It's actually two part question regarding my simple page (that will be replaced some day with real content), HTML+CSS boilerplate used there for vertical centering and IE7.
http://engitize.net/
Can anyone provide detailed explanation why the page is displayed correctly in non-IE browsers (Chrome, Fx, Opera), almost all semi-recent to recent IEs (IE5.5, IE6, IE8, IE9), but not in IE7?
I am especially interested in: it works in IE6, yet it doesn't work in IE7, because... kind of explanation.
What should be changed to make div#c properly centered vertically in IE7?
I am using specific height for div#c, but used boilerplate is height-agnostic and fix should preserve this feature.
Spoiling other browsers is not an option, unless it's IE5.5 (ok, IE6 too, but only if it is really unavoidable).
Changing <!DOCTYPE html> and turning IEs into quirks mode is also not accepted (and it's a pretty bad practice for newly developed pages).
If you don't have IE7 (just as I), you can visit http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/ or http://browserling.com/, paste URL there and choose IE7 to see the problem yourself.
Because the page will change after accepting some answer, I'm providing snapshot of relevant HTML and CSS parts from it (with logo URL changed to be absolute).
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<style type="text/css">
html, body { height: 100%; }
body { background-color: #fff; color: #000; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; }
div { margin: 0px; padding: 0px; }
#outer { position: relative; width: 100%; height: 100%; overflow: visible; }
#outer[id] { display: table; position: static; }
#middle { position: absolute; top: 50%; width: 100%; text-align: center; } /* for explorer only*/
#middle[id] { display: table-cell; vertical-align: middle; position: static; }
#c { position: relative; top: -50%; } /* for explorer only */
#c { width: 385px; height: 120px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; }
#c { background-image: url(http://engitize.net/engitize.png); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: center top; }
#c div { position: relative; top: 100px; width: 100%; color: #666; font-weight: bold; font-family: serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: right; }
#footer { width: 100%; text-align: center; height: 15px; padding: 5px 0 0 0; margin: -20px auto 0 auto; border: 0; background-color: #def; }
#footer div { padding: 0px 5px 0px 5px; text-align: right; font-size: 10px; font-family: sans-serif; }
a { text-decoration: none; color: #006; }
a:hover { color: #00c; }
p { margin: 0px; padding: 0px; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="outer"><div id="middle"><div id="c"><div>
because history is important!
</div></div></div></div>
<div id="footer"><div>
<p style="float:left;"><strong>Przemysław Pawełczyk</strong>'s imprint | Coming in 2012!</p>
<p style="float:right;">Przemoc's network</p>
</div></div>
</body>
</html>
your Q#1 has been answered by #thirtydot, IE7 and below does not support the CSS table properties so another way has to be found for them. and his absolute positioning technique is usually the preferred way to do this as most times in a scenario like this (splash page?) the width and height of the centred content would be known.
addendum to above per comments:
In answer to why it was working in IE6 and not IE7 even though IE6 doesn't support the table properties either, IE7 was actually picking up the position: static rule from the #middle[id] {} rule - IE7 does understand this type of selector so this means the later absolute/relative positioning was not working the same as it was in IE6
Taking the above into account redoing the CSS to make sure IE7 and 6 got the same CSS and that it was placed later in cascade to override the "good" CSS it turns out the the positioning method is height agnostic too, in the comments there are various links to to test this, but here is the final working version:
Hybrid table cell/positioning method : here
That fiddle does include the image width and heights, but if you remove them and the positioning for the "sub text" it does (or should) show that whatever is in the middle does stay centered
HTML used is the same as the bottom of this answer.. minus the extra <i></i> element
CSS:
html, body { height: 100%; margin: 0; padding: 0;}
body { background-color: #fff; color: #000; }
#outer {
position: relative;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
display: table;
}
#middle {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
text-align: center;
}
#c {
width: 385px;
height: 120px;
margin: 0 auto;
background: url(http://engitize.net/engitize.png) no-repeat 50% 50%;
}
/**** for IE7 and below ****/
/* hacks but there is another method below */
#middle {
*position: absolute;
*top: 50%;
*width: 100%;
*text-align: center;
}
#c {
*position: relative;
*top: -50%;
}
/**** end IE7 and below rules ****/
#c div {
position: relative;
top: 100px;
width: 100%;
color: #666;
font-weight: bold;
font-family: serif;
font-size: 12px;
text-align: right;
}
#footer {
width: 100%;
text-align: center;
height: 15px;
padding: 5px 0 0 0;
margin: -20px auto 0 auto;
border: 0;
background-color: #def;
}
#footer div {
padding: 0px 5px 0px 5px;
text-align: right; font-size: 10px;
font-family: sans-serif;
}
#footer p {margin: 0;}
As pointed out in comments using the technique that the HTML5 boilerplate uses to class the HTML element conditionally see:
Conditional stylesheets vs CSS hacks?
