I'm trying to build a quick overview that shows the upcoming calendar week. I want it arranged horizontally so it can turn out to be quite wide if we show a full calendar week.
I've got it set up right now with an inner div with a fixed width (so that the floated "day" divs don't return below) and an outer div that's set to width: 100%. I'd LIKE for the outer div to scroll horizontally if the page is resized so that the inner div no longer fits in it, but instead the outer div is fixed larger at the width of the inner div and the page itself scrolls.
Gah I'm not good at explaining these things... Here's a bit of code that might clear it up..
The CSS:
.cal_scroller {
padding: 0;
overflow: auto;
width: 100%;
}
.cal_container {
width: 935px;
}
.day {
border: 1px solid #999;
width: 175px;
height: 200px;
margin: 10px;
float: left;
}
and the (simplified) structure:
<div class="cal_scroller">
<div class="cal_container">
<div class="day">Monday</div>
<div class="day">Tuesday</div>
<div class="day">Wednesday</div>
<div class="day">Thursday</div>
<div class="day">Friday</div>
</div>
</div>
So to try again - I'd like the cal_scroller div always be the page width, but if the browser is resized so that the cal_container doesn't fit anymore I want it to scroll WITHIN the container. I can make it all work if I set a fixed width on cal_scroller but that's obviously not the behavior I'm going for. I'd rather not use any javascript cheats to adjust the width of the div if I don't have to.
Your cal_scroller class is 100% + 20px (padding) wide. Use a margin on cal_container instead, like so:
.cal_scroller {
padding: 10px 0;
overflow: auto;
width: 100%;
}
.cal_container {
margin: 0 10px;
width: 935px;
}
See here for a description of how the box model works (in short, the everything is outside the width/height of an element).
Also, block elements (like <div>s) are 100% width by default, making your 100% width declaration redundant.
One problem I see is your width: 100% rule. div.cal_scroller is already a block-level element, so it'll default to filling the entire page width. (Not to mention that padding is added on top of width, so you end up with that div being bigger than the page.)
Just get rid of that width rule, and you should be golden. (I just tried myself, and it worked like a charm.)
I didn't read your question very carefully, but when you have width: 100% and padding, that's generally not what you want.
100% + 20px > 100% - that might be the problem.
I struggled with this a lot but the simplest solution I found was adding:
.cal_container { white-space: nowrap; }
This way you don't have to give it a width at al. It just makes sure everything stays in one line.
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I am trying to make some responsive cards. I have the cards completed and spaced out properly. On the front of the cards I want an image on the top of the cards and a title in the middle. The title is fine and the image is fine except for the right side of the image.
Here is the CSS code for the image (image is in an img tag in HTML page with a class of "image"):
div .image {
padding: 5%;
height: 45%;
width: 100%;
}
The right side for some reason is ignoring the padding and sticking out of the card parent div. Any ideas why?
did you already set div's width?
also as far i know is no need to set image's height if you already set it's width to 100%
anyway here some example
div { width: 200px; height: 150px; padding: 6px; }
div img { width: 100%; }
You set the width to be 100% and padding 5%. Make sure you have:
box-sizing: border-box;
for the parent.
Also without the full example of code, hard to answer. Can use overflow: hidden; on the parent to hide that part sticking out.
How can I style a div with CSS to automatically fit in a gap? At the moment, I have something like this
HTML
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="auto-width"></div>
<div id="changing-width"></div>
</div>
CSS
#wrapper {
padding: 30px;
}
#wrapper * {
height: 50px;
display: inline-block;
}
#auto-width {
width: 271px; /*I don't want to have to set this value*/
}
#changing-width {
width: 140px;
float: right;
margin-left: 30px;
}
I want the div with the ID "auto-width" to change it's width based on the padding of the wrapper, and the width and margin of the "changing-width" div. I don't mind using the padding and margin values, but in my actual project, the width of the "changing-width" div actually changes depending on the amount text in it and I want to "auto-width" div to change with it.
JSFiddle example:
https://jsfiddle.net/bve8162f/
If the width of the right div is fixed, then you could set the width of the left div like so:
#auto-width {
width: calc(100% - 200px);
}
...where the 200px is the width of your right div plus the padding. If you're using a css preprocessor like Less or Sass, you could create a variable so you can define the value in one place for both styles.
Note that the 100% refers to the explicit width of the parent. This solution seemed to work in your fiddle (updated version here,) but if your production code is set up a little differently, this may not work. I'll see if I can stumble across a different way, but this is one method I personally like to use when I can.
