have an element stay stickied over another full width element - html

I need to create form that stays stickied when scrolling through a new full width element.
On this site, you can see it in action: https://www.pillpack.com/how-it-works but after inspecting the elements, I still cant see how they achieve this effect.
Here is what my layout currently looks like:
The red rectangle is stickied and when scrolling, it will stick to the top of the viewport. The problem I am facing here is that I need the red rectangle to stay stickied even when reaching the green portion.
The way I am currently achieving this effect is essentially 2 columns within a parent container. The parent container is flexing its children elements and the red rectangle has position sticky. But now I have a full width element that my red rectangle still needs to stay sticky on.
Would love some insight on this.
EDIT:
some basic psuedo-esque code for you...
HTML
section.wrapper
div.container
div.left
form
section.wrapper.green-bg
div.container
div.left
CSS
.wrapper {
position: relative;
width: 100%;
}
.container {
max-width: 1100px;
width: 90%;
margin: 0 auto;
display: flex;
flex-flow: row nowrap;
align-items: flex-start;
}
.form {
position: sticky;
top: 0;
}
Hopefully you guys can understand the problem here. sections are full width elements. Inside sections, theres a div.container which has a max-width and is centered. Within the container is where the content goes.
The first section needs to have no background but the second section needs a green background. Since the background is full-width, it needs to be done on the section element. This causes problems because for the red rectangle to be stickied, all elements needs to be inside a parent container.

It's because your form is nested inside a separate wrapper from your green area. The sticky form and the green area need to be encompassed by the same parent element.
Basic example: https://codesandbox.io/s/elastic-hoover-mdy4t

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CSS extend one element of a group of DIV

I'm currently trying to get an element (div) stretching itself over the free space of a parent element while respecting the size of other elements on its level. I found some solutions and tried most of them but I couldn't get it to work. I suspect this is because of the cms I'm working with which - when telling it to make a set of columns the same height - changes the parent display-style to table-cell. So... here is an image of what I'm trying to archive.
As said, the CMS changes the blue container to display: table-cell to stretch it over the whole area and make all columns in a row the same height. Inside of this blue container are the elements I can control. These are up to four div (white/green) inside of a parent div (yellow). The white div are dynamic and not always present and the green one needs to stretch over the whole vertical space no matter which of the white elements are present.
And idea how to accomplish that? I tried a lot of answers about this topic but they didnt work.. I think that's maybe due to the fact that the blue container is a table-cell?
edit: Here is what I got so far.
<div id="box_wrap">
<div class="box_title">
Title
</div>
<div class="box_image">
Image
</div>
<div class="box_content">
Content
</div>
<div class="box_more">
Read More
</div>
</div>
All of this is in a container provided by the CMS itself which has the attibute display: table-cell.
#box_wrap {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
.box_content {
display: flex;
flex: 2;
}
I think the problem might be that the container provided my the CMS has no defined height. If I give my #box_wrap a fixed height manually then the div in it will work as they should. I also tried height: auto and height: 100% for the #box_wrap and it doesn't work. Again, probably because the parent has no defined height, no? That is the last thing that I need to solve. The #box_wrap needs to stretch over the vertical, currently it only extends as far as it needs to cover the content.
I also noticed that the first image I provided wasn't 100% accurate so I updated it.
I would use this to allow the .box_content to grow (i.e. become higher) and the others not:
.box_title,
.box_image,
.box_image {
flex-grow: 0;
}
.box_content {
flex-grow: 1;
}
In addition, you should apply height: 100% to #box_wrap, but for that you also need height: 100% on body and html to have a reference for the height of #box_wrap. So, to sum up:
html, body {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
}
#box_wrap {
height: 100%;
}
You also might want to add...
body {
padding: 10px;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
...to get that distance between the edge of the screen and your container as it's shown in your image.

How to make a div so important so all things in the div stays in the same box

I have a basic div and I want it to be able to absorb all other css rules of other elements and just keep them inside itself.
Right now the scroller of my chat is left outside the div and makes the whole site unstable.
Give the element inside the div overflow: hidden, and give that div these properties:
div {
all: unset;
overflow: auto;
width: ____; //or max-width
height: ____; //or max-height
}

Trying to get div to stick to the side of another centered div and in a fixed position

I know this may seem pretty stupid to some of you but I have a "page" div that is centered in the body using auto margins and I am trying to place a small rectangular div to the right side of it like the picture below and have this rectangle fixed in position so it scrolls with the page. any help would be appreciated
Here is a pic of what I am trying to do:
http://postimg.org/image/ixsgz3n2x/
One way to do it, is by using position: fixed for fixed side elements and placing them inside page container. Then you can move them to the right by setting their margin-left to container width:
.main {
/* page container ... */
position: relative;
}
.main .side {
/* side elements ... */
position: fixed;
margin-left: 410px; /* width of the .main */
}
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/7xyb5g2o/

