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I'm having problems making two elements align perfectly. They're in the same line, the one to the left is an input element and the one to the right is a div, in a "bar" (also a div). Please see the picture.
How it looks right now
What I want it to look like is for the two elements to have the exact same height, filling from top to bottom of the grey div with classname "wrapper".
I have simplified the code, and the button clearly doesn't work. What you can see in the code here is a small part of a react app, but that's irrelevant because the problem is in the CSS. The button needs to be a div.
The CSS code:
body{background-color: black}
.wrapper
{
background-color: grey;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
input
{
font-size: 30px;
}
.button
{
background-color: green;
padding-left: 10px;
width: 100px;
height: 100%;
display: inline-block;
}
and the HTML code:
<body>
<div class="wrapper">
<input type="text" size="5"/>
<div class="button">
<p>
Button
</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
I've tried setting the "display" of the elements to "inline" and "inline-block" back and forth, and tried to set the height to 100% for these elements which doesn't seem to work.
Thankful for any advice.
Just use flexbox
body {
background-color: black
}
.wrapper {
background-color: grey;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
display: flex;
}
input {
font-size: 30px;
}
.button {
background-color: green;
padding-left: 10px;
width: 100px;
}
<body>
<div class="wrapper">
<input type="text" size="5" />
<div class="button">
<p>
Button
</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
On the wrapper class add display: flex; and on the input tag add flex: stretch;
#searchBar {
display: inline-block;
}
#container {
width: 580px;
background-color: white;
}
#logo {
margin-left: 25%;
}
<div id="container">
<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Google_2015_logo.svg/2880px-Google_2015_logo.svg.png" id="logo" height="40px">
<form>
<input type="text" id="searchBar">
<input type="submit" value="Search Google">
<input type="submit" value="Feeling Lucky">
</form>
</div>
I'm trying to replicate the Google home page(sort of),what I'm trying to achieve is that the search bar (where input type equals search)will be one line above the two buttons,i can achieve that by other ways for sure but wanted to check the inline-block property..the object should act like its "inline",captures only the width of the content and "block" too,but for some reason the "block" does not work and the buttons are just next to the right side of the search bar..
Compared to display: block, the major difference is that display: inline-block does not add a line-break after the element, so the element can sit next to other elements.
So you will have to use display: block to fit the width.
display : block will serve the purpose. As {display: inline-block} will not add the line break. So, you have to modify the CSS as:
#searchBar {
display: block;
}
#container {
width: 580px;
background-color: white;
}
#logo {
margin-left: 25%;
}
I want a two-column div layout, where each one can have variable width e.g.
div {
float: left;
}
.second {
background: #ccc;
}
<div>Tree</div>
<div class="second">View</div>
I want the 'view' div to expand to the whole width available after 'tree' div has filled needed space.
Currently, my 'view' div is resized to content it contains
It will also be good if both divs take up the whole height.
Not duplicate disclaimer:
Expand div to max width when float:left is set
because there the left one has a fixed width.
Help with div - make div fit the remaining width
because I need two columns both aligned to left
The solution to this is actually very easy, but not at all obvious. You have to trigger something called a "block formatting context" (BFC), which interacts with floats in a specific way.
Just take that second div, remove the float, and give it overflow:hidden instead. Any overflow value other than visible makes the block it's set on become a BFC. BFCs don't allow descendant floats to escape them, nor do they allow sibling/ancestor floats to intrude into them. The net effect here is that the floated div will do its thing, then the second div will be an ordinary block, taking up all available width except that occupied by the float.
This should work across all current browsers, though you may have to trigger hasLayout in IE6 and 7. I can't recall.
Demos:
Fixed Left: http://jsfiddle.net/A8zLY/5/
Fixed Right: http://jsfiddle.net/A8zLY/2/
div {
float: left;
}
.second {
background: #ccc;
float: none;
overflow: hidden;
}
<div>Tree</div>
<div class="second">View</div>
I just discovered the magic of flex boxes (display: flex). Try this:
<style>
#box {
display: flex;
}
#b {
flex-grow: 100;
border: 1px solid green;
}
</style>
<div id='box'>
<div id='a'>Tree</div>
<div id='b'>View</div>
</div>
Flex boxes give me the control I've wished css had for 15 years. Its finally here! More info: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
Use the CSS Flexbox flex-grow property to fill the remaining space.
