margin:0 auto; border:1px solid green; ">
... </div>
and other my DIV
<div id="aboutDiv" >
This is ABOUT
</div>
Two later divs should occupy the same place. What positioning tags I could use?
The design adjusts to the window size due to flexible element -- very first DIV "header", so no absolute positioning is possible.
just put them one after another
<div id="galleria" style="height:700px;width:920px; margin:0 auto; border:1px solid green; "> ... </div>
<div id="aboutDiv" >
This is ABOUT
</div>
both should be positioned relative , when one is hidden then other will move up and they will be in the same place - as long as you are using toggle to always have one hidden and one shown
You either need a relatively positioned parent container with absolutely positioned children, or hide one and show the other when its faded out completely

Why float behave differently than other options when we give float to parent element to clear float?

In this example http://jsbin.com/inoka4 no width is defined for parent element
if i want to wrap red boxes in container border.
then we can make this in 5 ways
to giving float also to <div class="container">
overflow:hidden or overflow:auto
any clearfix hack to <div class="container clearfix">
Giving height to <div class="container">
adding one more html element (for example another div or <br >) after 2
boxes in <div class="container"> enter code hereand give
clear:leftor:bothor:right` to that
element
my question is any other option except float do not make any changes in <div class="container"> and inner boxes width. but if we use float:left or right to parent box then it's shrink the whole box and inner-boxes as well.
Why?
example link: http://jsbin.com/inoka4
Edit: My question is not about which method i should use, the question is why Float shrink the width
I think the better option is to use overflow:hidden. It is a simple one line change and it works.
div#container {
...
overflow: hidden;
}
Adding extra divs for clear fix requires changes in html for something that is really css. Alternatively, when using clear fix by doing hacks like...
div:after {
content:....
...
}
your css just gets bigger and messier. But it still is a good option (especially when you need to have things that overflow the box)
Reference:
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/css-fudamentals-containing-children/
If you dont' use float on the container it's width is set to 100%. If you add a floating, it only takes the space it needs. In this case the width is calculated by the two divs inside.
To wrap the red boxes in the container border there is not other option except adding float to the container. The only other option would be to absolutely position all the elements but in this case you have to know the width and height of all elements in advance. So that really isn't an option.
So my advice is to use float on the container and add a clear: both on the element after the container.
Your best bet is to always clear your floats. Just after you close the div with class .right, and just before you close the div with class .container, add a new div like this:
<div class="clear"></div>
.clear is just {clear:both;} in your stylesheet. That's what I use all day long, and works like a treat.
The final markup would be:
<div class="container">
<div class="left"> ... </div>
<div class="right"> ... </div>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>
Edit: Just like your last example, apparently. :)

3 div independently relative and top aligned

How to (top) align 3 div that should be relative to a previous div (but not between them)?
I can't use floats or position:inline-block (if you set display:none on 2 divs the last one shouldn't move).
position:absolute neither because there's a relative footer underneath.
vertical-align:top doesn't work using spans - any workaround?
I tried using a wrapper but it can't work cause the height of the divs is not fixed.
The height of the wrapper gets completely ignored anyway (by the following footer) unless Im using relative children.
Any ideas?
HTML
the order is important and the wrapper is optional (to position the side divs)
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="left"></div>
<div id="right"></div>
<div id="middle"></div>
</div>
<div id="footer"></div>
CSS
#left {float:left}
#middle {margin:0 auto}
#right {float:right}
#footer {clear:both}
unless someone comes up with something easier
ill accept my answer in 24h

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