Unnecessary left margin coming on print window for HTML content - html

I am generating a coupon type display by html and css without creating and storing the real image on server to save space.
Plan is to display it and get it printed out when user wants to print. I have managed to create the layout by HTML and css and it displays as follows,
But when the Print Now button is clicked there are so much blank space created towards the left side, please see the image below,
I can not figure out what might be the issue here, I am attaching the HTML and CSS below.
HTML
<div class="print-coupon-text">
<div class="pct-heading">
<img src="***image-source***" alt="Created by JAiCOUPONS" />
</div>
<div class="pct-col pct-col-1">
<div class="pct-store-logo">
<img src="***image-source***" alt="Coupon Store" />
</div>
<div class="pct-store-desc">
<span>http://abcdexample.com</span>
<span>#2333, 1st Comfort Road</span>
<span>Redint TF 78999</span>
<span>210 Price Fork Road</span>
<span>Redint TF 78999</span>
<span>(333) 323-4444</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="pct-col pct-col-2">
<span class="pct-offer-1">$50</span>
<span class="pct-offer-2">Off</span>
<span class="pct-offer-3"> Free Icecream </span>
</div>
<div class="pct-col pct-col-3">
<span class="pct-title">Buy 1 Dinner</span>
<span class="pct-title pct-title-end">And get the 2nd one Free</span>
<span class="pct-desc">Dine In, Carryout Only</span>
<span class="pct-desc">Excludes buffet with this coupon</span>
<span class="pct-desc">Not Valid with other Offers</span>
<span class="pct-desc">Expires : 15th Jan</span>
</div>
<div class="pct-footer">
<span class="pct-footer-1">Contact JAiCOUPONS # (972) 301-7898</span>
<span class="pct-footer-2">Coupon ID **** | ©JAiCOUPONS.com</span>
</div>
</div>
CSS
.print-coupon-text {
position: relative;
width: 100%;
float: left;
margin-bottom: 10px;
padding: 10px;
border: 1px dashed #000;
border-radius: 10px;
font-size: 10px;
text-align: left;
}
.pct-col {
width: 30%;
float: left;
margin: 0 8px;
}
.pct-store-desc span, .pct-footer span, .pct-desc {
display: block;
}
.pct-col.pct-col-2 {
padding-left: 5px;
padding-top: 85px;
}
.pct-col.pct-col-3 {
padding-top: 40px;
}
.pct-offer-1 {
font-size: 60px;
font-weight: bold;
}
.pct-offer-2 {
font-weight: bold;
}
.pct-offer-3 {
display: block;
}
.pct-title {
display: block;
font-size: 13px;
}
.pct-title-end {
border-bottom: 1px dotted;
padding-bottom: 5px;
}
.pct-store-logo img {
width: 150px;
height: 85px;
}
.pct-heading {
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
left: 28%;
}
.pct-heading img {
width: 90%;
}
.pct-footer-1 {
position: absolute;
bottom: 16px;
right: 6px;
}
.pct-footer-2 {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0px;
right: 6px;
}
#media print {
body * {
visibility: hidden;
}
.print-coupon-text, .print-coupon-text * {
visibility: visible;
}
.print-coupon-text {
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: 0;
}
}
Any help is appreciated.
UPDATE
Initial display is coming on the pop up.

I think you should give fixed width to your div.print-coupon-text
.print-coupon-text{
width: 700px; // or greater/less
}

