I am trying to change thematic default theme to take the whole browser page ...
for example: http://themeshaper.com/demo/thematic/
Is there a simple fix that can be done? I tried few things on that page with firebug but none seemed to have worked..
You can make the main container 100% width with CSS, but that would not only imply that you change all the width properties of the markup to percent values, as you'll not have the same result on different screens.
Also, it's quite difficult to work just with percent values when dealing with markup.
So, in conclusion, it might be possible, but quite hard if you don't master CSS.
The theme appears to be built with a "fixed" width layout -- meaning that the width of the page is set to a fixed value and resizing your browser window will not change the layout of the page. You are trying to change it into a "fluid" layout -- meaning that the page will adjust sizes to fit the browser window. Unfortunately, themes (and webpage layouts in general) are typically built as one or the other (fixed vs. fluid) and it is hard to switch between the two without changing a large amount of the CSS. So the answer to your question is: no, there is no simple fix.
Not sure about simple, here is some CSS to get you started, but you will probably find more as you dig into the different page styles, etc. Add it to the end of the main style.css for the theme.
#access, #branding, #main, #footer { padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px;}
#branding, #header .menu, #siteinfo, #main { width: auto }
#container { width: 70% }
#content { width: 90% }
.main-aside { width: 28% }
Also, beware of IE specific stylesheets, etc, that might change these same selectors.
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I have a problem on my wordpress blog with the way posts are shown on the main page, and I think it's due to the size inside css/html, but I don't manage to find a solution. I'm asking for help.
The blog can be found at the URL: http://pavilionmagazine.org
As you can see on the main page, each post has the same size (due to css .post height: 600px; but when you mouse over they change size). I've managed to make the photo size the same, the excerpt to be the same number of characters, and the .post box is 600px high.
However, when you mouse over the posts they change their size and some of them (2nd, 5th, 8th posts from below) switch position. Why is that happening?
Because of each posts' size the grid has errors in it.
Why can't the posts be aligned, occupy the same size and make part of a nice fluent grid?
Thank you in advance :)
.post:hover needs to have a fixed height. Take a look at the two:
.post:hover {
height: auto;
}
.post {
height: 600px;
}
The auto height of post:hover right now is overriding your fixed height on .post.
As for position, inspect the two and see what else is being overriding by the hover values. Keep hover overrides to a minimum.
It seems that the .post boxes height is set to auto on mouseover.
So you have to edit your style.css file, line 350 and delete the css rule: height:auto;
Also, there are a lot of duplicated css rules on .post:hover. You can delete all and try this:
.post:hover {
background-color: #eaeaea;
}
This probably was answered somewhere, but I can't find it :s
My question is about dynamic resizing of divs based in percentages.
Please look at code example below for the examples and possible solutions I made.
I ask if there is a better way to do resizing?
More detailed explanation:
Say I am writing a plugin that people can insert in their pages. (Imagine login form).
I go ahead and design the plugin's divs. I use media queries to achieve desired look for different devices. I work on a div straight inside of a 'body' element.
I use percentages for design (I like percentages). Say I set div to 80% width.
Now I give this plugin to the user. User goes ahead and puts the plugin's div inside of another
div that is 100px in width. Now everything looks awful. (80% of 100px is not a lot [80px]).
And of course I want user to put my plugin inside of whatever small-width divs that he have.
The solutions I saw so far to this problem was to create a holder div of certain width - say hardcode 300px. (ex - jQuery UI's Datepicker div; Meteor's login widget div). And then code to it always knowing the 300px width that I set before is not going to change.
But I don't know how good of a solution this is.
Moreover if I decide to go with hard-coding width, my plugin would need width of ~ 1000px. Because I want div to resize with media queries.
And if I go with hard-coding width (say holder div of 1000px width) and put it on a page, the page will have horizontal scrolling. And you cannot simply hide holder div (parent div) and have child to show at the same time. So this requires setting position:relative for holder (parent) div, putting it outside of window, and use same for child div - position:relative with same offset in opposite direction of parent offset.
