Placing div side by side make height full page - html

I am trying to achieve the attached design. Basically, I have a top bar in the page, which has a few buttons on left, and few on right.
Below the top-bar, I have another section (Div), which has two buttons placed side by side.
For the top bar, I combined the two buttons on left in a single div, and two buttons on right in another div, made these two divs as float left and right respectively. Given I had wrapped them in another div, I expected the second section to start from next line onwards, but in the end they are all coming in a single line, i.e.
"top-bar (left stuff)" "2nd section button1" "2nd section button2" "top-bar (right stuff)"
Why is my second section not starting from the next line onwards?
<div class="top-bar">
<div class="bar-left">
<span class="top-bar-title text">MYTEXT</span>
<img src="res/rev.svg" alt="MY Logo"/>
</div>
<div class="bar-right">
About
<button class="login-btn">Login</button>
</div>
</div>
<div class="two-btns">
<button class="btn1">Button 1</button>
<button class="btn2">Button 2</button>
</div>
And CSS is
.bar-left {
vertical-align: center;
float: left;
}
.bar-right {
vertical-align: center;
float: right;
}

I think your problem are the floats on the bar-left and bar-right elements.
When you give float to an element it "remove the element from the document's flow", so it is kind of like your top-bar is empty (and collapses) because both children have floats.
My suggestion would be to use display: flex and justify-content: space-between on the top-bar element and remove the floats from the bar-left and bar-right elements.
I made a JSFiddle example here: https://jsfiddle.net/gc02r59p/
You can read here about the justify-content property and here about the float property

Add this to your css
.two-btns {
clear: both;
}

Related

Placing two divs on the same line with 'inline' not working

I have several buttons contained within divs that I would like to place on the same line. Two of the buttons are only displayed if a certain value is greater than 0. I added display:inline-block in a div container thinking that would place all of the enclosed divs on the same line but it didn't. I also need the buttons to float right (hence the style="float:right in the container div. I've also tried placing display=inline on each of the buttons which didn't work. Here is my HTML:
<div style="display:inline-block" style="float: right;">
<div *ngIf="menu.itemNumber > 0">
<button pButton type="button" label="Download" icon="fa-wrench" iconPos="left" (click)="Download();"></button>
<button pButton type="button" label="Upload" icon="fa-wrench" iconPos="left" (click)="Upload()"></button>
</div>
<button pButton type="button" style="float: right;" label="Delete" icon="fa-wrench" iconPos="left" (click)="Delete()"></button>
</div>
Why aren't the buttons showing up on the same line?
Its because you have a div inside which is block by default. Apply display:inline-block to all elements inside parent button div
Stack Snippet
.main>* {
display: inline-block;
}
<div class="main">
<div>
<button></button>
<button></button>
</div>
<button></button>
</div>
Your inner div (<div *ngIf="menu.itemNumber > 0">) is still a block level element. You need to give it display: inline-block, for it to be inline with the following button.
Also, do not duplicate the style property on your wrapper div. Combine the styles in one string: style="display:inline-block; float: right;" (this is assuming you still want the outer div to be inline-block - it may not need to be).
I also learned that sometimes, depending on the size of the content inside your buttons, or sibling elements, they might not be in the same baseline, meaning some will be higher than others, even if they are side by side. The way to fix baseline issues is to use a special kind of overflow (Like hidden or auto) on the sibling elements
EXAMPLE:
div sibling-elements{
overflow: hidden;
}

