I have a div box (absolutely positioned), which is expandable and below that I have another div box non-expandabe (relatively positioned).
Now when that absolutely expandable div expands, the one below that dosen't shifts down.
Is this not possible ?
Had my code been not too long, I would have placed it here... Can anyone help me on this..
When you absolutely position something it removes it from the flow the document, so it just overlaps stuff and doesn't push anything out of the way. Perhaps the first div doesn't need to be absolutely positioned?
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So, I tried doing position:absolute, but whenever I place something new, (eg a div) the other div gets pushed down.
Eg. without other div
Box
With other div
other div
box
Thanks :D
Are you sure the CSS rule is not ovewritten? (Check this with a browser code inspector, such as Firefox's Firebug or Opera's Dragonfly)
Additionally, If you want the div to be put on a place despite srolling,
use
position: fixed
instead. This will keep your object on a fixed place in the page.
You can usually use position:fixed or position:absolute.
If you want the element to be stuck on the screen no matter how to scroll, you can use position:fixed. Make sure that your top & left or bottom & right are set appropriately. Also make sure that the z-index is set appropriately, so no other element is covering it.
position:absolute; DOES depend on the parents of that element. If a parent of that element is positioned, then the absolute positioning will position the element within that element.
do you have examples of your code?
When developing a site in HTML/CSS how do you position divs on a page to hold content in place and exactly where you want them. Not just in a straight up in down manner. Is there a unified method/technique that everyone uses to achieve this placement? Or more generally how is it done?
Example: Here is an image of an example page I'm building with a container div and 5 other divs inside it.
IMAGE: http://go-dl.eve-files.com/media/1310/image.png
I was able to place the header div at the top, I was able to place the sidebar div below it and to the left (floated left), and I was able to position the content div below the header and to the right of the sidebar div (floated right). Now I have put the footer div in but the footer floats under the sidebar but also to the left of the content div. NOT under it and at the bottom of the page.
There are so many possible options/values in Dreamweaver to a assign to each div like box, float, margin, position, padding, etc,. I have linked my code below. Is there anything I can do to facilitate positioning divs on a page more efficiently and at all for that matter. I'd like for the footer to stay at the bottom of the page.
Here is my code:
PASTEBIN: http://pastebin.com/xbvPEfjA
I am truly stuck on this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also there are some other questions similar to this question but not the exact same of what I am asking. Thanks in advance!
in your css apply clear:both to the footer. That means floated elements are not allowed on either side of it.
Honestly, before this problem I kinda thought that I actually knew something about css positioning, but it looks that I do not.
Here is what I have, I need to position the social buttons div on the left of the container and make it fixed so it does not move, but only until the bottom of that div is lined up with the bottom of the container in which it was positioned then it will need to scroll further. I do not know if I am explaining my self so that everyone can understand what I mean here so please take a look at the following example
The div with all facebook, twitter, G+ and print buttons is scrollable until it is aprox. 10px below the top of the browser, then it stops and continues to scroll only after the bottom of it is lined up with the container that it is placed in to.
Please help, I am kinda stack with it
This isn't a CSS question unless you're willing to make-do with position: sticky, which probably isn't what you're looking for. (Reading about it here)
If you're looking for a jQuery solution, then you could use ScrollFollow, where you can specify a container parent for the fixed-scrolling item.
I am trying to align some divs a certain way. To help debug what's happening, I decided to add borders to the divs to research how they were getting positioned. But the border looks pretty strange.
Here's the html:
Here's the CSS:
And here's the result:
What am I doing wrong? Thanks!
It isn't funny (!!). The div appears to have 0 height, hence the top and bottom borders are touching each other, creating a funny (??) appearance.
The div appears to contain content but the content is probably floated or absolutely positioned, therefore it does not stretch the funny (!?) div vertically.
demo here
Height is one way to do it, but its a bit hackey, another is to float the div that is surrounding other floated divs:
http://jsfiddle.net/Ewd4x/2/
I have code like this:
<div id="container">
<div id="has-100-percent-height">
This div is positioned absolutely and display is none.
Overflow auto, too. There are many of these divs within "container"
</div>
</div>
<div id="the-div-below">
stuff
</div>
When a user clicks a certain link, the "100 percent height" div is to slide down using. What's been happening is that it does slide down, but it doesn't push the div-below down. You can see the content merely display above "the-div-below" and after it slides down, it quickly disappears.
Anyone know what could be going on? This is in firefox 4. I haven't tested other browsers
Thanks for the help!
Is the CSS for your HTML already set in stone? As others have said an absolutely positioned element is outside of normal flow therefore cannot affect the position of any other element. If you can remove the position:absolute from the #inner then the solution is very simple (and just normal browser re-flowing) - see this demo.
However if you need to keep the absolute positioning you will have to push #below down manually, i.e. JavaScript - see this demo.
Hope it helps.
The reason "the-div-below" is not pushed down is that things that are absolutely positioned don't affect layout of anything else on the page. That's the whole point of absolute positioning.
So to make things work as you want you need to position your "100 percent height" div either statically or relatively.
The remaining question is how to achieve the layout you want, since presumably there's a reason that you were using absolute positioning?
You could add a padding/margin top to the #the-div-below that is equal with the 100% height element.