I just need a sanity check here... DEMO
Basically, I can't figure out how to get the box under the link to get wider as more content is added. It seems fixed to the width of the parent div (or the width of, say, the longest element like the select or a really long word with no spaces), despite being absolutely positioned. I use this trick all the time with ul and li but it doesn't make sense to use that in my situation, and for some crazy reason it just won't work with a div inside a div.
I don't want to set a width (which, of course, works) because I don't always know what will be in this box. GRR
Thanks :\
EDIT
It appears that removing the position:relative from the parent element does, in fact, allow the box to get wider. However, relative positioning is necessary because I need the child div to be absolutely positioned under the parent div, and the parent div's location is technically dynamic (so no figuring out absolute page coords).
If I understand correctly...
Floating containers (i.e., #parent) will fit to their contents with the default of width: auto. The contents will line-break where possible to prevent the width from ever increasing.
To counter this, you should just need to employ white-space: nowrap.
Either for the contents as a whole:
.advanced {
/* ... */
white-space: nowrap;
}
Or, define a new class to allow for more flexible usage:
.line {
white-space: nowrap;
}
Then, (e.g.) wrap each label/select as:
<div class="line">
<label>Show:</label>
<select name="showAll">
<option value="true">My Team</option>
<option value="false">Mine Only</option>
</select>
</div>
Have you try the pre tag
<pre>text goes here</pre>
this will cause to break the line only wherever you insert a <br />
div#parent has position: relative;. Try removing that declaration. In my environment, that causes the div to expand as needed.
I am in Google Chrome 6.0.422.0 dev and as I add content (text) the grey box expands horizontally and vertically as necessary. What browser are you using?
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I have HTML like below and all is displaying grand, the problem is that due to a problem with Sharepoint 2013's editor your unable to edit the link text but as soon as I remove display: block I can edit the link text, the same happens using float.
My question is there a way to emulate the affect of display: block where it will span the whole width that is available to it without using display or float?
<div class="button">
Link Text
</div>
There is one option to make an inline element to be like a block by using position:absolute without using display or float.
But I hope absolute positioning doesn't fit your want. Thus, the final conclusion is that you must use display or float property to render it correctly.
If you even use absolute then don't forget to keep position:relative to your parent element from which you want to be the element as absolute.
You could try display: inline-block; width: 100%;. You might need to alter the width to take into account any padding or border you've set.
(In the past I've used an edit mode panel and other tricks, so these hacky styles only apply when the page is being edited.)
SharePoint 2013's editor is so utterly awesome isn't it? :-(
Running this JS Fiddle shows my <div> formatted correctly: http://jsfiddle.net/MRpj2/1/
It is a container that will act as an absolute positioned label. The problem is when you change the left property of the label CSS class to something high enough (1000px for example) to move the <div> out of view. When you do this, you'll have to scroll right to see the <div>, but the text is now below the div?
Is there a way around this? Everything I've tried has had no effect.
Simply use
white-space: nowrap;
on the .label.
Demo
Try before buy
Edit
As mentioned in the comments. This solely doesn't work in Firefox. So a solution to fix this is to use
display: inline-block;
instead of floating elements but still together with white-space: nowrap;. Check the new demo:
Second try before buy
Or i have been building web pages for too long without a break or something really weird happened.
<div style="background-color:#0F0; margin:5px; height:5px;"></div>
Will result in a long bar of 5 height across the width of the parent div. This should normally not be visible since i gave the div no width.
I tried everything, messed up my whole CSS layout and nothing seemed to get rid of it. I even check some divs of me in that same project that still work like this.
So i opened a new project and just filled in that line above to make sure there wasn't some style setting messing things up. But still there is a green bar showing.
I just want my div to be the size of the text in it.
Again, i could be seeing things but this happened all of a sudden and i'm really clueless...
use display:inline because a div element automatic get the display:block
Your div must have display:block either in your code or inherited from your browser.
change it to display:inline for your desired outcome.
Example here.
http://jsfiddle.net/Hn2xP/1
Break the document flow
By default, div element has it's style display property set to block, what makes it's width to fill the dimensions of parent.
You have two options to make it clip to text, position: absolute or float: left (right works also, depends), as in:
<div style="background-color:#0F0; margin:5px; height:5px; position: absolute;"></div>
or:
<div style="background-color:#0F0; margin:5px; height:5px; float: left;"></div>
For more information, see CSS Floats and/or CSS Positions.
P.S. Bear in mind, that absolute position and/or floated element will remove it from document flow.
span instead of div (display: inline)
If you want to keep the document flow, use span instead of div - it's display property is inline by default, as Blowsie suggested.
