I have quite an interesting problem in front of me. I think it would be better to illustrate it in codepen:
https://codepen.io/BooleT/pen/bWdPWe/
In the class names ib means "inline-block" and iib means "inner inline block".
I have created figures to illustrate what I am trying to achieve. In the next 3 paragraphs I will reference the images in this album:
https://imgur.com/a/9CFAm
So there are three inline blocks, one of which is actually a container of three other inline-blocks:
The effect I want to achieve is to make the contents of the container to wrap into 2 lines when I resize the window:
But instead I only manage to wrap the whole container itself to the second line:
Is there actually the way to achieve what I want? I've tried to add nbsp between outer inline-blocks and to add white-space: nowrap to the body element (and overwrite it to white-space: normal for the container), but none of it worked.
I know that I can work around it by adding media-queries or js that simply reduces the width (or max-width) of the container when I reduce the screen width, but it doesn't seem like the solution. I don't even know the width of every block in my real layout.
I will try to keep an open mind, since the solution to this problem might require to change the entire layout of the page, but I do think there is one.
Being not a fan of flexboxes – the burden of old-browser compatibility still standing strong where I come from – here's what we do to make a container on the right occupy all the remaining horizontal space:
Codepen
The fixed-size divs on the left are told to be float: left.
The spanning div on the right is given display: block.
The smallest inner divs are display: inline-block.
If you can use flexbox then this pen: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/RVWwEP seems like it does what you want. Be aware of the compatibility caveats that go along with flexbox, though.
For convenience I've put display: flex; on the body to create top level row, although #10nikov's answer is definitely a better way to do that.
Related
I have a lot of divs with different size and width. I would like to automatically place them inside another div and position them like:
Anyone know what css properties should I use? I tried with floating + display (several combinations) and nothing works for me correctly - I had divs in one line -> a lot of space (because one big element) -> next line -> and so on... and so on...
Without using Flexbox you will find it hard to acheive this layout.
Flexbox layout example
You could use a JS plugin such as Masonry which will enable you to acheive the layout.
If I understand correctly, what you want to do is place them in a container that has a set size (and probably expanding height according to its content) and then line them up the way you show. The easiest way I can think of is using Twitter Bootstrap. It has a container class and then you can align your elements within divs and it will also make it automatically responsive.
Tip: Avoid using position: absolute and height: wherever you can because it messes with the flow of your site.
don't forget to clear your floating elements when needed.
When you set a button element to display:block it dominates its vertical space like a block while still calculating its size based on its contents like an inline-block. This seems like a really useful behavior. Is it possible to make other elements behave this way?
Example
I can accomplish a similar method of display using floats and clears, but it causes havoc on nearby content that isn't tailored to it.
I can accomplish it more sanely by wrapping each element and making the outer element display:block while the inner element is display:inline-block. This requires extra markup though.
Sounds like you want display: table.
Such a “table” shrinks to just fit its content, and if the content is not a display: table-row or display: table-cell then it is just treated as if it were inside a single-cell table. You can also center it horizontally using auto margins.
I changed block to table in your example and it did exactly what I think you want.
(If you've thinking about the advice “don't use tables for layout” — that is referring to using tables written in HTML markup, not any CSS facilities.)
I need a little bit of help disciplining my HTML. It seems to be acting up.
Anyway, the content area of a page I'm working on has two columns. To get the multi-column look, I'm not using one containing div for each column because some of the "rows" in the column need to be lined up.
So instead, I'm basically using several "rows" with two inline divs per row -- one for left content, one for right. Most of them are working correctly..but for some reason, my last row isn't. No matter what, it will not listen to me when I give it a width.
Here's what the relevent HTML looks like:
<div id="mainContainer">
<div id="topBar"></div> //full width
<div id="featured"> //this "row" is working fine
<div id="featuredVideos"></div> //these two
<div id="featuredLiterature"></div> //are inline
</div>
<div id="browseButtons"> //this is the "row" that is acting up
<div id="litBrowse"></div> //these two
<div id="vidBrowse"></div> //are inline
</div>
</div>
In the mean time, what types of situations can cause a div to not listen to a width? I even went so far as to give every single child div inside litbrowse and vidbrowse1 the same width that they have, 450px, and no dice. All of the content above it, which has essentially the exact same structure, is working fine. The only difference, maybe, is that the "row" above the row in question is comprised of two floating divs.
