I have a Blogger template which is wider than the screen-width and causes the horizontal scrollbar to be displayed. I want to change it so that it fits and no scrollbar is shown. But the problem is I don't know what is causing this. I have downloaded the template file and in my code editor looked for all width properties and changed all 100%s to 90% and pix width values to value-100, but still the page is as before.
In finding the effective rule/rules in a such cases, what else should I look for/do? What is a comprehensive procedure to check things to find the rules?
Instead of changing the width, try adding the CSS property overflow: hidden to everything you think might be causing the issue and then remove them one-by-one until the scroll bar reappears and you'll have the culprit. You might need to add it to html and body as well. If the scrollbars aren't revealing any actual content, you can leave the overflow: hidden on the culprit to resolve the issue.
It might not be a width property that's causing the problem - there might be a block element inside your template that doesn't wrap or float that might be stretching out your container if the widths of the containers are defined using percentages.
Define the root container using a fixed width and this should eliminate many of those sorts of issues. Try that first and let us know if it works.
Procedure:
1). Understand the box model and how this varies on IE. It is just as likely that a problem "width" may actually be caused by padding, margin, or even border as width.
2). Check the rendering in other browsers. If you can reproduce the problem in FF get Firebug and use that to find out the calculated dimensions of the element in question, and tunnel down through it's children which may well be causing the issue. Chrome has a similar debugger to Firebug iirc, but I'm not familiar with it.
3). If that doesn't tell you what the problem is, start removing rules or whole patterns from your CSS until the problem goes away (or remove everything and add it back in piecemeal until the problem returns) - at that point you know what is causing the issue, if not why, and you can always update the question to ask us why when you've identified it.
hth
(Apols if any of this was already obvious)
Well, % always begins with "100". See the percentage of width of body tag is set to 100%. then according to it, just set other component % as per the requirement in your display.
Personally I do believe that, use of % is better then 'px'. If you know CSS, then try to change 'px' to % as per the requirement.
It seems that the component has min-width style and overflow property set to auto. You may want to set it to visible and do it in FireBug Firefox Page Inspector first, to see the effect alive before making post edit. If you just want to adjust the whole post width, blogger has standard interface. You can also edit the template manually
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I know this has been asked many times, and I have been searching for the answer in a lot of places but I can't seem to fix my code. Thank you for reading this because I'm going crazy here! First I had a different z-index problem with safari, than another with explorer, but now the z-index problem I'm having with mozila I can't fix in any way. I code in chrome, where it seems to work perfectly (for me it seems at least!)
I believe now it works more or less fine in most browsers but not on mozila. The idea of the page is to make (only with CSS because that's the only language supported by the website) a flipping book of several pages. I see some examples around of CSS only flipping cards (only one page), but not a book of more than one page. So I essentially overlap several "cards", in order to give this effect. You can see the demo from codepen here: pkrein/pen/qBOewem
Btw I do know this code is not as clean as it could be, but that's the way I figured to make a fuction like that works only with CSS, and I hope it will make sense for you.
Ok, so the matter is, the content inside the book pages is not "scrollable" on firefox. I guess this is indeed a z-index problem, because when I move any page outside the book, that is, from behind the rest of the content, it scrolls fine.
Let me know if I can give any more info that could help you understand my issue!
I figured a possible solution for this. It's not quite the solution for the problem itself but it's something that can make what I want to do work.
The problem was: (what I had to remove in order to make it work):
(1) The div #content-holder holding all the text inside the flap
(2) The div .preparation-text inside the .preparation (that's the text I want to scroll). That was a scrolling div (.preparation) inside a non-scrolling div (.preparation-text). I always add a scrolling div inside a non-scrolling div in order to hide the scrollbar, by adding a high padding-right to the inside div. I know I can use code to hide the scrollbar but it do not work in all browsers.
How I fixed:
(1) I just removed the #content-holedr divs, since it was not strictly necessary.
(2) I removed the .preparation-text and transformed .preparation into a scrolling div. Then I just covered the scrollbar with an image of the same size and colors as the background (a print of the layout).
I am using the facebook Like Box API (http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like-box/). I set the height in the supplied code generation boxes but it always reverts to the standard height. I try editing the code directly eg:
<div class="fb-like-box" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/me" data-width="870"
data-height="1000"
data-colorscheme="dark" data-show-faces="false" data-stream="true" data-header="false"></div>
But this also does nothing to change it.
I have tried both the iframe and HTML5 versions of this to no avail.
I have also tried adding some inline CSS eg: style="height: 1000px;". Also no luck there.
Width, for whatever reason, seems fine.
Can anyone suggest a way to fix this? Thanks!
height - the height of the plugin in pixels. The default height varies
based on number of faces to display, and whether the stream is
displayed. With the stream displayed, and 10 faces the default height
is 556px. With no faces, and no stream the default height is 63px.
From your link.
The height of the element inside the IFRAME was changing as per the height value you put in the Facebook code until a few days ago. Something seems to have changed at Facebook. I have two sites that are effected. Both were displaying the like box at the height I declared until very recently.
