What I'm trying to do is have three divs wrapped in a fixed width container that will auto resize when the content in the middle div expands. As the middle gets larger the two beside it get smaller if that makes sense.
<div id="container">
<div class="one"/>
<div class="middle">...</div>
<div class="two"/>
</div>
Not sure if I should be using div or span for this.
Any advice on the CSS?
#thirtydot The two divs at the side of
the middle div will contain nothing,
just a border-top, the middle div will
contain two links. :)
In that case, I'm answering with something simpler that you might be able to use.
See: http://jsfiddle.net/uZ5dn/
<div class="container">
<span class="middle">content con tent the tent of cons content content</span>
</div>
.container {
border-top: 5px solid #f0f;
text-align: center;
}
.middle {
background: #fff;
display: inline-block;
position: relative;
top: -5px; /* same as border-top-width */
}
It's not awesome, but it might be good enough.
At the very least, I'll get a better idea of what to suggest next.
If I'm reading your question correctly, I suspect that you'll have to do this with JavaScript, and DIVS.
You can get and set the actual size of the DIVs in pixels using the .height() function.
So, you could do something like:
if ($('#div2').height() > 200) {
$('#div1').height(100);
$('#div3').height(100);
} else {
$('#div1').height(200);
$('#div3').height(200);
}
Related
second try as I was unluck to explain the issue yesterday. I am trying to achieve the following layout in html/CSS:
The grey box is the 1040px wide centered site container. Above is a header with a much wider picture which shall grow to the right side in case of a larger screen resolution. How could I do this with CSS?
I know that I could calculate the left margin of the site container with javscript and dynamically set the left margin of the header, but I want a css solution.
Regards,
Martin
It's me again, I now finally understand what you mean.
The closest I've been able to get to what you want, is trying things out with percentages.
<div id = "header">
</div>
<div id = "sitecontainer">
</div>
CSS:
#header{
height: 200px;
width: 100%px;
background-color: black;
margin-left: 25%;
}
Try fiddeling around with those percentages until you hit a sweetspot that works for you.
To add; making 2 divs might even be better, something like this: http://puu.sh/3thxc/085a639816.png. But I can't seem to be able to place the second div (headerright) right next to header div.
I came up with a solution which is working but not the sweetest, so if you have a better approach, let me know:
body {
overflow-x: hidden;
}
#growing-header {
position: absolute;
left: 0;
width: 2400px;
background-color: #edf034;
}
#main {
position: relative;
background-color: #00aaff;
}
and the containers:
<body>
<div id="main">
<div id="growing-header">my header...</div>
<!-- some more divs, site-content,...</div>
</div>
</body>
Cheers,
Martin
I'm new to CSS tables, it's my first time. So I discovered that when you set display:table to a div, you can forgot all margin and padding (and whatever) you're planning on it's future cause they are ignored. Nice. The only property I've found to make this job is border-spacing but it is a little limited comparing with margin and padding. It have only two ways of styling, horizontal and vertical. You can't set the value of the side you want like border-spacing-left or border-spacing: 0 1px 2px 3px.
In my case, I have a table with one row that lies on the top right corner of the screen. I want it attached on the very top and spaced horizontally, which caused me problems. The top is okay but the right detaches from the border when I use border-spacing: 10px 0.
Smart guys like me don't see this as a problem, cause we can set it margin-right negatively, making it be attached again on the right side of the browser. Wow, whata smart ass I am!
However, I saw an little damn scrollbar on the bottom of the screen like a roach under your cooker at the kitchen. I hate roac.. scrollbars specially horizontals, so I got my inseticide called overflow-x and kil.. set it to hidden. She run desperately and dissapeared, but I know that she's there, somewhere staring at me. And this is driving me crazy.
Seriously now. I think this isn't the right way to do that and I hope somebody can teach me how to do it.
This is my scenario on Fiddle
Thank you in advance(mainly for reading this crap).
