I have a article next to my image, but I want my article to grow if my image grows too. So if anybody would shrink or grow his window, the image would do the same, but the article wouldn't. How can I fix that my article would shrink/grow too like my image?
Here is my HTML
<div id="begin">
<article id="inline">Hello guys</article>
<img id="an" src="/Photo/an.jpg">
</div>
Here is my CSS
#begin {
width: 100%;
height: ;
position: relative;
}
#inline {
display: inline-block;
}
Use display: grid, and add a two column page, where the first column have a fixed width (30 characters in the code below), and the second column has the width of 1fr, i.e. one fraction, to fill up the rest of the available space.
#begin {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: 30ch 1fr;
}
#begin > img#an {
width: 100%;
}
<div id="begin">
<article>
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</article>
<img id="an" src="https://picsum.photos/200/300">
</div>
You can use
#media screen and (max-width: /* value */px)
in css to change, hide things on smaller/larger screens. I recommend visiting this site: https://www.w3schools.com/css/css3_mediaqueries_ex.asp for more information. (if this is what you meant)
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I would like to layout a webpage as sketched in the image:
The main text (a series of div elements) is supposed to go in a main column. I do have occasional images and remarks that relate to the text but with which I don't want to interrupt the actual text flow.
How can I position a given image or "remark" text box to the right of a given div element in the main column?
In the following minimal example, how would I put the img element just to the right of the second div element?
<div>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
Pellentesque eu condimentum ligula. Fusce sollicitudin quam ornare,
pharetra lorem quis, luctus erat. Nulla convallis velit magna, sit
amet semper erat cursus sed. Praesent non turpis id lectus aliquet
vestibulum. Donec non leo venenatis, commodo dolor eget, facilisis
turpis. Donec dapibus scelerisque orci vel molestie. Vestibulum ut
elit a arcu interdum tempor ut scelerisque enim. Duis maximus ex sit
amet elit scelerisque, ultricies feugiat mauris feugiat. Morbi non
egestas arcu, at semper massa. Ut feugiat metus eget nulla porttitor
lobortis. Praesent lorem lacus, finibus quis blandit a, iaculis sed
mauris. Vivamus aliquam molestie ex, a lacinia erat faucibus non.
Donec scelerisque neque ac ante interdum, vel varius justo tincidunt.
Quisque ultricies nulla in nisi facilisis, et accumsan libero imperdiet.
</div>
<div>Curabitur imperdiet at diam eget rhoncus. Aenean pretium magna
quis sodales ornare. Sed vitae vehicula nisi. Nulla a tristique lectus.
Nam rutrum ut libero viverra porta. In rhoncus leo et mi luctus, at
osuere est commodo. Vestibulum fringilla luctus mi, in consectetur sem
semper non. Phasellus ac augue et purus vulputate suscipit.
Pellentesque tempus imperdiet urna non convallis. Quisque finibus elit
magna, nec finibus ipsum ornare vitae. Vestibulum id sapien est. Maecenas
in mauris sit amet orci facilisis bibendum id sed ante. Vestibulum at
egestas justo. In nibh ex, ullamcorper sit amet urna vel, molestie mattis
tortor. Ut vel felis dolor.
</div>
<img src="img.png"/>
The easy way is to add calc width (for example 100% - 100px for 100px wide column right):
.leave-space-form-right {
width: calc(100% - 100px);
float:left;
}
.put-element-on-right {
float:left;
}
Here is an example:
https://jsfiddle.net/txdue3n0/6/
I am designing a page for a blog. The page has a fixed position sidebar, and a centered div for content. You can see it here. Here's my CSS:
.container {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
text-align: center;
}
.sidebar {
position: fixed;
left: 0px;
top: 10%;
height: 80vh;
width: 10%;
background-color: red;
}
.content {
width: 40%;
display: inline-block;
text-align: justify;
}
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="sidebar">
THis is the sidebar.