Answer: Neither!
means you could replace the IE7 hacks with:
.ie6 #middle, .ie7 #middle {
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
width: 100%;
text-align: center;
}
.ie6 #c, .ie7 #c {
position: relative;
top: -50%;
}
Original alternative - "Matchstick Technique"
You could likely mix the following technique with the "table-cell" technique via conditional comments or hacks, but this (hacky!) technique works across browser as far as my tests have seen
As you've asked for a height agnostic version.. you might or might not like the "matchstick" technique, this involves using inline blocks and lining them up.. the "matchstick" is a 100% high empty, off page, inline-block element with its vertical-alignment set to "middle" once it's in place the next inline-block (your actual content div) sits beside it and aligns to the middle or it, then using text-align: center; on it you have the horizontal centering too
here's a link to a working example fiddle
Note: I've left your widths intact, but you can test without widths/heights by removing the height & width off #c and also remove the CSS for the #c div text div - in a plain text scenario entering text into either of these divs should 'auto' centre.
and especially note the insertion of the extra <i></i> HTML just inside the outer div (that's likely why this is not a preferred method!), this is the "matchstick" that props the whole page open.
Code used in fiddle:
html, body { height: 100%; margin: 0; padding: 0; }
body { background-color: #fff; color: #000; }
#outer { position: relative; width: 100%; height: 100%;}
/* a matchstick spacer */
#outer i {
display: inline-block;
height: 100%;
width: 1px;
margin-left: -1px; /* to hide off page */
margin-right: -4px; /* to remove spacing between this and #middle block */
vertical-align: middle; /* will make inline block next to it center vertically */
background: #f00; /* red, not required just to see or not see it */
}
#middle {
display: inline-block;
width: 100%;
text-align: center;
vertical-align: middle;
}
/* image 385 * 120 */
#c {
display: inline-block;
/* presuming image heights, but it wouldn't matter if there was width/height here or not */
width: 385px;
height: 120px;
background: url(http://engitize.net/engitize.png) no-repeat 50% 50%;
}
#middle, #c { /* IE hack for inline block on block level elements */
*display: inline;
}
#c div { position: relative; top: 100px; width: 100%; color: #666; font-weight: bold; font-family: serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: right; }
#footer { width: 100%; text-align: center; height: 15px; padding: 5px 0 0 0; margin: -20px auto 0 auto; border: 0; background-color: #def; }
#footer div { padding: 0px 5px 0px 5px; text-align: right; font-size: 10px; font-family: sans-serif; }
a { text-decoration: none; color: #006; }
a:hover { color: #00c; }
p { margin: 0px; padding: 0px; }
HTML:
<div id="outer">
<i></i>
<div id="middle">
<div id="c"><div>
because history is important!
</div></div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer">
<div>
<p style="float:left;"><strong>Przemys?aw Pawe?czyk</strong>'s imprint | Coming in 2012!</p>
<p style="float:right;">Przemoc's network</p>
</div>
</div>
IE7 does not support display: table-cell, which you're using as part of your vertical centering technique.
Your page was relatively simple, so I simplified the HTML/CSS a lot. The centering now works properly everywhere I've tested it.