I have 3 div's:
.left, .right {
width: 30px;
resize: none;
}
.left {
float: left;
}
.right {
float: right;
}
.center {
max-width: 960px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
What I want to achieve is that only the middle one resizes when resizing the browser. In the left and right div there is an image that is part of the design.
When I make the browser smaller, the left en right div will narrow at one point and it seems that it is getting pushed into the center div. This makes the content of the center being pushed down. How can I make sure the 2 div will stay #30px?
Strange thing is, in the jsfiddle it does work...
jsfiddle
The issue is with the <img /> element you have in the header. When you hide it you can see that it no longer interferes with your layout.
The problem is because the <img /> element will expand to the maximum size of the container, which is 100%. That 100% does not include the 30px you have reserved for each side, as floated elements are taken out of the document flow. Declaring 100% of a child element means it will expand to the width of its parent elements, without taking into account the extra space taken up by floated siblings. Therefore, a solution would be using CSS calc to constrain the width of .center, and float it to the left, too:
.center {
width: calc(100% - 60px);
}
Alternatively, you can give .center a margin of 30px on the left and on the right. The floated divs will ignore margins because they are taken out of the document flow, and will fit perfectly within that 30px corridor you have created for them.
.center {
margin: 0 30px;
}
Both methods I have tested and verified by playing with the Inspector on the link you have provided. The calc() method might suffer from lack of support in older browsers, while the margin method will work for most browsers that are in use today :) pick any one.
Try setting the horizontal margin for your center div to the known width of the left and right divs:
.center {
max-width: 960px;
margin: 0 30px;
}
Everything is wrapped in a div with an id="main_wrap"
the main wrap has this style:
#main_wrap{
margin:0 auto;
width:960px;
position:relative;
}
Since everything is wrapped inside of this div, I don't understand why a horizontal scroll bar would appear at the bottom.
If any of the children have borders, padding (or sometimes margins) applied to them, that adds to the width and height. Using overflow: hidden; would avoid the scroll bars. But, if something has too much width, you probably want to find where it is coming from to avoid possible problems in the future.
Note that you may be able to use box-sizing: border-box to prevent borders and padding from adding additional width (or height). This is particularly useful when you are using something like width: 100%, but width: 100% also isn't necessary in most cases - elements with display: block applied will fill the width by default AND keep padding and borders from adding additional width.
For example:
html, body { margin: 0; padding: 0; }
div {
background: #111;
color: #eee;
padding: 1em; /* This doesn't add to width - still at 100% width */
border: 2px solid #5e5; /* This also doesn't add to width - still at 100% width */
}
<div>Test</div>
Try add overflow hidden:
#main_wrap{
margin:0 auto;
width:960px;
position:relative;
overflow: hidden;
}
That should work (but is hacky).
If the elements are side by side and have a combined width or , as BDawg says margins or paddings, that cause it to exceed 960px a scroll bar could appear. Post your entire code and we can figure it out very quickly. Hiding the overflow should work but it would not really explain why the scroll bar is appearing. Giving us your entire markup will help find the root of the problem.
Somewhere you've left any DOM elements unseen which occupies the extra width. it's better to find and fix the children than to use overflow:hidden . overflow:hidden will hide the scroll bar if user zooms in the page.
Working 100%
if you are using bootstrap it takes
margin-left & right 15px (or) -15px
you need to change 15px to 0px
Example
.main_wrap .row{
margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px;
}
If you change width to 100% it helped you, but if you don't want, just try add external <div style="width:100%"></div> like this:
<div style="width:100%">
<div class="main_wrap">
%your content%
</div>
</div>
I could swear I've seen articles about this problem, but I can't for the life of me find them again!
Basically if I have
<div style="width: 250px;">The width of this div should be no less than 250px wide</div>
In the code below, the content in the div isn't restricting it's width to the width specified causing an overflow problem:
<div class="PostIt">
<div id="tags"><span class="qExtraLarge">Lucky Khumalo</span>
<span class="qLarge">School</span>
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</div>
.PostIt { display: block; text-align: left; padding: 30px 30px 30px 30px; height: 240px !important; width: 190px !important; background: transparent url("Images/PostIt.png"); }
.PostIf #tags { width: 250px !important; }
Any suggestions would be great!
Thanks in advance.
If you want to hide any overflowing content, use overflow:hidden;
If you want to show the content and just force a line break, use word-wrap:break-word;
Setting a width on a block element alone won't stop any contents that are wider than that width from overflowing the bounds of the element. To do that you need to also set the "overflow" property. Setting it to "hidden" will simply hide anything outside the bounds, but you can also set it to other values to automatically show scrollbars, etc.
See http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/overflow for a good explanation of the overflow CSS property.
Hide your overflow.
Or more precisely
.myclass { overflow: hidden; }