</div>
<div class="content">
<h1>Fourth</h1>
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sed consequat. Nam rutrum sapien at facilisis porttitor. Fusce vehicula dignissim nisl, vel cursus lorem mattis ut. Sed eros libero, euismod et ligula sed, rutrum varius libero. Nulla eget sem sit amet velit pretium porttitor. Morbi tempus ultrices
urna, in egestas erat cursus ut. In hac habitasse platea dictumst.</p>
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lacus. Nulla tincidunt sed lacus ac euismod. Nam non blandit diam.</p>
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ornare. Suspendisse cursus nec lorem eu rhoncus. Curabitur vehicula pellentesque egestas. Proin et commodo purus. Nulla malesuada consequat tortor, interdum volutpat est congue sed. Curabitur vitae placerat lacus, vestibulum lacinia mi. Duis auctor
malesuada lacus id consectetur. Etiam venenatis nisi eget tellus accumsan, vel ornare mi porttitor. Curabitur dictum non tortor et laoreet.</p>
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tellus, nec vulputate diam leo quis tellus. Fusce aliquam nulla vel sem tempus, non elementum est condimentum. Nunc accumsan libero diam, ut varius nibh dapibus luctus.</p>
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non consectetur eu, varius ut lacus. Fusce commodo nunc ut molestie blandit. In scelerisque suscipit metus, at suscipit felis porta in. Morbi porttitor dapibus malesuada. Fusce vel elit aliquet, convallis nulla eget, ultricies metus.</p>
</div>
</div>
<br/>
<p><em>This is the footer</em>
</p>
</body>
Currently all widths are as percentages. I do not want the content to span the whole width of the page (for easier reading). However on mobile devices (or when the screen width is small enough) I want the content to span the page. However with % widths, the content width constantly changes with the page width. It is ok on a computer screen but for smaller widths the content div becomes too narrow.
An example would be the website medium. You can see (as you resize the window) that for larger widths, the content width remains the same, but for smaller widths the content starts to span the whole page.
Any idea how to achieve that?
you can set a min-width in your .content with any value you may like, just remember you have a fixed sidebar
.container {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
text-align: center;
}
.sidebar {
position: fixed;
left: 0px;
top: 10%;
height: 80vh;
width: 10%;
background-color: red;
}
.content {
width: 40%;
display: inline-block;
text-align: justify;
min-width: 260px
}
<div class="container">
<div class="sidebar">
THis is the sidebar.
</div>
<div class="content">
<h1>Fourth</h1>
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consequat. Nam rutrum sapien at facilisis porttitor. Fusce vehicula dignissim nisl, vel cursus lorem mattis ut. Sed eros libero, euismod et ligula sed, rutrum varius libero. Nulla eget sem sit amet velit pretium porttitor. Morbi tempus ultrices
urna, in egestas erat cursus ut. In hac habitasse platea dictumst.</p>
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lacus. Nulla tincidunt sed lacus ac euismod. Nam non blandit diam.</p>
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ornare. Suspendisse cursus nec lorem eu rhoncus. Curabitur vehicula pellentesque egestas. Proin et commodo purus. Nulla malesuada consequat tortor, interdum volutpat est congue sed. Curabitur vitae placerat lacus, vestibulum lacinia mi. Duis auctor
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sit amet sapien. Nulla sollicitudin maximus nulla, nec ullamcorper arcu tempor at. Aliquam at nisl massa. Sed eleifend urna sit amet erat semper, ac aliquam quam imperdiet. Ut nec cursus nisl. Quisque feugiat imperdiet tellus sed aliquam. Nulla
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justo. Morbi sodales libero orci, id viverra nulla lobortis iaculis. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Pellentesque rutrum sollicitudin augue, nec laoreet dolor mattis non. Mauris non urna ligula. Donec vel velit libero. Sed elit arcu, bibendum
non consectetur eu, varius ut lacus. Fusce commodo nunc ut molestie blandit. In scelerisque suscipit metus, at suscipit felis porta in. Morbi porttitor dapibus malesuada. Fusce vel elit aliquet, convallis nulla eget, ultricies metus.</p>
</div>
</div>
<br/>
<p><em>This is the footer</em>
</p>
You can use CSS special selectors: example:
#media screen and (max-width: 480px) {
.content {
width: 80%;
}
}
So that the .content will be set to 80% width on small screens.
You may also want to change the sidebar behavior for small resolutions, like setting up his position to initial and expanding his width to the same width as your content, so the design stay coherent.
Here's a fiddle (You need to resize the render frame by click and drag to see it in action )
https://jsfiddle.net/9c3ztska/1/
Now i will introduce to you something very usefull when designing responsive website:
It's a framework called Skel.
Long story short, it uses a grid system, wich let you specify specific size for a div for specific resolutions.
The grid system works with 12 units in width, so 12u represent 100% of the container width.
Here's a code example:
<div class="row">
<div class="6u 12u(small)"> YOUR CONTENT </div>
</div>
What it means:
Your content will be 50% of the container width on large screen, but will expand to 100% on small screens.
If you want to try it out and get fast in it, i recommend you to try baseline wich is a boilerplate using Skel framework.
