I'm pretty rubbish with CSS, I muddle through and rather than bash my head against a brick wall...
www.SchofieldBell.com
I have the book part of the page in the middle by placing everything inside #wrapper:
#wrapper
{
BORDER-RIGHT: 0px solid;
BORDER-TOP: 0px solid;
BORDER-LEFT: 0px solid;
BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px solid;
PADDING-TOP: 0px;
PADDING-RIGHT: 0px;
PADDING-LEFT: 0px;
PADDING-BOTTOM: 17px;
MARGIN: 0px auto;
WIDTH: 900px;
DISPLAY: block;
POSITION: relative;
TOP: 0px;
}
But I want the left hand side of the page (the bit that's missing) to expand or shrink depending on the screen size...
Any ideas?
First of all, please write CSS-code in all lowercase - so much easier to read. :-)
#wrapper {
width: 90%;
}
Will ensure that #wrapper always has a width equal to 90% of the viewport (viewing area of the browser).
or
#wrapper {
margin: 20px;
}
will ensure that the #wrapper width always is 100% of the viewport, minus 20 pixels on each side.
Did i understand your problem correctly?
It is called elastic or fluid layout, and there is a great article in A List Apart
First off...
Image overload, optimize or something, took a good 5-8 seconds to load
Give the element a 23% width, and a min-height property.
This design isnt fluid at all and is too big for my 1600x1200 screen, reconsider that.
Using a mix of CSS / tables / and iFrames is pretty messy, try to correct that.
Thanks.
Depending on whether I understand your goal correctly, this might be worth a try: Place the div within #wrapper and position it c. 900px from the right side of the wrapper. I assume your intent is to overflow the text off the left hand side of the page.
Eduardo mentioned A List Apart, however, I think this article on that site might be more appropriate (as it seems to be exactly what you want).
2 columns, liquid, fixed right
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I am having trouble getting the grey box on my page, https://com-bb-dev.com.edu to automatically resize to the width of the borders on the two boxes that are above it on every resolution. On 1440x900 it looks normal, or how I want it to look for every user, however I am using my second monitor here on a different resolution to test for issues such as this.
Here is what I have tried so far:
#loginText {
padding: 12px 80px 18px 80px;
background: #5f6062;
display: inline-block;
width: 912px;
border-top: 6px solid #DADADA;
margin-left: 10.6%;
text-align: center;
}
By default this div is not displaying as an inline box. Its entire container for whatever reason takes up the entire width of the screen(this is by default as far as I know). Thank you.
You need to make the following changes to the #loginText CSS:
Remove padding-right: 80px;
Remove padding-left: 80px;
Change margin-right: auto;
Change margin-left: auto;
Add width: 1072px;
Your issue is that your margins were percentage based, which scales on all resolutions. Your box above is an absolute size (1072px); this should make it match and center it as well.
I think I understand what you're trying to ask. The reason why the width of the gray box doesn't always match that of the two above boxes is because while the upper boxes have a set width, the gray box resizes with the browser window width (since it has a percentage margin on both sides).
Amend your style definition to this:
#loginText {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #5F6062;
border-top: 6px solid #DADADA;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 12px 0;
text-align: center;
width: 1072px;
}
And I believe that gives you the behaviour you're seeking. If this isn't what you were looking for, let me know and I'll be happy to help further. Good luck!
I have here a code in Dabblet: http://dabblet.com/gist/5705036
I wanted to have these segment to stick at their position even if the browser is re-sized without using absolute positioning. Like for example, The main content container breaks a new line when the browser is re-sized [I use CSS Floats in most of my containers].
Is there something wrong with my coding?
Do floats proper for layouts ? or I need to use anything else?..
I just can't fix it by myself and by doing a lot of research , still, haven't got a good idea to use it as a way to fix this. [Also, I use HTML5 tags such as: section, article, nav, etc.. ]
Just remove the float:left; from maincontent id and apply a display:table-cell;. Your issue will be resolved.
Here is the code.
#maincontent {
border: 1px solid #BBBBBB;
border-radius: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
display: table-cell;
margin-top: 15px;
min-height: 400px;
padding: 2px 6px;
width: 700px;
}
Hope this helps.
First of all You should always clear parent element if You use floats inside the parent element. Your right element go down because You don't have minimal width of container, ther is sample of code:
#contentWrapper {
width: 1000px;
overflow: hidden; /*scroll / auto it's depends on You */
}
I noticed that in your code you had a space in <div id="contentWrapper "> which stopped your CSS for that element from appearing. Also, you needed 2 more pixels of width on your #contentWrapper.
#contentWrapper {
width: 992px;
}
Removing the space and changing the width of #contentWrapper worked for me. I had a quick look at the maths but haven't worked out why it needs to be 992px. Anyone?
So, in answer to your question, I'd say floats are fine and your approach is good, there were just those two minor errors.