Hi try displaying the coupon in its own page, you won't have this issue in that case. check screenshots below.
BTW, i was not able to replicate your issue, working fine for me with your code.
EDIT :: Tried using Bootstrap Popup as well, working fine.
.print-coupon-text {
position: relative;
width: 100%;
float: left;
margin-bottom: 10px;
padding: 10px;
border: 1px dashed #000;
border-radius: 10px;
font-size: 10px;
text-align: left;
}
.pct-col {
width: 30%;
float: left;
margin: 0 8px;
}
.pct-store-desc span,
.pct-footer span,
.pct-desc {
display: block;
}
.pct-col.pct-col-2 {
padding-left: 5px;
padding-top: 85px;
}
.pct-col.pct-col-3 {
padding-top: 40px;
}
.pct-offer-1 {
font-size: 60px;
font-weight: bold;
}
.pct-offer-2 {
font-weight: bold;
}
.pct-offer-3 {
display: block;
}
.pct-title {
display: block;
font-size: 13px;
}
.pct-title-end {
border-bottom: 1px dotted;
padding-bottom: 5px;
}
.pct-store-logo img {
width: 150px;
height: 85px;
}
.pct-heading {
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
left: 28%;
}
.pct-heading img {
width: 90%;
}
.pct-footer-1 {
position: absolute;
bottom: 16px;
right: 6px;
}
.pct-footer-2 {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0px;
right: 6px;
}
#media print {
body * {
visibility: hidden;
}
.print-coupon-text,
.print-coupon-text * {
visibility: visible;
}
.print-coupon-text {
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: 0;
}
}
<html lang="en">
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css">
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
</head>
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<!-- Modal -->
<div class="modal fade" id="myModal" role="dialog">
<div class="modal-dialog">
<!-- Modal content-->
<div class="modal-content">
<div class="modal-body">
<div class="print-coupon-text">
<div class="pct-heading">
<img src="***image-source***" alt="Created by JAiCOUPONS" />
</div>
<div class="pct-col pct-col-1">
<div class="pct-store-logo">
<img src="***image-source***" alt="Coupon Store" />
</div>
<div class="pct-store-desc">
<span>http://abcdexample.com</span>
<span>#2333, 1st Comfort Road</span>
<span>Redint TF 78999</span>
<span>210 Price Fork Road</span>
<span>Redint TF 78999</span>
<span>(333) 323-4444</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="pct-col pct-col-2">
<span class="pct-offer-1">$50</span>
<span class="pct-offer-2">Off</span>
<span class="pct-offer-3"> Free Icecream </span>
</div>
<div class="pct-col pct-col-3">
<span class="pct-title">Buy 1 Dinner</span>
<span class="pct-title pct-title-end">And get the 2nd one Free</span>
<span class="pct-desc">Dine In, Carryout Only</span>
<span class="pct-desc">Excludes buffet with this coupon</span>
<span class="pct-desc">Not Valid with other Offers</span>
<span class="pct-desc">Expires : 15th Jan</span>
</div>
<div class="pct-footer">
<span class="pct-footer-1">Contact JAiCOUPONS # (972) 301-7898</span>
<span class="pct-footer-2">Coupon ID **** | ©JAiCOUPONS.com</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="modal-footer">
<button type="button" class="btn btn-default" data-dismiss="modal">Close</button>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

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update fiddle below
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background-size: 100% 100%;
display: block;
float: left;
height: 14px;
margin-top: 2%;
width: 10px;
}
#logoutText1 {
color: #fff;
float: left;
font-size: 14px;
font-weight: 600;
margin-left: 7%;
}
You pulled right both buttons. Just replace pull-right class with pull-left in the second button and swap these buttons.
Also don’t use ID selectors in CSS.
are u use bootstrap so please check the below ans...
class="pull-left";
i would do it like this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
.footer {
background-color: #125e9a;
bottom: 0;
height: 5%;
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
}
.footer-links{
display: block;
float:left;
margin-left: 3%;
padding: 0.5%;
width: 98px;
}
.arrow{
background-color: green;
height: 14px;
margin-top: 2%;
width: 10px;
}
.footer .button-text{
color: #fff;
font-size: 14px;
font-weight: 600;
margin-left: 7%;
}
.footer-links-wrapper{
width: 215px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="footer" class="footer">
<div class="footer-links-wrapper">
<span id="help" class="pull-left footer-links">
<span id="left-arrow" class="arrow left-arrow"> << </span>
<span id="help-text" class="button-text">
HELP
</span>
</span>
<span id="logout" class="pull-right footer-links">
<span id="logout-text" class="button-text">
LOGOUT
</span>
<span id="right-arrow" class="arrow right-arrow"> >> </span>
</span>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
always better to write styles in classes and not by id
use "=" in attributes without spaces
name of classes and ids have to explain what you do (one way of comments)
in your code missing other styles, for look what you did in local browser

