For a class project, I'm currently constructing a personal website as a project from scratch in an attempt to learn HTML and CSS. My site is coming along just fine, until I get to adding text.
Below is a screenshot of my homepage. As you can see in my first image my h3 text is scrunched up on the bottom of the page, and the h3 elements are overlapping/stacked on top of one another. I have no idea why this is happening. I wanted to make the text underneath the h1 tags and nicely spaced out to make a landing page, see the mockup.
The HTML and CSS code can be found below:
I am having a similar issue is evident in my other pages as well. For example, on my About page, I envisioned it having a red gradient background with white text on it spaced throughout. Instead, I get this scrunched up text in the center of the page:
The CSS for this section can be found on the CSS image above, but this is what some of my HTML looks like
I'm sure my text overlapping issue is a quick fix, but I have no idea what it's doing or why. If anyone could help me out that would be great. Thanks
the overlapping is caused by either position:absolute, margin-top or top element in your bodyText class. Just remove the top and margin-top from bodyText class and put them in another class. use different padding for different paragraphs. here you are using same padding for all of your paragraphs so they ended up coming in the same place.
.bodyText{ margin:auto}// put other elements except top and margin-top and position:absolute
.paddingtop50{ top:50%}
.paddingtop70{top:70%} // don't use this if not required
<p class="bodyText paddingTop50">Loren ipsum dolor sit amet<\p>
<p class="bodyText">Loren ipsum dolor sit amet<\p>
You are seeing the overlap of text because of the position: absolute set on your h1, h3 and .bodyText.
Both your h3 elements have top set to 100%. This means both will try to position themselves at 100% (of the height of the containing block) down from the closest relatively positioned element, which I'm guessing is the body element in your case.
This is the same for your two p elements as well with the class of bodyText. Both have top:50% set, which will make the elements appear in the same position, causing the overlap.
If you are looking to vertically center your text in the screen, there are better ways to do that.
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I'm looking for a HTML/CSS solution to a problem we've encountered on a site we're building.
I am happy to implement a JavaScript based solution if I need to, but I'd prefer it was handled natively.
We have content managed text which needs to sit inside a designated area but wrap if it exceeds the available width.
Behind the text is a background colour with opacity.
When the text is short, due to the float, the container collapses to the width of the text.
When the text is long, and a wrap occurs, the container hangs out at the maximum width, even though the text inside has wrapped underneath, so there's a small section of background colour on the right side (which isn't big enough for the wrapped word)
I want the container to collapse to the edge of the previous word so it doesn't "look like" there is space for the wrapped word, when it is very close.
HTML
<div>
<p>Crack the Shutters Open Wide for Parkside Paradise</p>
</div>
CSS
body div {
background-color: #AAFF3B;
max-width:80%;
padding:20px;
display:inline-block;
float:left;
}
body p {
display:inline-block;
background-color: #FFAA3B;
position: relative;
float:left;
white-space:pre-line;
clear:left;
}
Here is a JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/nmuot8bm/3/
If you look at the 3rd example, you can see a small amount of padding on the right hand side of the orange box, where the word porttitor has wrapped underneath to a new line but the orange container still sits at the maximum width, despite the float.
If line breaks are introduced by the content editors (e.g. between vestibulum and porttitor as per example 4) then the container collapses correctly.
What I think is happening is the container grows before the text wraps and the browser doesn't recompute the width after wrapping?
Here's a picture of my test case shown in the JSFiddle:
Here is a picture of the fault on the staging site (before separated out to a JSFiddle):
You can see that the text has wrapped, but the container has not collapsed, leaving a big gap of background colour.
n.b. We can emulate this by doing text-align:justify but then the spacing between the words is not consistent with the rest of the text on the site.
edit: I see that this question may be a duplicate. I swear I did research before I posted!
max-width adjusts to fit text?
CSS Width / Max-Width on Line Wrap?
Wrapping text forces containing element to max-width
Shrink DIV to text that's wrapped to its max-width?
I think that the general consensus/conclusion is that it is not possible without bleeding edge CSS and I should use a JavaScript solution.