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
body {
display: flex;
}
.second {
flex-grow: 1;
}
<div style="background: #bef;">Tree</div>
<div class="second" style="background: #ff9;">View</div>
This would be a good example of something that's trivial to do with tables and hard (if not impossible, at least in a cross-browser sense) to do with CSS.
If both the columns were fixed width, this would be easy.
If one of the columns was fixed width, this would be slightly harder but entirely doable.
With both columns variable width, IMHO you need to just use a two-column table.
Use calc:
.leftSide {
float: left;
width: 50px;
background-color: green;
}
.rightSide {
float: left;
width: calc(100% - 50px);
background-color: red;
}
<div style="width:200px">
<div class="leftSide">a</div>
<div class="rightSide">b</div>
</div>
The problem with this is that all widths must be explicitly defined, either as a value(px and em work fine), or as a percent of something explicitly defined itself.
Check this solution out
.container {
width: 100%;
height: 200px;
background-color: green;
}
.sidebar {
float: left;
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
background-color: yellow;
}
.content {
background-color: red;
height: 200px;
width: auto;
margin-left: 200px;
}
.item {
width: 25%;
background-color: blue;
float: left;
color: white;
}
.clearfix {
clear: both;
}
<div class="container">
<div class="clearfix"></div>
<div class="sidebar">width: 200px</div>
<div class="content">
<div class="item">25%</div>
<div class="item">25%</div>
<div class="item">25%</div>
<div class="item">25%</div>
</div>
</div>
Here, this might help...
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
div.box {
background: #EEE;
height: 100px;
width: 500px;
}
div.left {
background: #999;
float: left;
height: 100%;
width: auto;
}
div.right {
background: #666;
height: 100%;
}
div.clear {
clear: both;
height: 1px;
overflow: hidden;
font-size: 0pt;
margin-top: -1px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="box">
<div class="left">Tree</div>
<div class="right">View</div>
<div class="clear" />
</div>
</body>
</html>
If the width of the other column is fixed, how about using the calc CSS function working for all common browsers:
width: calc(100% - 20px) /* 20px being the first column's width */
This way the width of the second row will be calculated (i.e. remaining width) and applied responsively.
I don't understand why people are willing to work so hard to find a pure-CSS solution for simple columnar layouts that are SO EASY using the old TABLE tag.
All Browsers still have the table layout logic... Call me a dinosaur perhaps, but I say let it help you.
<table WIDTH=100% border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2>
<tr>
<td WIDTH="1" NOWRAP bgcolor="#E0E0E0">Tree</td>
<td bgcolor="#F0F0F0">View</td>
</tr>
</table>
Much less risky in terms of cross-browser compatibility too.
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
div.box {
background: #EEE;
height: 100px;
width: 500px;
}
div.left {
background: #999;
float: left;
height: 100%;
width: auto;
}
div.right {
background: #666;
height: 100%;
}
div.clear {
clear: both;
height: 1px;
overflow: hidden;
font-size: 0pt;
margin-top: -1px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="box">
<div class="left">Tree</div>
<div class="right">View</div>
<div class="right">View</div>
<div style="width: <=100% getTreeWidth()100 %>">Tree</div>
<div class="clear" />
</div>
<div class="ColumnWrapper">
<div class="ColumnOneHalf">Tree</div>
<div class="ColumnOneHalf">View</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
You can try CSS Grid Layout.
dl {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: max-content auto;
}
dt {
grid-column: 1;
}
dd {
grid-column: 2;
margin: 0;
background-color: #ccc;
}
<dl>
<dt>lorem ipsum</dt>
<dd>dolor sit amet</dd>
<dt>carpe</dt>
<dd>diem</dd>
</dl>
flex-grow - This defines the ability for a flex item to grow if necessary. It accepts a unitless value that serves as a proportion. It dictates what amount of the available space inside the flex container the item should take up.
If all items have flex-grow set to 1, the remaining space in the container will be distributed equally to all children. If one of the children has a value of 2, the remaining space would take up twice as much space as the others (or it will try to, at least). See more here
.parent {
display: flex;
}
.child {
flex-grow: 1; // It accepts a unitless value that serves as a proportion
}
.left {
background: red;
}
.right {
background: green;
}
<div class="parent">
<div class="child left">
Left 50%
</div>
<div class="child right">
Right 50%
</div>
</div>
A slightly different implementation,
Two div panels(content+extra), side by side, content panel expands if extra panel is not present.
jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/qLTMf/1722/
You can use W3's CSS library that contains a class called rest that does just that:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://www.w3schools.com/w3css/4/w3.css">
<div class="w3-row">
<div class="w3-col " style="width:150px">
<p>150px</p>
</div>
<div class="w3-rest w3-green">
<p>w3-rest</p>
</div>
</div>
Don't forget to link the CSS library in the page's header:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://www.w3schools.com/w3css/4/w3.css">
Here's the official demo: W3 School Tryit Editor
Im not sure if this is the answer you are expecting but, why don't you set the width of Tree to 'auto' and width of 'View' to 100% ?
