I am designing a quiz using HTML/CSS. It is meant to be printed on paper.
It currently looks like this:
Originally, the question boxes were being split in half at the page break, but I managed to avoid that with
.questionBox {
break-inside: avoid;
}
Now, I have a more ambitious goal: I want to avoid wasting space at the bottom of each page by stretching each question box out so they're all taller. This should be done dynamically, sort of analogous to how flexbox stretches elements horizontally to fill the space with flex-grow.
I made a few attempts using flexbox and flex-direction: column, but no luck so far. Any recommendations?
Adjust the height property to stretch the .questionBox div to full height.
.questionBox {
height: 100vh;
}
height: 100vh = 100% of the viewport height.
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I'm looking to create a div that only takes up as much width as it needs, with the height set to the height of the viewport. The problem I'm experiencing is that if the viewport height is reduced, the div's width doesn't update and the content overflows on the y-axis.
I've tried using flexbox to create two divs, one taking up the remaining room, but it doesn't force the other div to reduce in width so the words don't wrap.
Here's the first issue scenario:
Flexbox content not wrapping
In the image above, there are two div's using the following code:
.container {
display: flex;
}
.item-1 {
flex-grow: 0;
height: 100vh;
background-color:yellow;
}
.item-2 {
flex-grow: 1;
height: 100vh;
background-color:red;
}
The issue is that the text isn't wrapping to reduce the width of the first box to as little as possible. Here would be the desired result:
Desired flexbox content wrap
The second issue is that when the screen height is reduced, the content overflows instead of widening the div, as shown here:
Code overflowing outside of div
Ideally, these are the two desired results I am looking for:
Initial layout
(no overflow and as little width as possible)
Initial layout of desired result
Modified layout
(no overflow and the div width has widened to accommodate the content within it)
Modified layout of desired result
So far nothing I've tried has worked, am I asking for the impossible? I appreciate any help that can be provided.
So... I got this code: https://jsfiddle.net/jmg63s3e/1/
The code actually works fine if you resize the browser window until you have the text inline with the image and that's what I'm trying to achieve, but if you resize it down eventually the text drops below the image even if the wrapper width is a lot smaller than the window width.
My only purpose is to have:
the whole wrapper centered both vertically and horizontally in the browser window. Its total width and height unknown, depending on its children
row1 and row2 must not be inline: row2 must be below row1
All the elements inside row1 (the image and the text containing 2 spans) must be inline with each other
And well, the spinner inside row2 must also be centered inside the row but that was never a problem whatever solution I tried
As a matter of fact the only dynamic element in the whole code is the first span which in the example contains Player #1, since it should be the name of the player and it can be anything, any length.
Of course if I wanna make it responsive I will have to use media queries or dynamically change widths and heights and font-sizes with JS, and I'm willing to do so. My problem here is only the wrapper itself and the text that drops below the image even if the wrapper width is a lot smaller than the window width, so I'm asking for a solution that works as long as the wrapper width is smaller than the window width. When the wrapper width drops below the window width, I will handle the style with responsive media queries or JS. I would just like to have the wrapper to be centered both vertically and horizontally in the window, and its size to be dynamic and depending on children.
I've already tried any solution I could think of, but with an unknown wrapper width I just can't figure it out. Can someone help me please? I'm open to any suggestion and any solution, as long as it's pure CSS and it doesn't involve JS. Thanks everyone in advance
You can use flexbox to fix these problems.
Here's an updated fiddle with old CSS commented out: https://jsfiddle.net/jmg63s3e/3/
First, to align the wrapper both horizontally and vertically you need to make the parent container a flex container with display: flex and use justify-content: center and align-items: center. You also need to set a height or else it will wrap to the height of the child and not give you the centering effect. I used the following. The height can be whatever you need it to be.
.trump-waiting {
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
font-size: 0;
overflow: hidden;
height: 100vh;
}
Next, I used display: flex on the wrapper and flex-direction: column to make sure they are all lined up like we want them to be.
.trump-waiting .wrapper {
display:flex;
flex-direction:column;
To fix row1, again I used flexbox and removed the inline-block and the set height. You could set the height as long as you take care of resizing the font in the text divs, with media queries for instance. Otherwise, with an explicit height, the font at the size it's at now will break out of their containers. Without explicitly setting the height, the containers will adjust in size.
.trump-waiting .row1 {
display: flex;
flex-direction: row;
/* display: inline-block; */
/* height: 60px; */
background-color: yellow;
}
I also added flex-shrink:0 to .image to keep it from shrinking on resize.
