I am trying to make a little website that should have two columns, and each column should have its content centered.
However, I have noticed that the columns will follow the height of each other, and not act as individual columns. E.g. whenever I add content to one of the columns, the content of the other column will be moved to fit the height of that column.
In the JSFiddle, you can see that the "Hello" on the right side is not completely centered; it has been moved up to stand in line with the first of three "Hello"'s on the left side. I would like it so, that whenever I add content to one column, it doesn't affect the other - so the "Hello" on the right side should ideally stay completely centered.
JSFiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/goupb2ch/1/
I have worked on this for quite a while now. Any ideas? Thanks!
Consider using flexbox to solve your problem: in this case far less code is required.
https://jsfiddle.net/upwgk2u4/
.container {
display: flex;
text-align: center;
height: 100%;
}
.container > div {
flex: 1;
align-self: center;
}
Why not use what's already in Bootstrap 4? No extra CSS is needed.
https://www.codeply.com/go/0zwGz83Cbw
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-6 text-center">
<p>Hello</p>
<p>Hello</p>
<p>Hello</p>
</div>
<div class="col-md-6 align-self-center text-center">
<p>Hello</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Related
I have been using bootstrap responsive 12 column grid layout for my website.
I have the layout like follows (stripped down version for example purpose)
<div class='container-fluid'>
<div class='row'>
<div class='col-md-1'>
Left side contents go here
</div>
<div class='col-md-11'>
Right side contents go here
</div>
</div>
</div>
What I need now, is that the left side column is wider than what I want. How can I make it fixed-length narrow and still use Bootstrap layout?
Any help is appreciated!
A clean solution would be customizing bootstrap to have more columns, like this answer:
How to use bootstrap with 16 or 24 columns
Other alternative is using nested rows, but that could end up with problems like unused space, so my suggestion is customizing bootstrap.
you can make a nested row within a column
For eg-
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-1">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-offset-9 col-md-3"><!-- offset-9 leave space in left and start in last three of column --></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-11"></div>
</div>
The issue you're having is an issue with how grid systems work. What they're designed to do is describe a fixed set of column widths: the content of those columns should expand to fill them. What you want is the inverse of this: you want the content to define the width.
You've effectively got three good options, and in order from least -> best in terms of getting what you want with the simplest markup:
Live with it (or have more columns as suggested, say 24).
Put the two columns of content in a block[1], apply display:table; width: 100%;. Make the two child items display:table-cell, use white-space:nowrap on the left-hand one and make the right-hand one width: 99%.
Put the two columns of content in a block[1], apply display:flex, and apply flex:1 to the right-hand child item.
Flex is the best solution, but needs IE10+ if that's an issue.
.container {
max-width: 400px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
[class^="row-"] {
margin: 10px 0;
}
.row-1 {
display: table;
width: 100%;
}
[class^="col-1-"] {
display: table-cell;
}
.col-1-left {
white-space: nowrap;
}
.col-1-right {
width: 99%;
}
.row-2 {
display: flex;
}
.col-2-right {
flex: 1;
}
<div class='container'>
<div class='row-1'>
<div class='col-1-left'>Some content</div>
<div class='col-1-right'>Some content</div>
</div>
<div class='row-2'>
<div class='col-2-left'>Some content</div>
<div class='col-2-right'>Some content</div>
</div>
</div>
I'm trying to understand how to put two div's next to eachother inside a wrapper and have them both column div's to match heights at all times, even if one has more content than the other, all without applying a strict height to the column. I've tried using height:100% and doesn't seem to work, here is the code/fiddle to show what I mean. Does anyone know what I am talking about and how to get this working?
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="left"><img src="http://i.stack.imgur.com/Sv4BC.png"/></div>
<div class="right">
<div class="stretch">
stretch to height: 100%
</div>
</div>
<div class="fix"></div>
</div>
CSS:
.wrapper{background:#eee;padding:10px;}
.stretch{height:100%;}
.left,.right{float:left;padding:5px;background:#FFF;}
.fix{clear:both;}
.left img{width:200px;}
Fiddle: (The two columns should be identical)
https://jsfiddle.net/19zsdswt/1/
I think the problem is with trying to add a height: 100% to a div that is floated.