Complete code: http://jsbin.com/azuhe4
The line that's causing this behavior is...
position: static
...on the "#middle" CSS spec.
If I disable that line IE7 seems to render (more or less) the logo in the middle of the page.
It's the <!DOCTYPE>.
IE6 & 7 were a little flaky with that (that's what I've read, anyway).
If you do the following, you'll see things come around - with your code (no edits, save for a couple borders to see what's happening).
Here's what I did:
Deleted your <!DOCTYPE>
Added to your DIV {} CSS line - border:1px dotted gray
At your "outer", "middle", and "c" divs, a threw an inline border-color just to see which was which.
Hit Refresh
Then pasted <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">, and hit Refresh again. Looked fine to me. Centered vertically, horizontally.
As of April 20, 2011 W3C states <!DOCTYPE HTML> as "Not a Standard". Certainly, IE6/7 have no idea what that tag means. http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html
I got new and easy solution for that:
<style>
.vam{vertical-align:middle;}
</style>
<div style="line-height:200px; border:1px solid #000000; height:200px;
text-align:center;color:#FFFFFF; font-size:1px;">
.<img src="her-banner.jpg" alt="" class="vam" />
</div>
Related
This is piece of bigger project but what happens is that use of negative margin on one element (.pag) takes the other element (#ar_wr_in) out from floated box (#ar_wr)?
It works fine in Firefox but does not in Chrome or IE.
HTML:
<body>
<div id="ar_wr">
<div class="pag">pagination</div>
<div id="ar_wr_in">
<section class="ar">isdjs fjs odifj</section>
</div>
</div>
</body>
CSS:
body {
color: #f00;
background: #191919;
font-family: LucidaGrande, Helvetica, Arial, sans;
}
section {
display: block;
float: left;
}
section {
margin: 0px;
}
#ar_wr {
width: 59%;
padding: 1%;
background: #ffddff;
border-radius: 5px;
margin-right: 1.5%;
}
#ar_wr {
float: left;
margin-top: 80px;
}
#ar_wr_in {
width 100%;
float: left;
margin-top: 17px;
}
.pag {
font-size: 12px;
margin-top: -77px;
/* background: #ddffff; */
position: relative;
}
.ar {
width: 100%;
margin-bottom: 40px;
position: relative;
background: #ddffff;
}
Here is JSFiddle
Is there some fix or hack for this to make it look as in Firefox?
Thank you
If you make your pagination element have absolute positioning then it can happily sit outside it's parent without affecting other non-absolute elements that come after it:
.pag {
font-size: 12px;
margin-top: -77px;
/* background: #ddffff; */
position: absolute;
}
Strange that Firefox treats it differently, but I would actually expect the result that you see in Chrome from using relative positioning like that.
I'm quite new on web development. I'm struggling with this question for a while. Now I post my question(s) here.