The same thing is happening to me as well after working for the past 12+ Months. I tried recreating the code using several different options and it seams to be a code bug within the Facebook Application itself. Wondering if anyone there knows of the issue and if we can expect it to be fixed soon. My site: http://peachtreebennett.com/
Apparently, you can no longer change the height. As some have stated, in the past, changing the data-height in their provided code would change the height of the iframe as well as the content inside it. This no longer happens.
Even the generator on Facebook's dev site has a height input field, but changing it does nothing. Try it for yourself here:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like-box/
I run a site using a liquid tri-column layout with a header. The layout runs nicely for more than a decade with all browsers I ever dared to try. It is based on absolute positioning in CSS. This page provides an example of the actual site.
Watching the page from my tablet I found that the right column overlaps the center matter. Further investigation using Firebug showed that once the center content reaches 360px width, the right margin of the div shrinks. Why is that? Since Firefox and Android render the same, I guess that this is something, which is actually supposed to be.
However, I tried to make virtue out of necessity and experimented setting min-width for body and content and made the body scroll overflow. The body actually scrolls, but the right column is positioned on the right edge of the viewport instead of the body element (Firefox). Is this intentional CSS standard?
Any ideas how to solve the presentation on small displays?
Thanks for your efforts,
– lars.
I pondered a while whether I should revoke the question or provide this self-answer. I decided for the self-answer since I wished some of the answers in related had been presented when I wrote the question.
First the 360px limit apparently is my own stupidity. There is a comment form, which refuses to shrink. It scrolled out of my view.
The issue of the wiered positioning had been solved by adding position:relative; to the body. The reason is explained in this question.
The overflow setting I used during experimenting is not necessary, since the default behaviour scrolls already. But using any overflow directive wrecks IE8.
So thanks a lot, the pool of answers finally had it all.
I am seeking help with trying to fix my background image fill issue. I wanted to have a sticky footer, which I finally figured out, but now if I view my site in a smaller window and then scroll down, my background image disappears. I understand that this is due to my height settings being 100% which makes my image be based off of the initial viewport size, but I can't quite seem to implement any kind of fix.
Here is the site I am working on (still very much under development): http://student.plattsburgh.edu/stipl001/index.html.
The problem is best viewed when looking at this page in a small window: http://student.plattsburgh.edu/stipl001/resume.html.
I have read many, many posts on various sites trying to figure it out (including this one: CSS: background image does not fill when scrolling), but I am not having any luck. I tried setting all the different properties for background in css that I could think of, including some of the newer ones. Then I experimented with the overflow property, but it just hides all of my text or creates a weird scroll-bar that makes my text scroll up over the header. I also tried moving my page background from body to html and my container background from container to body, but it didn't change anything, so I must be doing something wrong (perhaps the fact that I have the two background images to deal with?).
I'm just a coding newbie and have been teaching myself as I go along, so I would really appreciate specific suggestions on what method of fixing this would be best for my site, and how I can go about implementing it. After spending about 10 hours straight on this one problem, I am at my wits' end.
Thank you so much!
just change min-height:100% to min-height:1092px (the height of the image) and you'll be fine...
EDIT:
previous answer was a bit too quick, after having a second look on the code i noticed the error is caused by the floated columns: if you float an element, the container element will not inherit the height of the floated element - that's why the height was set to 100% of the initial window, and was not expanded if the content column got longer.
This can be fixed by adding an extra element in #container, after #rightcolumn, with clear:both on it - this will force the parent element to take over the height of its contents.
See http://jsfiddle.net/uS7Ba/1/ for a simplified example, including improved fixed footer.
Hope it helps...
So, for a website I've been trying to get a specific layout to work across the IE browsers (FF + Chrome are a plus if they work, but usually they do).
Below you can see the layout I'm trying to achieve;
alt text http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2199846/layout.png
As you can see, this is just a slight variation of a multi-column layout that you can see around the internet. Just with some added extra's.
- no div should ever exceed the page height, if they do, they should just overflow (but normally that will only happen for the middle part)
- the "toggle" link should toggle the div below visible/invisible (got the jquery code and all, no issues there), but that toggle should offcourse expand/decrease the width of the middle div.
I'm at the end of my possibility's here, and tried changing to a full table layout, but that had the problem of always expanding when content got too much...
If any of you CSS heroes out there know how to make this layout, I'll be very grateful!!
EDIT:
What I forgot to add is that certain parts of this design should be fixed width/height. The top part should be 60px height, right and left side should be 200px width. And the small bar (+ toggle bar) should be 30px high.
Of course I'll try to work from the example posted below, but I thought I'd add this edit just in case someone finds it challenging to make (I know I find it challenging, yet I'm not so good yet in CSS for now)
http://jsfiddle.net/YGgTx/1/
this is a mock up of what you are trying to do I believe. As it indicated by the other posters you may want to use hide() to handle the menu effect. If there is anything wrong with this mockup let me know, I do not have IE6 installed but it works on 8.