I am trying to identify this bug. Is this a known issue already or is it totaly new? Is there a workaround (like a zoom:1 or position:relative that I can add to fix it?), idealy without modifying the html here but just adding to it.
If you display the below html in IE8 you will see the text from the select (combo box), is displayed twice. One outside of the combo box. This is messing up the flow of my document (not to mention looking weird).
<html><body>
<div style="width: 800px;">
<div style="float: right" >
</div>
<div style="display: none">
ijklmno
</div>
<div style="float:left">
<select>
<option>abcdef</option>
</select>
<div style="float: right">
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body></html>
This is definitely a bug, since you are pretty explicit in the layout style rules. But it's also a really weird arrangement to begin with. If you unhide the hidden div, add text OR hide the div below the select, the problem goes away. My best guess is that since you have overlapping block level elements with one hidden and one empty, IE is ignoring the float and trying to fit them on top of each other, which is forcing the option down, but since the select stays in place, its showing the option within the select as well.
Very strange and a very cool catch. Your options as I see them is to either add some content to the the last div (non-breaking space, probably) or hide the div (display: none), or both.
In Firefox, that last div is also not floating right and is overlapping with the select (you can tell by outlining block-level elements with the Developer Toolbar) which makes me think that Firefox is just better about handling overlapping block level elements.
If you set the last div to have a border, you'll see that it's not floating to the right of the main div.
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I have a little toggle button in the top right of a long form, that toggles whether the form is editable or not. It's sticky with reference to the top and bottom elements of the form. It works fine when I'm scrolled to the top of the page, but as soon as I get to the point where it becomes sticky, it loses the effect of the float-right class that's attached to it. Here's the code:
<div class="columns small-8"><!-- First item of the form --></div>
<div class="columns small-4" data-sticky-container>
<div class="switch round float-right" data-sticky data-top-anchor="userID:top"
data-btm-anchor="password:bottom" data-sticky-on="small">
<input class="switch-input" id="switchEdit" name="switchEdit" type="checkbox">
<p class="help-text align-center" id="editTitle">Edit</p>
</div>
</div>
Here's what it looks like before and after (the right edge of the picture is the right edge of the grid in both pictures):
Before:
After:
QUESTION: Why is this happening and how can I fix it?
P.S. I still haven't quite figured out how to make a jsfiddle or codepen thing cause I'm relatively new to web stuff (I usually work back-end, but my new job requires the front-end stuff), so sorry about that.
UPDATE:
I found this answer because I noticed that the .sticky.is-stuck classes set position: fixed in the css. I tried what they said, but that just put my little toggle all the way over to the right side of the window, not the right side of the column. So that's not an option. :/
I figured it out!
Instead of floating it to the right in a small-4 to take account for all the different sizes of devices, I set the width of the container to be 30px bigger than the actual element's size which was 64px (to account for the padding automatically there because of Foundation). My container code ended up looking like this:
<div class="columns" style="width: 94px;" data-sticky-container>
This way, the "column", so to speak, that the sticky thing was in was exactly the size of the element inside of it, and that itself was at the end of the row. Now it fits beautifully on all screen sizes, in the right spot!
Ok, so I'm working on a prototype of my UI before I start coding the webapp. I got the design mostly done while working in Firefox and (of course) when I tested it in IE, there were a lot of rendering issues. One of those issues is that if I have a div that contains some text and another div that's set to float:right, that nested div shows up on the next line, below its parent div. This is the problem markup in its simplest form...
<div style="background-color:red;">
Text
<div style="background-color:yellow; float:right;">Right</div>
</div>
I scoured the internet for solutions and the only working relevant solution I found that makes this work in IE is to place the floating div at the beginning of its parent like this...
<div style="background-color:red;">
<div style="background-color:yellow; float:right;">Right</div>
Text
</div>
In reality, the nested div has a class and my CSS is floating that class. But what happens if I eventually make another stylesheet to target mobile devices and I no longer want that inner div to be floated? Then the content itself would be out of order in HTML, just for the sake of accommodating a CSS issue in IE. Is there a better way to solve this?
A colleague of mine recently had a very similar problem. I recommended simply using positioning rather than floating. I believe you could do the same here:
<div style="background-color:red; position:relative;">
Text
<div style="background-color:yellow; position:absolute; right:0; top:0;">Right</div>
</div>
I don't know if you have a requirement to use floats or not. Using the positioning method will cause the positioned element to not take up space in normal flow, but otherwise keep the correct source order and visually accomplish what I think you want to do.
