In CSS 2.1, how can I put different divs next to each others? I found that there is a property float and values left, right, none and inherit and I guess they allow me to put for example picture A left and picture B right. But how can I put a picture B below picture A, or for example such that pictures are 15 pixels below the navigation bar of the site?
Even after editing the question, I'm still not 100% sure what you are after. You are mentioning two images and how they are positioned relative to one another but it sounds like the problem is really that they are overlapping another part of the page. Floating an element will allow you to position an element and have the rest of its parent's content wrap around it, like a picture in a news article for example. You can also position divs side by side but that gets a little trickier.
Originally, you mentioned wanting to position one image below another and have those two move together, in which case you would wrap the images in a div and then float the div however you wanted.
In this updated question, it sounds like you would basically just want the images to appear below your page's navigation bar. Without knowing the details, I assume the images are overlapping your page header because they are floated and they are siblings (at the same level in the DOM tree) with the navigation bar's markup. You could do a couple things to fix that. First, you could give the images a margin-top value that's equal to the height of the navigation bar. But that's definitely a hack. Here's a better approach...
Without example HTML, it sounds like you really have two different parts of a page - a header/nav bar and the body of your page. If that's the case, then I would use a div for each. The images would presumably be wrapped in the body's div and no matter how you float them it within that body div, they shouldn't ever overlap the header's div. For example...
<body>
<div id="navigationHeader">
Navigation Option 1
Navigation Option 2
</div>
<div id="pageContent">
<img src="http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/srpr/logo1w.png" style="float:left;" />
Even though the image is floated left, it still won't overlap the page navigation header.
</div>
</body>
floats etc requires a fair bit of study ( not that it's a huge deal but a bit more complex than you might think ) .....
figure out the following
inline vs block elements ( you can change the default setting)
clearing divs
these will help too
http://css-tricks.com/all-about-floats/
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/floatutorial/
http://www.w3schools.com/Css/css_float.asp
http://www.positioniseverything.net/ordered-floats.html
reading your question again it looks like you might be finding that you need a clearing div beneath the two pictures ( this is non semantic by the way)
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I have 3 separate graphical elements; the header, the footer, and the content-background. The content background is repeatable, and my intention is to allow the page to dynamically adjust without breaking any flow of the page. I've tried to achieve this by applying the 'header image' to a div at the top of the page - the 'content-background' to the container (of both the content area and the menu), and finally the 'footer image' at the bottom of the page - outside of the container.
It seems to work well when I have very limited content on the page - however, the moment I put a of content in the content area, it just hangs out over the edge of the images and looks awful, as opposed to repeating the background and nudging the other divs down.
I don't want to introduce overflow:scroll, or anything like such - and I'm desperate to try and avoid JavaScript. I'm sure I've made a flaw somewhere in my thinking, but I'm not too sure where. I have a feeling that I need to do something regarding positioning - and changing the heights of certain divs (container, content are still defined as the base; but whatever I set it at, it either has no effect or causes the page to look bizarre).
Instead of copying-pasting the walls of texts, I've posted the address to a temporary section on my website.
It seems like you have a few issues. Setting a height on #container is a problem, and not clearing your floats of your #content and #rightbar elements is another problem. My belief is that fixing both of those things will give you the result you're expecting.
From what I understand from your question, you want your div tags to become bigger as the text gets more and more.
The solution is simple: Use min-width instead of width. it will adjust itself
I'll admit that CSS is not my cup of tea, so it's possible that I'm missing something obvious here. My problem is that when I have an element that has both CSS properties of "clear: both;" and "height: 100%;" the element actually ends up going past the page height. Here is an example: http://jsfiddle.net/d9mv7/
Notice that the blue frame causes a scrollbar to appear and exceeds the page height despite being "100%". When "clear: both" property is removed, it renders as expected (JsFiddle still adds an unneeded scrollbar, but when rendering normally, I don't have that issue).
My intent is to have the bottom div (the blue one in JsFiddle) go until the bottom of page height, but stop at the bottom of the page, drawing the border correctly, same way as on the sides. The problem is that I do have content above the div that has a float property, requiring div to have the "clear: both" property to render correctly (unless there is another way without having to hardcode the pixel size).
I've tried wrapping both the top (float element) and bottom div inside an additional div, such that their height is relative to that div instead of the page. This seemed to make the overlap smaller (and scrollbar shorter), but did not make it go away. Using "overflow: hidden;" will not work for me either, since it still makes the div and the content go beyond the bottom, only hiding the scrollbar. How do you guys suggest I handle this (preferably without JavaScript)?
