I' a web developed beginning to dabble in CSS.
For a Django web app of mine, I'm trying to get a <textarea> and a <div> side-by-side as inline neighbors. Moreover, I need them to be fully responsive across screen sizes.
My code so far is:
<textarea cols='40' rows='3' class='cxl' style='width:70%;float:left;height:70px;border-radius:10px;border: 1px #CFD8DC solid;background-color:#FAFAFA;'></textarea>
<div style='display:inline-block;float:left;background-color:lightgrey;width:25%;height:70px;border: 1px solid lightgrey;text-align:center;font-weight:bold;border-radius:10px;color:white;'>IM A DIV</div>
The above is wrapped up in a div like so:
<div style="max-width:600px;width:95%;">
</div>
Currently, they're successfully lining up. However, if I keep width:70% for the <textarea> and width:30% for the div, the alignment is lost. Next, I lessen the latter to width:29%. The elements line up, however smaller screen-sizes immediately break it up. I.e. very weak responsiveness.
If I keep lowering width point by point, I experience a greater amount of tolerance to decreasing screensizes. Ultimately, if I go with width:70% and width:25%, the elements line up for screen sizes as small as my requirements.
Why doesn't it just work with width:70% and width:30%? And what can I do to ensure they work like that?
The border adds to the effective width of the div so the total effective width of the two elements adds up to more than 100%.
You could set the box-sizing property of the div to border-box. That way, it will include the border in the 30% and everything should work as intended.
https://css-tricks.com/box-sizing/
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Lacking better terms for the problem, this question got a bit long. Sorry!
I've been trying to build a simple horizontal layout with a bunch of <div>s with width: 100%; height: 100% next to each other ("screens" of an app that you can swipe).
In Chrome's responsive preview, as well as on a real device, empty space appeared below the <div>s — no invisible objects, no traces of the excess height in any DOM properties.
Here's a gist, try it via bl.ocks.org. Scrolled all the way down, it looks like this:
Red/blue are the divs, yellow is bodys background-color.
In a related answer I found this:
Chrome infers the layout height using the width and screen's aspect ratio. i.e. height=width/aspectRatio
Which means that if my content is wider than the viewport, a minimal height will be calculated for it. I find this weird, and came up with workarounds:
set html, body { overflow-y: hidden}
put all children of <body> inside a <div> wrapper
Since both methods have downsides or aren't always applicable, I am wondering: is there a way to control this behavior, like, set the inferred layout height to "auto"?
I have this CSS: https://cal-linux.com/styles/tutorial.css
And a sample page that uses it: https://cal-linux.com/tutorials/gswc++.html
When I display this on a smartphone (or when I check it through Google's Mobile friendliness verify service), the layout looks huge (badly cropped, instead of reduced to fit the smartphone's screen.
I only use proportional measures (for example, outsidecontainer's div has width 80%, inside right-most column has min-width 25%). I'm placing Google Ads in there, but it's a "Responsive" add, which is supposed to adapt to the page's available size and layout.
Any tips on this? I figured posting the actual links to the pages might be ideal; but please let me know if a "minimal" instance of code that reproduces the problem would be preferred.
Thanks,
Cal-linux
There are a few things I note here:
You use display:table-row and display:table-cell a bit too much. Those don't respond as well to the resizing especially if you have not specified the width of each item. Instead either use floats with a clear:both on the container's :after pseudo-element or inline-block. Either way you should define percent widths for the containers.
Your css has a lot of white-space:nowrap but doesn't use overflow:auto which forces the element to not resize the content and just stretch its parent container.
Aside from that a few places I see a fixed px width which makes it more difficult to resize. It doesn't seem to be your ads. Although google's script does throw an error about trying to put an ad in an 86px x undefined space. You can set a fixed height or at least a min-height to give the script an idea of how big an ad should be placed there.
The easiest solution is to incorporate bootstrap to do the heavy lifting of setting up a grid for what you want.
You can basically do your two column style like so:
<div class="container-fluid">
<div class="left-col col-md-11">
<!--- ALL YOUR CONTENT HERE //-->
</div>
<div class="right-col col-md-1">
<!---Google Ads go Here //-->
</div>
</div>
If you want to stick with your own style, by using the code inspector in chrome I was able to get to the following result when resized:
I made the tablerow class be a standard display:block
The first column was set to width:75%; display:inline-block;
The second column was set to width:25%; display:inline-block;
The autosize elements changed to display:block;max-width:100%; overflow:auto;width:auto;padding:0
The div.code blocks were changed to display:block;white-space:nowrap;width:auto;
Everything else stays the same pretty much. That should fix it, however you should note that frameworks like bootstrap help out with mobile sites by making the page columns collapse and go one ontop of another for mobile browsers so that they get maximum space.