Set a width value on your inner div and make it display: inline-block. Div's are block elements that take 100% width of the parent, that's why IE puts it on the next line.
I am not sure if it is a possibility for you, but putting the text within the outer div in a div of its own seems to solve the problem
<div style="background-color:red;">
<div style="float: left;">Text</div>
<div style="background-color:yellow; float:right;">Right</div>
</div>
I just hit this problem in IE7 - in my case, the item that was going to clear the float was going to be full width anyway. I just set that to "float: none;clear: left" and it seems to work.
OK, DUE TO BEING NEW I WASNT ALLOWED TO POST IMAGES, SO I HAVE ATTACHED LINKS INSTEAD. (images should be inline with this question)
Im writing a webpage and have a div containing some text (inline) an then an image.
Now when one clicks on the image, a hidden div appears below with an input field.
The input field in this div is automatically aligned to the left edge of the div.
I want it aligned to the right of the div.
As pictures speak louder than words, see link below.
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/d827ecc330.png
Anyhow the closest I got to a solution was to apply direction: rtl to hidden div, but then my text in my input field also changes to rtl.
I just want the placing of the text field to be rtl, not the input.
I hope this isnt too confusing.
Im quite new to css but have searched arund a lot, and have yet to find a solution besides the depreciated align=right.
Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
<div id="container" style="width:500px;">
<div id="text" style="width:250px; float:left;">Text</div>
<div id="image" style="width:250px; float:left;">Image</div>
<div id="input" style="width:500px; float:left; text-align:right">Input</div>
</div>
I'm having a rare CSS issue in Internet Explorer 7 (I'm actually testing it on IE8 in compatibility view, but the client sent me screenshots in native IE7 too), it's easy to reproduce:
Go to this site (spanish).
On the left column, click the border (or somewhere around) the box labeled "Fiestas anteriores"
The element should now be moved downward, but if you click the empty space left, it'll come back like a good dog.
I've been looking around for IE7 bugs and playing with the width, border and other CSS properties with no luck. Any input is welcome!
I found if you apply the following styles it seems to stop it breaking when you click anywhere near it:
#prevparties_middlerow
{
float:left;
width:150px;
}
one little suggestion though, if I may, instead of having divs either side of the content in your panels to create the borders like so:
<div id="prevparties_left"/>
<div id="prevparties_contentBox">
content
</div>
<div id="prevparties_right" class="boxmiddle"/>
you'll probably find it alot easier to wrap the content box in a div that has the borders set as a background, like so:
<div id="prevparties_contentWrap">
<div id="prevparties_contentBox">
content
</div>
</div>
the main advantage here is that the wrapping div will go down as far as the containing div goes, so you dont have to apply specific heights to all these border divs. And when things are wrapped like this I find there is much less possibility of it breaking :D
anyways, hope this helps.
http://dev.dealercontrol.net/dealercontrol/index_comp1.html
on this page I am trying to float a flag to the left of the subtitle
<div>
<div class="flag certified">Certified</div>
<div class="subtitle left">Deal On 09 Black Lamborghini LP560</div>
</div>
I can't seem to get the flag to layout properly what would be the best method to do so? also how can I set the height of the flag to wrap tight on the text inside of it?
Good lord man.
You have soooooo much CSS going on on that page it's no wonder you're tying yourself in knots. Just look at the huge stack of inherited and overridden styles on any element with firebug.
First off a simple float:left will do the trick but it will only work if the two elements have a combined width narrower than their parent container - otherwise what else can happen but it wraps?
Secondly, your code above isn't actually what's on the page. Too many container divs getting in the way - simplify and move the two required elements as sibling nodes of the same parent and give both float:left.
Thirdly, reduce your bloat! .clear classes are pure bloat (see here). You really don't need more than 2 CSS files (a global base and a page extension) so condense and merge your files. Cut out as much of the tag selector styles as you can (this is what creates all the inherited/ignored stacks which are getting you into an unmaintainable hard to decipher position). Hopefully at that point you have a working design and a lighter more responsive page you can debug more easily in future.
Put the flag inside the div and float it to the left
<div>
<div class="subtitle left">
<div class="flag certified" style="float: right">Certified</div>
Deal On 09 Black Lamborghini LP560
</div>
</div>