You can download it and put it on your server (no db needed) and start coding.
baseline comes with pre-configured Skel and "breakpoints" (breakpoints are screen resolutions for wich Skel will swicth between CSS rules)
Consider the following CSS / HTML :
img.text-wrap-left {
float:left;
}
<p>
<img class="text-wrap-left" src="//lh3.googleusercontent.com/ZUMt7sn_FTLfvRK-B4XHK46Zyxv4kaj4O60tVXVMAg2m8Ohj0CdfinbEUmkwzaGmUE8V0jmKXHxSOvegEk3M3urVLsEbAzzmpwj-kDs=s660" width="550">
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Cras a ultrices est. Morbi semper enim sit amet feugiat fermentum. Phasellus odio lorem, finibus sit amet nibh ut, lobortis scelerisque nisl. Vestibulum mattis, ligula vitae sodales maximus, metus arcu egestas ex, non ullamcorper leo metus et mi. Integer libero justo, commodo a augue et, tempus aliquam leo. Donec ac ex aliquet, auctor erat sit amet, gravida metus. Duis vel condimentum dolor. Maecenas id consequat massa, vel dictum turpis. Cras dignissim aliquet mauris eu facilisis. Donec malesuada arcu in nulla commodo aliquam.
Nunc in est eget justo fringilla blandit. Morbi leo nisl, sagittis nec nulla ut, accumsan tristique orci. Praesent quis nisl pharetra, tempus nisi ornare, laoreet velit. Aliquam at dolor at eros elementum rutrum. Quisque tincidunt tincidunt nisi id porta. Cras hendrerit egestas leo, sed ultrices lorem dapibus et. Duis consectetur nisi eget ligula condimentum malesuada. Sed venenatis nisi id facilisis vestibulum. Nam tristique massa quis ornare blandit. Vivamus lobortis orci velit.
</p>
When the viewport is resized, the text will wrap right of the image, but will also become very narrow, to the point of even having a few letters only.
Is it possible to specify the minimum width of the text before the paragraph just goes entirely under the image, all without sacrificing paddings and margins?
In this example, an easy solution would be to add a media CSS condition, and tell the image to display:block; at a certain width. The problem is that this is only an example; my problem is that the images that are used with the text may have variable widths (i.e. they are user defined) and I am looking for a responsive solution.
Any ideas?
I think better option is to use max-width on image to keep its max-width at some % and then also add media query to break text to new line at some point. Fiddle
img.text-wrap-left {
float:left;
max-width: 50%;
}
#media(max-width: 480px) {
img.text-wrap-left {
display: block;
float: none;
max-width: 100%;
}
}
<p>
<img class="text-wrap-left" src="//lh3.googleusercontent.com/ZUMt7sn_FTLfvRK-B4XHK46Zyxv4kaj4O60tVXVMAg2m8Ohj0CdfinbEUmkwzaGmUE8V0jmKXHxSOvegEk3M3urVLsEbAzzmpwj-kDs=s660" width="550">
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Cras a ultrices est. Morbi semper enim sit amet feugiat fermentum. Phasellus odio lorem, finibus sit amet nibh ut, lobortis scelerisque nisl. Vestibulum mattis, ligula vitae sodales maximus, metus arcu egestas ex, non ullamcorper leo metus et mi. Integer libero justo, commodo a augue et, tempus aliquam leo. Donec ac ex aliquet, auctor erat sit amet, gravida metus. Duis vel condimentum dolor. Maecenas id consequat massa, vel dictum turpis. Cras dignissim aliquet mauris eu facilisis. Donec malesuada arcu in nulla commodo aliquam.
Nunc in est eget justo fringilla blandit. Morbi leo nisl, sagittis nec nulla ut, accumsan tristique orci. Praesent quis nisl pharetra, tempus nisi ornare, laoreet velit. Aliquam at dolor at eros elementum rutrum. Quisque tincidunt tincidunt nisi id porta. Cras hendrerit egestas leo, sed ultrices lorem dapibus et. Duis consectetur nisi eget ligula condimentum malesuada. Sed venenatis nisi id facilisis vestibulum. Nam tristique massa quis ornare blandit. Vivamus lobortis orci velit.
</p>
I have a section of a page layout which has the option of anywhere from 1 to 3 buttons in the right column, and the left column will have a title which may be a few words or even a paragraph.
The right column has the buttons and must take precedence and stay aligned to the right of the page width. The buttons must stay inline without wrapping. You can remove one or two buttons and it forces the text to the left, which is correct.
The left column needs to flow as close to the right column as it needs to in the case of wrapping text.
I've hit upon the idea of using CSS table display which works great in the case of long text, but for short text, the button column comes away from the right side.
Try removing all but 3 or 4 words of text and the buttons snap to the left. Am I taking the wrong approach here?
Here is the HTML, and here's a fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/MaureenDunlap/tvFbN/16/
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="container">
<div id="header_wrapper">
<div class="player_header_info">In vel purus ipsum. quam tempor auctor. Praesent ac leo magna, at condimentum felis. Nullam vel tortor semper metus bibendum iaculis. In consequat arcu aliquam nibh posuere non cursus eros dictum. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Nulla venenatis gravida mi eget vestibulum.
