I'm having a frustrating time with HTML and CSS.
Basically, I'm trying to make a website with a layout like
Problem is, the div on the left has a massive margin, which displaces the canvas and makes happen.
I've tried all kinds of solutions of which here are some, with the problems they caused:
Setting the div's display to inline block. This made the div dissapear entirely for some reason, and made it's contents appear to the right of the canvas. (At least it moved the canvas up). I have to point out that the contents weren't actually visible. Ctrl+Shift+I said they were there`.
Changing the div to an inline component (span). Made no difference.
I tried margin: 0px;. This didn't change it at all. margin-left and margin-right to auto just centred the div and didn't move the canvas.
I tried setting manual width/height values for the div. No difference.
There are some solutions that I think are likely to work, but I am reluctant to try them.
I could make a table and add the elements into it, but I heard this is bad practice and would like to avoid it.
I could maually set the positions, but I fear that they might change across devices and resolutions.
I'm at a bit of a loss what to do. I am a beginner at HTML and layouting in general, so please excuse me if it's something really obvious I'm missing.
Thanks for any help.
It's not really "shrinking" you're after. But since I don't know what you're calling your divs and canvas, I'll give you the general solution.
-> https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_float.asp
So basically try adding this:
div, canvas {
float: left;
}
Assuming your div and canvas is a <div></div> and <canvas></canvas>, and that you haven't added a position: fixed; or position: absolute; to any of them.
Related
I'm sorry if this question has already been asked elsewhere.
However, I've got a page I'm building in Leadpages that is due in a couple of hours. It's got these half circles...
This is the code structure for a half circle...
The HTML is just a straight up plain image.
The CSS is as following:
.ring-right {
position: absolute;
right: 0;
width: 240px;
top: 2115px;
}
The issue is it’s really hard to get them to look really good on all screen sizes. They change position quite a bit even with a just a tiny browser resize. Which as a result can quickly overlap text over go in a position that does not look natural.
As the width of elements, like the blue block in this photo for example, change, that leaves circle landing in a weird spot. Sometimes overlapping the text.
For example, this would look better at the top...
Is their a better way to code these in, to better change with the screen sizes? At this moment, I would have to basically make a change as to how far from the top each ring is, with media queries at the moment. Except, that would result in needing to use dozens of media queries. Like one every few pixels practically.
Set that white element with blue squiggles as position: relative; if you haven't already, and then set the circles to be children or pseudo-elements (::before and ::after) and keep their position absolute.
An absolute child (:before & :after are treated like children as well) will have its position based off of its closest relative ancestor.
Without having all of the markup, it's a bit tough to see what all is going on. But using the relative position of the element you want to manipulate will result in FAR fewer media queries, if any.
Take a quick peek at this pen I whipped up and drag the window size around: https://codepen.io/xhynk/full/zYxmENp, and here's the pen link itself if you want to fork it/mess with it: https://codepen.io/xhynk/pen/zYxmENp
I ran into this issue while implementing a sticky footer solution. I have the footer working well, but my body element which encompasses everything within the tag just will not auto-extend beyond a random point further down that can only be reached by scrolling down (it's a lengthy page). My intention is for the body container (does that sound morbid or what?) to auto extend past all the div elements it contains. Isn't that what it's supposed to be doing? Right now there are still div elements sitting further down from where it ends, and the footer is sitting in the middle of my page right below it. If I can't achieve this behavior, I'll have to set the body to a fixed position in css, which I don't want to do.
Using the following CSS styling doesn't work, probably because my content extends beyond a page.
html, body {min-height: 100%; height: 100%;}
Can someone articulate what the most likely issues could be? Also, feel free to make any constructive comments on my code. This is my first web project.
Here's a link to my HTML code on CodePaste: HTML Code
And here's a link to my CSS code: CSS Code
Lastly, a link to a screenshot of my webpage showing the issue. Screenshot
The green bar is the footer, and the red border is the body element styled in css so it can be viewed. You'll see it ends right after the picture.
I'm pretty sure your main problem is setting the height of the body tag. Try not giving it a height (no max-height or height tags) or giving it height: auto to make it expand as its contents.
It could also be that you are setting child elements to positon: absolute which means that the parent will collapse to the size of whatever non-absolute elements are inside it.
Also, why the <p1> tags? They should be just <p>.
Code criticism:
It was extremely difficult to figure out what the problem was and I'm not sure that I gave the correct solution because of the way you showed your code. In future, try to give your code as a JSFiddle or a Codepen.
Also, consider using a CSS framework which will reduce the amount of CSS code you write a lot. I would suggest Bootstrap or Materialize but Bootstrap is more widely used.
Don't forget to follow CSS guidelines which will make your code more readable.
You could stretch the element to the full height of the window using vh.
.container{
height: 100vh;
}
You could then position your footer to the bottom using absolute position.
footer{
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
}
I've used this in the past for full page landing pages that aren't meant to scroll.
I don't exactly know what the question is asking, but I experimented a bit and figured that if you remove the 1 from the <p1> so you would have a normal <p> tag, it moves the text up completely. I have a very rough JS Fiddle.
Thanks to all who contributed. Based on suggestions from Sankarsh and Ori, I was able to solve the problem. Once I changed my div to just as they suggested, I noticed it began functioning as I intended and forcing the parent element down beneath it. Unfortunately, that only solved the problem for that element alone. That led to me discovering the element had a default "static" position, while most of my other elements were set to "absolute". After changing the positions of the bulk of my content to "relative" or "static", everything is working as intended!
TLDR: If you want a child element to stay within the boundaries of its parent element, you need to set the child's position to "static" or "relative". You cannot use "absolute". This way, instead of overflowing beyond the border of the parent, the child will automatically extend the parent's border to its intended position.
