I have this html code-
.boxes{
float: left;
}
.box_1{
background-color: orange;
height: 100px;
width: 100px;
}
.box_2{
background-color: blue;
height: 100px;
width: 100px;
}
.box_3{
background-color: green;
height: 100px;
width: 100px;
}
<div class="boxes">
<div class="box_1">
</div>
<div class="box_2">
</div>
<div class="box_3">
</div>
</div>
Why isn't the output like this-
Why I have to add float property to each of the boxes, i.e.,box_1,box_2,box_3 to get the desired output? Thanks for your help!
You are floating the container and should float every single box, to do this you can use the direct descendant of selector (>) in css
or you can try this:
.boxes > div{
float: left;
}
The reason it doesn't show up that way is only the container .boxes is being floated. The float property isn't inherited into child elements.
So the container is floated and the children being "block" elements cause each other to wrap to the next line.
You can fix it by adding a float: left to all of the children (won't show this as other answers have already), or if you only want the parent floated adding display: inline-block to all of the children. The difference being, if you want the content of .boxes to be treated with normal "document flow" rules you don't want them to be floated.
A More Lengthy Explanation
The reason you need to float or change display to inline-block is that doing either will change the <div>s from having a block display to something else. float does so automatically, setting display: inline-block does so explicitly. This will tell the browser to treat the blocks like an inline or word, allowing them to be placed next to one another.
So even though you're floating your container, since the children still are being displayed as block elements they cause each other to break lines and display vertically.
.boxes{
float: left;
}
.boxes > div{
display: inline-block;
}
.box_1{
background-color: orange;
height: 100px;
width: 100px;
}
.box_2{
background-color: blue;
height: 100px;
width: 100px;
}
.box_3{
background-color: green;
height: 100px;
width: 100px;
}
<div class="boxes">
<div class="box_1">
</div><div class="box_2">
</div><div class="box_3">
</div>
</div>
As I said in my comment:
"You're floating the container, not the boxes"
Remove:
.boxes{
float: left;
}
Add:
.boxes > div{
float: left;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/dxuxwpmb/
Change your html layout to the following:
<body>
<div class="boxes box_1">
</div>
<div class="boxes box_2">
</div>
<div class="boxes box_3">
</div>
</body>
OR you can change your CSS to:
.boxes div{
float: left;
}
The issue is that you were trying to float the container and not the dividers within the container.
I have this HTML code
<div style="display:inline" >
<div>
<label>NOM:</label>
</div>
<div>
<label>Ben felten</label>
</div>
</div>
I got this result:
I need to change my code to get a result like this :
I need the two labels displayed in the same line and each div (parent to each label) having a width of 50 percent of the page's width.
How can i change my snipet to do that?
Thanks
Try something like this:
<div style="display:inline" >
<div style="float: left; width: 50%;">
<label>NOM:</label>
</div>
<div style="float: left; width: 50%;">
<label>Ben felten</label>
</div>
</div>
You need display inline for more than just the parent div.
div{
display:inline;
}
label{
display:inline;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/SVH5C/
add a class to your main div:
<div class="main">
<div >
<label>NOM:</label>
</div>
<div>
<label>Ben felten</label>
</div>
</div>
and in your css:
.main div{width: 50%; float: left;}
Or if those inside divs are realy there just for the labels there's no need for them to exist and you can style the labels directly, like:
<div class="main">
<label>NOM:</label>
<label>Ben felten</label>
</div>
CSS:
.main label{display: block; width: 50%; float: left;}
HTML:
<div>
<div class="label-container">
<label>NOM:</label>
</div>
<div class="label-container">
<label >Ben felten</label>
</div>
<div class="labels-end"/>
</div>
CSS:
div.labels-end{
clear: both;
}
div.label-container{
float: left;
width: 50%;
}
And the fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/RsK5N/3/
Div "labels-end" is not mandatory if labels spread over the entire width like in this case.
Without extra clear: both styled div browser will try to put the latter content in the same line as your labels. So it works without this div but only because there is no more width available.
You can also use inline-blocks and table-cells as follows.
