css extra space in div - css

I'm having trouble figuring out how to make the my pictures div show in the right place
here is a fiddle which looks worse the my page bust will give you an idea of what i"m trying to do
here is how it really looks a the of the page and at the `!
as you can see the div "pictures" has space above the pictures inside it and they pictures are pushed out at the bottom making my gradient incorrect.
I can't figure out where the extra space is coming from
additional
there is additional space on the right that grows while you expand the browser window until the next picture can fit then it shrinks. how can I make it so it stays at like 10px until the next picture fits

The problem you're having is that the div.spacer at the top of your pictures DIV is clearing the floated a.home (the sidebar, if I'm not mistaken). A possible solution would be to put overflow:hidden on the pictures DIV.
(Basically, you can control the "scope" of CSS clear by using overflow to create what is called a "block formatting context". If you apply overflow:hidden to the pictures DIV, then clear:both elements inside of that DIV cannot clear floats outside of that DIV.)

You have top: 200px; in the CSS of your pictures div

Hard to tell with the JSFiddle but:
div.pictures {
position:relative;
top:200px;
width:90%;
margin:auto;
background: rgba(255,255,238, 0.25)
}
Looks like that top:200px; rule is adding significant space.

try putting a <br style="clear:both;" /> at the end of the div!

Set top in the div.pictures to 0px;. However, it's difficult to tell if this is the result you want using Fiddle.

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Scroll page not div CSS only

I have been struggling with this problem for a long time now, and although I have found a number of good solutions to parts of my problem, none of them seem to work combined, so I have decided to ask you.
Here is a scrn shot of the website:
http://i.stack.imgur.com/6C0k1.jpg
What I'm hoping to achieve is to have a scroll bar appear on the far right of the page when content overflows the blue container, the div that has all my content in it, not the far right of the div itself, like it would if I set the div to overflow: auto or overflow: scroll.
In other words, I would like the page to scroll, not my div.
The site essentially consist of a body background, a div for the menu and a div for the content. The code is pretty messy, so I have left it out, but if you need it, just leave a comment and I will add it right away.
Everything is supposed to be fixed as in remain like it is on the scrn shot, except for the content in the blue container to the right. I initially figured that setting everything except the container to position:fixed would work and trigger a scroll bar to appear for the page that could be used to scroll through the div, but it didn't. This doesn't work though, as any visible overflow in the container just 'leaves' the page; it doesn't trigger a scroll bar.
As I've also pointed out in the scrn shot, the container-div has padding on the top and bottom and is also slightly transparent.
These two features seem to make things even more difficult. The padding, because setting overflow: visual makes content overflow, and thereby be visible, even through padding.
The transparency is an issue, since I can't just cut out the padding and give it a z-index that's higher than the content itself, in order to hide it; it will still be visible through it. The background image is set at a percentage or set to 'cover' (still figuring out which one works best), so cutting out the padding with the segment of the background image it covers, will not work either.
I hope I presented my problem and the issues clearly enough. If you have any questions or any feedback, please leave a comment.
Thank you in advance for any replies,
Magnus
NOTE: This is a repost of an early question that was trashed by someone who didn't bother reading through it properly before rating it down. The question essentially died afterwards. I have tried to make things even more clear this time, so I'm sorry if I repeat myself. This is also the reason why my post is so long this time.
Something like this?
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/6R7c2/
HTML:
<div id="top">Top</div>
<div id="middle">
<div>Content
</div>
</div>
<div id="bottom">Bottom</div>
CSS:
html,body{
width:100%;
height:100%;
margin:0;
}
#top,#bottom{
height:10%;
background:blue;
color:white;
}
#middle{
height:80%;
overflow:auto;
}
#middle>div{
height:10000px;
border:25px solid red;
}
It can be something like this
see http://jsfiddle.net/QfsvB/
CSS
div.scroll
{
background-color:#00FFFF;
width:100px;
height:100px;
overflow:scroll;
}
HTML
<div class="scroll">You can use the overflow property when you want to have better control of the layout, the overflow property specifies what to do if the content of an element exceeds the size of the element's box.</div>