When I made my HTNL page, it looked perfect, but all of a sudden, I've been getting this huge white space on the bottom of my page. you can see it at http://thomaswd.com/pearinc2. How do I get rid of this?! My stylesheet's at http://thomaswd.com/pearinc2/style.css
If you look at the HTML element with the class back-iphone4s you'll notice it's positioned relatively using CSS.
If you remove the position: relative portion from the CSS rules for .back-iphone4s you'll notice it appears where your white space is.
Using position: relative like this is always horrible, white space appears where the element would have been if it wasn't positioned relatively.
What I would recommend is adding position: relative to the div with devices as its class, then use position: absolute; on .back-iphone4s and set it's position using that method. This way the back-iphone4s element is positioned relatively to it's parent, not relatively to where it would be in the normal document flow.
There are are a number of other ways you could solve this too, at I glance I would be very tempted to just turn those two iphones into one image, less HTML, less CSS and less images to download, but it appears you may have inteneded them to be seperate for a purpose, so maybe that's not a viable solution.
... phew, hope that makes sense, let me know if now.
I just had a quick look at your style, what I saw is technically very ugly.
You set all main elements with position:absolute and made them independent from context and content-flow. And because they are absolute, you have to give them a height - and that causes in things like that ugly white-space.
I would say you have the wrong concept of styling / structuring the page.
Try to use "position:absolute" very rare!
Give a height to the .devices class:
.devices {height: 520px;}
I have been trying for 2 hours to get my footer to stay at the bottom.
I have been trying "Matthew James Taylors" technique, but no luck.
Anyone see what I am missing or doing wrong?
Here is a Live Example : http://glustik.com/essex/index.html
Any help would be GREAT!
I would attached the CSS Code with the { } but it always breaks for me.
I feel like the CSS to fix this will still be problematic, I would be tempted to rewrite the whole thing: HTML markup and CSS, otherwise I suspect there will be more trouble down the road.
Here are some things that are most likely giving you trouble:
Duplicate id values (as mentioned)
Unnecessary absolute positioning
Hard-coded height values on several divs
Unnecessary use of "clearfix" divs
Overuse of negative margins to compensate for padding on other elements (always problematic)
Minor but relevant: use of classes like floatRight, just as bad as using inline styles.
I think in general, instead of trying to control the positioning and height of everything - just let the normal content flow dictate it. Naturally, the last element in your markup (footer) should be on the bottom without all these over-thought restrictions.
Best of luck!
EDIT: Apparently I've come off as unhelpful, so I felt I should add a direct response: For a quick fix, to simply get the footer on the bottom:
Remove the height and bottom padding from #mainBody
(tested in FF4 and IE8). There will still be some padding issues within the footer, but that can be resolved in a number of ways depending on how you'd like to approach it. Once again, good luck with your project.
You have the footer positioned absolutely in #container, which is positioned relatively. therefore, its being positioned at the bottom of #container.
try moving it out of #container, or remove the relative positioning from #container
Because all of the content inside your main container (#mainBody) is floated, the container's only way to determine it's height is via the "height" property, which is set to 100px;. The footer is correctly rendering right below the 100 pixel height of the main container.
You have three options:
you can either properly clear your main container so that its height is dynamic based on its content using a clearfix like this
or you can set the height of the main container to something larger. I changed it to 700px and the footer rendered well below the main body.
or you can remove the height altogether, which will probably be the best solution in the long-run. Thanks to #Gaby aka G. Petrioli for pointing this out.
I've been doing this a long time and have never heard of this method. That doesn't make it bad, but the currently accepted version in my circles comes from Ryan Fait (http://ryanfait.com/resources/footer-stick-to-bottom-of-page/)
If you load this up in Chrome and disable the position:relative from the container it does properly glue the footer to the bottom of the page. That signals a problem to me, because it's contrary to what the tutorial says. Regardless, it accomplishes your goal.
You should take at least a look at Compass. It makes CSS so much easier. For your particular question, take a look at:
http://compass-style.org/reference/compass/layout/sticky_footer/
Make the following changes and it rendered fine in Chrome for me:
remove bottom:0; from #footer
change padding-bottom:167px; in #mainBody to the desired location (I used 455px and it looked pretty good)
I'm having an issue where a div is not butting up to the very top of the page. I tried to solve this by adding
position:absolute;
top:0px;
which put it at the top like I wanted but it also went to the left of the page. I want it to be centered in the page which works if I use auto left and right margins without position:absolute.
Is there any way to have auto margins AND position it at the very top of the page?
I think you have to set left and right (or maybe only left) to 50%
left:50%;
right:50%;
Not an answer to your question, but this sounds like a hacky solution. Don't use position: absolute to solve spacing issues - it has too many other consequences, some of which we can't even see that become apparent on smaller resolutions and such.
Better use Firebug or a similar tool to find out what is causing the space, and fix the reason. It's annoying, but really worth the time.
If you really need to do this, one solution might be to put the position: absolute on a div that spans across the whole screen (width: 100%) and put the real div in there - presumably with the correct margins. (I can't build a test case right now so I can't guarantee 100% that this will work.)
position: absolute takes elements out of the normal flow calculations, so I'm not sure whether or not you can have auto-margins.
Either way, it's generally a bad idea for something like that. My advice is to look into why it's not butting up against the top of the page with normal positioning instead.
I never get that problem because the first thing I do in all of my stylesheets is reset all margins and padding to zero and then redefine them explicitly.
In your case, this might be enough:
html, body {
margin-top: 0;
padding-top: 0;
}