I have a div that contains other floating divs:
<div id="parent">
<div style="float:left;">text</div>
<div style="float:left;">text</div>
<div style="float:right;">text</div>
</div>
How can I add bottom padding to the parent div and make it work in IE6 (or in other words avoid the bugs in IE6)?
Thanks
In my CSS reset file i have a "clearfix" code:
.clearfix:after {
content:".";
display:block;
height:0;
clear:both;
visibility:hidden;
}
.clearfix {display:inline-block;}
/* Hide from IE Mac \*/
.clearfix {display:block;}
/* End hide from IE Mac */
* html .clearfix {height:1px;}
Looks weird but works great on ALL common browsers : IE6/7, FF2/3, Opera, Safari.
How to use?
Something like this:
<div class="clearfix">
<div class="floatLeft">
left div
</div><!-- /.floatLeft-->
<div class="floatRight">
right div
</div><!-- /.floatRight-->
</div><!-- /.clearfix-->
ATTENTION!
Do NOT use clearfix class on footers (or at last element in page), otherwise you will have an ugly space under all content.
Try floating the parent div.
The box model hack, basically providing IE specific padding should help
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>demo</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
div {
height:100px;
border:1px solid black;
padding-bottom:10px;
}
div {
\height: 140px;
h\eight: 100px;
}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="parent" style="float:left;">
<div style="float:left;">text</div>
<div style="float:left;height:100px">text</div>
<div style="float:right;">text</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
IE doesn't seem to calculate the height of the parent when all the children are floated. If you can get away with applying a fixed height to the parent, you'll be able to add bottom padding.
If you can't fix the height of the parent, the next thing I'd do is see if there's a way to remove the float from the tallest child div. That'll give the parent div an actual height, and then the bottom padding should show up.
Similar to one of the other answers, this one worked for me in Firefox, and uses a bit less code. I think it works well in the other browsers as well, but you should confirm.
.clearFix::after{
content: '';
display: block;
clear: both;
}
Related
I need to bump my footer down to the bottom of the page, regardless how much content is on the page above it. So I did some search on the internet and found one solution according to this site:
http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/keeping-footers-at-the-bottom-of-the-page
However, everything works OK until I applied "float:left" to the content div. The footer is no longer on the bottom and got bumped up half way. My question is, How to keep the footer down when there is floating in the div above?
Please see this jsfiddle here for my example:
http://jsfiddle.net/mEuke/5/
or code here:
<style type="text/css">
html,
body {
margin:0;
padding:0;
height:100%;
}
#container {
min-height:100%;
position:relative;
}
#header {
background:#ff0;
padding:10px;
}
#body {
padding:10px;
padding-bottom:60px; /* Height of the footer */
}
#footer {
position:absolute;
bottom:0;
width:100%;
height:60px; /* Height of the footer */
background:#6cf;
}
</style>
<div id="container">
<div id="header"></div>
<div id="body">
<div id="test" style="float:left">
blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>blah<br/>
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer"></div>
</div>
You need to use a clearfix on the the container of the floated children
Here is a modern clearfix that works in modern browsers.
#body:after { /* #body is your container */
content: "";
display: table;
clear: both;
}
This will solve your problem
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/mEuke/7/
For a cross browser clearfix read this Article: http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/clear-fix/
What is a clearfix?
A clearfix is a way for an element to automatically clear after itself, so that you don't need to add additional markup. It's generally used in float layouts where elements are floated to be stacked horizontally.
The clearfix is a way to combat the zero-height container problem for floated elements.
Source: What is a clearfix?
I have a setup requiring a div filling 100% of the screen with a margin of 10px. Inside that, there is a navigation pane at the top followed by a content div below with a padding and an inner content dive with a padding. However, using the 100% height of parent and then adding a margin/padding stretches the div to 100% + margin + padding. Is there a fix for this? I noticed the absolute positioning trick, but that messes up the flow of the other divs if I absolutely position my content div. It also makes the resizing and flow non-liquid. Any way to keep those things and still achieve my goal, preferrably with CSS and not javascript?
