I'm wondering how to make two child divs share a parent div.
I want the left column to contain text from a database (one word). This could be 1-10 letters long. Since I want the left columns width to fit the word perfectly, I don't give it a set width.
Then, I was trying to have the right column fill the remaining space.
Is there an easy way to do this?
I'm not sure what to set the right column's css to make this happen.
<div id="parent_div" style="width: 100px; height: 100px;">
<div style="background-color:blue; float:left;" id="left_column">
blue
</div>
<div style="background-color:red; float: left;" id="right_column">
red
</div>
</div>
I read you shouldn't have something floated without giving it a set width, but then it seems like what I want would be impossible.
Thanks
I think you'll get the effect you want if you just don't float the second div.
<body>
<div id="parent_div" style="width: 100px; height: 100px;">
<div id="left_column" style="background-color: blue; float: left;"> blue </div>
<div id="right_column" style="background-color: red;"> red </div>
</div>
</body>
In firefox, this does exactly what you want. The red column takes up any remaining space not taken by the blue column.
Well, for a start, I would suggest that you make the right column float to the right - that should put it next to the left column. Not sure about the width of the left column though.
Related
I want to create little panels/dashboard for my interface. In my case I want to have two panels like so
+-------------------------------+ +-------------------------------+
| | | |
| | | |
+-------------------------------+ +-------------------------------+
Generally it is easy with Bootstrap 3.
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-5">
</div>
<div class="col-md-5 pull-right">
</div>
</div>
The problem is, the gap of col-md-2, as it is the case here, is way too big. I cannot use a col-md-1 gap, because then both sides do not have an equal size.
I also tried to add padding right and left, but that had not effect, too. What can I do here?
You could add a class which modifies the width of col-md-6. The width of this class is set to 50%. A smaller gap is achieved by reducing the width like so:
.dashboard-panel-6 {
width: 45%;
}
Add this to your div elements. This way the width rule of col-md-6 gets overriden.
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-6 dashboard-panel-6">...</div>
<div class="col-md-6 dashboard-panel-6">...</div>
</div>
You can use another div inside and give padding to that.
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-6">
<div class="inner-div">
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-6 pull-right">
<div class="inner-div">
</div>
</div>
</div>
.inner-div{
padding: 5px;
}
I posted this here already but it is still relevant the original question.
I have had similar issues with space between columns. The root problem is that columns in bootstrap 3 and 4 use padding instead of margin. So background colors for two adjacent columns touch each other.
I found a solution that fit our problem and will most likely work for most people trying to space columns and maintain the same gutter widths as the rest of the grid system.
This was the end result we were going for
Having the gap with a drop shadow between columns was problematic. We did not want extra space between columns. We just wanted the gutters to be "transparent" so the background color of the site would appear between two white columns.
this is the markup for the two columns
<div class="row">
<div class="col-sm-7">
<div class="raised-block">
<h3>Facebook</h3>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-sm-5">
<div class="raised-block">
<h3>Tweets</h3>
</div>
</div>
</div>
CSS
.raised-block {
background-color: #fff;
margin-bottom: 10px;
margin-left: 0;
margin-right: -0.625rem; // for us 0.625rem == 10px
padding-left: 0.625rem;
padding-right: 0.625rem;
}
#media (max-width: 33.9em){ // this is for our mobile layout where columns stack
.raised-block {
margin-left: -0.625rem;
}
}
.row [class^="col-"]:first-child>.raised-block {
// this is so the first column has no margin so it will not be "indented"
margin-left: -0.625rem;
}
This approach does require an inner div with negative margins just like the "row" class bootstrap uses. And this div, we called it "raised-block", must be the direct sibling of a column
This way you still get proper padding inside your columns. I have seen solutions that appear to work by creating space, but unfortunately the columns they create have extra padding on either side of the row so it ends up making the row thinner that the grid layout was designed for. If you look at the image for the desired look, this would mean the two columns together would be smaller than the one larger one on top which breaks the natural structure of the grid.
The major drawback to this approach is that it requires extra markup wrapping the content of each columns. For us this works because only specific columns needed space between them to achieve the desired look.
Hope this helps
Here's another possibility:
Live view
Edit view
You will see that it uses 2 col-md-6, each with a nested col-md-11, and you position the nested row in the second div to the right.
The suggestion from Ken has clean HTML which I like. If your left and right panels use elements with widths defined by Bootstrap though (eg wells or form elements) the column padding could cause hassles and break the layout. This nested approach might be easier in this situation.
HTML
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-6">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-11">nested row col-md-11</div>
</div><!-- end nested row -->
</div>
<div class="col-md-6">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-11 col-md-offset-1">nested row col-md-11</div>
</div><!-- end nested row -->
</div>
</div>
</div>
Good luck!
I've read a bunch of SO questions/answers on side-by-side (row) divs, but I don't think I'm grasping it as I can't find a solution for my specific setup:
http://www.trforums.com/h18-iwaku
Basically, I want the div on the very bottom to be to the right to the "Hey, What's up", "Navigation," and "Connect" boxes, instead of just under them. Is this possible to do?
The divs themselves are just classes with their corresponding html content. It's very basic but here's my code:
http://pastebin.com/AQrqqewA
My html is very rusty so other suggestions are more than welcome. Thanks for any help.