Block Elements Not Vertically Aligning

I'm currently trying to develop a website. At the moment I'm trying to get the design down, but its giving me quite a tough time.
I have 5 div's. Each one contains two span's, column1 and column2. The div's are block and the span's are inline-block. However, for some reason the div's don't want to align vertically. Any help is appreciated. Also, another thing. Some of the span's inside the div's were replaced with div's. I did this because I planned on using block elements inside of those particular areas and to do that and still validate they had to be div's, not span's.
Below is my current code:
.header {
color: #AEC6CF;
font-family: gabriola;
font-weight: 900;
font-size: 50px;
position: relative;
}
/* ID */
#row1 {
width: 98%;
height: 15%;
position: absolute;
display: block;
}
#row2 {
width: 98%;
height: 2.5%;
position: absolute;
display: block;
}
#row3 {
width: 98%;
height: 70%;
position: absolute;
display: block;
}
#row4 {
width: 98%;
height: 2.5%;
position: absolute;
display: block;
}
#row5 {
width: 98%;
height: 7.25%;
position: absolute;
display: block;
}
#column1 {
border-bottom: 3px solid black;
border-right: 3px solid black;
width: 20%;
height: 100%;
left: 0;
position: absolute;
display: inline-block;
}
#column2 {
border-bottom: 3px solid black;
border-left: 3px solid black;
width: 79.8%;
height: 100%;
right: 0;
position: absolute;
display: inline-block;
}
/* Misc. */
.center {
text-align: center;
}
.right {
text-align: right;
}
.left {
text-align: left;
}
.clearfix {
float: clear;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<meta charset=utf-8>
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="stylesheet.css">
<title>Design</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="row1">
<div id="column1" class="clearfix">
</div>
<div id="column2" class="clearfix">
<h1 class="header center">Generic Header</h1>
</div>
</div>
<div id="row2">
<div id="column1" class="clearfix">
</div>
<div id="column2" class="clearfix">
</div>
</div>
<div id="row3">
<span id="column1" class="clearfix">
</span>
<span id="column2" class="clearfix">
</span>
</div>
<div id="row4">
<span id="column1" class="clearfix">
</span>
<span id="column2" class="clearfix">
</span>
</div>
<div id="row5">
<div id="column1" class="clearfix" style="border-bottom: 0px;">
</div>
<div id="column2" class="clearfix" style="border-bottom: 0px;">
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
A couple of issues... is there a reason why all of your divs are positioned absolutely? Without specific margins they all just stack ontop of each other since position: absolute; takes them out of the flow of the document. Even relative to the container, they will all be stacked inside of the container.
Secondly, your column widths add up to over 100%. You need to account for the space that the border takes up.
Here is your code without absolutely positioned divs and with adjusted column widths. Hopefully that should get you on the right track.
.header {
color: #AEC6CF;
font-family: gabriola;
font-weight: 900;
font-size: 50px;
position: relative;
}
/* ID */
#row1 {
width: 98%;
height: 15%;
display: block;
}
#row2 {
width: 98%;
height: 2.5%;
display: block;
}
#row3 {
width: 98%;
height: 70%;
display: block;
}
#row4 {
width: 98%;
height: 2.5%;
display: block;
}
#row5 {
width: 98%;
height: 7.25%;
display: block;
}
#column1 {
border-bottom: 3px solid black;
border-right: 3px solid black;
width: 20%;
height: 100%;
left: 0;
display: inline-block;
}
#column2 {
border-bottom: 3px solid black;
border-left: 3px solid black;
width: 73%;
height: 100%;
right: 0;
display: inline-block;
}
/* Misc. */
.center {
text-align: center;
}
.right {
text-align: right;
}
.left {
text-align: left;
}
.clearfix {
float: clear;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<meta charset=utf-8>
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="stylesheet.css">
<title>Design</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="row1">
<div id="column1" class="clearfix">
</div>
<div id="column2" class="clearfix">
<h1 class="header center">Generic Header</h1>
</div>
</div>
<div id="row2">
<div id="column1" class="clearfix">
</div>
<div id="column2" class="clearfix">
</div>
</div>
<div id="row3">
<span id="column1" class="clearfix">
</span>
<span id="column2" class="clearfix">
</span>
</div>
<div id="row4">
<span id="column1" class="clearfix">
</span>
<span id="column2" class="clearfix">
</span>
</div>
<div id="row5">
<div id="column1" class="clearfix" style="border-bottom: 0px;">
</div>
<div id="column2" class="clearfix" style="border-bottom: 0px;">
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Absolute child not scrollable