You could try using a table, table cell relationship, like this:
.wrapper{display: table; background:#eee;padding:10px;}
.stretch{height:100%;}
.left,.right{display: table-cell; padding:5px;background:#FFF;}
/* .fix{clear:both;} */
.left img{width:200px;}
I have updated your fiddle here - https://jsfiddle.net/sfyt9skx/
I'll start off by stating that I know this question has been asked a lot, but none of the answers I saw seemed to work for me.
Basically, I have some divs inside of a larger div. They'll have dynamic text, so I don't know how many lines each will be. The problem is that I can't seem to get the divs to size themselves to the parent's height. I want the column divs to take up the entire height of the row div (basically, I want that blue part to fill all the space between the bars).
HTML:
<div class="container">
<div class="row divOne">
<div class="col-xs-3 divTwo">Some Text</div>
<div class="col-xs-3">
Some text that could wrap to multiple lines
</div>
</div>
<div class="row divOne">
<div class="col-xs-3 divTwo">Different Text</div>
<div class="col-xs-3 divThree">
With some more text
</div>
</div>
</div>
CSS:
.divOne
{
border-top:10px solid black;
}
.divTwo
{
background-color: #32649b;
height:100%;
color:white;
}
jsfiddle:
Now, what I've learned from other versions of this question are that
float:left might be screwing it up
height:100% doesn't work if the parent's height is defined
position:relative might help on the parent
The problem with the float is that I'm using bootstrap, and that's where the float is coming from, so I don't really want to mess with that.
I can't really define parent height, because it'll be dynamic based on the children.
I also tried messing around with position:relative on the parent and absolute on the child, but that seemed to get really screwy. I'm also guessing this won't work because I'm using bootstrap. It's possible that I'm just missing something, though. I'll admit to not being the greatest with CSS.
I don't know if I'm having these issues because I'm using bootstrap, or because I'm just being an idiot right now.
Something else that seems to be throwing a wrench into things: These columns will be laid out differently on smaller screens vs. larger ones. I actually want something along the lines of col-xs-12 col-md-3 for these.
The short answer is that you can't really achieve this within the constraints of the bootstrap framework. There are plenty of articles that explain why div elements can't stretch to the height of their container, and how to get around this problem. One of the solutions I'm most fond of is Faux Columns.
But, let's get a little more creative then that.
I came up with something that might work for your scenario, but requires a bit of change to your markup. Here's a solution that wraps the bootstrap grid with display: table.
http://jsfiddle.net/Wexcode/13Lfqmjo/
HTML:
<div class="table-container">
<div class="table-row divOne">
<div class="col-xs-3 divTwo">Some Text</div>
<div class="col-xs-3">
Some text that could wrap to multiple lines
</div>
<div class="col-xs-6"></div>
</div>
</div>
CSS:
.table-container {
margin: 0 -15px;
}
.table-row {
display: table;
width: 100%;
}
.table-row [class^="col"] {
display: table-cell;
padding: 0 15px;
float: none;
}
Note that for this solution to work, you must include enough col elements to stretch it all 12 columns (see that I added an empty .col-xs-6 div).
You can add
display:flex;
to divOne , and will act like you wanted.
in bootstrap 4 'row' class applies this on div, but in ealier versions you need to add manually if you expect such behavior.
Give .divOne a display: flex and remove the height: 100% from .divTwo:
.divOne
{
border-top:10px solid black;
display: flex;
}
.divTwo
{
background-color: #32649b;
/*height:100%;*/
color:white;
}
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.2.0/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<div class="container">
<div class="row divOne">
<div class="col-xs-3 divTwo">Some Text</div>
<div class="col-xs-3">
Some text that could wrap to multiple lines
</div>
</div>
<div class="row divOne">
<div class="col-xs-3 divTwo">Different Text</div>
<div class="col-xs-3 divThree">
With some more text
</div>
</div>
</div>
I have two divs on a page with the same height position. I'm trying to make them expandable, allot like what goes on in the WordPress dashboard area:
Now i've got the left div to expand but only with the right div staying at the same width. I need both to expand on zooming in and out.
any ideas how this is done?