I wrote a javascript function that I call from jQuery $(document).ready(). This will parse all children of the parent div and only update the right most child.
html
...
<div class="stretch">
<div style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; display: inline-block;">Some text
</div>
<div class="underline" style="display: inline-block;">Some other text
</div>
</div>
....
javascript
$(document).ready(function(){
stretchDivs();
});
function stretchDivs() {
// loop thru each <div> that has class='stretch'
$("div.stretch").each(function(){
// get the inner width of this <div> that has class='stretch'
var totalW = parseInt($(this).css("width"));
// loop thru each child node
$(this).children().each(function(){
// subtract the margins, borders and padding
totalW -= (parseInt($(this).css("margin-left"))
+ parseInt($(this).css("border-left-width"))
+ parseInt($(this).css("padding-left"))
+ parseInt($(this).css("margin-right"))
+ parseInt($(this).css("border-right-width"))
+ parseInt($(this).css("padding-right")));
// if this is the last child, we can set its width
if ($(this).is(":last-child")) {
$(this).css("width","" + (totalW - 1 /* fudge factor */) + "px");
} else {
// this is not the last child, so subtract its width too
totalW -= parseInt($(this).css("width"));
}
});
});
}
This is fairly easy using flexbox. See the snippet below. I've added a wrapper container to control flow and set a global height. Borders have been added as well to identify the elements. Notice that divs now expand to the full height as well, as required.
Vendor prefixes should be used for flexbox in a real world scenario since is not yet fully supported.
I've developed a free tool to understand and design layouts using flexbox. Check it out here:
http://algid.com/Flex-Designer
.container{
height:180px;
border:3px solid #00f;
display:flex;
align-items:stretch;
}
div {
display:flex;
border:3px solid #0f0;
}
.second {
display:flex;
flex-grow:1;
border:3px solid #f00;
}
<div class="container">
<div>Tree</div>
<div class="second">View</div>
</div>
.btnCont {
display: table-layout;
width: 500px;
}
.txtCont {
display: table-cell;
width: 70%;
max-width: 80%;
min-width: 20%;
}
.subCont {
display: table-cell;
width: 30%;
max-width: 80%;
min-width: 20%;
}
<div class="btnCont">
<div class="txtCont">
Long text that will auto adjust as it grows. The best part is that the width of the container would not go beyond 500px!
</div>
<div class="subCont">
This column as well as the entire container works like a table. Isn't Amazing!!!
</div>
</div>
.container{
display: flex;
align-items: stretch;
}
.resize_overflow {
position: relative;
width: 0;
overflow: hidden;
white-space: nowrap;
word-wrap: normal;
/* text-overflow: ellipsis; When the end of the line dissolves, the ellipsis loses */
}
.second_fix {
float: right;
/* or:
display: flex;
align-self: end;*/
}
/* Dissolve the end of the line at the right edge */
.resize_overflow::after {
content: ""; /* Empty content */
position: absolute; /* Position relative to parent */
right: 0; /* Element position */
top: 0; /* Element position */
width: 40px; /* Gradient width */
height: 100%; /* Parent Height */
background: -moz-linear-gradient(left, rgba(255,255,255, 0.2), #ff 100%);
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(left, rgba(255,255,255, 0.2), #ff 100%);
background: -o-linear-gradient(left, rgba(255,255,255, 0.2), #ff 100%);
background: -ms-linear-gradient(left, rgba(255,255,255, 0.2), #ff 100%);
background: linear-gradient(to right, rgba(255,255,255, 0.2), #ff 100%);
}
<div class="container">
<div class="resize_overflow">Tree</div>
<div class="second_fix">View</div>
</div>
Have a look at the available CSS layout frameworks. I would recommend Simpl or, the slightly more complex, Blueprint framework.
