IE7 CSS Float causing content to overflow when printing - css

When attempting to print the following web page in IE7 (or IE8 compatibility mode), some content (the bottom two questions) is truncated. You can view the issue in Print Preview.
http://www.testdesigner.com/tests/print.jsp?testId=4097
Removing the float in the following css block found in printTestTwoColumns.css will fix the issue, but also remove the double column formatting.
.question {
float: left;
width: 44%;
padding: 0;
margin-right: 0;
}
It's important to note that the HTML in the URL above is dynamically generated and the problem exists with all types of content, including pure text (no images). The content always overflows off the page.
Short of changing the markup to a table based layout, does anyone have a possible solution?

Try adding a print stylesheet that uses a much simpler layout designed for narrow printing on paper. You probably won't need any floats at all.

with FLOAT IE tends to add a addition 10PX padding even though you are stating padding:0.
Try adding display:inline ie
.question { float: left; width: 44%; padding: 0; margin-right: 0; display:inline }
Hope this helps.

Related

Firefox prints only first page and cuts the page on the right

I had big trouble with printing from Firefox (any version, mine is 16.0.2, but even Aurora dev builds did the same).
When printing the page, Shrink to fit in the Print preview doesn't work. Only way, how to fit the page onto the paper is selecting Zoom 70% in the same dialog.
Other problem:
it prints only first page.
What to do?
I needed to adapt the CSS file for printing, so I've done one. It works flawlessly anywhere, but not in Firefox. What was the problem?
First I've tried specifying Width and height for BODY and HTML in the print.css file. Than margins, etc.
Later I figured out what was the problem:
standard CSS file had the following in it:
body {
...
overflow-x: hidden;
overflow-y: scroll;
}
So I've added the following into the print.css file:
body {
overflow-x: visible;
overflow-y: visible;
}
I guess, if you had only overflow specified in the CSS, not -x & -y, you would need to specify only overflow:visible in the print.css file.
Printing from Firefox works now as it should. I just thought, that this may help somebody, who has strange printing behavior happening in Firefox.
In addition to the Kokesh's answer, some times attribute
display: table
generates this problem too. So you need change it to 'block' or another that fits to your requeriments.
I tried the fixes suggested in other answers but they didn't solve the problem for me. After a lot of research and trial & error, I have found this article by A list apart. I was skeptical because it's so old but it states that:
If a floated element runs past the bottom of a printed page, the rest of the float will effectively disappear, as it won’t be printed on the next page.
As I have a big floated container I thought I'd give it a try. So, I made a mix from the other answers and this article and came up with this:
body {
overflow: visible !important;
overflow-x: visible !important;
overflow-y: visible !important;
}
/*this is because I use angular and have this particular layout*/
body > .fade-ng-cloak {
height: 100%;
display: block;
flex: none;
float: none;
}
.l-content,
.l-sidebar {
float: none;
}
So basically:
Setting body to overflow: visible
Setting elements that behave as wrappers to display: block, eliminate all flex styles and reset height if necessary
Eliminate float on long containers
That mix worked for me! I'm so happy I thought I'd share :)

CSS centering not working with margin auto and overflow hidden

I've noticed that if I view the page at wider resolution, the content of a section gets aligned to the right, instead of centered.
I use
margin: 0 auto;
width: 998px;
overflow: hidden;
It seems to have this bug, at least in Safari, Firefox and Chrome. I tried disabling overflow: hidden and it gets rid of the bug, but messes up my floats inside the content.
You can see an example at the page live here:
http://autouncle.dk/da/brugte-biler/Kia or http://autouncle.dk/da/brugte-biler/Ford (you have to view it at at least 1500px widescreen to see the bug).
Any ideas on what can cause this bug and what are possible solutions?
About the reason of the problem: this is due to the page-title element of your header:
#header-outer element contains some floated elements but you forgot a clearing, so the offset left of the main section of your site starts where the page-title ends. (you can verify this by hiding page-title element — when you set display: none the page is correctly centered)
So adding
body#basic_page #header-outer {
overflow: hidden;
}
you solve the problem
As a sidenote strongly avoid to put empty div only for clearing purposes: there're cleaner methods that don't require extra markup, like easyclearing
Your solution is removing overflow: hidden
To fix the float bug on the second example you gave try to use 100% of the width:
body#basic_page.brands_controller #content .text_info {
overflow: hidden;
font-size: 12px;
width: 100%; /* new rule */
}
Remove the
overflow:hidden
from div#content and put its contents in an extra <div> in it which has
width:100%;
overflow:hidden;
This resolves the problem for me.

