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
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I have 3 div's:
.left, .right {
width: 30px;
resize: none;
}
.left {
float: left;
}
.right {
float: right;
}
.center {
max-width: 960px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
What I want to achieve is that only the middle one resizes when resizing the browser. In the left and right div there is an image that is part of the design.
When I make the browser smaller, the left en right div will narrow at one point and it seems that it is getting pushed into the center div. This makes the content of the center being pushed down. How can I make sure the 2 div will stay #30px?
Strange thing is, in the jsfiddle it does work...
jsfiddle
The issue is with the <img /> element you have in the header. When you hide it you can see that it no longer interferes with your layout.
The problem is because the <img /> element will expand to the maximum size of the container, which is 100%. That 100% does not include the 30px you have reserved for each side, as floated elements are taken out of the document flow. Declaring 100% of a child element means it will expand to the width of its parent elements, without taking into account the extra space taken up by floated siblings. Therefore, a solution would be using CSS calc to constrain the width of .center, and float it to the left, too:
.center {
width: calc(100% - 60px);
}
Alternatively, you can give .center a margin of 30px on the left and on the right. The floated divs will ignore margins because they are taken out of the document flow, and will fit perfectly within that 30px corridor you have created for them.
.center {
margin: 0 30px;
}
Both methods I have tested and verified by playing with the Inspector on the link you have provided. The calc() method might suffer from lack of support in older browsers, while the margin method will work for most browsers that are in use today :) pick any one.
Try setting the horizontal margin for your center div to the known width of the left and right divs:
.center {
max-width: 960px;
margin: 0 30px;
}
I am trying to use CSS3 columns to order some divs top to bottom then left to right. It seems to work pretty well but I have this one issue as shown in the image below. I give each of the divs a background and when I adjust the height of my window, instead of moving the entire background in one block as I would like, it progressively adds it, separating the background between two columns. This looks REALLY bad. I was wondering if there was a way to preserve the background of my divs so that as soon as the window becomes too small to accommodate even one pixel-height of a div, it moves the entire div to the next column.
Secondly, I would like to center the column(s) on the page with regard to the window size. I want this to work in Chrome (any recent version), Firefox (Any recent version), and IE 10.
You can fiddle here: http://jsfiddle.net/eE3z6/
#mainContent /* The containing div */
{
position: absolute;
top: 50px;
bottom: 50px;
margin: 10px;
column-width: 400px;
-webkit-column-width: 400px;
-moz-column-width: 400px;
}
.blockData /* The divs inside are all of this class */
{
position: relative;
width: 380px;
height: 30px;
padding: 4px;
margin: 0px 0px 10px 0;
border: 4px outset grey;
background: lightgrey;
}
Just add -webkit-column-break-inside : avoid; and display : inline-block for .blockData
Demo at : http://jsfiddle.net/eE3z6/4/
I thought I answered this yesterday. You need to take the float:left off of the .blackData and .listData styles and add a padding-bottom to your .listData style. 20px seems to work. The columns is checking the content (not the background) when deciding what to send to the next column and by adding padding to the bottom of the .listData you are making the content the same size as the background.
Also, on your jsfiddle you have .blockData style in there 2 times, so you need to take one of them out.
If you want to make it so that the columns will center on the main content div you will need to take off the position:absolute style from #mainContent and change .blockData margin from 5px 0px to 5px auto. By adding the auto to margin you will automatically center the content. I would also suggest taking the margin off the top of .blockData and only putting it on the bottom, so that all the columns will align to the top.
Now, when you take off the absolute positioning from #mainContent you will be able to center the blocks, but it will not readjust and send one block to the next column, but will even out the number of blocks in each column (i.e. instead of having 7 in the first and 1 in the second it will have 4 in the first and 4 in the second). It really depends on how you want it to be displayed.
I also, fixed up your jsfiddle. just turn position: absolute off and on for #mainContent and you'll see what I'm talking about.
EDIT:
instead of using-padding bottom to keep from cutting off each background you can use display: inline-block on the .blockData (this is similar to column-break-inside: avoid in this case but works on all browsers).
Currently I'm working on a website for myself. I decided to go for a header content footer design where the footer shall be stuck to the bottom all the time. Hence I set up a wrapper with position: relative, containing the header (#top), content (#middle), and footer (#bottom). Bottom got position: absolute with top: 0.
I've also set height: 100% for html and body and a appropriate padding-bottom for #middle to ensure that my footer won't overlap #middle.