If you are using Simpl (which involves importing just one simpl.css file), you can do this:
<div class="ColumnOneHalf">Tree</div>
<div class="ColumnOneHalf">View</div>
, for a 50-50 layout, or :
<div class="ColumnOneQuarter">Tree</div>
<div class="ColumnThreeQuarters">View</div>
, for a 25-75 one.
It's that simple.
If both of the widths are variable length why don't you calculate the width with some scripting or server side?
<div style="width: <=% getTreeWidth() %>">Tree</div>
<div style="width: <=% getViewWidth() %>">View</div>
How to make all inputs with the same width 100%?
if I set width 100% then input will be break on new line:
div > input {
width: 100%;
}
HTML:
<div class="wrapper">
<div>
<label>Label</label>
<input type="text" />
</div>
<div>
<label>Label</label>
<input type="text" />
</div>
<div>
<label>Label</label>
<input type="text" />
</div>
</div>
CSS:
.wrapper label {
float: left;
margin-right: 10px;
}
.wrapper div {
margin-bottom: 15px;
}
The desired result (JSFiddle):
.wrapper input {
width: 90%;
}
You cannot make it 100% without a new line because the Label will take some space of the screen. Remaining portion you can allot for the text fields.
You can do something like this: DEMO
Just remove the float statement, and make both the label and input display: inline-block.
.wrapper div {
margin-bottom: 15px;
}
div > input, div > label {
display: inline-block;
}
div > input {
width: 77%;
}
div > label {
width: 20%;
}
You can change the width of the input fields and/or the labels, but I think width: 77% is the highest value possible for the input fields (with the width of the labels set to 20%) to still display inline.
EDIT:
Do note that using CSS selectors based on HTML tagnames is not the ideal way of doing this. A better way is to give all labels and inputs a class (f.e. class="lbl" and class="inp" respectively), and selecting those, like underneath:
...
.lbl, .inp {
display: inline-block;
}
...
<pre>
.wrapper{width:100%; display:block}
.wrapper lable{width:30%; display:inline-block; position:relative}
.wrapper input{width:70%; display:inline-block; position:relative}
</pre>
I want a two-column div layout, where each one can have variable width e.g.
div {
float: left;
}
.second {
background: #ccc;
}
<div>Tree</div>
<div class="second">View</div>
I want the 'view' div to expand to the whole width available after 'tree' div has filled needed space.
Currently, my 'view' div is resized to content it contains
It will also be good if both divs take up the whole height.
Not duplicate disclaimer:
Expand div to max width when float:left is set
because there the left one has a fixed width.
Help with div - make div fit the remaining width
because I need two columns both aligned to left
The solution to this is actually very easy, but not at all obvious. You have to trigger something called a "block formatting context" (BFC), which interacts with floats in a specific way.
Just take that second div, remove the float, and give it overflow:hidden instead. Any overflow value other than visible makes the block it's set on become a BFC. BFCs don't allow descendant floats to escape them, nor do they allow sibling/ancestor floats to intrude into them. The net effect here is that the floated div will do its thing, then the second div will be an ordinary block, taking up all available width except that occupied by the float.
This should work across all current browsers, though you may have to trigger hasLayout in IE6 and 7. I can't recall.
Demos:
Fixed Left: http://jsfiddle.net/A8zLY/5/
Fixed Right: http://jsfiddle.net/A8zLY/2/
div {
float: left;
}
.second {
background: #ccc;
float: none;
overflow: hidden;
}
<div>Tree</div>
<div class="second">View</div>
I just discovered the magic of flex boxes (display: flex). Try this:
<style>
#box {
display: flex;
}
#b {
flex-grow: 100;
border: 1px solid green;
}
</style>
<div id='box'>
<div id='a'>Tree</div>
<div id='b'>View</div>
</div>
Flex boxes give me the control I've wished css had for 15 years. Its finally here! More info: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
Use the CSS Flexbox flex-grow property to fill the remaining space.
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
body {
display: flex;
}
.second {
flex-grow: 1;
}
<div style="background: #bef;">Tree</div>
<div class="second" style="background: #ff9;">View</div>
This would be a good example of something that's trivial to do with tables and hard (if not impossible, at least in a cross-browser sense) to do with CSS.
If both the columns were fixed width, this would be easy.
If one of the columns was fixed width, this would be slightly harder but entirely doable.
With both columns variable width, IMHO you need to just use a two-column table.