Social buttons on top of each other rather than next to each other in Drupal

I am struggling with a CSS issue. I want to display a Google +1 button next to ShareThis buttons (I am using Drupal).
For some reason, Drupal adds a panel searator CSS class:
I tried to modify my CSS file as following:
.panel-separator { display: none; }
but it only produced this:
There is enough space to the right of the ShareThis buttons to display the Google +1 buttons. But, the buttons are stacked on top of each other.
How do I get the button to align horizontally? Thanks.
Update
I have set a lot of width and I also added float: left;:
.GYPO_social_buttons {
padding-top: 91px;
width: 200px;
float: left;
}
.GYPO_share_this {
width: 90px;
}
.GYPO_google_plus_one {
width: 40px;
}
Here is the enclosing div according to firebug (I am using Firefox):
Update II
Woops, my bad. I have now set the float: left; on the button themselves rather than the enclosing div and the issue is solved. Thanks !!!
.GYPO_share_this {
width: 90px;
float: left;
}
.GYPO_google_plus_one {
width: 40px;
float: left;
}
You need to give enough width to the container div, that is holding these icons. After that you can float these icons by giving float: left; . The reason why Google +1 is moving down is because the container div doesn't have enough width to accommodate this next to mail icon.
From the portion of html and css you are providing it is a little bit difficult to find out what would be the best way to do this. The question is what generates the break. It could be that the parent element is not wide enough to and the +1 needs to be below. In that case you can simply change the width. It could also be that there is css that generates a break (e.g. display: block and no float for on eof the elements) In that case you might try to change that to display: inline or a float: left for the buttons. There might be a clear somewhere in there which would cause the float to break (although it doesnt look like a clear on the image)
I suppose there are more possibilities than that...
I need to see more of your code. If you have tried to make your container larger to hold all of the icons and that didn't work, I would guess it was another element forcing the icon to the next line. Without more code, all I can do is make a guess...
I was in the same situation once. Here's what solved my problem:
You can also choose the "style" setting on the region and choose "No markup at all". This will remove the panel separator.
For more info: https://www.drupal.org/node/579020#comment-8163459

XHTML/CSS Padding on inline element with linebreak

I have an inline element with a line break in it. It has padding on all sides. However, the side padding on where the line break cuts the element is not there.
This is what i mean:
http://jsfiddle.net/4Gs2E/
There should be 20px padding on the right of tag and left of with but there isnt.
The only other way I can see this working is if i create a new element for every line but this content will be dynamically generated and will not be in a fixed width container so i dont see that working out. Is there any other way I can do this in css without any javascript?
I want the final result to look like this :
http://jsfiddle.net/GNsw3/
but without any extra elements
i also need this to work with display inline only as I want the background to wrap around the text as inline block doesnt do this
Is this possible?
edit, altered the examples to make what i want more visible:
current
http://jsfiddle.net/4Gs2E/2/
what i want it to look like
http://jsfiddle.net/GNsw3/1/
In some cases you can use box-shadow for a workaround.
Move the right and left padding of the element to its parent and add two box-shadows.
The result: http://jsfiddle.net/FpLCt/1/
Browser support for box-shadow: http://caniuse.com/css-boxshadow
Update:
There is also a new css property for this issue called box-decoration-break. It is currently only supported by opera, but hopefully more browsers will implement this soon.
Hope this helps
Found a solution for you, but it ain't pretty :)
Since you can't target the <br> element with css, you have to use javascript. Here's how you can accomplish what you want with jQuery:
// Add two spaces before and after any <br /> tag
$('br').replaceWith(' <br /> ');
Play with the number of elements to acheive your padding on both ends.
Here's an updated Fiddle demo:
http://jsfiddle.net/4Gs2E/8/
Maybe you can use float: left instead of display: inline:
http://jsfiddle.net/GolezTrol/4Gs2E/1/
Usually that is implemented by wrapping each word in an own SPAN which has border.
I just wanted to make css-animated menu for myself. Workaround I have found is to wrap your INLINE-BLOCK element (change in css if necessary, lets call it a span with such an attribute for purpose of this solution) into block element. Then I'm using margins of span as it was padding for the surrounding div.
div.menuopt {
margin: 10px;
padding: 0px;
padding-left: 0px;
overflow: hidden;
width: 500px;
height: 150px;
background: grey;
}
span.menuopt {
display: inline-block;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
margin-left: 150px;
margin-top: 10px;
font-size: 25px;
}
Example:
http://jsfiddle.net/ApbQS/
hope it will help anyone