Code Below:
ASPX
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
<title>Untitled Page</title>
<link rel="Stylesheet" href="test.css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="navigation">
</div>
<div id="content">
<div id="inner">
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
CSS
html, body
{
height:100%;
width:100%;
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
background-color:Black;
}
#wrapper
{
height:100%;
margin:10px;
background-color:Blue;
}
#navigation
{
height:100px;
background-color:Green;
}
#content
{
height:100%;
padding:10px;
background-color:Orange;
}
#inner
{
height:100%;
width:100%;
padding:5px;
background-color:Lime;
}
You can try adding box-sizing:border-box onto any elements which you want to have 100% height and padding at the same time.
Works in IE8+ and the good browsers, so browser support is actually quite good
http://css-tricks.com/box-sizing/
You can try two things...
1) changing the height of the wrapper, navigation, content and inner to something like 98%.
2) try adding a transparent 1px solid border to the wrapper and other elements. This often shifts the margin to margin relationship of elements.
Hope this helps
I've been fiddling with asp.net mvc 3 with the new razor view engine.
My goal is to have a fixed-fluid 2 column layout with a jqGrid in each column. I'm having no luck though! As soon as I add a grid to the right column its header goes huge. I don't think its jqGrids fault because if i remove the styles both grids display as expected.
I see that the css for the jqGrid applies display: block to the header as part of the ui-helper-clearfix class.
Anyone have any suggestions to get this to work or other fixed-fluid css i could experiment with (I've tried a bunch of templates from online with no luck)?
Code from the template file:
... <style type="text/css">
#left { float: left; width: 400px;}
#content { margin-left: 400px;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<div id="left">
#RenderSection("SPTreeGrid")
</div>
<div id="content">
#RenderSection("ClientPickerGrid")
</div>
</div>
</body>
Update:
My page actually needed to display 2 grids in fixed width on the left and a fluid one on the right.
It was an issue with my css (I still dont know why) but I ended up using the following layout which works (rail is the left column):
#container{
overflow:hidden;
padding-left:400px; /* The width of the rail */
}
* html #container{
height:1%; /* So IE plays nice */
}
#content
{
width:100%;
border-left:400px; /* The width and color of the rail */
margin-left:-400px;
float:right;
}
#rail{
width:400px;
float:left;
margin-left:-400px;
display:inline; /* So IE plays nice */
}
cshtml:
<div id="container">
<div id="content">
#RenderSection("ReportGrid")
</div>
<div id="rail">
#RenderSection("SPTreeGrid")
#RenderSection("ClientPickerGrid")
</div>
</div>
Although Oleg's suggestion does fix the height of the title, it does not constitute a solution -- at least not if you want the right div to be liquid and expand to the width of the browser window. The problem is that in order to use float:left on the right grid container, you must specify a width. Floated elements must have explicit widths associated with them (if not, they take on the width of the widest element inside them).
One work-around that worked for me is to set a height of the floated to something small (1px) and set an explicit height for the content of that div.
I have created a jsFiddle example that illustrates the problem and the work-around.
You should use
<div style="float:left">
<table id="list1"><tr><td/></tr></table>
<div id="pager1"></div>
</div>
<div style="float:left">
<table id="list2"><tr><td/></tr></table>
<div id="pager2"></div>
</div>
as the template for the grids. If you case it should be
<style type="text/css">
#left { float: left; }
#content { float: left; }
</style>
You should not forget to include "clear:left" in the style of the next div which should be after the grid if you want to brake the floating.
See demo with two grids here
I am trying to wrap a div called content with another div that has a different background.
However, when using "margin-top" with the content div, it seems like the wrapping DIV gets the margin-top instead of the content div.