The souce code is as linked: Source Code
The HTML:
<div id="wrap">
<div id="main" class="clearfix">
<ul class="ranklist" id = "ranklist">
<li class="ranklistitem font-size-0">
<div class="itemnumber divinline"> <span class="helper"></span>1</div>
<div class="userprofile divinline"><img class="profileimg" src=""/></div>
<div class="nameandcredit divinline">
<div class="username">SteveSteveSteveSteveSteveSteveSteveSteveSteveSteveSteveSteveSteveSteveSteve</div>
<div class="credit">I'm description</div>
</div>
<div class="ranktitle divinline">Total:</div>
<div class="usercredit divinline">1000</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
The CSS:
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
html {
background: #aaaaaa;
}
body {
-webkit-user-select: none; /* Chrome/Safari */
-moz-user-select: none; /* Firefox */
-ms-user-select: none; /* IE10+ */
font-family: "PingHei", "Helvetica Neue", "Helvetica", Arial, "Microsoft YaHei";
font-weight: lighter;
}
#wrap {
min-height: 100%;
}
#main {
overflow-y: auto;
padding-bottom: 55px;
}
div, ul, p {
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
color: #ffd8d0;
}
.rewarddes
{
margin-top:10px;
display:block;
color:#ffdcc5;
overflow:hidden;
font-size:87.5%;
}
.ranklistitem {
height: 60px;
border-bottom: solid 1px #faa559;
font-size:87.5%;
}
.font-size-0 {
}
.divinline {
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: top;
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
}
.helper {
display: inline-block;
height: 100%;
vertical-align: middle;
}
.itemnumber {
line-height: 60px;
height: 60px;
background:#aa8800;
width: 6%;
text-align: right;
padding-right: 5px;
}
.userprofile {
line-height: 60px;
height: 60px;
width: 14%;
text-align: center;
vertical-align: middle;
background:#228845;
}
.profileimg {
height: 36px;
width: 36px;
vertical-align: middle;
border-top-left-radius: 50%;
border-top-right-radius: 50%;
border-bottom-left-radius: 50%;
border-bottom-right-radius: 50%;
border: solid 2px #fff;
}
.nameandcredit {
height: 60px;
width: 45%;
padding-left: 5px;
background:#342389
}
.username {
height: 55%;
text-align: left;
vertical-align:bottom;
overflow:hidden;
}
.credit {
height: 25%;
font-size: 66.7%;
text-align: left;
overflow:hidden;
color:#fdff6e;
}
.username:before, .credit:after {
content:'';
height:100%;
vertical-align:middle;
display:inline-block;
}
.iconaward {
vertical-align: middle;
height: 20px;
width: 14px;
}
.ranktitle {
line-height: 60px;
height: 60px;
width: 15%;
background:#cd8912;
text-align: right;
padding-right: 0.125em;
}
.usercredit {
line-height: 60px;
height: 60px;
background:#ff0000;
width: 20%;
text-align: right;
padding-right: 0.5em;
}
I have 2 questions based on the linked(or above) code.
The 5 container div's width was set as:
.itemnumber 6%, .userprofile 14%, .nameandcredit 45%, .ranktitle 15%, .usercredit 20%. So in total they are 100%. But as you see, the last one .usercredit is not in the same line and there're margins between each div, which is not what I want.
for the .username, I have set overflow:hidden, but as you see, when there's a large string, the .username was totally disappeared. If there're spaces in the string, it will only hide the overflow part and show the front part. I want to know what's the problem?
I know it's a little bit messed up of a lot code here. But my question is as listed as above. Thanks in advance for any kind suggestion.
For the spacing, you have two problems:
Implicit spaces between inline-block elements, and
Defining widths for elements with padding.
Regarding username overflow, you have one issue:
Default word wrapping behavior is to wrap the whole word to the next line. You need to change that behavior.
Let's take a look at each of them:
Implicit Spaces
The problem is that your divs have a display: inline-block; style. Elements displayed as an inline-block have any white-space between them converted to a single space.
See the "Fighting the Space Between Inline Block Elements" article on CSS Tricks for more information on how to overcome this.
One fix, for instance, is to have the li element that is wrapping the divs to have a 0 font-size, and reset a non-zero font size to its children, e.g. in your CSS:
.font-size-0 {
font-size: 0;
}
.font-size-0 > * {
font-size: 12px;
}
Any of the links outlined in the link above would work; for example, removing spaces and newlines between your closing tag and opening tag would do the same thing, without forcing you to set and reset the font-size.
Widths for elements with padding
In CSS, a width is defined by default for an element to include only its content area (box-sizing: content-box; by default) and not the padding. Set the box-sizing to border-box and you'll be all set.
E.g.
.font-size-0 > div {
box-sizing: border-size;
}
Properly wrapping a single word without spaces
See this StackOverflow answer to see how to address the issue. You will basically need to add this to your .username rule:
.username {
...
word-wrap:break-word;
}
Final Result jsFiddle
Given the following html:
<div class="body">
<div class="banner">
<div class="name">
<h2>
<a href="http://www.example.com">
<span class="bold">Test Link</span><br/>
</a>
</h2>
</div>
<div class="title">
<h3>A Connections Learning Partner Program</h3>
<p>Quality online learning for high school students in Oakland County and surrounding counties.