There are a few ways of achieving what you're trying to achieve. Most commonly, using display: table, display: table-cell, etc isn't very high on the list.
So, here's how I would do it: http://jsfiddle.net/VKnQZ/1/
Do bear in mind that I don't know the full circumstance of what you're attempting so it may well be that I'm missing a (valid) reason that you're using table display properties in the first place.
You'll notice a few things here:
I've done away with your table display properties. I don't think you need them, and floats do the job just fine (just remember to clear them).
I've removed your display from the cell divs. As someone in the comments above pointed out, divs inherit display: block by default. The additional dimensions set their size as you already had it.
I'm using the + selector to put in the spacing between elements. In this instance div + div is essentially short-hand for 'every div which is beside another div' - so all of them aside from the first.
Hopefully that achieves what you're aiming for and does away with all the nasty hacky overflow/margins/etc.
Here's the code:
HTML (only change is to remove the row div):
<div id="nav">
<div class="red"></div>
<div class="green"></div>
<div class="blue"></div>
</div>
CSS:
body {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
#nav {
float: right;
}
#nav div {
float: left;
width: 120px;
height: 40px;
}
#nav div + div{
margin-left: 10px;
}
.red { background-color:#f00 }
.green { background-color:#0f0 }
.blue { background-color:#00f }
and can you tell me why are you trying to imitate table behavior when you have "table" tag? it could be styled pretty well also
what you are doing is sometimes called "divitis"
edit:
you can position table absolutely http://jsfiddle.net/n83kT/
Not too sure if this the right place to discuss float and display :)
But , flex is on his way, and display is already quiet efficient.
Display + direction and you could kick floats away.
border-spacing version : http://jsfiddle.net/GCyrillus/2EZ3F/
border-left version : http://jsfiddle.net/GCyrillus/2EZ3F/1/
<section>
<div id="nav">
<div class="red"></div>
<div class="green"></div>
<div class="blue"></div>
</div>
</section>
section is to set direction .. or not
unset & reset direction to fake float ,
else use text-align if you dislike this method.
In CSSheet, notice inline-table instead of table so it reacts to text-align and or direction (not all pages are EN or FR :) )
body {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
section {
direction:rtl; /* unset regular if you wish, else text-align will do for inline-boxes */
}
#nav {
direction:ltr;/* reset/set here if you want cells from left to right */
display:inline-table;
border-spacing: 10px 0 ;
}
#nav div {
/*direction:ltr; reset here if you want cells from right to left */
display: table-cell;
width: 120px;
height: 40px;
}
#nav div + div {
margin-left: 10px;
}
.red {
background-color:#f00
}
.green {
background-color:#0f0
}
.blue {
background-color:#00f
}
My 2 (late) cents for a different point of view :)
For completeness, I would like to offer the case for the often overlooked inline-block display type.
Similar to the use of floats, the HTML is as follows:
<div id="nav">
<div class="red"></div>
<div class="green"></div>
<div class="blue"></div>
</div>
and the CSS:
#nav {
position:absolute;
top:0;
right:0;
}
#nav div {
width: 120px;
height: 40px;
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: bottom;
}
#nav div + div {
margin-left: 10px;
}
This inline-block approach behaves similarly to the floated-child-div's approach.
In this application, I can't think of a reason to use one over the other.
One minor consideration is that inline-block is not supported in some older browsers.
Otherwise, both approaches use the same mark-up and the CSS rules are similarly simple.
The choice may depend a lot on the content that you use in the #nav div elements.
Demo fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/audetwebdesign/EVJPN/
I'm looking to create a header like:
<div id="header>
<span class="left></span>
<span class="center"></span>
<span class="right></span>
</div>
So have a header that's all inline. the left to all the way to the left, the right is all the way to the right, and the center is in the center of the header.
The challenge is #header is fluid. Any CSS suggestions. right now the best way I can think to get this done is with a table with 3 rows.