I hope I am being clear so far and have not confused you!
A code example to illustrate what I am talking about:
http://jsbin.com/ifawez/18/edit
#cimmanon's comment cleared things out for me.
The problem is with lack of HTML/CSS "tools" available at the moment. Since responsiveness came into play fairly recently there are not a lot of CSS-native tools to accommodate changes in dimensions.
For instance media-queries exclusively work with width of window/document and not of other elements such as divs.
The solution I currently employ is using Javascript to determine width of a div and resize accordingly.
What I resize is the number of columns I want to display (I use Multi-Column module as suggested by cimmanon) which is pretty stable on webkit browsers. Since it is all done in Javascript (and jQuery's Sizzle) I keep an array of sizes like so:
var widthArray = [
{min:0, max:250, columns:1, secondary:false},
{min:251, max:350, columns:1, secondary:true },
{min:351, max:479, columns:1, secondary:true },
//more div sizes
];
// more code here
$(element).css({
"column-count": object.columns,
"-moz-column-count": object.columns,
"-webkit-column-count": object.columns
});
This is sort of like media-queries, but allows to work with width of html elements, not screen size alone.
Additionally I follow the way jQuery UI displays its components: using position relative/absolute.
.outer_div {
position: relative;
}
.inner_div_with_elements {
position: absolute;
z-index: 1010;
width: 99%;
float: left;
overflow: hidden;
...
}
.inner_components_displayable {
position: relative;
display: block;
}
.inner_components_hidden {
display: none;
}
So in Summary:
Media queries alone work with size of screen, and resizing of any inner element can be done in percentages to the screen size. They can be of huge help, but you turn into making your components work either with percentages based off screen, or specifying something like min-height and !important (as suggested by #Octavian)
Javascript manipulation of elements is currently easier, but is a costlier alternative (jQuery SIzzle is pretty slow)
A lot of libraries (ex. jQuery UI) use Javascript together with position relative/absolute to make sure their components/plug-ins will work nicely on all users' screen sizes.
I ended up combining position with javascript to emulate media-queries and multi-column design at the same time for responsiveness.
Thanks everyone who participated!
If I am reading this correctly, the main issue here is that it can potentially become too small based on where the code is located.
So why not just add a min-width property with !important? That way you can still base the size off of the parent container, but be sure that it doesn't get too small and ugly.
Potentially, you could even have a script to base the width off of the parent div and the min-width off of the screen size.
Hoping this jumps out at someone...
I'm using Fancybox 1.3 w/Foundation. The issue I'm having is something in the Foundation CSS is forcing my Fancybox pop-up to render too small. When I inspect the HTML on the rendered page, I see an inline style setting the height at 175px...
I'm stumped. If I remove the Foundation CSS file the problem goes away. I'm guessing I need to change something in the Height attribute but haven't had any luck.
Sample:
http://198.cmsintelligence.com/site/about-us (click 'play this video')
Without more code it's hard to debug in dev tools. But I believe your culprit is here: #fancybox-inner object {
In DEV tools that ID is applying 100% height to an object, which is what is loading your video. The object itself has a height value of 600px, but it's being overridden because that ID above also has !important on the height.
Also the height of 175px you mentioned, that inline styling is being generated dynamically based on content nested deeper within. I don't believe the fault is there.
EDIT: Got it!
I have highlighted the culprits in an image below. The first is on Line 20 of fancybox.css - the last two line 1 of foundation.min.css (no doubt a huge reset rule). Override these in some way and you'll be golden.
#fancybox-inner embed, #fancybox-inner object {
height: 100% !important;
}
object, embed {
height: 100%;
}
img, object, embed {
max-width: 100%;
height: auto;
}
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/692/fancyboxbug.jpg/
Just an idea, maybe you've tried it since it's pretty in your face. Like you said, the inline style is making it 175px so why not override it in your Foundatino CSS.
div#fancybox-wrap{
height: 480px;
}
You can always add !important at the end of the height(ex. height: 480px !important;) to force it to be that height always, or use em (ex. height: 3em;) to make it fluid and change depending on the screen size your viewer is using. Again all newbie things since I'm not that vintage in this field but maybe that helps in some way.