Using inline-blocks
<div class="ex1">
<label>NOM:</label><label>Ben felten</label>
</div>
div.ex1 {
border: 1px dashed gray;
width: auto; /* will take the width of parent (page) container */
}
div.ex1 label {
display: inline-block;
width: 50%;
background-color: beige;
overflow: auto;
vertical-align: top;
}
Using CSS table-cells
<div class="ex2">
<label>NOM:</label><label>Ben felten</label>
</div>
div.ex2 {
border: 1px dashed gray;
width: 100%; /* will take the width of parent (page) container */
display: table;
}
div.ex2 label {
display: table-cell;
width: 50%;
background-color: beige;
}
If you use inline blocks, you need to be careful about any white space between the two label elements since any white space will add to the width of the line and will cause the second label to wrap to a second line. Use vertical-align: top to get rid of the extra white space below the labels which arises because of the inline formatting.
The extra white space issue does not arise with table-cells. Use width: 100% on the table div to make it fill up the width of the parent container (auto gives a shrink-to-fit width).
See demo: http://jsfiddle.net/audetwebdesign/Nb24q/
Comment: You don't need to wrap the label elements in div unless you need them for some other reason.
UPDATE: The answers have got me close, but they still don't align vertically as the text div is larger, how can I make them both the same height and therefore align?
I would like to have two DIVs next to each other, one containing an image and one containing text, both sitting in a container DIV.
The image should be 15% of the width of the container div, with the text using the remaining 85%
The image and text should be aligned vertically within their respective DIVs, so it looks like they are aligned with each other.
I've tried to work this out but can't seem to do it! Can anyone help?
#picture {
float: left;
width: 15%;
line-height: auto;
}
#text {
width: auto;
padding-left: 16%;
line-height: auto;
vertical-align: middle;
margin-top: auto;
margin-bottom: auto;
}
#text p {
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
line-height: normal;
}
and
<div id="quotes">
<div id="picture">
<img style="width: 100%; vertical-align: middle" src="tom.jpg" >
</div>
<div id="text">
<p>"Christiaan was one of the stand out candidates throughout, therefore there was no hesitation in offering him a place on this highly sort after scheme..."</p>
</div>
</div>
Here's a fiddle with your code in it: http://jsfiddle.net/hQ6Vw/1/
The only changes I made was to assign matching top/bottom margins to the img and p tags. I think that will give you the effect you're looking for.
If you use float and verticl-align, those two won'nt work together.
Float extract itself from regular flow and go slide on one side or the other on top of next line right after any content within the regular flow.
Vertical-align works:
in betweem inline-boxes (inline-block-level element or displayed so with display:inline-block;)
inside td or it's CSS default display : display:table-cell;
here jsfiddle #TXChetG updated
Using display:inline-block; http://jsfiddle.net/GCyrillus/hQ6Vw/2/
Using display:table/* table-cell*/;
http://jsfiddle.net/GCyrillus/hQ6Vw/3/
This should get you close:
<div>
<div style="background: grey; width: 15%; float:left"></div>
<div style="background: blue; width: 85%; float:left"></div>
</div>
Replace the grey background div with your image and the blue with your text.
Check this out
HTML:
<section>
<div id="one"></div>
<div id="two"></div>
</section>
CSS:
section {
width: 80%;
height: 200px;
background: aqua;
margin: auto;
padding: 10px;
}
div#one {
width: 15%;
height: 200px;
background: red;
float: left;
}
div#two {
margin-left: 15%;
height: 200px;
background: black;
}
Is this what you mean?
html
<div class="container">
<div class="images">
<img src="http://jsfiddle.net/img/logo.png" style="background-color:black">
</div>
<div class="text">
Example
</div>
</div>
<div class="container">
<div class="images">
<img src="http://jsfiddle.net/img/logo.png" style="background-color:black">
</div>
<div class="text">
Example
</div>
</div>
css
.container {
clear: both;
}
.images {
width: 15%;
float: left;
vertical-align: text-top;
}
.text {
width: 85%;
float: right;
vertical-align:text-top;
}
Why not just set the #text p display to display: inline or display:block; or use margins to align them?
