Two Column Theme, Help, to make both columns separately Scrollable - css

I am not sure what to do on this one, I'm not a programmer, but trying to learn CSS as this is how the theme I am using was coded in.
I've gotten quite far on my own, but this one stumps me Its two column Theme... As far as I have been able to get, I can use the following:
#left {
width: 235px;
padding: 10px;
margin-left: 20px;
position: fixed;
line-height: 15px;
If I change the position to Absolute, The whole page scrolls, If I leave it at Fixed, and add lets say, a Twitter feed, or other type of text that takes me past its reading where you would normally scroll, Its just cut off, cannot get to it, hightlight or scroll..
I've also toyed with the idea, of changing the theme to a 3 column theme, but Again, not a programmer, and i'd be really confused. any help would be great...
My Website is at 99lessoxygen.tumblr.com, code was found from http://nigredotheme.tumblr.com
I should note, that If its on Fixed, only the right side of page can be scrolled, and left side is locked..

I believe what your looking for is overflow:auto;
You will need to remove position:fixed.
#box1 {
height:100px;
width:200px;
float:left;
overflow:auto;
}
#box2 {
height:100px;
width:200px;
float:left;
overflow:auto;
}
JSFiddle
A position of absolute will inherit an absolute position from the relative parent div.
So for instance if you have a div set to 1000 pixels and a position of relative
and then insert another div inside of that div with a position of absolute and lets say right:100px it will display on the right side of the parent div 100 pixels out from the right.

try giving both columns a height and adding this:
overflow:auto;
This makes scrollbars appear on its container if the content overflows.

Related

Align currently floated div to bottom without changing HTML

Problem
I have a header with the basic HTML structure
<div id="header">
<div id="logo"></div>
<div id="navigation"></div>
<div id="userInfo"></div>
<div class="headRight"></div>
<div id="callCenter" class="headRight"></div>
</div>
I cannot change the HTML. Currently it is laid out with floats, and navigation was aligned to the bottom of the header using padding-top. However, it only works when userInfo is 2 lines, and it can be 3 or 4.
What I need to do
Using only CSS, align navigation to the bottom for all nav heights while maintaining the original layout.
What I've tried
Half a dozen stack overflow solutions including the classics position:absolute and vertical-align:bottom on parent. (The former breaks the document flow, and the latter seems not to work because other elements get in the way.)
The fiddle
Cleaned fiddle best I could, but inspect will probably still be easiest.
https://jsfiddle.net/ohrhe4u5/1/
Notes:
The tabs should just touch the bottom of the header.
callCenter is misaligned in this example as well, but you can ignore. It's much lower priority.
New fiddle
I changed header, logo, and navigation to display:inline-block, allowed userInfo to float right, gave the nave extra height to make sure there's always room, and absolute positioned the headRight items.
That leaves me with this. A little janky due to the absolute positioning and forcing the nav height larger. Any better ideas?
https://jsfiddle.net/ohrhe4u5/2/
I generally dislike float for positioning where i can help it (this is a personal preference because i find it sometimes painfully unpredictable), as such, using a combination of position:absolute, min-height and margin i believe i have recreated what you're after.
Basically this solution works by position:absolute'ing the elements that we have some idea of consistent sizes of (the logo and the navigation), then have the header element take its height from the user data and links on the right. We add a min-height to the header element though so that should the user data be reduced to 2 lines, the height is still enough to accommodate the absolutely positioned elements (given they no longer affect the height of the header element by being absolute).
JSFIDDLE
CSS
/* new parts of the css */
#header {
min-height:112px; /* in case user data is made smaller */
padding:10px 10px 0 20px;
position:relative;
}
#logo {
width: 210px;
position:absolute;
top:50%;
width:210px;
height:62px;
left:20px;
margin-top:-32px;
z-index:1; /* bring logo above the user data */
}
#navigation {
position:absolute;
bottom:0;
left:210px;
font-size: 20px;
height: 40px;
z-index: 1; /* bring navigation above the user data*/
}
#userInfo table{
margin:0 0 0 auto;
}
.headRight{
text-align: right;
padding-bottom: 0.2em;
}

How can I get my div to be less wide, while also being moved to the right?

I have a "Contact" section on my website, and I have a form section and a contact info section as two separate divs. The form acts just fine, but for some reason I can't get the contact info section to simultaneously stay on the right side while becoming less wide. I have an image so you can understand what the issue is: http://i.imgur.com/smjnXw1.png
I want them to be aligned horizontally next to each other. Thank you!
Assuming your form is correct since I can't see your code, you can edit the css.
#form{
width: 500px; /*fill in the width and height*/
height: 500px;
float: left;
}
#contact{
width: 500px; /*fill in the width and height*/
height: 500px;
float: left;
}
by default divs are as wide as they can be unless specified and a block element, so your #form is taking up the entire width space. Here is an example fiddle of what I think you're trying to achieve.
http://jsfiddle.net/valleydigital/j3qpeaym/
I think the solution is to apply a float:left to both your form and your contact info section. This way both of these will sit next to each other horizontally. Floats have normally been used to allow text to flow around an image, but sometimes they can be used to position items as well.
Check this out for some information and there are more informative links at the end of the floats post:
http://codemecrazy.wordpress.com/
Increase the size of the div in which u place the form div and contact div. Also give style with float left property.
<style>
#form #contact
{
float:left;
}
</style>