Code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
html {
background-color:red;
}
#container-top {
background-color: #ccc;
overflow: hidden;
padding-top: 10px;
border-bottom: 1px solid #000;
height:30px;
}
#container-bottom {
background-color: #F1F4F2;
}
#content {
margin-top:20px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container-top">
</div>
<div id="container-bottom">
<div id="content">
Hello
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
So in the example, the div container-bottom gets the margin-top instead of the content div.
I found out that if I add a char inside container-bottom it fixes the issue.
<div id="container-bottom">
**A**
<div id="content">
Hello
</div>
But of course that is not a good solution...
Thanks,
Joel
What's happening is called margin-collapsing.
If two margins (top & bottom only, not right or left) of 2 elements are touching (or in your case, the top-margin of the inner div is touching the top-margin of the outer div), the max between them is used (in your case max(0, 20) = 20) and placed as far as possible from the touching elements (in your case outside the container div (the outermost element)).
To break this behavior, you have to place something between the 2 margins -> a padding at the top of the container div will do.
#container-bottom {
background-color: #F1F4F2;
padding-top: 1px;
}
#content {
margin-top:19px;
}
other solution (works, but may not suit your needs):
you can simply put a padding-top of 20 px in the container div:
#container-bottom {
background-color: #F1F4F2;
padding-top: 20px;
}
#content {
}
for more informations, this page explains it very well: Margin Collapsing
You could try adding a non-breaking space to the #container-bottom:
<div id="container-bottom">
<div id="content">
Hello
</div>
</div>
This is a suitable solution as it is often used to let a browser know that an element is not empty (some browsers ignore empty elements).
Margin-top is a mysterious creature because of its collapsing properties. I have found the easiest fix to this problem is to apply a 1px padding-top to the container-bottom div and change the content margin-top to 19px.
Below is a simplified version of my problem. Considering the following piece of HTML:
<div id="div1" style="display:none">
text i do not want
<div id="div2" style="display:block">
text i want to keep
</div>
</div>
But of course, "text i want to keep" will not be displayed because the
parent div is not visible.
Question: How do you only dispaly the content of the inner div?
Due to the widget blogger uses, I have no access to the code and need to clear the outer div with some CSS. I have already ruled out font-size: 0; after reading this. Messing with negative margins too is ruled out, due to position of elements.
try this:
color: transparent;
background: transparent;
of course, that won't actually make the text non-selectable, just non-visible.
Really what you're trying to do is sort of against the box-model concept, and it'd be better if you were able to enclose the text you didn't want to see in a separate div of equal level to the one you do want to see, and then hide that other div, i.e.
<div id="div1">
<div id="div3" style="display:none">text i do not want</div>
<div id="div2" style="display:block">
text i want to keep
</div>
</div>
Due to the hierarchical nature of HTML, this is a hard nut to crack. The common solution is to move one element out of the other and style them so that they appear to be nested, but I assume you cannot do that in this case.
The only solution I can think of that will nullify the parent element while keeping the child element is absolute positioning, but that will be hard if you've got dynamic heights/widths on the elements.
But try this:
#div1 {
/* You might want to set a height here appropriate for #div2 */
position: relative;
text-indent: -10000px;
}
#div2 {
left: 0;
position: absolute;
text-indent: 0;
top: 0;
}
Do you want just the text to disappear or the space that the text takes up to collapse too?
If you just want the text to disappear, use
<div id="div1" style="text-indent:-9999px;">
text i do not want
<div id="div2" style="text-indent:0">
text i want to keep
</div>
</div>
try this it helped me
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>demo</title>
<style type="text/css">
* {
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
body {
background: #fff;
font-size:100%;
}
#hide {
visibility:hidden;
}
#show {
visibility:visible
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="hide"> hide this text
<div id="show"> show this text </div>
hide this text too </div>
</body>
</html>
Enclose the 'Text I do not want' in another DIV or SPAN with display:none style.