I've been looking it up for the past hour but i cant find anything.
A link to a tutorial would be cool (good luck finding one).
EDIT:
Here guys, i found something similar: http://jsfiddle.net/Khez/2zLPF/embedded/result/
do you see how the two divs side by side expand? the green and blue ones...
If you want your divs to dynamically change depending on the width of their container, set the widths using percentages:
HTML:
<div class="column">
<div class="wrapper">
<p>Text</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="column">
<div class="wrapper">
<p>Text</p>
</div>
</div>
CSS:
.column {
float: left;
width: 50%; }
.column div { margin: 0 20px; /* Set the spacing between the cells */ }
Preview: http://jsfiddle.net/Wexcode/F7h2C/
NOTE: Because you are setting the combined widths of the columns to 100%, you cannot add padding to .column if you want them to be on the same line. The inner div wrapper will allow you to add spacing between your two columns. You should apply all background attributes to .wrapper.
I am trying to create a 4 column <div> layout.
Why are the row containers not drawing a border around the respective row?
Also, is this a good approach, as in is my css written well to be fluid and for dynamic resizing of the browser window?
Any suggestions or help would be most appreciated.
Here is my current attempt.
You need to set the overflow to auto when using float. http://jsfiddle.net/gJJHs/
The problem seems to be that you are floating your columns, and when you float things, they take up effectively zero space.
I think the solution is to cancel the float in you "last" class and add a "dummy column" to each row.
This CSS seems to work:
.col
{
float: left;
width: 25%;
}
.last{
clear: left;
}
.row{
border: 1px solid green;
}
Revised HTML (with dummy last column):
<div class="row">
<div class="col">1</div>
<div class="col">2</div>
<div class="col">3</div>
<div class="col">4</div>
<div class="last" />
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col">5</div>
<div class="col">6</div>
<div class="col">7</div>
<div class="col">8</div>
<div class="last" />
</div>
When an element is floated, its parent no longer contains it because the float is removed from the flow. The floated element is out of the natural flow, so all block elements will render as if the floated element is not even there, so a parent container will not fully expand to hold the floated child element.
As such, the border will seem like it is not bordering anything :( Take a look at the following article to get a better idea of how the CSS Float property works:
The Mystery Of The CSS Float Property
As others have said, if you add overflow: auto; to your .row class, it'll take care of the problem. Here's another article that explains why to use overflow.
http://www.quirksmode.org/css/clearing.html
I hope this helps.
Hristo
it's the float left. That takes the divs "out of flow" and it's drawing the border around empty space essentially
Yet another option, in addition to the other answers, is to add overflow: hidden; to your .row.
The reason for the behavior you saw is that float takes the div outside of the normal flow. The div then essentially takes up no space in the document.
This makes sense if you think about the ostensible purpose of floating an image in order to wrap text around it. The next p tag (for example) is positioned as if the floated image wasn't there, i.e. overlapping the image. Then, the browser wraps the text within the 'p' tag around the image. (If the floated image was not "removed from the flow", the p tag would naturally appear below the image—not giving the desired effect.)
Here's how I'd write the code.
HTML:
<div class="row">
<div class="col">1</div>
<div class="col">2</div>
<div class="col">3</div>
<div class="col">4</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col">5</div>
<div class="col">6</div>
<div class="col">7</div>
<div class="last">8</div>
</div>
CSS:
.col
{
float: left;
width: 25%;
}
.row{
border: 1px solid green;
overflow: hidden; /* "overflow: auto;" works just as well instead */
width:100%; /* Helps older versions of IE */
}
Add a "float:none;clear:both" to your .row and you'll see the rows appropriately. But for the fluid behavior and design that you are looking for, you'll want to apply some javascript (like jQuery Equal Height: http://www.jainaewen.com/files/javascript/jquery/equal-height-columns/) to be consistent across browsers without a ton of CSS hacking.