Thanks
Try this:
http://jsfiddle.net/z7k3J/
If you adjust the spacer bar in the middle of the page, you will see that all of your "columns" stay appropriately aligned.
The key is that all of the columns' widths add up to 100% and you float them all to the left (or right, it doesn't really matter). When your widths are percentage-based, they will adjust appropriately as the parent changes size.
If you only care about the text being right/center/left (and not images, etc), you could also make all of the columns 100% width and absolutely positioned, and then just use text-alignment:
http://jsfiddle.net/h7qB8/
Is there a reason that floating the left and right spans won't work for you?
Can you re-order the HTML to be left/right/center (or right/left/center)? If so, float the columns and use margins or borders on the center to hold it off the side bars.
This would be a good start:
<div id="header" style="position:relative;width:100%;">
<div class="left" style="position:relative;width:200px;float:left;"></div>
<div class="center" style="position:relative;float:left;text-align:center;"></div>
<div class="right" style="position:relative;width:100px;float:right;"></div>
</div>
This will center everything in the middle div and keep the other 2 divs to the side. Make sure the element containing the header div is set to position:relative;width:100%; as well.
You can also use display: inline-block on the inner elements, on the outer container do a text align center, and then on .left float: left; .right float: right. This would allow you to set a width on the spans, but keep them evenly spaced from the center. See:
#header {
width: 100%;
text-align: center;
}
.left, .center, .right {
display: inline-block;
width: 100px;
border: 1px solid green;
}
.center {
text-align: center;
}
.left {
float: left;
}
.right {
float: right;
}
You don't mention it in your question but have it in your tag - if you're able to use CSS3 then the possibilities open up more. You can use the flex box layout: http://www.the-haystack.com/2010/01/23/css3-flexbox-part-1/ or css3 columns: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS3_Columns
For part of a layout I want to make, I want to use three divs, all floating next to each other. The Left and Right have a max-width set, which works fine, but I want the middle div to expand its width to fill the remaining space. To clarify, the left and right divs may have a width of anywhere from 0px to the max-width, depending on what is in each, and I want the middle div to expand its width so that it takes up the rest of the space not used by the divs on either side.
The problem it's having now is that if there is a lot of content in the middle div, it's expanding and pushing the right div off to the next line instead of keeping it up with the other two.
Here's the css I have so far:
#left-column {
width: auto;
max-width: 200px;
height: auto;
float: left;
}
#middle-column {
float: left;
width: auto;
}
#right-column {
width: auto;
max-width: 200px;
height: auto;
float: right;
}
...and the HTML:
<div id="left-column">...</div>
<div id="middle-column">...</div>
<div id="right-column">...</div>
I think that this can be accomplished using a three-column, single-row table, but I absolutely do NOT want to use tables - I want to accomplish as much as possible by using pure css.
Thanks!
Classic Floats
If you order it:
<div id="left-column"></div>
<div id="right-column"></div>
<div id="middle-column"></div>
and you float the left column left, and the right column right, the middle column should fill in the remaining space. You will have some issues with margins, borders and paddings though.
Flexbox
If you don't need to support older browsers, you can use flexbox. With flexbox, this sort of structure becomes much simpler, and the markup doesn't need to change.
You will need to be able to select the parent element, so for the purposes of this demo, the code will be wrapped by <div class="wrapper">.
.wrapper {
display: flex;
flex-direction: row;
height: 200px;
}
.left {
background-color: red;
width: 100px;
}
.middle {
background-color: green;
flex: 1;
}
.right {
background-color: blue;
width: 100px;
}
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="left"></div>
<div class="middle"></div>
<div class="right"></div>
</div>
The height and widths are added explicitly so that the <div>s are visible. With actual content, the columns would automatically adjust.
I don't want to dredge up an old thread here but I was looking for a solution to my own problem and came across this and I thought I'd better share with Francisco...