CSS Layout Issues (Footer & UL Styling)

So I'm trying to code out my design for my new portfolio website, but I'm having a few issues there that research and hours of smashing my face against the computer screen have not yet solved. There are two big issues right now that I'm stuck on, though there is yet another that I'm currently considering if I even want to deal with at all.
The first issue is the menu. I want the typeface to go from regular to bold when you hover over it, or when you're on that page. Which works. Problem is when you hover over it, the other two items in the menu adjust slightly because the change in type weight pushes them out. My attempts thus far have all ended with failure.
The second issue is the footer. I want it to stay on the bottom of the page. My research has gotten me this far, but instead of what I wanted, now it actually stays at the bottom of the browser, not at the bottom of the content. Thank you for any help you can give!
The page in question can be found at: http://personal.justgooddesign.net/draft/
Your footer is getting jumbled up because you float left and clear right. My personal preference for footers always starts with this very clean method and builds from there. If you're getting confused, separate your inner content from the rest of the page and test away.
With fonts, you have to think more like a UI developer than a graphic designer. Unlike Indesign, Illustrator, etc, fonts and spacing aren't 100% pixel perfect. What will render one way in one browser will render a very different way in another. Bolding a font on the web will make it larger, and it will push spacing. To compensate for that, setup your menu elements to be a bit wider to compensate, then test like crazy. If you solely rely on margins and padding, then a bolded hover element is going to push the menu around every time.
Just a suggestion, setup your css in a separate file and load it in. The code will be cached, which will result in a performance improvement on subsequent loads. Further, you could save yourself a lot of code by doing one class to attach styling to your elements and being mindful positioning relative to other elements. There's no need to individually style every element in your portfolio for positioning.
You can fix the jump in the menu by setting a fixed width on the #menu li, so
#menu li {
display: block;
float: right;
width: 40px; //something like this.
padding: 0px;
list-style-type: none;
position: relative;
text-align: center;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-left: 20px;
}
EDIT:
To fix the footer issue
remove height: 600px; from the #right rule
add a clearing br in between the #container div and the #footer div
</div>
<br style="clear:both;">
<div id="footer">
You have floating problems as you are not clearing your floats.
Your div#wrapper is always going to be equal to the height of the viewport.
Your div#container is collapsed beacuse you have floated div#left to "left", div#right to "right" and also have absolutely positioned div#footer. What this does is that, it takes these divs from the normal flow of the document and subsequently the div#contaiver is not "wrapped" around these three divs (div#left, div#right and div#fotter")
The same is the case with div#right. The div#intro and div#portfolio have been floated inside the div#right and it is not wrapping it's child divs.
Ther are many ways around these problems. I suggest this.
Include the following code after the last floated element.
<div class="float_clear"></div>
div.float_clear
{
clear: both;
}
For the menu, there is not enough space, Just add.
div#menu>ul>li
{
width: 50px;
}
Try this to fix your footer issue?
<p style = "clear:both">
<div id="footer">
Also
#right {
clear: right;
float: right;
height: 600px; //Remove this line
width: 490px;
padding: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 10px;
margin-bottom: 20px;
margin-left: 0px;
}
add overflow:hidden to the container...
Whenever you have stuff that is floating, put a div around the floating content and give it
overflow:hidden;
display:block;
width: (some width);
That will fix most floating issues

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