Please find a simplified sample version here: http://www.webdevout.net/test?0w
Here is the CSS in question:
* {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
html, body {height: 100%}
#wrapper {
position: relative;
background-color: #ccc;
min-height: 100%;
}
#middle {
background-color: #900;
padding-bottom: 200px;
}
#top, #bottom {
width: 100%;
height: 200px;
background-color: #bb5;
}
#bottom {position: absolute; bottom: 0;}
Now here's my problem: my understanding of the box-model is, that one should be able to achieve the same (keeping the space for the footer) with margin-bottom instead of padding-bottom for #middle, but margin-bottom isn't applied to it. I've read that min-height doesn't consider padding, border or margin, but the padding is considered here while border and margin aren't.
FF and Chrome show different behaviors when margin-bottom is used instead of padding-bottom for #middle: while Chrome just ignores the margin, FF applies it below #wrapper. My general idea would have been that my container should grow to the total size of its content with min-height, including height + padding + border + margin of #middle, but obviously it just grows to overall size of #top + height of #middle + padding of #middle.
I wonder what is the correct behavior and why padding and margin aren't interchangeable to keep the space for the footer.
While an explanation would be much appreciated, I'd be also thankful for a link to a source which could help me. I'm sorry if this duplicates another post, but I didn't find something (neither here nor via Google) fitting my special problem.
Thank you!
i had faced same problem like u are facing.
You have to use this piece of code.
#middle {
display: table;
margin: 2% auto;
width: 100%;
}
use of display : table works for me to set margin from top and bottom.
Everything is wrapped in a div with an id="main_wrap"
the main wrap has this style:
#main_wrap{
margin:0 auto;
width:960px;
position:relative;
}
Since everything is wrapped inside of this div, I don't understand why a horizontal scroll bar would appear at the bottom.
If any of the children have borders, padding (or sometimes margins) applied to them, that adds to the width and height. Using overflow: hidden; would avoid the scroll bars. But, if something has too much width, you probably want to find where it is coming from to avoid possible problems in the future.
Note that you may be able to use box-sizing: border-box to prevent borders and padding from adding additional width (or height). This is particularly useful when you are using something like width: 100%, but width: 100% also isn't necessary in most cases - elements with display: block applied will fill the width by default AND keep padding and borders from adding additional width.
For example:
html, body { margin: 0; padding: 0; }
div {
background: #111;
color: #eee;
padding: 1em; /* This doesn't add to width - still at 100% width */
border: 2px solid #5e5; /* This also doesn't add to width - still at 100% width */
}
<div>Test</div>
Try add overflow hidden:
#main_wrap{
margin:0 auto;
width:960px;
position:relative;
overflow: hidden;
}
That should work (but is hacky).
If the elements are side by side and have a combined width or , as BDawg says margins or paddings, that cause it to exceed 960px a scroll bar could appear. Post your entire code and we can figure it out very quickly. Hiding the overflow should work but it would not really explain why the scroll bar is appearing. Giving us your entire markup will help find the root of the problem.
Somewhere you've left any DOM elements unseen which occupies the extra width. it's better to find and fix the children than to use overflow:hidden . overflow:hidden will hide the scroll bar if user zooms in the page.
Working 100%
if you are using bootstrap it takes
margin-left & right 15px (or) -15px
you need to change 15px to 0px
Example
.main_wrap .row{
margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px;
}
If you change width to 100% it helped you, but if you don't want, just try add external <div style="width:100%"></div> like this:
<div style="width:100%">
<div class="main_wrap">
%your content%
</div>
</div>
I just made a new layout and in my container it is supposed to be filled in with a light blue color. Except it doesn't seem to be working. In the screen shot it also shows how the container starts but then stops underneath the navigation links.
Also the container background seems to be working on my .index.php page but not on any of my others because I use PHP includes.
LINK TO MY LAYOUT SCREENSHOT : http://i56.tinypic.com/2wgc4fs.jpg
And my CSS is this :
#container {
margin: 0 auto 0 auto;
width: 900px;
padding: 10px;
background: #a1aeae;
}
The floating content doesn't influence the height of the container (and falls out the bottom), and the background only appears where the container does.
See containing floats for why and methods for containing floats for some better approaches than extra div elements. I'm fond of the overflow approach.
I thought you have to pu it like this
#container {
margin: 0 auto 0 auto;
width: 900px;
padding: 10px;
background-color: #a1aeae;
}