<div id="quotes">
<div id="picture">
<img src="tom.jpg" />
</div>
<div id="text">
<p>"Christiaan was one of the stand out candidates throughout, therefore there was no hesitation in offering him a place on this highly sort after scheme..."</p>
</div>
</div>
Display the container div as table and the text and image divs as table-cell to make them the same heights. You can then centre the image vertically through vertical-align:middle.
#quotes {
display:table;
}
#picture {
width: 15%;
display:table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
}
#text {
display:table-cell;
width:85%;
padding-left: 16%;
}
#picture img {
width: 100%;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/X3WsV/1/
I have this issue I can't find a solution for it:
I have 3 divs, two of them are located inside the third.
The div which contains the others has a percentage width.
The second one which is inside the first, doesn't have a specific width and is floated to the left.
The third which is also inside the first does have a specific width and is floated to the right.
The question is how would I make the second div take as much width as possible??
Because it fits the contents as default.
<div id="a">
<div id="b">
</div>
<div id="c">
</div>
</div>
<style>
#a{
width: 80%;
}
#b{
width: ??;
float:left;
}
#c{
width: 50px;
float:right;
}
</style>
arrange your divs like this
<div id="a">
<div id="c">456</div>
<div id="b">123</div>
</div>
and remove the float from #b
#b{
background-color:#06F;
}
check the jsFiddle file
Working jsFiddle Demo
You should put your fixed element before the other one:
<div id="a">
<div id="c">
FIXED ELEMENT
</div>
<div id="b">
FLEXIBLE ELEMENT
</div>
</div>
And in CSS:
#a {
width: 80%;
background: green;
overflow: hidden;
}
#c {
width: 50px;
float: right;
background: yellow;
}
#b {
margin-right: 50px;
background: pink;
}
Floats aren't a great choice for layout purposes, since that's not really what it was designed for. If all you're looking for is to have 2 elements side-by-side and not the other aspects of float, I recommend the table* display properties instead:
http://cssdeck.com/labs/tbarj05i
#a{
width: 80%;
display: table;
}
#b{
display: table-cell;
}
#c{
width: 50px;
display: table-cell;
}
I would suggest giving #C a percentage value instead of pixels, or find out the total width and set it to that minus 50px.
Also did you try width:100%?
width: 100% for B is his container's width, hope this illustrates:
<html>
<head>
<style>
div{ border: solid 1px #ccc;}
#a{
width: 80%;
}
#b{
width: 100%;
float:left;
}
#c{
width: 50px;
float:right;
}
</style></head><body>
<div id="a">
<div id="b">DIV B
</div>
<div id="c">DIV C
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I have a problem when I try to center the div block "products" because I don't know in advance the div width. Anybody have a solution?
Update: The problem I have is I don't know how many products I'll display, I can have 1, 2 or 3 products, I can center them if it was a fixed number as I'd know the width of the parent div, I just don't know how to do it when the content is dynamic.
.product_container {
text-align: center;
height: 150px;
}
.products {
height: 140px;
text-align: center;
margin: 0 auto;
clear: ccc both;
}
.price {
margin: 6px 2px;
width: 137px;
color: #666;
font-size: 14pt;
font-style: normal;
border: 1px solid #CCC;
background-color: #EFEFEF;
}
<div class="product_container">
<div class="products" id="products">
<div id="product_15">
<img src="/images/ecommerce/card_default.png">
<div class="price">R$ 0,01</div>
</div>
<div id="product_15">
<img src="/images/ecommerce/card_default.png">
<div class="price">R$ 0,01</div>
</div>
<div id="product_15">
<img src="/images/ecommerce/card_default.png">
<div class="price">R$ 0,01</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Update 27 Feb 2015: My original answer keeps getting voted up, but now I normally use #bobince's approach instead.
.child { /* This is the item to center... */
display: inline-block;
}
.parent { /* ...and this is its parent container. */
text-align: center;
}
My original post for historical purposes:
You might want to try this approach.