My <footer> tag will not seem to stay at the bottom of my page. I have tried several different techniques to fix it and none have worked.
I have included the link to my working site below.
http://stage.bmdigitalgroup.com/recipes.html
i think you want to put your footer at bottom of the page i any resolution, if am i right than here is answer.
.footer {
position:absolute;
border:0px;
}
for more tips, tricks and tutorial visit - blog.klassicweb.com
Based on your screenshot, it looks like your monitor's height is larger than your website's content or you have zoomed out a lot, so what you're seeing is totally normal. In a smaller monitor it would look just fine. You could add a min-height: rule to your sites container so it pushes the footer down to the specified value, but you need to figure out a min-height that makes sense to you and your users.
If you really want to make the footer always stick to the bottom regardless of the monitor's height or zoom level, then you could add the following rules - just keep in mind that in a page where there isn't much content, you will end up forcing users to scroll down for no reason if they need to get to the footer:
/*
This rule is already in your stylesheet.
I added it here just for reference.
*/
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
/*
This is the container that holds your whole site.
You should use an id like "#container" or "#site" so this rule
applies only to your site's main container.
*/
.container_12 {
min-height: 100%;
}
I'm still relatively new to css positioning, but have read a few books and watched a few tutorials. I made some palettes over at colourLovers, and wanted to see how they would look when applied to a website as a color scheme. So, using the little coding knowledge I had, I created a page to demonstrate my color scheme. After a while, it became a sort of self-confidence boost, and I've gotten just about done with it when a little thing caught my attention.
I have a two-column layout - on the left, there is the navigation menu, with a header above and a content section to the right, all in their own divs. My question is this - when I scale the page (as in, make the window for viewing it smaller), the content section gets pushed so it wraps under the Div. The way I could fix this was to make an additional div with no bg color and make it as long as the content that contained the navigation div, so they would line up, but it doesn't fix it if you resize the window.
I'm sure there's an easy fix to this, but my limited knowledge doesn't yet know it. If it helps, I've attached an image file below of what the site looks like in my editor (Coda). I also provide a link to the code of that page of my site which I've uploaded to textsnip. You can find it here - http://textsnip.com/f434fd. I have added comments to mark the header, sidebar, and content sections as well. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
The easiest solution is to use min-wdith on your container:
<div style="width: 90%; padding: 10px; margin:0 auto; min-width: 400px;">
This won't work on IE6, but will work on everything else. And, if you need IE6, then there are several workarounds that will solve it.
I would suggest you to use % value instead of px.
For example:
Header: 100%;
Nav: 20%;
Content: 80%;
Footer: 100%;
This way, if someone rize the window, it will always display perfect.
Use "float: right" on content DIV. And replace px width with %.
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You can use CSS Media Queries to adjust things as they get bigger and smaller. For instance, if you wrap your entire page with a div with an ID of wrapper (and use Simon Arnold's solution for the width of the individual elements), then you can do this:
#media (min-width:1200px) {
#wrapper {
width:1100px;
}
}
#media (max-width:1200px) {
#wrapper {
width:90%;
}
}
These set your wrapper to 90% if the screen size is less than 1200px, and 1100px if your screen is bigger than 1200px. Thus, if the browser is wider than 1200px then your page will stay the same size, and if it's smaller then it'll flow nicely.
#media (max-width:700px) {
#wrapper {
width:100%;
}
}
That one makes it wider when the browser gets smaller, and
#media (max-width:400px) {
#wrapper {
width:400px;
}
}
that one sets it to a fixed width when the browser gets really small. Those are really simple queries, if you're interested in learning more about media queries then here's a good place: http://css-tricks.com/6731-css-media-queries/
And of course, it wouldn't hurt to make the page flow between those transitions using CSS3 Transitions.
IE8 and below, unfortunately, do not support media queries. BUT you could read their browser type with PHP instead, and direct them to get a decent browser... It'd help make the web better. ;)