I'm beginner in coding, so I'm just practicing, but every time I make screen smaller, I find a problem that text is going to the hell. How can I fix it?
Here's an example:
I am not sure what you mean by 'going to the hell', but if you mean it's adapting to the amount of space left by moving to a new line, that is the natural order of things in HTML.
If you don't want that to happen and you want it to get cropped, you can set
white-space: nowrap; /* In CSS btw */
To get a better understanding of the white-space property, check out MDN Docs, they have a simple demo too.
Hope I could help.
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See link: bit.ly/Mh9PGJ
When I make my browser window smaller, eventually 'Commercial Management' is too big for its slider box and gets shifted about. The best solution I believe is to simply increase the overall height of the entire entity (including every slider) so that the text has more space. But for this to work I'm guessing you would need some kind of min-height property there.
My problem is that I've tried min-height on practically everything there and I end up with odd-looking results, like the content expands but the green sliders do not, etc.
Any solution at all to this problem would be amazing. Thank you!
possible solution can be
adding your h2 class to those attributes
white-space: nowrap;
text-overflow:ellipsis;
it is not the correct way but at least if you dont have enough space, you can simple finish the word with ...[3 Dots]
I really want to know why and how to fix this thing.
The first image is from IE8 while the second is from Chrome.
What I want is the second one. Any advice?
You probably need to use the css rule:
white-space:nowrap;
This prevents text from going onto the next line
This is most likely to do with font rendering. It's different between browsers and some will render ever so slightly larger that others. Ultimately you don't want to be trying to fit words into spaces exact to the pixel. If you want to do that make sure you're using fluid layouts with percentage width and auto height.
How can I wrap the text displayed in the browser to either the width of the browser or a specified width, whichever is less?
I have been putting text inside <table width='850'> to wrap at a specific point, so if the user maximizes their browser on a gigantic monitor a whole paragraph doesn't fit in a single line. But when the user makes the browser super narrow, the above method causes text to carry over the edge of the viewable area. Not what I want exactly.
So, I'm looking for a better approach.
Oh, maybe I should add that my pages are extremely simple. There aren't banners up and down the left or right sides of them. Just text and images occupy the space from the left border of the browser to the right. Boring stuff.
EDIT - I accepted an answer, but I did find an issue (and a solution that seems to work) with the accepted answer when used with Internet Explorer. I spent half an hour trying to get max-width to work, but just couldn't. Every other style property worked fine though. Then I discovered this http://svendtofte.com/code/max_width_in_ie which said I had to use the following for max-width to work in IE, and it did: p { width:expression(400 + "px"); }. I don't understand why the fiddle example worked with max-width on IE, but not my page. Maybe it's cuz I include my css in my html page?
You could set the max-width property in your css.
That way, the page will expand until a certain point and then no more.
Example:
.mainDiv{
max-width:700px;
}
Working example: http://jsfiddle.net/Pa5JG/
More info on max-width: http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/max-width
Just use max-width. See this fiddle.
I use overflow: hidden on my site to get control over ending floats.
Which up to now always have worked perfectly.
I know there are several different approaches of ending floats but the overflow trick normally works best.
However this time I cannot get it right.
If you look at the following page and try to adjust the volume you'll see that the volume control goes under my header.
http://pieterhordijk.com/sandbox/html5-audio-api/mp3-format
The problem is in the #content-container div
When I remove the overflow the volume control goes over my header (which is what I want).
But I can't just drop the overflow or I have to result to another solution to control the floats, which is not something I want to do unless REALLY necessary.
Anybody has a solution to this problem?
You've already selected an answer, but there are some issues that should be pointed out. First, clearing a <br> is not semantic, it adds extra code and can cause issues in some browsers.
Next, you should not use the overflow method of clearing floats now that CSS3 is becoming more prevalent. It causes issues with any new parameters that display effects outside the boundaries of the container. At a minimum both box and text shadows will be cut off if you are using the overflow method.
You really should use the clearfix method. It's simple to implement, does not require any additional mark up, and does not cause issues with any CSS3 properties.
Good reading -
http://perishablepress.com/press/2009/12/06/new-clearfix-hack/
http://fordinteractive.com/2009/12/goodbye-overflow-clearing-hack/
You could give the snippets div clear:both. You have the element in there anyway, and I assume you wouldn't want it to wrap around the nav, so it's not just adding unsemantic elements/classes for the heck of it.
Basically its a 2 column setup, with a dynamic width content column, and a static width menu column.
The content column is going to contain pre-tags (with code), and I need overflow:auto on the pre-tag inside the table to work.
So far I've had little luck. The nature of the pre tag forces a certain size on the table cell, which in turn refuses to be any smaller than the width of the pre tag.
Can anyone help out?
Ps. I've placed a second pre-tag on the page, which works as intended, but thats probably because it's not inside a table.
Add white-space: pre-wrap; to the element. max-width:100% may help too.
I found an acceptable solution.
The solution is a negative right margin for the pre (code) element.
Basically, a negative right margin will force the pre to shrink if it needs to.
I made margin-right -800px, and the width 97%.
I noticed that the width, paddings and borders need tweaking if to look good at all resolutions, but the solution works.
A simple solution that was hard to dream up.
[EDIT]
There was a link to an example, but it has been taken down.