<div class="product_container">
<div class="outer-center">
<div class="product inner-center">
</div>
</div>
<div class="clear"/>
</div>
Here's the matching style:
.outer-center {
float: right;
right: 50%;
position: relative;
}
.inner-center {
float: right;
right: -50%;
position: relative;
}
.clear {
clear: both;
}
JSFiddle
The idea here is that you contain the content you want to center in two divs, an outer one and an inner one. You float both divs so that their widths automatically shrink to fit your content. Next, you relatively position the outer div with it's right edge in the center of the container. Lastly, you relatively position the inner div the opposite direction by half of its own width (actually the outer div's width, but they are the same). Ultimately that centers the content in whatever container it's in.
You may need that empty div at the end if you depend on your "product" content to size the height for the "product_container".
An element with ‘display: block’ (as div is by default) has a width determined by the width of its container. You can't make a block's width dependent on the width of its contents (shrink-to-fit).
(Except for blocks that are ‘float: left/right’ in CSS 2.1, but that's no use for centering.)
You could set the ‘display’ property to ‘inline-block’ to turn a block into a shrink-to-fit object that can be controlled by its parent's text-align property, but browser support is spotty. You can mostly get away with it by using hacks (eg. see -moz-inline-stack) if you want to go that way.
The other way to go is tables. This can be necessary when you have columns whose width really can't be known in advance. I can't really tell what you're trying to do from the example code — there's nothing obvious in there that would need a shrink-to-fit block — but a list of products could possibly be considered tabular.
[PS. never use ‘pt’ for font sizes on the web. ‘px’ is more reliable if you really need fixed size text, otherwise relative units like ‘%’ are better. And “clear: ccc both” — a typo?]
.center{
text-align:center;
}
.center > div{ /* N.B. child combinators don't work in IE6 or less */
display:inline-block;
}
JSFiddle
Most browsers support the display: table; CSS rule. This is a good trick to center a div in a container without adding extra HTML nor applying constraining styles to the container (like text-align: center; which would center all other inline content in the container), while keeping dynamic width for the contained div:
HTML:
<div class="container">
<div class="centered">This content is centered</div>
</div>
CSS:
.centered { display: table; margin: 0 auto; }
.container {
background-color: green;
}
.centered {
display: table;
margin: 0 auto;
background-color: red;
}
<div class="container">
<div class="centered">This content is centered</div>
</div>
Update (2015-03-09):
The proper way to do this today is actually to use flexbox rules. Browser support is a little bit more restricted (CSS table support vs flexbox support) but this method also allows many other things, and is a dedicated CSS rule for this type of behavior:
HTML:
<div class="container">
<div class="centered">This content is centered</div>
</div>
CSS:
.container {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column; /* put this if you want to stack elements vertically */
}
.centered { margin: 0 auto; }
.container {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column; /* put this if you want to stack elements vertically */
background-color: green;
}
.centered {
margin: 0 auto;
background-color: red;
}
<div class="container">
<div class="centered">This content is centered</div>
</div>
six ways to skin that cat:
Button one: anything of type display: block will assume the full parents width. (unless combined with float or a display: flex parent). True. Bad example.
Button 2: going for display: inline-block will lead to automatic (rather than full) width. You can then center using text-align: center on the wrapping block. Probably the easiest, and most widely compatible, even with ‘vintage’ browsers...
.wrapTwo
text-align: center;
.two
display: inline-block; // instantly shrinks width
Button 3:
No need to put anything on the wrap. So perhaps this is the most elegant solution. Also works vertically. (Browser support for transtlate is good enough (≥IE9) these days...).
position: relative;
display: inline-block; // instantly shrinks width
left: 50%;
transform: translateX(-50%);
Btw: Also a great way for vertically centering blocks of unknown height (in connection with absolute positioning).
Button 4:
Absolute positioning. Just make sure to reserve enough height in the wrapper, since noone else will (neither clearfix nor implicit...)
.four
position absolute
top 0
left 50%
transform translateX(-50%)
.wrapFour
position relative // otherwise, absolute positioning will be relative to page!
height 50px // ensure height
background lightgreen // just a marker
Button 5:
float (which brings also block-level elements to dynamic width) and a relative shift. Although I've never seen this in the wild. Perhaps there are disadvantages...