To keep Player #1 and 'is choosing the trump suit' inline, I also added display: flex and flex-direction: row to .row keep them on the same line.
Finally, to align the loader, I did the vertical/horizontal alignment trick used above, plus added some padding to the div to give it some space and removed the old css.
.trump-waiting .row2 {
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
padding: 16px 0 16px 0;
/* display: block; */
/* margin-top: 50px; */
The last step would be to use media queries to adjust the font-sizes on .text spans so the font doesn't expand their container on resize.
Many ways to skin a cat and I'm sure others will have different perhaps better solutions, but hope this helps. There's a great summary of flexbox here if you need it. I may have left out a change in this summary, but it should all be in the fiddle.
EDIT: Realized I made a mistake summarizing the css in the jsfiddle and also removed a redundant css property. Now updated.
I have a div near the bottom of my page that I want to extend all the way to the very bottom edge of the window so that the background color of the page can not be seen below it. Initially, depending on the size screen that the page was rendered on, a small sliver of the background color was still visible below the div. By adding
html, body, .wrapper {
height: 100%;
}
to my CSS ("wrapper" being the class of the div in question), I fixed that issue, but now the div has a height of around 500px (it varies based on the window size) despite the only element in the div having a total height of 132px (which does not change regardless of window size). Because of the positioning of the div, this 500px height makes the page stretch and now there is a large blank space at the bottom of my page, underneath the content inside the div.
I used Chrome's developer tools to inspect the HTML, body, and div tags and there is no strange padding/margins and no defined height (other than the "100%" that I set). If you'd like more code I can gladly provide more but since I don't know exactly what the problem is I didn't know what would be relevant (plus I'm using bootstrap so finding all of the relevant CSS can be a pain sometimes). Thanks in advance.
You can use flexbox to have the .wrapper, or .table in your example, div fill up the remaining height.
For the parent element (in your example, body) set display: flex; flex-direction: column;
For the element that you want to expand (.wrapper or .table) set flex-grow: 1.
Your Example Updated: https://jsfiddle.net/754s67ur/2/
I have updated the fiddle you posted in the comments to add background colors and removed paddings and margins to better visualize the problem here.
What you need is the CSS calc function to have your .table div take up 100% of the page MINUS the nav and body content of your page (represented by the <p> in your fiddle).
In the fiddle they are both 18px, so combined it's 36px and that is what I need to minus from the 100%. So the style would look like this:
height: calc(100% - 36px);
This is how you calculate the remaining space. But this only works for static height elements. Here is a fiddle of the solution.
I am trying to create a navigation element (nav) that spans the full width of the page, but when the windows shrinks enough where the text overflows, the text wraps. As this is the navigation bar for the page, I'd prefer it didn't wrap and the page just scrolls when the nav's content overflows it. I was thinking giving it a width in pixels instead of just 100% would work, but I don't know how to make it the full width on every screen using pixels. Any idea how to do this? I am using SASS too if that could help with a solution.
Basically, I need a solution that makes a element act as though its width were set to 100%, but it can't wrap the text if there's overflow. The window should scroll if there's overflow.
Put in the css style white-space:nowrap;
If you want a scroll bar in the div, go for overflow:scroll; and set a height of one line, and don't use nowrap.
Full width should be easy: width: 100%
If you want specifics, show us your code.
I think your best bet would be to set a minimum width on your nav element. This way, it will only scale your div to a certain point so it doesn't wrap. The only downside of this is that you need to specify a width, but the upside is it works without any of the div being cut off.
http://jsfiddle.net/piedoom/Km4Xa/1/
You can see in my CSS I have the following:
div
{
width: 100%;
background: red;
min-width: 250px;
}
The min width specifies how small the div can get before it just stays at that value instead of taking the window as it's width.
You can also apply this to the body so it works on all elements.
I want to have the content of my website centred but only for a certain width of a webpage. So when it's over say 500px I'd want the content to then be fixed, unable to stretch any further. Is there anyway to do that, or am I best having everything fixed? Hope that makes sense ill add some visuals to be a bit clearer..
thanks!
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e126/aaron123456/stackflow.jpg
1.auto margin with a certain space
2.so content doesn't float in the middle of a larger webpage
It's quite simple:
#container {
max-width: 500px;
}
#container > * {
margin: 1em auto;
width: 300px;
}
#container defines the maximum width, and every element placed inside it is aligned centered. I had to set the width to prevent these elements from requiring the entire width.
See it in action