<span style="background-color:#0F0; margin:5px; height:5px;"></span>
display: inline-block
There is also an option with display property set to inline-block, but it's compatibility is limited. See CSS Display property information for more details.
<div style="background-color:#0F0; margin:5px; height:5px; display: inline-block;"></div>
Usually a padding issue. Difficult to diagnose without seeing code or example of site error.
try:
div {padding: 0px;}
in your css
By default, the width of a div is auto, meaning that it will fill the entire available content. To have "no width" as you seem to want, set the width to zero explicitly. Or, use one of the other answers...
I am new to CSS, so please bear with me. I have this form which I'm trying to style. Everything works fine, except the confirmation label which is in a div. I want some space to be there between div.field, and while this works for all the input elements, it doesn't work for the label message which is at the bottom. I tried increasing margin-top, but to no avail. I would like that element to be positioned in the center.
Using the web-developer addon of Firefox, it shows me that the width and height of div.field of label tag specifically is 284px and 209px respectively. Why is this so, when I haven't set it that way?
You can view the code live at jsfiddle: http://www.jsfiddle.net/yMHJY/
The solution is simple, really. Add a margin-top to the parent of the label element, and add overflow: hidden to the div#contact div .field selector.
However, can I just say that the code can be rewritten for much better efficiency and semantic correctness. For instance, I would contain the last massage in a p tag and not a label in a div. Also, I would have each input element placed in an unordered list ul instead of divs. You also have a lot of unnecessary floats and the br at the end of each input is wholly uneeded. Oh, and unless you are embedding Calluna somehow, don't use it - stick to web safe fonts (and if you are, you still need to suggest an alternative, in the user's browser does not support it, and also to give the browser something to display while the font loads).
Edit
Fixed the load for ya, I should be paid for this kind of stuff :) Just stick to better HTML and CSS next time.
http://www.jsfiddle.net/SNrtA/
To center you could add a parent container
<div id="parent">
<label id="label">Your Message Has Been Sent</label>
</div>
div#parent {
text-align:center;
}
or add an id to your original parent div to target it with above css
with regards to the margin, you seem to have an issue with a float:left being set in the
div#contact div input[type=text] class. You need to clear this as it could be causing you margin problems. Try removing this and amending your styles. Why are you floating the inputs left?
Trying to style a CSS popup. I know there's libraries, I'm doing it by hand anyway.
<div class="labelDiv">
<span class="label helpText">Description</span>
<div id="activeHelpTip" class="helpTip messageBox">
Help text not defined for this field.
</div>
</div>
.labelDiv { float: left; position: relative; }
.helpTip
{
display: block;
position: absolute;
padding:2px;
max-width:350px;
z-index:1;
left: 5px;
top:22px;
}
.labelDiv is position rel so the absolute .helpTip is absolute relative to its owning labelDiv. AFAICT .helpTip must be absolute so it is ignored in normal page flow.
How do I get my tooltip to float over the input box to the right? I want it to float over everything except the edge of the browser.
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/278/popupcss.png
First of all you'll need to give .labelDiv an overflow:visible. Can you give a more detailed HTML example or a link to this page?
-edit-
also the tooltip will need a width or at least min-width to make sure it doesn't adjust to the size of the containing div
Shouldn't you just adjust the top and left properties accordingly? What happens if you do?
EDIT
If your labels are set with, say 100px for simplicities sake, then adjusting the left to 100px will make the tooltip float over your input field. In this case there are two things to consider - you need to make sure your label div has overflow:visible and that it has a higher z-index than your input field.
If your label div is NOT set width you can adjust the right bound eg. right:0px which will put it on the right edge of the label. You can use negative numbers as well to make it break out of the label div in which case you will have to take the above two points into consideration as well.
We do need a little more info but try adding a z-index to the ".labelDiv" that is greater than the z-index of the input box. You may need to add a positioning to theinput box to make it accept z-index. I if it's a floated element I usually add "position:relative;float:left" to the element that I need lower but don't need to position it.
So my answer is z-index.
It should work.
EDIT
As faux paus as it might be. Would a negative right margin do the trick?
Couple of things, you should probably be using the <label> tag to declare the label for the input field. Using the title attribute on the input with the text of your tooltip will create the hover text you want over the input field and the browser will do all the work for you.
You guys were right, more HTML context was necessary. I ended up promoting the tooltip div all the way up to the body element, then manually positioning it relative to the appropriate label. I couldn't get the browser to do it for me without similar minor issues.