CSS Centering with div to the left of another div

So what I'm trying to accomplish is to have a div centered on the page (margin: auto auto;) with a navigation div just to the left of it.
The idea being the navigation div can be switched on or off (so may or may not be there). If its there or not should not interferer with the centering of the main div.
Below is an example
I've tried a few things
Wrapping both divs with a main div. Setting the main div to margin: auto auto and then setting both child divs to float: left. The problem is that when the nav div dissapears the entire thing shifts left.
Keeping the middle div margin: auto auto; floating the nav div left and then using margin-left but this changes when the page gets bigger or smaller.
Any pointers would be appreciated in the best way to do this. I was hoping to avoid tables.
JSFiddle link
Try this:
In your html:
<body>
<div class="encasing">
<div class="leftmenu"></div>
</div>
</body>
In your css:
html, body
{
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
div.encasing
{
top: 50px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
width: 70%;
height: 500px;
background-color: green;
position: relative;
}
div.leftmenu
{
right: 100%;
width: 10%;
height: 300px;
background-color: red;
position: absolute;
}
The important parts are:
To put your block containing the menu inside your center block
Make the center block have margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;
Make the center block have a relative positioning
Have the menu have a absolute positioning
Make the menu have right: 100%
The idea here is to make the left menu use the position of the center block and then adjust itself. Right: 100% will put the right edge of the menu on the left edge of the menu.
In the end, a really good trick in css is that absolute positioned elements adjust themselves relative the the nearest relative or absolute positioned parent. :)
A few solutions I can think of:
Use absolute positioning for the navigation div. You probably want to give the body element a min-width to avoid the navigation div overlapping the main div when the window is too small.
Three-column layout, e.g. two divs with fixed widths floated to the left and right, and the content div between them. Inside the left-floated div, display your navigation div (or not). Alternatively, try display: inline-block on the three columns. The difference is in how small windows are handled (try it out). Again, you can counter undesired effects by setting a min-width on the body.
Completely fixed layout. Decide on an ideal screen resolution, and hard-code everything to that. This way, you can absolute-position everything where you want it, but the downside is that it won't look good on anything that deviates too much from the intended resolution. Especially mobile devices will see devastating results; you counter these with #media queries to adjust your layout to other screen resolutions.
You should also try to find a site that does what you want to do, and see how they did it (inspect HTML, CSS, and maybe Javascript).

using z-index and position in css to seperate design and core!

I am using the yui-grids css (irrelevant if you don't know what this is) with three columns. and I'm putting all the fancy design stuff on the left column and using z-index and relative psitioning bringing them in the center. and then putting all the important stuff like forms, inputs buttons, links and context in the center. Is this wrong. I've never seen this done so I was wondering maybe there is something I don't know! or am not considering. Should I just use one column?
I'm not totally sure what you're asking, so I'll give it a shot:
Columns
If you're going with a column layout, you should give just floating elements a go. Due to how floating works, a clearfix hack will be nessecary (link provided below). Clearfix allows child elements to be floated while maintaining the parent element's height and block nature. Clearfix can only be added to block elements.
For my example, we will be going with a 2 column layout -- one #content column and a #sidebar column -- you could do two, three or more.
For the parent div (that contains the #content and #sidebar elements), you'll need to add a class="clearfix".
For the content div, you'll want to float it to the left. For the sidebar div, you'll want to float it to the right.
Now, the CSS:
#parentDiv { width: 750px; margin: 0 auto; }
#parentDiv #content { float: left; width: 500px; }
#parentDiv #sidebar { float: right; width: 200px; }
This should produce a 750px box with a content element on the left and a sidebar on the right with 50px in between both elements (750-(500+200) = 50).
Floating Module
If this isn't what you wanted, and were looking to produce a module element (lightbox, popup window, etc) instead, this is easy too.
First, create a div called #module. Put in your content into it. Let's say you want to give it a width of 500px and you want the height to be static at 300px. So we'd do this CSS:
#module { width: 500px; height: 300px; border: 1px solid #000; position: absolute; top: 50%; left: 50%; margin: -150px 0 0 -250px; z-index: 100; }
What's going on here?
The #module element is being set to position: absolute. This means that it will be floating around the window, and is not constrained to it's parent element. We position it to be 50% from the left of the window and 50% from the top, so it gets in the middle of the window. Percent values are nessecary as they are adjusted when the window resizes. Without the margin, the element's top left corner will be 50% from the top and 50% from the left, so we need to use margin to move it back half of it's width and half it's height. This will allow us to have a box perfectly centered in the middle. The z-index is added to make sure that the element is on top of any other element, including , and other positioned elements.
I hope this helps.
Links
Clearfix: http://gist.github.com/550114
This kind of layout wouldn't be correct in my opinion.
The design of an element must be described in that particular element.