I have a wrapper div with a min-height set. Position is relative and display is block. I have two column divs floated left and set to inherit min-height.
When I have lengthy content the background color of #wrapper never extends to match the content in the column divs.
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Can someone point out the error of my ways?
overflow: auto will do the trick
or a <div style='clear: both'> after the floated elements.
The proper fix is called "clearfix".
Read about it here, you'll never look back.
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I have a DIV that contains user-generated contents. These contents may and will start with an item that has a margin-top and that margin-top overflows the container so that there will be a gap between the container and preceding elements. I found out you can set the container to either display:inline-block, float:left/right or give it a padding-top value.
If you do one of the first 2 options the container will shrink its width to its contained elements. Padding-top is not an option because of the gap that the padding will generate. Basically you could set a specific width to the container but the problem with that is that there's a templating system with 60+ layouts and I cannot edit all of them.
So I was wondering, do you see any CSS-way to get rid of that margin-overflowing problem or the shrinking-problem here?
One of the ways is to add "overflow: hidden;" to its parent. But it not always an option if you have content that you want to overflow parent's boundaries.
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/cLxhE/1/
Another way is to use pseudo-elements to clear it. But it will not work in IE7 and below.
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/cLxhE/2/
You could add this to the top of your container div before the user added contents:
<div> </div>
Then give it a height of 0px.
Doing some css, so threw this quick fiddle together to show the issue I am having.
http://jsfiddle.net/ozzy/LJKsA/
The div block in center of the demo, is overlapping the container div.
Can you suggest a fix for this please, it always trips me up.
The center div can be larger as content is added, so outer div container needs to handle this also, and retain margins
You can add clear: both to the last element inside the containing div.
This is asked 10 times a day on StackOverflow. It's because you're using float ont he children of the container div. Just impleemnt overflow:hidden to it and it should work.
Search more about clearfix, also.
I'm dealing with a text who goes out of its div. I've coded the frontpage. So, no matter how long the main content is, it should force the sub-content (the grey area and the footer) to move down.
You see how the dummy text is acting
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I've accomplish this before but somehow it's not working now.
You've set an explicit height on that div. For it to reshape itself to its content, you'll need to set height:auto. (or never set its height in the first place)
EDIT: As ANeve said, you'll need to remove the height on both .article and .opentext, as well you'll need to put a clear:left on .lower-container to push the footer down.
If you have an element that only contains floating elements, the container's height will be zero. To fix this you can add a clearing div (<div style="clear:both"></div>).
If you add a clearing div at the end of the #under-content section, it will automatically adjust the height of the section to it's contents.
The other issue you have is that you are using relative positioning on your .opentext div elements. When you set a 'top' property, it actually pushes the content down, causing it to overlap with your #lower-container. You're better off using the 'margin-top' property, which will expand the size the .opentext div to fit all the contents.
So in short:
Add <div style="clear:both"></div> at the end of the #under-content <section>
Change the 'top:82px' to 'margin-top:82px' on your .opentext div
I hope this helps!
Just use wordwrap: break-word; for the div and it will break the word to the next line.
You have set the height property of your .article and .opentext divs. If you remove this property, the content should expand accordingly.
However, you will also need to adjust the positioning of your background image. You should set the background image of .footer itself, rather than relying on one statically-sized background image for the entire page.
I've got 4 divs inside a parent div. To get them to appear side by side, I've given all 4 divs a style with float:left. The divs do appear side by side, but the parent div's height does not grow to encompass the height of the child divs. What am I missing?
This is a quirk cause by the implementation of floating elements, and occurs when you have a parent element that contains nothing but floating child elements. There are two methods to solve it. One is to set the parent element's overflow property to hidden, sometimes known as the overflow method. The other is known as the clearfix method, and involves the use of the :after pseudo-class.
The clearfix method has the advantage of allowing for specifically positioned elements to "hang" outside of the parent container if you ever need them to, at the expense of a bit of extra CSS and markup. This is the method I prefer, as I utilize hanging elements frequently.
Set overflow: hidden; on the parent div.
Explanation: floating elements removes them from the regular document flow. So, if a given element contains only floated elements, it will not have any height (or, by extension, width -- unless it has an implicit width that is default on block elements).
Setting the overflow property to hidden tells the parent element to respect the width of it's children, but hide everything that falls outside it's width and height.
Of course, the other option is to add an element after the floated divs, inside the parent, with clear: both; This makes the last element be positioned after all the floats, within the regular document flow. Since it's inside the parent, the parent's height is whatever the heights of the floated items are, plus regular padding and the height of the cleared item.
After the 4 divs, you need to "cancel" the float style.
This is done through the creation of a p for example, like: <p style="clear: both"></p>
Your parent div will automatically get the right size.
millinet's answer will work, or you could float the parent div which will also allow it to expand to contain its content
I think you should give the parent div a height of 100% not fixed so that it encompasses the height of child divs if they grow.
I recommend the clearfix method as well. This problem occurs because floating an element removes any height that it would normally contain.
PositionIsEverything posts a complete explanation as well as corresponding solutions for IE6, since the :after pseudoselector is not supported by older browsers.
If you want the divs to be side-by-side, you could try using inline-block:
<style>
.alldivs {
display: inline-block;
}
</style>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="div1" class="alldivs"></div>
<div id="div2" class="alldivs"></div>
<div id="div3" class="alldivs"></div>
<div id="div4" class="alldivs"></div>
</div>
I have one div element at the top of my page that is set to overflow:visible. Immediately beneath it, I have the page content.
I do not want the top div to expand, because of aesthetic reasons, but I would like the content below to treat the overflow from above as it would a block element...by "clearing" it.
I know about CSS clear...but it doesn't seem to apply to overflow.
Is there a correct method to do this?
The overflow:visible doesn't really have anything to do with the issue, as it's the default.
Set the height of the top div, and put another floating div inside it for the content. The floating div will expand outside the top div, and you can use the clear style to get below it.
try
overflow: auto;
it will expand the div and should solve your problem