Absolute Positioned Div is hiding my other divs below

Have a look at, http://thomaspalumbo.com
I have this CSS for my website's container:
.graybox {
padding: 0 30px 30px 30px;
background: #ededed;
position:absolute;
left:0;
right:0;
}
Then I have a container on top of that to center that info.
The .graybox container spreads the width of the page like I want but now my footer div is hidden, according to firebug is it actually behind? And up on the page?
Is there a fix for this?
While I'm here can anyone explain the white space on the right side of the page. It comes into effect once the page is resized smaller.
You can use the CSS z-index property to make sure your footer is in front of the content. Z-index only works when the element is positioned though. So make sure you add position:relative to your footer
#footer{
position:relative;
z-index:999;
}
Read more: http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_pos_z-index.asp
EDIT
Just checked out the code of your website, and I don't understand why your graybox is positioned absolutely, this will only make things more complex. The same goes for your menu, why position it absolute, why not just add it in the right order in the HTML in the first place?
EDIT
If you want to center your content but with a background that has a 100% width then you can simply add a container div like so:
HTML
<div class="container">
<div>lorem ipsum....</div>
</div>
CSS
.container{
background:red;
}
.container div{
width:400px;
margin:0 auto;
background:yellow;
}
See JSFiddle here: http://jsfiddle.net/HxBnF/
Currently you cannot do this because you have a container which you set at 980px, don't ever do that unless you are sure you don't want anything to wrap over it, like in this case the background of a div in that container.
in the div style, just assign a z-index value greater than any other z-index such as
.divClass{
position: absolute;
z-index: 1 //if other elements are still visible chose a higher value such as 20 or even higher.
}

Can't get my div to stay fixed with layout

I'm quite new to css, divs and everything in between.
So, i created a basic layout for my band, didn't want a bunch of useless links like bio, merch store and all that. So i just decided to arrange separate spaces for our video, a player and a facebook window.
I managed to create a div for the youtube iframe, but i can't get it to stay in its place when i resize the window. I've tried changing the positioning a bunch of times to absolute, fixed, relative...etc. No luck.
Keep in my mind that the layout is nothing fancy, just something quick to look at, and get some basic info of the band.
Here's the link: http://silentcellmusic.com/test.html
Thx in advance!
First you should remove the image from the markup, and set it as background of the body, or html, for example. Set it to position top center.
Then, set the div #wrapper to { width: 960px; margin 0 auto; }. This way it will always be in the center of screen, so as your background.
Third, create four divs:
social
listen
video
Float them to the left, set their widths and margins, accordingly.
Finally add a div for your footer (social links and mailto).
Best of luck.
What you need to do is use positions. What fixed does is determine the position in relation to the window (or browser) top left corner, so it will always stay in the same place no matter how you resize it. The right way to go is to use absolute and relative.
First you need a relative container. Your image is already centered, so you could do something like:
<div id="container">...</div>
#container {width:960px; margin:0 auto; position:relative;}
Then you want your video to be in an absolutely positioned div, but INSIDE the relative one. SO your html would be:
<div id="container">
<div id="videoDiv">
your video here
</div>
</div>
And your css for the videoDiv:
#videoDIv {position:absolute; top:200px; left:200px; }
Look por css position online to understand how it works, it's actually quite simple but you need the right structure. In your case, your center tag should be the one with position relative, but make sure you change it to a div, otherwise some browsers will give a validation error.
Having said that, there are a lot of things you can do to improve your site. Once you know how to handle positions, you could re-do the layout using different images (so it's faster to load), and you can use actual text. This is quite important for search engines to recognise your site, so try at least to have keywords spread around.
Here is your CSS for the video div:
#apDiv1 {
position:absolute;
left:747px;
top:535px;
width:400px;
height:223px;
z-index:1;
#wrapper {
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
width:960px;
}
Did you mean to declare width twice? Is the width:960px throwing off your positioning?
Get rid of the <center> tag altogether and change the css for #apDiv1 to:
#apDiv1 {
position: absolute;
left: 597px;
top: 489px;
width: 400px;
height: 223px;
z-index: 1;
}

HTML side by side DIV positioning

Consider this JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/GFsgq/5/ (you may have to zoom out a bit).
It shows a layout that I'm trying to achieve. So far it's been going alright, but I've hit a roadblock. I want to position two divs 77px in height side by side of the centered divs. They need to retain width to always touch the edge of the screen and their center div. I'm not sure how to do this with my limited knowledge of CSS, short of adding properties at random.
Her is a picture to help you understand: http://i49.tinypic.com/2ntz34n.png
The blue strips are where I want the divs to be. How do I achieve this?
You need to add this in your CSS:
header:after {
content: "";
display: block;
background-color: blue;
width: 100%;
height: 80px;
}
jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/GFsgq/32/
fullsrcreen result: http://jsfiddle.net/GFsgq/32/embedded/result/
i would add parent div spanning thw dith of the screen with position:relative; and to the two child divs use position:absolute; and position one right:0px; and the other left:0px; I am unsure about how you want to distribute width, if you have any other problems then come back.

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