Placing a div at the bottom of another div

I'm trying to do jquery pagination, however I'm having a problem keeping the navigator on the bottom, even with clear: both.
The problem is that the navigation div <div class="alt_page_navigation"></div> needs to be right where </ul> ends and cannot be in another div, or else the pagination get's broken.
Another problem is that because the page is dynamic, I don't know the width of the alt_page_navigation beforehand.
Here's a live page example, I've tried everything google spit up, to no avail.
If anyone knows of a simple solution, please let me know :)
Thank you :))
Clear won't work with your inline-block display, but you need that for centering.
Try this solution for creating a clearing div, then put
<div class="clearfix"></div>
between your products and your pager.
Put padding at the bottom equal to the height of your nav, and position like so:
.wrapper { position:relative; padding-bottom:1.5em }
.nav { height:1.5em; position:absolute; bottom:0 }
For example: http://jsfiddle.net/CwrMq/
But there's no reason to use absolute positioning, either; just make it a proper display:block item. For example: http://jsfiddle.net/CwrMq/1/
Your .alt_page_navigation div has display: inline-block set on it. If you delete this line in css - your div will clear the floats. If you want its content to be in the center of the page simply add text-align: center to it and make sure that its content is inline-block (now your a are block-level). You can see the working example here: http://jsfiddle.net/6FNH6/
Here is a solution i tend to use in situations like this.
Your paginator needs to go inside a container that positions it horizontally
See this fiddle - http://jsfiddle.net/94MwF/1/
Basically you are using text-align to horizontally center it, and position absolute to put it at the bottom.

Horizontally centering two divs (unequal in width), with no wrap

My page looks like this: http://ink-12.terc.edu/index.cfm
I want to get the picture (kids' drawings) on the left to follow the rest of the centered content, when the window expands:
Per the suggestions I found in other answers, I added an outer div (#maincontent) to hold my two divs that I want to scroll instead of wrap (#tbltframe and #drawings), and some additional coding (overflow:auto; display:inline-block; white-space:nowrap).
Now my page looks like this:
http://ink-12.web5test.terc.edu/index.cfm
So now it doesn't wrap (great!), but it cut off my drop shadow on the right side (you can still see it on the bottom). And I need to get the main content centered again (following the centered header and footer)--similar to the first webpage I listed. After the changes, the main content aligns left. I tried adding margin-right and margin-left:auto, as well as text-align:center, but neither did it. I also added a min-width, which doesn't seem to do it either. I can see the drop shadow again when I change the min-width to something significantly larger (74em), then but I don't know why, because #tbltframe (50em) and #drawings (14em) = 64em total.
Any help would be very much appreciated. Suggestions to move forward with the code on either webpage I listed would be fine. Thank you!
Please try the below css on skeleton.css line 64
#maincontent {
display: inline-block;
overflow: auto;
white-space: nowrap;
width: 1169px;
}
It will increase the width of the main content div so the images will not cut from sides..
Found a solution: http://www.search-this.com/2008/08/28/lets-all-get-inline-in-a-block-in-a-block/
Have to:
Create a min-width or width on the outer div (#maincontent)
Make #maincontent a block element with display:block
Center #maincontent with text-align:center
Make the inside divs (#drawings and #tbltframe)not wrap in #maincontent with white-space:nowrap;
Make the inside divs inline block elements with display:inline-block
Then make the text inside wrap again (if you want) with white-space:normal