.wrapFive
&:after // aka 'clearfix'
content ''
display table
clear both
.five
float left
position relative
left 50%
transform translateX(-50%)
Update: Button 6:
And nowadays, you could also use flex-box. Note, that styles apply to the wrapper of the centered object.
.wrapSix
display: flex
justify-content: center
→ full source code (stylus syntax)
I found a more elegant solution, combining "inline-block" to avoid using float and the hacky clear:both. It still requires nested divs tho, which isnt very semantic but it just works...
div.outer{
display:inline-block;
position:relative;
left:50%;
}
div.inner{
position:relative;
left:-50%;
}
Hope it helps!
<div class="outer">
<div class="target">
<div class="filler">
</div>
</div>
</div>
.outer{
width:100%;
height: 100px;
}
.target{
position: absolute;
width: auto;
height: 100px;
left: 50%;
transform: translateX(-50%);
}
.filler{
position:relative;
width:150px;
height:20px;
}
If the target element is absolutely positioned, you can center it by moving it 50% in one direction (left: 50%) and then transforming it 50% in the opposition direction (transform:translateX(-50%)). This works without defining the target element's width (or with width:auto). The parent element's position can be static, absolute, relative, or fixed.
By default, div elements are displayed as block elements, so they have 100% width, making centering them meaningless. As suggested by Arief, you must specify a width and you can then use auto when specifying margin in order to center a div.
Alternatively, you could also force display: inline, but then you'd have something that pretty much behaves like a span instead of a div, so that doesn't make a lot of sense.
This will center an element such as an Ordered List, or Unordered List, or any element.
Just wrap it with a Div with the class of outerElement and give the inner element the class of innerElement.
The outerelement class accounts for IE, old Mozilla, and most newer browsers.
.outerElement {
display: -moz-inline-stack;
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
zoom: 1;
position: relative;
left: 50%;
}
.innerElement {
position: relative;
left: -50%;
}
use css3 flexbox with justify-content:center;
<div class="row">
<div class="col" style="background:red;">content1</div>
<div class="col" style="">content2</div>
</div>
.row {
display: flex; /* equal height of the children */
height:100px;
border:1px solid red;
width: 400px;
justify-content:center;
}
Slight variation on Mike M. Lin's answer
If you add overflow: auto; ( or hidden ) to div.product_container, then you don't need div.clear.
This is derived from this article -> http://www.quirksmode.org/css/clearing.html
Here is modified HTML:
<div class="product_container">
<div class="outer-center">
<div class="product inner-center">
</div>
</div>
</div>
And here is modified CSS:
.product_container {
overflow: auto;
/* width property only required if you want to support IE6 */
width: 100%;
}
.outer-center {
float: right;
right: 50%;
position: relative;
}
.inner-center {
float: right;
right: -50%;
position: relative;
}
The reason, why it's better without div.clear (apart that it feels wrong to have an empty element) is Firefox'es overzealous margin assignment.
If, for example, you have this html:
<div class="product_container">
<div class="outer-center">
<div class="product inner-center">
</div>
</div>
<div style="clear: both;"></div>
</div>
<p style="margin-top: 11px;">Some text</p>
then, in Firefox (8.0 at the point of writing), you will see 11px margin before product_container. What's worse, is that you will get a vertical scroll bar for the whole page, even if the content fits nicely into the screen dimensions.