</p>
</div>
<div class="link">
Learn More
</div>
</div>
</div>
How can I vertically align .link a (the button) within .link without giving a height or width? Like this...
Here's my fiddle
Here is one way that you can do it. Your HTML is good, no need to change anything.
For the CSS:
.body { width: 920px; }
.banner {
background-color: #454545;
border-bottom: 3px solid #F9F9F9;
height: 100px;
margin: 0 0 5px;
padding: 0;
display: table;
}
.banner > div {
outline: 1px dotted yellow; /* optional to show cell edges... */
display: table-cell;
}
.banner .name {
width: 25%;
vertical-align: top;
padding-top: 25px; /* control top white space */
text-align: center;
}
.banner .name h2 {
color: #F9F9F9;
max-height: 55px;
text-transform: uppercase;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
.banner .title {
width: 50%;
vertical-align: top;
padding-top: 25px;
}
.banner .title h3 {
font-size: 15px;
font-weight: bold;
line-height: 15px;
margin: 0px 0 0 0;
padding: 0;
}
.banner .title p {
font-size: 12px;
max-height: 35px;
overflow: hidden;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
.banner .link {
width: 25%;
vertical-align: middle;
text-align: left; /* set to left, center or right as needed */
}
.banner .link a {
margin-left: 25px; /* controls left offset */
background-color: #FA9800;
border-radius: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
cursor: pointer;
display: inline-block; /* use inline-block if you want to center element */
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: bold;
height: 23px;
line-height: 23px;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
width: 100px;
}
See the fiddle at: http://jsfiddle.net/audetwebdesign/jsG8F/
How This Works
The trick is to use display: table on your .banner container and then display: table-cell on your child div elements, and set the % widths to 25%, 50%, 25% respectively for .name, .title, .link.
You can then use vertical-align and text-align to control vertical and horizontal placement of the various text blocks.
I added comments related to using padding-top to control white space from the top of the banner.
For the .link a element, you can adjust the left margin (or right) as needed.
These CSS rules offer you a lot of fine control over the placement of the various elements within the banner.
Backwards Compatibility
The display: table-cell property is backwards compatible back to IE8.
Reference: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/display
If the size of the element and banner are fixed, use margin-top to offset the element.
Marc Audet was very close but I ended up going a slightly different route.
I gave .link a a fixed top margin and made margin-left: auto; and margin-right: auto; and that did the trick.
Here is the fiddle for reference.
I’m having problems with my CSS. Basically I have a <div> called container which holds all the content of my site. The container runs parallel to a right hand margin of other stuff.
I need the two to align correctly at the bottom. Chrome and Safari show the container height the same and the right hand margin and container both align but in firefox the container is shorter than the right hand margin. Is there anyway I can set a seperate css condition for firefox or another way because it looks silly.
I have tried using height 100% but I can’t use this because I have javascript and other stuff which is hidden and fades in and other reasons.
#container {
/* [disabled]overflow: hidden;
*/
padding-top: 10px;
padding-right: 20px;
padding-bottom: 20px;
padding-left: 20px;
/* [disabled]float: left; */
width: 960px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
body {
/* [disabled]margin-right: auto; */
/* [disabled]margin-left: auto; */
/* [disabled]width: 1010px; */
font-size: 11px;
font-family: "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;
color:#3F3F3F;
background-color: #F3F3F3;
margin-top: 20px;
overflow:auto;
/* [disabled]float: left; */
}
You could try something like that:
HTML
<div>HEADER</div>
<div class="container">
<div class="content">
<p>Content Area</p>
<p>row#2</p>
<p>row#3</p>
<p>row#4</p>
<p>row#5</p>
<p>row#6</p>
</div>
<div class="sidebar">
Sidebar
</div>
</div>
<div>FOOTER</div>
CSS
.container {
width: 960px;
padding: 10px 20px 20px;
margin: 0 auto;
overflow: hidden;
}
.content, .sidebar {
float: left;
padding: 1%;
padding-bottom: 100%;
margin-bottom: -100%;
}
.content {
width: 68%;
background-color: red;
}
.sidebar {
width: 28%;
background-color: green;
}
This should align the two columns to the same height.