Use calc:
.leftSide {
float: left;
width: 50px;
background-color: green;
}
.rightSide {
float: left;
width: calc(100% - 50px);
background-color: red;
}
<div style="width:200px">
<div class="leftSide">a</div>
<div class="rightSide">b</div>
</div>
The problem with this is that all widths must be explicitly defined, either as a value(px and em work fine), or as a percent of something explicitly defined itself.
Check this solution out
.container {
width: 100%;
height: 200px;
background-color: green;
}
.sidebar {
float: left;
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
background-color: yellow;
}
.content {
background-color: red;
height: 200px;
width: auto;
margin-left: 200px;
}
.item {
width: 25%;
background-color: blue;
float: left;
color: white;
}
.clearfix {
clear: both;
}
<div class="container">
<div class="clearfix"></div>
<div class="sidebar">width: 200px</div>
<div class="content">
<div class="item">25%</div>
<div class="item">25%</div>
<div class="item">25%</div>
<div class="item">25%</div>
</div>
</div>
Here, this might help...
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
div.box {
background: #EEE;
height: 100px;
width: 500px;
}
div.left {
background: #999;
float: left;
height: 100%;
width: auto;
}
div.right {
background: #666;
height: 100%;
}
div.clear {
clear: both;
height: 1px;
overflow: hidden;
font-size: 0pt;
margin-top: -1px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="box">
<div class="left">Tree</div>
<div class="right">View</div>
<div class="clear" />
</div>
</body>
</html>
If the width of the other column is fixed, how about using the calc CSS function working for all common browsers:
width: calc(100% - 20px) /* 20px being the first column's width */
This way the width of the second row will be calculated (i.e. remaining width) and applied responsively.
I don't understand why people are willing to work so hard to find a pure-CSS solution for simple columnar layouts that are SO EASY using the old TABLE tag.
All Browsers still have the table layout logic... Call me a dinosaur perhaps, but I say let it help you.
<table WIDTH=100% border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2>
<tr>
<td WIDTH="1" NOWRAP bgcolor="#E0E0E0">Tree</td>
<td bgcolor="#F0F0F0">View</td>
</tr>
</table>
Much less risky in terms of cross-browser compatibility too.
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
div.box {
background: #EEE;
height: 100px;
width: 500px;
}
div.left {
background: #999;
float: left;
height: 100%;
width: auto;
}
div.right {
background: #666;
height: 100%;
}
div.clear {
clear: both;
height: 1px;
overflow: hidden;
font-size: 0pt;
margin-top: -1px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="box">
<div class="left">Tree</div>
<div class="right">View</div>
<div class="right">View</div>
<div style="width: <=100% getTreeWidth()100 %>">Tree</div>
<div class="clear" />
</div>
<div class="ColumnWrapper">
<div class="ColumnOneHalf">Tree</div>
<div class="ColumnOneHalf">View</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
You can try CSS Grid Layout.
dl {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: max-content auto;
}
dt {
grid-column: 1;
}
dd {
grid-column: 2;
margin: 0;
background-color: #ccc;
}
<dl>
<dt>lorem ipsum</dt>
<dd>dolor sit amet</dd>
<dt>carpe</dt>
<dd>diem</dd>
</dl>
flex-grow - This defines the ability for a flex item to grow if necessary. It accepts a unitless value that serves as a proportion. It dictates what amount of the available space inside the flex container the item should take up.
If all items have flex-grow set to 1, the remaining space in the container will be distributed equally to all children. If one of the children has a value of 2, the remaining space would take up twice as much space as the others (or it will try to, at least). See more here
.parent {
display: flex;
}
.child {
flex-grow: 1; // It accepts a unitless value that serves as a proportion
}
.left {
background: red;
}
.right {
background: green;
}
<div class="parent">
<div class="child left">
Left 50%
</div>
<div class="child right">
Right 50%
</div>
</div>
A slightly different implementation,
Two div panels(content+extra), side by side, content panel expands if extra panel is not present.
jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/qLTMf/1722/
You can use W3's CSS library that contains a class called rest that does just that:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://www.w3schools.com/w3css/4/w3.css">
<div class="w3-row">
<div class="w3-col " style="width:150px">
<p>150px</p>
</div>
<div class="w3-rest w3-green">
<p>w3-rest</p>
</div>
</div>
Don't forget to link the CSS library in the page's header:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://www.w3schools.com/w3css/4/w3.css">
Here's the official demo: W3 School Tryit Editor
Im not sure if this is the answer you are expecting but, why don't you set the width of Tree to 'auto' and width of 'View' to 100% ?