I want to nest a div inside another div so that the outer div grows with the inner div as the inner div has text placed inside it. Would appreciate any help. Here is a link so you get the idea. You will need to open your browser up to full screen to see the bottom of it correctly.
Hello Slalvenko, Have posted up both your code (thank you kindly) and my code which I know is not perfect but I'm learning. Yes I am aware of css reset styles that set browser default values to 0 and I did download one once. But I'm hoping that in a years time I will be aware of all of this and just write it into my code. I suppose a reset saves time and trouble but I'm enjoying pottering around what with all of this being new to me. Here is your code and my code. Mine is slightly different because I was wanting to add two more divs to it later which I will show you when I get there. Mike http://www.hnw7.com
.outer {
background-color: #CCF;
margin-top: 0px;
right: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
bottom: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
}
.inner {
width: 535px;
background-color: #E6E6FF;
color: black;
padding: 20px 50px 20px 50px;
overflow: hidden;
margin: 0 auto;
}
I'm not sure if this was your question but try this. The floats in your .inner div are making the parent's height 0, since the floats take those elements from the document flow. You need to clear those floats if you want your parent to have actual height. I find that easiest way to do so is to add overflow:hidden; to the parent element.
You can read about clearing floats here
I have an image with float:left, and I’d like it to overflow its parent, but cut off the overflow. Here’s what it looks like without any overflow rules:
Here’s what I want:
Here’s a fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/ZA5Lm/
For some reason, it was decided that overflow:hidden without an explicit height results in the element growing.
Can I somehow achieve the effect I’m after without setting an explicit height? An explicit height doesn’t work because I want this div to size automatically based on content length and browser width.
In my opinion using overflow: hidden without setting dimensions doesn't make sense. If you don't want to specify the height of the container and if your images have a fixed width you could use this solution: http://jsfiddle.net/ZA5Lm/11/
The image is positioned with absolute, taking it out of the text-flow. However - and I'm aware that this may be ugly - you need to specify a padding-left to move the text away from the image.
It's a bit tricky (I use relative + absolute positioning and a specific padding to position text) but it does the effect you asked without changing markup or setting height:
body {
padding: 10px;
}
img {
float: left;
position: absolute;
left : 10px;
}
div {
border: 1px solid black;
padding: 10px 10px 10px 280px;
position : relative;
overflow: hidden;
}
I just inserted style (even if float:left would be no longer necessary)
I seen a post over at CSS-Tricks and it talked about this. Go check it out at -
http://css-tricks.com/minimum-paragraph-widths/
It might be useful :) Good luck
Also just looked at your code and I added float: right to your div so it looks like this -
div {
border: 1px solid black;
padding: 10px;
float: right
/*overflow: hidden;*/
}
Not sure if that's what you want?
I've been trying to do something extremely simple, yet I can't make it work!
Here's what I'm trying:
---margin top: 15 px
---VARIABLE HEIGHT DIV (imagine a box-like element)
---margin bottom: 15px
I basically want the box to resize based on the browser window height.
Here's what I've been trying:
CSS
body {
background-color: #D0CDC5;
height:100%
}
#info_box {
background-color: rgba(40,40,40,0.5);
border: rgba(34,34,34,0.9) 1px solid;
width: 350px;
height: 100%;
margin: 15px 0px 15px 20px;
}
#info_box p {
color: red;
}
HTML
<body>
<div id="info_box">
<p>Sample Content</p>
</div>
</body>
By the way, why is that the text appears 15px from the top of the div? Why isn't it flush?
Thanks a lot guys,
**EDIT
See this link, very good answer for all browser but IE6 and 7. another HTML/CSS layout challenge
Thanks to #Hristo!
UPDATE
Check out the fiddle...
Edit, Full Screen
Check out the fiddle... http://jsfiddle.net/UnsungHero97/uUEwg/1/
I hope this helps.
Hristo
if you don't need to support IE6, and this is not part of a bigger layout, there is an easy way:
#info_box {
position: fixed;
left: 0px;
top: 15px;
right: 0px;
bottom: 15px;
}
alternatively, you could make #info_box stretch the full height, and put a position: absolute div into it with the same data as above.
I'm not entirely sure whether there's a way to do this without absolute or fixed positioning, because no matter whether you use padding or margin, you'll always end up adding 30 pixels to what is already 100% of the height. I'm happy to be proven wrong though.
Elements get their height based on the content inside them. So you already have an element that is centered and that will have margin top and bottom of 15px from the top and bottom of you site's body.
But if you want an element that will always be centered middle of screen, filling all but 15px top and 15px bottom, it is not achievable with "conventional" means. It will either have to be an image or a re-sizable box that will have a scroll-bar if the content is bigger than screen size.
Anyways, if that is what you want, give it a fixed size and height, and use position:fixed.
If you always use a consistent browser resolution, then it is doable. But if your screen size changes, depending on the device you use (tablet, mobile etc.), then this cannot be accomplished though CSS alone.
I have done this dynamically using jQuery.