As the two other posters suggested, I ended up going with a JavaScript solution. If someone can find a CSS-only solution that makes no assumptions about size/contents of the divs, please post it and I will change the accepted answer. Here is how I'm handling it for now (this uses jQuery, but similar logic can be done with native JS):
$('#second-panel').height(document.height-$('#first-panel').height());
Alternatively, if your divs have margins/padding/borders that are thick enough to matter and you want them included in the measurements as well (because element.height() doesn't), you can use outerHeight:
var secondPanel = $('#second-panel');
var borders = secondPanel.outerHeight()-secondPanel.height();
secondPanel.height(document.height-$('#first-panel').outerHeight()-borders);
I have a page that I'm working on (longtime developer, new to CSS tho) where I have layed out a bunch of divs with content. I tried to make each div at the same level and not nest a bunch of stuff so that I could move them around more easily. So the question is if I want to have those divs in a completely different layout, is it appropriate to use CSS to put negative margins on a bunch of stuff along with relative positions an shove them into the right place.
So if page one was:
<div class="div1">stuff here</div>
<div class="div2>other stuff</div>
So by the natural order of divs, div2 is below div1. But what if I want to move div2 above div1? The only way I've seen to do this is to set div2 to relative position and shove it where I want with top, left, right and bottom.
It seems odd, but it works. It just seems really inelegant. One page is natural and requires no manipulation, the second is forced into place.
Is there a better way to accomplish my goal?
You are trying to do structure with CSS. That's not what it is for. The structure is done with the HTML, and CSS does the presentation. If you want to reverse order than change the HTML. Then use CSS margin, padding, align, float, and all the other attributes to get exact positioning and the polished look you want.
HTML is a MACK truck. CSS is Porshe.
http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/09/19/css3-flexible-box-layout-explained/
Scroll down/search for box-ordinal-group. Essentially you can define reverse order or arbitrary order using flexboxes. Unfortunately, the flexbox display is only supported via browser extensions (-moz/-webkit) by the good browsers. Check out http://icanuse.com for more info.
the layout of my html page has a fixed div on top of the page. the content div then has a margin-top to compensate for the fixed div.
However, when the content gets scrolled down, if I do a search on page, the browser would sometimes show matches that would be underneath the fixed div, i.e. invisible.
For example, go to http://mincovlaw.com/services/worldwide_enforcement_checkup, scroll down a little bit, and do several searches for "know". You will see that the one closer to the top of the page will be found but will be hidden underneath the fixed div.
Is there a better way to achieve the same looks, while retaining the functionality of a search that does not get hidden?
Simple answer: no, because that's exactly what you're doing: hiding content. Think of it as if content ceased to exist, that's exactly what you're doing and what you're looking for. Anyway, I doubt many people will search in the page, it's not THAT common
I made a little example of my problem here:
http://peterbriers.be/test/float_html5.html
As you can see, I have a 'navigation list', and a floating header.
WHY is the header IN the navigation list? That is'nt normal behaviour is it?
The navigation list even inherits the height of the header. :s
This has nothing to do with HTML5. Did you want to clear:both on the nav? You floated the header, floated elements are taken out of flow so the nav acts like it isn't there.
If clearing doesn't do what you want, please include information as to what your desired layout needs to be.
EDIT for clarification and confusion:
The nav starts at the same vertical area as the heading because the heading is floated. It acts like it isn't there, but the clearfix on the ul adds the invisible element after the heading because source-order wise its after it. The clearfix then makes the element appear to contain it. Remove the clearfix and all that space will not be there.
Also, you still have not told us how you want it to look ( for reasons I do not know of ).
This is actually very normal behaviour. If you check the W3 information on CSS Float (http://w3schools.com/css/css_float.asp), you will notice this information:
How Elements Float
Elements are floated horizontally,
this means that an element can only be
floated left or right, not up or down.
A floated element will move as far to
the left or right as it can. Usually
this means all the way to the left or
right of the containing element.
The elements after the floating
element will flow around it.
The elements before the floating
element will not be affected.
If you take your code and just start button mashing after the word "Personal" in your header, and make the word Personal so long that it fills your entire screen width, you'll notice that the navigation bar actually drops below the header at that point. It's actually just doing what Float was intended to do. If you want your navigation bar below your header, maybe use a small table cell with border="0" and width="100%" so that you take up the entire screen width, causing float to drop below it.