Tables are a terrible idea for positioning layout, the main problem is that before a table will show/render in the browser it has to render it's </table> tag.
Could you imagine if Facebook's column content used a table for it's layout, it would take ages for it to render anything to the screen when checking your timeline for instance!
Another issue is that tables behave extremely differently in each browser.
Basically: <table> for layout = NO!, <table> for listing out rows of data or information = YES!
My problem is best outlined with this schematic/image which outlines how I want it to look:
!
I have a background image and 2 divs for text over the top of it (headline, and intro-text). I also have 2 divs on either side of the headline - these are for the white horizontal stripes.
My issue is that the headline is changeable in a CMS, and I want the horizontal white stripes to automatically fill up the space to the left and to the right of it, regardless of the headline's width.
I can't figure out how to make those 2 horizontal white stripes resize automatically.
Here's my HTML:
<div id="masthead">
<div id="headline-container">
<div id="left-stripe"> </div><div id="headline">{headline}</div><div id="right-stripe"> </div>
</div>
<div class="clear-both"> </div>
<div id="intro-text">{intro_text}</div>
</div>
And here's my CSS - ignore the widths specified for the left-stripe and right-stripe - they're just placeholders:
#masthead {
height: 260px;
}
div#headline-container {
width:960px;
padding:none;
}
div#left-stripe{
float: left;
background-color:#fff;
height: 3px;
width:500px;
display: inline;
}
div#right-stripe{
float: right;
background-color:#fff;
height: 3px;
width:100px;
display: inline;
}
div#headline {
text-align:right;
color: #fff;
font-size: 200%;
float: left;
display: inline;
}
div#intro-text {
text-align: left;
float: right;
width: 300px;
color: #fff;
}
Ideas? Please let me know if I can provide more detail.
I'm a bit too busy to actually test this, but this might give you some direction. i'm not sure the exact effect you're trying to achieve (see comment about finding a live demo someone made).
Regardless, this kind of fluid layout is a bit difficult to achieve reliably with straight CSS. To make it easier I would suggest making the right-stripe a static width.
This CSS solution MIGHT work... no promises.
markup
<div class="container">
<div class="headline-container">
<div class="left-stripe"></div>
<div class="headline">Headline goes here</div>
<div class="right-stripe></div>
</div>
<div class="content"></div>
</div>
CSS
//static width for right stripe
.right-stripe { width: 20px; }
.headline { width: auto; }
.left-stripe { width: auto; }
Using javascript would make it really easy though... here's how i would do it with jQuery. Again, I would make the right-stripe a static width to achieve this effect.
(same markup...)
..
js
var totalWidth = $("#container").width();
var leftWidth = totalWidth - ($("headline").width() + $("right-stripe").width());
$("left-stripe").width(leftWidth);
You can do this dynamically, with jQuery, for example. You take the full width of the 3 div's, drop the size of the inner div and assign dynamically the widths of the 2 outer div's in which the bar should repeat horizontally.
Basically, you will need:
$("#whole-div").width() - $("#inner-div").width() for the outer div's total width. Then, depending on your positioning of the inner-div, you assign values for the outer div's.
For example: whole div has 1000px, inner div has 200px and inner div is positioned 600px left. You will then assign 600px to the left div ($("#whole-div").width() - $("#inner-div").css('left')) and 200px for the right div ($("#whole-div").width() - $("#inner-div").css('left') - $("#inner-div").width()). Of course, you will then set a background-repeat property on the outer div so that the image repeats.
Hope that helps!
UPDATE CSS only fluid solution: http://jsfiddle.net/SebastianPataneMasuelli/XnvYw/1/
it uses the same background image twice, on #masthead and on #headline-container. except ton headline container the background is offset to match its left position relative to its parent element. then we only need one div.line behind it, which gets covered by the background image under the headline and copy, giving the illusion of a seamless image.
do you mean like this?: http://jsfiddle.net/SebastianPataneMasuelli/XnvYw/