I wrote a javascript function that I call from jQuery $(document).ready(). This will parse all children of the parent div and only update the right most child.
html
...
<div class="stretch">
<div style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; display: inline-block;">Some text
</div>
<div class="underline" style="display: inline-block;">Some other text
</div>
</div>
....
javascript
$(document).ready(function(){
stretchDivs();
});
function stretchDivs() {
// loop thru each <div> that has class='stretch'
$("div.stretch").each(function(){
// get the inner width of this <div> that has class='stretch'
var totalW = parseInt($(this).css("width"));
// loop thru each child node
$(this).children().each(function(){
// subtract the margins, borders and padding
totalW -= (parseInt($(this).css("margin-left"))
+ parseInt($(this).css("border-left-width"))
+ parseInt($(this).css("padding-left"))
+ parseInt($(this).css("margin-right"))
+ parseInt($(this).css("border-right-width"))
+ parseInt($(this).css("padding-right")));
// if this is the last child, we can set its width
if ($(this).is(":last-child")) {
$(this).css("width","" + (totalW - 1 /* fudge factor */) + "px");
} else {
// this is not the last child, so subtract its width too
totalW -= parseInt($(this).css("width"));
}
});
});
}
This is fairly easy using flexbox. See the snippet below. I've added a wrapper container to control flow and set a global height. Borders have been added as well to identify the elements. Notice that divs now expand to the full height as well, as required.
Vendor prefixes should be used for flexbox in a real world scenario since is not yet fully supported.
I've developed a free tool to understand and design layouts using flexbox. Check it out here:
http://algid.com/Flex-Designer
.container{
height:180px;
border:3px solid #00f;
display:flex;
align-items:stretch;
}
div {
display:flex;
border:3px solid #0f0;
}
.second {
display:flex;
flex-grow:1;
border:3px solid #f00;
}
<div class="container">
<div>Tree</div>
<div class="second">View</div>
</div>
.btnCont {
display: table-layout;
width: 500px;
}
.txtCont {
display: table-cell;
width: 70%;
max-width: 80%;
min-width: 20%;
}
.subCont {
display: table-cell;
width: 30%;
max-width: 80%;
min-width: 20%;
}
<div class="btnCont">
<div class="txtCont">
Long text that will auto adjust as it grows. The best part is that the width of the container would not go beyond 500px!
</div>
<div class="subCont">
This column as well as the entire container works like a table. Isn't Amazing!!!
</div>
</div>
.container{
display: flex;
align-items: stretch;
}
.resize_overflow {
position: relative;
width: 0;
overflow: hidden;
white-space: nowrap;
word-wrap: normal;
/* text-overflow: ellipsis; When the end of the line dissolves, the ellipsis loses */
}
.second_fix {
float: right;
/* or:
display: flex;
align-self: end;*/
}
/* Dissolve the end of the line at the right edge */
.resize_overflow::after {
content: ""; /* Empty content */
position: absolute; /* Position relative to parent */
right: 0; /* Element position */
top: 0; /* Element position */
width: 40px; /* Gradient width */
height: 100%; /* Parent Height */
background: -moz-linear-gradient(left, rgba(255,255,255, 0.2), #ff 100%);
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(left, rgba(255,255,255, 0.2), #ff 100%);
background: -o-linear-gradient(left, rgba(255,255,255, 0.2), #ff 100%);
background: -ms-linear-gradient(left, rgba(255,255,255, 0.2), #ff 100%);
background: linear-gradient(to right, rgba(255,255,255, 0.2), #ff 100%);
}
<div class="container">
<div class="resize_overflow">Tree</div>
<div class="second_fix">View</div>
</div>
Have a look at the available CSS layout frameworks. I would recommend Simpl or, the slightly more complex, Blueprint framework.
If you are using Simpl (which involves importing just one simpl.css file), you can do this:
<div class="ColumnOneHalf">Tree</div>
<div class="ColumnOneHalf">View</div>
, for a 50-50 layout, or :
<div class="ColumnOneQuarter">Tree</div>
<div class="ColumnThreeQuarters">View</div>
, for a 25-75 one.
It's that simple.
If both of the widths are variable length why don't you calculate the width with some scripting or server side?
<div style="width: <=% getTreeWidth() %>">Tree</div>
<div style="width: <=% getViewWidth() %>">View</div>