Basically I'm trying to make the chat messages scrollable. However as of right now the content doesn't seem to be scrollable. When the "chat-messages-wrapper" class was relative it'd scroll just fine however I want the chat messages to appear at the bottom initially which is why I switched it to absolute.
Html:
<div class="chat-widget">
<div class="header">Social Chat</div>
<div class="chat-messages-wrapper">
<div class="chat-message">
<img class="profile-image" src="../Content/images/facebook-profile.png" /> <span class="header-1">
<img class="logo" src="../Content/images/facebook-logo.png" />
<span class="username">Jens Olsen says:</span>
</span> <span class="header-2">
<button class="reply btn btn-primary btn-xs">Reply</button>
<button class="like btn btn-success btn-xs">Like</button>
<button class="spam btn btn-danger btn-xs">Spam</button>
<span class="date">5:03PM</span>
</span>
<div class="text">This is the chat message. This is the chat message.</div>
</div>
<div class="chat-message">
<img class="profile-image" src="../Content/images/facebook-profile.png" /> <span class="header-1">
<img class="logo" src="../Content/images/twitter-logo.png" />
<span class="username">Jens Olsen says:</span>
</span> <span class="header-2">
<button class="reply btn btn-primary btn-xs">Reply</button>
<button class="like btn btn-success btn-xs">Like</button>
<button class="spam btn btn-danger btn-xs">Spam</button>
<span class="date">5:03PM</span>
</span>
<div class="text">This is the chat message. This is the chat message.</div>
</div>
<div class="chat-message">
<img class="profile-image" src="../Content/images/default-avatar.png" /> <span class="header-1">
<span class="username">Jens Olsen says:</span>
</span> <span class="header-2">
<button class="reply btn btn-primary btn-xs">Reply</button>
<button class="like btn btn-success btn-xs">Like</button>
<button class="spam btn btn-danger btn-xs">Spam</button>
<span class="date">5:03PM</span>
</span>
<div class="text">This is the chat message. This is the chat message.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="reply-box">
<input class="reply-text" placeholder="Type your message here..." />
<button class="btn btn-primary reply-button">Send</button>
</div>
</div>
Css:
.chat-widget {
position: fixed;
right: 5px;
bottom: 5px;
height: 95%;
width: 300px;
background-color: #FFF;
border: solid 3px #3B5998;
overflow: hidden;
}
.chat-widget .header {
text-align: center;
font-size: 18px;
color: #FFF;
background-color: #3B5998;
font-weight: bold;
padding-top: 5px;
padding-bottom: 5px;
}
.header {
position: relative;
z-index: 2;
width: 100%;
}
.chat-messages-wrapper {
position: absolute;
bottom: 40px;
padding-left: 7px;
padding-right: 7px;
height: auto;
overflow-y: auto;
}
.chat-message {
padding-top: 5px;
position: relative;
border-bottom: solid 1px #000;
overflow-y: auto;
}
.chat-message .profile-image {
height: 48px;
width: 48px;
border: solid 1px #000;
margin-right: 5px;
}
.chat-message > .header-1 {
position: absolute;
height: 20px;
}
.chat-message > .header-1 .logo {
width: 75px;
height: 20px;
}
.chat-message > .header-1 .username {
font-weight: bold;
}
.chat-message > .header-2 {
position: absolute;
top: 30px;
height: 20px;
}
.chat-message > .header-2 > .reply {
width: 50px;
}
.chat-message > .header-2 > .like {
width: 50px;
}
.chat-message > .header-2 > .spam {
width: 50px;
}
.chat-message > .header-2 .date {
font-style: italic;
position: relative;
right: 0px;
}
.chat-message .text {
position: relative;
margin: 5px;
}
.chat-message:last-child {
border-bottom: 0px;
}
.reply-box {
overflow-y: auto;
position: absolute;
bottom: 5px;
}
.reply-box .reply-text {
width: 70%;
height: 32px;
}
.reply-box .reply-button {
width: 25%;
}
Here's a JSFiddle with the entire code:
http://jsfiddle.net/5GCE5/1/
In order to get overflow-y to work, you need to specify an explicit (min/max) height for the .chat-messages-wrapper element.
However, since the box is positioned absolutely, you could play with top and bottom properties to achieve the same effect:
Example Here
.chat-messages-wrapper {
position: absolute;
padding-left: 7px;
padding-right: 7px;
/* height: auto; */
bottom: 40px; /* = height of bottom element */
top: 32px; /* = height of top element */
overflow-y: auto;
}
You need to give .chat-messages-wrapper a max-height
http://jsfiddle.net/5GCE5/6/