I've made a demo you can try.
EDIT: maybe you could take a look at the article on CSS-Tricks that talk about different valid alternative methods.
Without HTML it's tough to say exactly. What about putting both in a wrapper div that has a definite pixel height, then your #content and #margin divs at 100% height?
#wrapper{
width: 100%;
height: your height in px;
}
#container {
/* [disabled]overflow: hidden;
*/
height: 100%;
padding-top: 10px;
padding-right: 20px;
padding-bottom: 20px;
padding-left: 20px;
/* [disabled]float: left; */
width: 960px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
#margin{
height:100%;
}
Also, play with all of your CSS in firebug to troubleshoot this. Removing attributes one by one to find a possible problem.
I'm trying to center a page and then make it 100% in height.
I have a div called "content" as the parent element of all elements in the HTML page.
What do I need to do next? I'd like to stay away from any CSS-hacks.
This is currently working in IE7, but not in Firefox 3.
EDIT: I added height: 100%; to #content that's what made it work in IE. Firefox still not solved.
My stylesheet so far is:
html, body
{
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
body
{
background-color: #000;
text-align: center;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
#content
{
position: relative;
text-align: left;
background-color: #fff;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
margin-top: 0px;
width: 840px;
height: 100%;
padding: 0px 5px 5px 5px;
}
To center content, put it inside of an element that has a fixed width (important!) and has margin: auto;
There is no cross-browser was to make your div have 100% height unless you use javascript. If you are desperate for this functionality and are willing to use javascript, you can dynamically set the height of your content by setting it to the window height. I've never done this so I won't tell you how exactly, but it should be easy to find by googling.
Ahah! Think I got it for now. This works in Firefox 3 and IE7. I will test on some other browsers later. I do still need to figure out adding some padding around my content.
This requires this heirarchy on my page
html
|__body
|__div id=container
|__div id=content
html
{
height: 100%;
}
body
{
height: 100%;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
#container
{
position: absolute;
text-align: center;
background-color: #000;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
left: 0px;
right: 0px;
top: 0px;
bottom: 0px;
}
#content
{
text-align: left;
background-color: #fff;
margin: 0px auto;
width: 830px; /* padding thing I'm working on */
height: 100%;
}
body
{
background-color: #000;
text-align: center;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
#content
{
text-align: left;
background-color: #fff;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
margin-top: 0px;
width: 90%;
height: 100%;
padding: 0px 5px 5px 5px;
}
Try this. This will work. Remove the html,body selector, you don't need that.
This works for me in Firefox 3 & Safari 3. Don't have access to IE.
html{
position:absolute;
top:0;
bottom:-1px;
left:0;
right:0;
height:100%;
text-align:center;
}
body{
text-align:left;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
margin-top:0;
min-height:100%;
min-width:30em;
max-width:50em;
width:expression("40em");/*IE doesn't support max/min width*/
padding:0 1em 0 1em;
}
This should do it better.
No extra markup and/or id.
No need for javascript and/or expression in css.
Should work fine on all browsers.
<style>
html
{
background-color:red;
margin:0;
padding:0;
border:0px;
}
body{
background-color:yellow;
position:absolute;
left:-400px; /* 50% of content width */
width:800px; /* your content width */
margin-left:50%;
margin-top:0;
margin-bottom:0;
top:0;
bottom:0;
border:0;
padding:0
}
</style>
For centering the page, I typically just put the content div in the center tag, because margin-left/right:auto really doesn't work in all versions of IE.
For making the page the whole height, you can fake it a couple of ways. My favorite is to create a background image for the body tag that is centered horizontally but tiles vertically, so that would give the main div its white background. You probably still have a footer though, so you can position it with bottom:0 and that should keep it at the bottom and give you a content div which appears to extend for the whole page.