Im trying to build a fluid layout in CSS with percentages instead of pixels. I want it so that if the user tries to zoom in on the website, all internal proportions should stay the same.
Right now, when I zoom in, the text grows out of the drivs and the layout breaks.
I'm using a wrapper and three columns which has about 30 percent in width each.
Since this is sort of a layout problem, I've posted the entire layout on JSBin. The problem is apparent there as well. When you zoom in, the internal proportions break and the text grows out.
http://jsbin.com/zerewuto/1/
Anyone got any ideas how to fix this?
In top of your css add:
* { box-sizing: border-box; }
This makes the box model calculate paddings and borders inside of the box. It's best to use when working with relative measures. (Or always)
EDIT: Forgot to mention. The reason the layout breaks is because of margins. At a point they + the percentage becomes more than 100%.
Consider a page that is 100px wide only. Then each 10px margin would be equal to 10%.
Lycka till!
You could try to add word-break: break-all to your CSS.
I would like to warn you that Liquid / Fluid layouts do not prescribe the use of percentage values for everything as this can easily cause display problems like this.
Use pixel values and percentage values reasonably to achieve a robust liquid design.
I'm having a slight problem. Whenever I hover over the "SEO" option on my navigation in IE, the navigation breaks & moves to the side. This doesn't happen in Firefox. Changing the navigation to position:absolute fixes it, but then the main content becomes merged with the navigation. It all validates. Any help would be much appreciated!
http://www.joemarketeer.com
http://jsfiddle.net/eoJ1/Ra4tR/
Thanks loads!
The navleft and navright divs are resizing independently, which is to be expected given your design structure. But it looks weird as it comes down on top of the content below:
One suggestion I can give you is not to set the navigation bar width in %, which you have done for these two divs. If you set a fixed width (in px) or remove the width specification completely (in which case it will take the width of its inner content), a horizontal scrollbar will appear below the page when the width is small, which I suppose is fine. Also, use as few floats as possible as they break the flow of content in the document and are more prone to breaking layouts. Both these divs have a float:left, which can be dumped for more stable solutions. I'm saying all this because I think the breaking of the layout on hover is occurring due to these reasons. If you can take care of this, your problem might disappear.
So my suggestion is to have a single nav div with width: 100%. Inside this put two divs: navleft and navright with display:inline and widths a.) specified in px or not at all, or b.) specified in % but with some min-width in px. If you don't specify any width for navright, it will expand to fill all of the space on the right.
This way these two divs will not reflow independently.
Basically, toy around more until you get better command over CSS; I think more experience will automatically help you sort out issues like this.
Here is my site, first of all.
You'll notice that underneath the divider bar in the middle of the page, there are three columns, one with a form, one with text, one with links.
Now, resize the window to slightly smaller, and the right div will drop down to the next line.
Is there anyway to just not display that? So, the divs will adjust (I have a liquid layout) up to the point where they won't fit, then, instead of wrapping the div down to the next line, it just won't be displayed?
You can also achieve that with CSS only.
Just assign the following CSS attributes to #row4:
#row4 {
min-width:1202px; /* the exact value depends on the sum of the width of your 3 column boxes */
overflow:hidden;
}
This differs slightly from your intended solution, since the right box will stay partly visible when sizing down the window and will not immediately disappear completely.
Please be aware that min-width won't work in IE6. However, there are several ways to emulate the min-width property, if you need to support old IEs:
http://www.thecssninja.com/xhtml/ie6-min-width-solutions
You can give them a wrapper div with a min-width set and force it to use a horizontal scrollbar if it gets too small. The nice thing about a wrapper div is you can give it a max-width as well and keep things from getting wonky on super huge monitors.
I'm not a fan of horizontal scrollbars, but it beats completely removing content.
Ok here is what you should do
Wrap all three floated division on a parent div, something like this
<div id="parent">
<div class="form">......</div>
<div class="text">......</div>
<div class="links">.....</div>
</div>
Now to solve your problem give a fixed height to the parent div like
#parent { height:400px;clear:both; }
You would have to use Javascript to get the width of the viewport, then change the display property of the div that is wrapping to display:none so that it doesn't show up when the browser width is too small.