Try this new css and markup
Here is modified HTML:
<div class="product_container">
<div class="products" id="products">
<div id="product_15" class="products_box">
<img src="/images/ecommerce/card_default.png">
<div class="price">R$ 0,01</div>
</div>
<div id="product_15" class="products_box">
<img src="/images/ecommerce/card_default.png">
<div class="price">R$ 0,01</div>
</div>
<div id="product_15" class="products_box">
<img src="/images/ecommerce/card_default.png">
<div class="price">R$ 0,01</div>
</div>
</div>
And here is modified CSS:
<pre>
.product_container
{
text-align: center;
height: 150px;
}
.products {
left: 50%;
height:35px;
float:left;
position: relative;
margin: 0 auto;
width:auto;
}
.products .products_box
{
width:auto;
height:auto;
float:left;
right: 50%;
position: relative;
}
.price {
margin: 6px 2px;
width: 137px;
color: #666;
font-size: 14pt;
font-style: normal;
border: 1px solid #CCC;
background-color: #EFEFEF;
}
<div class="product_container">
<div class="outer-center">
<div class="product inner-center">
</div>
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>
.outer-center
{
float: right;
right: 50%;
position: relative;
}
.inner-center
{
float: right;
right: -50%;
position: relative;
}
.clear
{
clear: both;
}
.product_container
{
overflow:hidden;
}
If you dont provide "overflow:hidden" for ".product_container" the "outer-center" div will overlap other nearby contents to the right of it. Any links or buttons to the right of "outer-center" wont work. Try background color for "outer-center" to understand the need of "overflow :hidden"
I found interesting solution, I was making slider and had to center slide controls and I did this and works fine. You can also add relative position to parent and move child position vertical. Take a look http://jsfiddle.net/bergb/6DvJz/
CSS:
#parent{
width:600px;
height:400px;
background:#ffcc00;
text-align:center;
}
#child{
display:inline-block;
margin:0 auto;
background:#fff;
}
HTML:
<div id="parent">
<div id="child">voila</div>
</div>
Do display:table; and set margin to auto
Important bit of code:
.relatedProducts {
display: table;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
No matter how many elements you got now it will auto align in center
Example in code snippet:
.relatedProducts {
display: table;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
a {
text-decoration:none;
}
<div class="row relatedProducts">
<div class="homeContentTitle" style="margin: 100px auto 35px; width: 250px">Similar Products</div>
test1
test2
test3
</div>
I'm afraid the only way to do this without explicitly specifying the width is to use (gasp) tables.
Crappy fix, but it does work...
CSS:
#mainContent {
position:absolute;
width:600px;
background:#FFFF99;
}
#sidebar {
float:left;
margin-left:610px;
max-width:300;
background:#FFCCCC;
}
#sidebar{
text-align:center;
}
HTML:
<center>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td>
<div id="mainContent">
1<br/>
<br/>
123<br/>
123<br/>
123<br/>
</div><div id="sidebar"><br/>
</div></td>
</tr>
</table>
</center>
Simple fix that works in old browsers (but does use tables, and requires a height to be set):
<div style="width:100%;height:40px;position:absolute;top:50%;margin-top:-20px;">
<table style="width:100%"><tr><td align="center">
In the middle
</td></tr></table>
</div>
<style type="text/css">
.container_box{
text-align:center
}
.content{
padding:10px;
background:#ff0000;
color:#ffffff;
}
use span istead of the inner divs
<div class="container_box">
<span class="content">Hello</span>
</div>
I know this question is old, but I'm taking a crack at it. Very similar to bobince's answer but with working code example.
Make each product an inline-block. Center the contents of the container. Done.
http://jsfiddle.net/rgbk/6Z2Re/
<style>
.products{
text-align:center;
}
.product{
display:inline-block;
text-align:left;
background-image: url('http://www.color.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/New_Product.jpg');
background-size:25px;
padding-left:25px;
background-position:0 50%;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
}
.price {
margin: 6px 2px;
width: 137px;
color: #666;
font-size: 14pt;
font-style: normal;
border: 1px solid #CCC;
background-color: #EFEFEF;
}
</style>
<div class="products">
<div class="product">
<div class="price">R$ 0,01</div>
</div>
<div class="product">
<div class="price">R$ 0,01</div>
</div>
<div class="product">
<div class="price">R$ 0,01</div>
</div>
<div class="product">
<div class="price">R$ 0,01</div>
</div>
<div class="product">
<div class="price">R$ 0,01</div>
</div>
<div class="product">
<div class="price">R$ 0,01</div>
</div>
</div>
See also: Center inline-blocks with dynamic width in CSS
This is one way to center anything within a div not know the inner width of the elements.
#product_15{
position: relative;
margin: 0 auto;
display: table;
}
.price, img{
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
}
my solution was:
.parent {
display: flex;
flex-wrap: wrap;
}
.product {
width: 240px;
margin-left: auto;
height: 127px;
margin-right: auto;
}
add this css to your product_container class
margin: 0px auto;
padding: 0px;
border:0;
width: 700px;