Getting div to run to the right side of the screen

Basically i'm trying to get a divider to run to the right edge of the screen (without overflow).
If you look here: http://gomysites.com and scroll down to the twitter section you will see i've set the twitter panel to run off to the left edge of the screen (no matter the size).
Now i want to do exactly the same on the right side. If you notice the grey divider between the blog posts id like this to run to the right edge of the screen (no matter the size) without it adding a horizontal scroller.
I've tried setting the css for the divider exactly opposite as i did for the titter panel:
.widget_gomy_news .divider{
margin:30px -10000px 30px 0;
background:#f3f3f3;
height:30px;
float:right;
width:610px;
padding:0 10000px 0 0;
}
But it adds a horizontal scroller. So i did try adding overflow:hidden; to the body. Which removes the scroller but i can still scroll everything left and right with the mouse.
Anyone got any ideas how i can achieve what i'm after? or will i need to use some js to make this work?
Thanks in advance.
Just remove the -10000px right margin and the 10000px right padding and it works. What do you need that for?
Use overflow-x: hidden on the body element. This will prevent the horizontal scroll but may trip you up in older versions of IE - Tested in IE8 and Chrome.
Edit:
You could also write some jQuery to grab the Window viewport height/width like: $(window).height();, and size your entire page's "container" div accordingly. This will allow you to know what numbers you're working with for setting the negative/position margins in your "divider" hack.
I think i've sorted it. I wrapped all the page content inside a div and added overflow hidden to that (rather than body). This worked in everything except IE7, but i can do a simple work around for IE7. Thanks for all the replies, Jeff sent me down the right path thanks.

CSS float causing background image to appear incorrectly

I'm using a background image to add a custom bullet to list items in my content. In the content there are also images floated left. When an image and a list item are next to each other, the bullet appears where it would do if the image wasn't there, but the text wraps around the image.
Here is an example:
http://golf2.test.textmatters.com/content/greenkeepers/turfgrass/turfgrass_speci/cool_season_gra
is there a way to make the bullet appear where is should (i.e. next to the text)?
In Firebug / Firefox (you'll have to check other browsers) I solved your problem adding a:
li {
overflow:hidden;
}
Don't know why exactly, but that magical line solves lots of problems around floated stuff :-)
Edit: Solution if you can change the html slightly
If you have any control over the html, you could perhaps use paragraph tags instead of list items:
p.list_item {
background: transparent url(/++resource++stylesheets/images/bullet.gif) no-repeat scroll left 0.45em;
padding-left: 11px;
}
However, that would kind of change the semantic meaning of the list items...
This is an old topic... but thought I would add how I usually do this in case someone stumbles in here via a search...
If I have an image on the left, and plan to have graphic bulleted unordered list (UL) to the right of it, I place the image statement inside DIV tags, and add a float:left style to that DIV.
Then, I wrap my UL tags inside a DIV, and give that DIV a float:left style as well, causing it to appear to the right of the first DIV.
If I have additional text that I would like to resume UNDER my UL, then I give the second DIV a width that equals the total width of the page/column minus the graphic width - basically, to account for all of the space to the right of the image. That will force continuing text to flow directly under the UL DIV, and if the UL is shorter than the graphic, the text will flow to the right of the graphic and then under the graphic as expected.
If the UL extends lower than the graphic, then the text will just start under the image, as expected.
If you want the text to simply start UNDER the left graphic regardless of the height of the UL, then you could just apply a clear:both style to the ensuing , i.e.
In general this approach works so long as the UL isn't too much taller than the left image, because obviously in this scenario, the list itself isn't going to wrap under the image, leaving whitespace - so to make a long list look right may require some purposeful image sizing, or stacking a couple of images in the first DIV, or whatever other solution you might have.
If you really want to get whacky, I've had a few times where I've used the two DIV method described above, but setting the first DIV to position:relative, and placing the second DIV containing the UL INSIDE the first, with a position:absolute and of course top:??px and right:??px, set of course to absolutely position my UL to the right of the image. It takes the right kind of layout to use this method, obviously...
OK that's all I had to say, hope this makes sense & good luck to whomever!
Try wrapping your list items in a <p> tag, and then give that tag a left margin.
Why do you have div.fig width set to 0 in the html?
<div class="fig" style="width: 0px;"><img src="/images/43_Fescue.jpg" float="0"/></div>
Remove that and the list will float around the image.
Well, it's not the best fix from a stylistic point of view, but floating the images right avoids this problem. Thanks for everyones suggestions
If you want the whole ul to NOT float under the image try adding overflow:hidden to the ul

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