Try surrounding each column in a DIV:
<!-- Left column -->
<div id="leftColumn">
<div class="ex">
<center><img style="display: inline;" src="http://i.imgur.com/wCP3WP3" alt="" /></center>
<h1>Hey, what's up?</h1>
</div>
<div class="navbar">
<b>NAVIGATION:</b> Zukan | Movies | Retsuden | Photography |
</div>
<div class="connect">
<b>CONNECT:</b> Livejournal
</div>
</div>
<!-- Right column -->
<div id="rightColumn">
<div class="slideshow">
Bottom div that I want in a row with the top one...
</div>
</div>
CSS:
#leftColumn {
float: left;
width: 410px; // Width of this column
}
#rightColumn {
float: left;
width: 500px; // Width od this column
}
Move the div with a class slideshow next to the div with a class ex and apply floats, as you can see in JS Bin
The final result can be seen here
Use float:left or display:inline on the divs that you want next to each other.
I have a container div which has text within it that I want centered. I want to also insert a div into the container which floats to the right, like this:
<div id="container" style="text-align:center">
Text
<div id="child" style="float:right"></div>
</div>
Unfortunately what happens is that the text is no longer centered with respect to the container, but is instead shifted to the left by the width of the child.
Does anyone know how to get the text to center whilst keeping the div contained to the right?
Something like this...
<div style='position:relative;'>
my centered text
<div style='position:absolute;right:0;top:0'>
my right div
</div>
</div>
You can obviously throw the inline styles into CSS.
Posibly this?? Creating 3 equal parts. left middle and right??
<div id="container">
<div id="child1" style="float:right width: 30px;"></div>
<div id="child2" style="float:right width: 30px; text-align:center;">TEXT</div>
<div id="child3" style="float:right width: 30px;"></div>
</div>
I have an HTML "toolbar" containing a number of widgets arranged horizontally. Each item is represented by a div in the source document:
<div id="widget1" />
<div id="widget2" />
<div id="widget3" />
I position the divs using float: left. The problem is that I also want them to be pinned to the top of the toolbar so that they don't wrap around if the user reduces the width of the window. Instead, I just want them to overflow horizontally (with the overflow hidden) so that the behavior is like that of a real toolbar.
In other words, I want something like position: fixed but only for the vertical coordinate. Horizontally they should be positioned one after another in a row. Is there any way to do this with CSS?
Update Here's the real HTML I'm using. The divss with class="row" are the ones that should appear as widgets in the toolbar, arranged horizontally in a single row.
<div class="row" id="titleRow">
<span class="item"> <img src="../images/logo.png" height="26" /> </span>
<span class="item" id="title">Title</span>
<span class="item" id="close" onclick="window.close();"> close </span>
</div>
<div class="row" id="menuRow">
<span class="item"> <ul id="menu"></ul> </span>
</div>
<div class="row" id="searchRow">
</div>
<div class="row" id="pageRow">
<span class="item" id="page-related-data"> Page-related data: </span>
</div>
Rather than float: left; try display: inline-block; vertical-align: top;. Then set white-space: nowrap; and overflow: hidden; on the parent element. See http://jsfiddle.net/rt9sS/1/ for an example.
Note inline-block has some issues. It's white space aware (so white space around elements in the HTML will be visible in the document). It also has limited support in IE6/7, although you can work around that by giving the element layout, e.g. .oldie .widget { display:inline; zoom:1; }. See http://www.quirksmode.org/css/display.html#inlineblock for more.
I know this is an old question, wanted to add a simple jquery answer for those that run across it.
$(window).scroll(function(){
$("#keep-in-place").css("top",$(document).scrollTop()+"px");
});
To make higher or lower on page simply add to $(document).scrollTop()
Works for me
I have a container div, inside which I want to pack a variable number of divs of unknown (variable) height but with a given min-width. My requirements are:
If the container is wide enough to accommodate two columns, I want them to distribute themselves nicely in two columns without unnecessary whitespace.
It not, they should just go above each other.
Currently, I've given the divs width:48% margin-right:2%;float:left; which works nicely in the one-column state but when I resize the browser window, making room for two columns, every div which ends up in the left column insists on aligning itself horizontally with the bottom of the last div which went to the right:
what I have http://img602.imageshack.us/img602/5719/whatihave.png
This is how I would like them to go (no wasted space):
what I want http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/6985/whatiwantu.png
I would like a pure CSS solution if possible.
Thank you! /Gustav
EDIT:
This markup illustrates my problem:
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
.box {
width: 48%;
min-width:550px;
margin-right:2%;
margin-bottom: 1.5em;
background:blue;
color:white;
height:180px;
float:left;
}
.tall {
height: 250px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="box">1</div>
<div class="box">2</div>
<div class="box">3</div>
<div class="box tall">4</div>
<div class="box">5</div>
<div class="box">6</div>
<div style="clear:both"/>
</body>
</html>
The .boxes are generated dynamically, and so are their heights, I just threw in one taller to illustrate.
I don't think you can achieve the desired effect with pure CSS. I've used jQuery Masonry to replicate the effect you're after and it worked really well.
I'd love to see a pure CSS solution for this but haven't seen anything come close yet.
I believe that if you have a div for each column into which you put the numbered divs you will get what you want. Something like this:
<div class="containerDiv">
<div class="column">
<div class="content">
1
</div>
<div class="content">
4
</div>
</div>
<div class="column">
<div class="content">
2
</div>
<div class="content">
3
</div>
</div>
</div>
The next step appears to be "how do I balance my columns". Some code somewhere is generating the boxes you mentioned. It is deciding on the height of each box. This code will need to generate a balanced list of boxes for each column prior to forwarding the request to the JSP for presentation. By balanced, I mean "the height of column1 is similar to the height to column2"