<div class="player_header_secondary">February 28, 2013</div>
</div>
<div id="buttons">
<div class="button_container">
<img src="http://www.likno.com/Images/lwbm/Single_Mesh_11.jpg" />
<img src="http://www.likno.com/Images/lwbm/Single_Mesh_11.jpg" />
<img src="http://www.likno.com/Images/lwbm/Single_Mesh_11.jpg" />
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="normal">
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<p>Nam dignissim vehicula eros non viverra. Vestibulum non tellus sed ante placerat pharetra in vitae velit. Vestibulum eu lacinia urna. Nullam libero mauris, venenatis in condimentum auctor, porta tempor massa. In faucibus sapien sit amet tellus faucibus quis dictum eros pellentesque. Fusce id odio nec orci pellentesque bibendum. Curabitur viverra, nisl nec sodales elementum, lectus nisi vulputate leo, non cursus est libero eget odio. Curabitur a libero arcu. Etiam pellentesque mauris ut mi pellentesque euismod. Aenean sit amet consectetur diam. Curabitur nec velit leo. Sed feugiat lacinia sagittis.</p>
<p>Nam quis nulla quis lorem ornare semper nec eget orci. Proin justo lectus, suscipit rhoncus sollicitudin nec, dignissim eu mauris. Curabitur sit amet tortor in nisl vulputate placerat in nec lectus. Praesent euismod pellentesque augue, eu condimentum quam pellentesque et. Aliquam erat volutpat. Nam vitae leo et augue placerat lobortis et id magna. Curabitur sit amet ante id felis luctus iaculis. Quisque ac orci eu purus tempor consectetur vitae et dui. Mauris vehicula tincidunt ligula a cursus. Nunc imperdiet semper pulvinar. Phasellus iaculis laoreet quam, ac adipiscing mi pellentesque eu.</p>
<p>Nulla adipiscing fermentum leo, eget convallis nulla facilisis vel. Phasellus mollis ultrices risus vel volutpat. Nullam in enim mi. Duis eget ligula lectus, eget feugiat mauris. Duis at tortor enim, sit amet euismod turpis. Cras mattis tincidunt dolor nec feugiat. Mauris hendrerit lacus eu augue ultrices eu porttitor tellus semper. Ut mattis augue vitae velit tincidunt tristique.</p>
</div>
Here's my CSS:
#header_wrapper {
display: table;
border-collapse: collapse;
width:100%;
border:1px dotted #ccc;
}
.player_header_info {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align:top;
background-color: #e7dbcd;
padding-left:5px;
}
#buttons {
display: table-cell;
padding-left: 10px;
vertical-align:top;
}
.button_container {
position:relative;
display:inline;
white-space:nowrap;
}
if you are just wanting your buttons to stay on the right you can add text-align:right to #buttons
http://jsfiddle.net/tvFbN/20/
Otherwise you will need to add a min-width to .player_header_info
as you are using table-cells without giving them a width, they will always re-size to the content inside them without breaking the width of the top level table element
I need the red box to expand with the blue box content, so they are always both the same size.
The red box is defined as:
.leftMenu{
float:left;
width:20%;
background-image:url(../images/leftMenuBG.jpg);
background-position:bottom;
background-color:#BFDAE3;
background-repeat:repeat-x;
}
Can't seem to get it to work, whatever I try! Any ideas? Thanks!
Simple solution: Use tables.
Semantic solution: Use faux columns.
You will need to wrap the red div around the blue div, so have the blue divs inside, floated right, and then have a clearing div after the blue divs.
<div style="border:solid red 2px;">
<div style="border:solid blue 2px;float:right;width:200px;">
<p>Content here</p>
</div>
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
</div>
Excuse the use of inline styles, these should be in a style sheet.
If you need each div to sit independently of each other and don't mind using JavaScript (as this is only a presentational layer) try this method.
You can use a jQuery plugin for that too. (for example, http://www.cssnewbie.com/equal-height-columns-with-jquery/)
But the Semantic solution: Use faux columns. from Magnar is nice too and doesn't require Javascript.
An additional 'faux column'-method is to (ab)use positioning.
Place both boxes inside a container that's floated (which makes it expand to accomodate floated children) and positioned relatively (which allows us to position child elements inside it).
Then, position the shortest column absolutely, and float the longest column. The container will take on the height of the floated child, and the div with position:absolute will take that height again.
A short example:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head><title>Columns</title>
<style type="text/css">
html, body {
width: 100%;
}
#container {
width: 100%;
float: left;
position: relative;
border: 2px solid black;
}
#left-box {
position: absolute;
width: 40%;
border: 2px solid red;
background-color: #5555ee;
height: 100%;
}
#right-box {
float: right;
margin-right: 15%;
width: 40%;
border: 2px solid blue;
background-color: #3e3e3e;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="left-box">
- E - x - P - a - N - d - I - n - G -
</div>
<div id="right-box">
<p>
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</p>
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</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>