I have added a few more examples to my JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/nmuot8bm/6/
including the JavaScript solution from here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/33246364/647728
Not possible with CSS...that's the way the inline box model works
JS example/solution can be found on the JSFiddle
If the problem is floated elements collapsing the parent container, there are many solutions; the easiest among them being adding overflow: hidden or display: table to the parent (the thing collapsing). Also be aware that inline-block and floated elements are essentially redundant.
As part of my education, I am reading the code to the following website, and trying to figure out how it all fits together.
http://p.w3layouts.com/demos/resume_pages/web/
My question; upon inspection of '.logo h1 a' (the word 'Resume' in the top left corner) I see that it is floated left, with 0 margin and no additional positioning. Why is it then, that the element does not sit 'flush' to the left-hand margin of the page? What is instructing the element to position in the way it has?
the '.logo h1 a' is sitting inside of a div tag with a class of 'header_style1'.
'header_style1' is sitting inside of a div tag with class 'wrap'. If you look at the CSS code for '.wrap'. you will see that is set to have a width of 80% and is also centered to the page.
Since '.logo h1 a' is ultimately sitting inside of the '.wrap' tag, it is being loaded to the left of that tag.
so what I'm trying to do basically is have the HTML document extend vertically as I add more text, and at the moment it's just giving me some really weird problems, such as:
The body won't extend downward as I add more text
The footer isn't displaying at all at this point
There are some weird symbols being inserted into the document
The only way I know how to position things is absolute, and I don't know if this is causing some problems (such as getting text under the "Home" image?)
Here's the jFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/9nYgb/
Any help is appreciated greatly, thank you!
Absolute positioning does tend to cause problems like that. Relative positioning is simple ... instead of using the top-left corner of the document as the origin for reference, the top-left corner of where the element was supposed to be is used as a reference. So <div style="position:relative;top:10px;"> will result in the element being 10px below where it would have been had no style information been provided.
When you position elements absolutely, you take them out of the document flow. This means that other elements will act as if they aren't there. It's good for placing a modal popup div on top of a page, but it's not good for laying out a whole page.
In general, when it comes to laying out a page, I try to stick to a series of divs with height and width set. You can use margin and padding to adjust layout, and float to make items stack up horizontally to one side or the other. Sometimes I also need to set a div's display to inline or inline-block to get them to appear next to one another and act like inline elements. You can also place divs within divs to group elements together and treat them as one by manipulating the outer container(s).
In general I don't find much need for absolute positioning in a page layout.
I have a html layout done using absolutely positioned div elements and a backgroung image. I want to keep the layout the same vertically (each individual part/page representing a data set). I do not wan't to change the div positioning from absolute as this messes up things and I am running out of time for this.
I realize I can have multiple body tags each for every data set and as this html will finally be generated from xml using xslt this is not a problem.
The issue is that as the div elements are absolute they do not appear in the subsequent body tag (only background image appears). I tried changing to relative and the div actually moves to 'next page' (body element), but as there are several divs, when all are laid out they get misaligned.
I will be grateful for some advice on how to tackle this either by fixing my html in some way that will not be too time consuming or by using a tool that can combine several html content in to one flowing page. Any other piece of advice is also very welcome.
From what you've posted, which could really use some of your HTML as an example of what you're trying to do exactly, you should be able to simply wrap each of your "pages" in a div with the position: relative CSS style.
The inner content will then be positioned absolutely from the boundaries of its parent wrap. You would then want to move most of the styles you currently have applied to your body element (like a background image) to the wrapper divs.
Basic example: http://jsfiddle.net/AsWCN/2/
I floated 3 images in divs in the middle of a long section of text. I want to float them so the site keeps it's 'liquid' design, adapting to any width browser window. But if text starts wrapping to the left of them on wide Windows, it looks bad. I'd like them to float, but still be able to clear text around them so they look like a block element. How can I do that?
I thought maybe of sticking in a 100% width div right after the image divs, that's 1px high, and filled with a 1px image that's just the background color. Will that work?
http://www.briligg.com/frailty.html
The images in question are the ones at the beginning of the 'the cause of addiction is stress' section. Line 134 to 146, references the internal style sheet.
Put a clear: left on your section of text following the images.
That appears to be your div with class text though I don't know if you would want to universally apply the clear to all the divs with that class.