float vs. inline-block changes margin and parent height

So I have been trying to wrap my mind around this and cant figure it out why.
Note: Margin and padding is 0.
The 1st example is
<div> <!-- Gray Box -->
<div> <!-- Purple Box -->
</div>
</div>
I have two images - One is float, the other is inline-block.
The height of the div is shown by the gray color.
float: left;
display: inline-block;
The 2nd example is
<div>
<ul>
<a href = "#">
<li>
<img src = "...">
</li>
</a>
</ul>
</div>
Again, left and inline-block do different things
float: left;
display: inline-block;
Bottom Line
Any suggestions beside the question is welcome.
I don't know why margin / padding is changing and why div size matters by float and display. Thanks
There are 2 problems here.
1) Like someone mentioned in the comments, inline block takes space into account, meaning on the parent div you should have:
font-size:0;
2) Floating takes the element out of the document flow, meaning the parent will expand only past the last non floated child element. To fix this you should put a clearfix class in your css and add it to the parent of the floated element(s).
.clearfix::after{
content:'';
display:block;
clear:both;
}
So once you've done this your first example should look like this:
<div class="clearfix"> <!-- Gray Box -->
<div style="float:left"> <!-- Purple Box -->
</div>
</div>
Now the gray box should expand past the purple box;
As a matter of consistency i don't think you should mix inline-block with floating. One, it won't work on the same element and 2, they are designed for different things.

How to align horizontal buttons to the right?

I would like to make a simple panel with buttons that are placed horizontally and aligned to the right. Willing to align it to the left I can easily do this like that :
.button {
float:left;
background-color: #55cc66;
margin-right: 50px;
padding: 5px;
}
//......
<div id="switcher">
<h3>Style Switcher</h3>
<div class="button selected" id="switcher-default">
Default
</div>
<div class="button" id="switcher-narrow">
Narrow Column
</div>
<div class="button" id="switcher-large">
Large Print
</div>
</div>
But when I do the same with float:right it obviously aligns it to the right but in inverted order. I have also tried text-align: right, position: absolute; right:150; and position: fixed; right:150;. The last two align to the right but awkwardly overlap the 'buttons'.
How can I achieve this then ?
You can remove floats and align the container of your "buttons" to the right with the property text-align.
You don't want your heading to be aligned to the right so you've to cancel it with text-align: left;.
One problem remains: you're using non-semantic div when what you really want are buttons. You should use ... button elements (or maybe input[type"button|image|submit"]).
These ones are focusable and are made for an action taking place when clicked (with mouse, keyboard or tap).
Back to these div: they are displayed as blocks by default, you've to change for inline-block - IE8+.
Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/PhilippeVay/YZaRW/
Leave the class .button with float left, wrap all your buttons with another division (btn_wrapper) and add a specific width to it and float right. Just make sure that all your buttons fit inside the wrapper
.btn_wrapper{
width:300px;
float:right
}
<div id="switcher">
<h3>Style Switcher</h3>
<div class="btn_wrapper">
<div class="button selected" id="switcher-default">
Default
</div>
<div class="button" id="switcher-narrow">
Narrow Column
</div>
<div class="button" id="switcher-large">
Large Print
</div>
</div>
</div>

HTML and CSS button alignment

How can I right align a button inside a div without wiping it from the Markup Flow with valid CSS and HTML? Is applying margin-leftthe only way to do this?
I have a structure like this
<div class="navContainer">
<div class="title">
<span>Nav Titulo</span>
</div>
<div class="navContent">
Nav Conteudo
</div>
<button type="button">Enviar</button>
</div>
<div class="navContainer">
<div class="title">
<span>Nav Titulo</span>
</div>
<div class="navContent">
Nav Conteudo
</div>
</div>
If I apply button { float: right } or button { position: absolute } the next div will get over the button. It happens that I just want to make the button position at the right side
what you want to read up on is clearing
if you have floated elements, they go out of page flow, but any element with clear:both will stay in page flow, but not allow anything on either side of it, floated or not.
in practice, adding a clear:both element after you floats makes things work the way you want them to.
.navContainer { text-align: right; }
#Matt is right. What you need to do is clear the div elements.
.navContainer {clear: both}
If you want your button aligned at the top of the containing div, you might have to move it before your div element of class "title".

How to align a Division to the right

I am trying to push my sidebar to the right of my page. When I do this my division gets pushed to the bottom of the page. Why is this?
Here is my page:
link text
It is because You use something like
<div id="Main">
<div id="content"></div><div id="sidebar"></div>
</div>
note that Div is a Block element.
You have 2 option to correct this issue. use from an inline element like span (instead of content andsidebar ) or convert div to an in-line element with css like
#sidebar, #content
{
display: inline-block;
}