Here is a jsfiddle showing the issue. The bottom two divs (Browse lit by category, browse vids by category) should be spaced out, but they're scrunching together because they won't take their 450px width.
The problem is that you are saying that .browseBtn is inline. Inline elements don't take widths, only block level elements do.
Using inline-block instead will do what you want. It is inline enough to make the divs side by side and block enough to allow you to specify the width.
See http://jsfiddle.net/abtFr/2/
SECOND EDIT - Others have responded saying to use display: inline-block instead of display: inline. inline-block is not compatible with IE7. HOWEVER, we can make it compatible by appending
zoom:1;
*display: inline;
to the element using inline-block. To make compatible with IE6, you need to specify a height, so add
_height: [yourheight]px;
The underscore will target IE6 only.
Alternatively you can float the elements left, in which case my original reply may be relevant.
EDIT - I responded without seeing the jsFiddle; this response can probably be largely ignored.
To answer your question, floating an element will cause it to be taken out of the normal layout. If a div is floated left inside another div, it will be placed to the far left of that container, but its dimensions will not be taken into account when sizing that container div; in other words, that container will act like there are no divs inside.
To fix this you need to place another (empty) div inside the container, after the floating divs, and assign the style "clear: both" to it so that it will take the floating divs into account when being positioned. In turn, the container div will see the last cleared div and resize to take it into account.
Alternatively, sometimes you can skip adding the cleared div inside the container, and just add the style "overflow: hidden" to the container itself. This is somewhat of a hack, but a pretty robust one as far as hacks go.
Hope this solves your problem; if not we'll have to wait for more information.
It's simple, yes, you have a div, but you define its display as inline (with .browseBtn definition). So it's not a block-element anymore and it doesn't listen to width definition.
I've corrected the fiddle, although it might have other side effect.
I have a bunch of float: left elements and some are SLIGHTLY bigger than others. I want the newline to break and have the images float all the way to the left instead of getting stuck on a bigger element.
Here is the page I'm talking about : link
If they are all the same size if works beautifully : link
Thanks! (I'd rather not get into javascript or server side scripting if I don't have to)
Well, if you really need to use float declarations, you have two options:
Use clear: left on the leftmost items - the con is that you'll have a fixed number of columns
Make the items equal in height - either by script or by hard-coding the height in the CSS
Both of these are limiting, because they work around how floats work. However, you may consider using display: inline-block instead of float, which will achieve the similar layout. You can then adjust their alignment using vertical-align.
I fixed it by removing float:left, and adding display:inline-block instead. Haven't used it for images, but should work fine, there, too.
Use display:inline-block
You may also find vertical-align: top or vertical-align:middle useful.
This is what I did. Seems to work in forcing a new line, but I'm not an html/css guru by any measure.
<p> </p>
You can wrap them in a div and give the div a set width (the width of the widest image + margin maybe?) and then float the divs. Then, set the images to the center of their containing divs. Your margins between images won't be consistent for the differently sized images but it'll lay out much more nicely on the page.
This is an old post and the links are no longer valid but because it came up early in a search I was doing I thought I should comment to help others understand the problem better.
By using float you are asking the browser to arrange your controls automatically. It responds by wrapping when the controls don't fit the width for their specified float arrangement. float:left, float:right or clear:left,clear:right,clear:both.
So if you want to force a bunch of float:left items to float uniformly into one left column then you need to make the browser decide to wrap/unwrap them at the same width. Because you don't want to do any scripting you can wrap all of the controls you want to float together in a single div. You would want to add a new wrapping div with a class like:
.LeftImages{
float:left;
}
html
<div class="LeftImages">
<img...>
<img...>
</div>
This div will automatically adjust to the width of the largest image and all the images will be floated left with the div all the time (no wrapping).
If you still want them to wrap you can give the div a width like width:30% and each of the images the float:left; style. Rather than adjust to the largest image it will vary in size and allow the contained images to wrap.
Add to .icons div {width:160px; height:130px;} will work out very nicely
Hope it will help
I just designed a portfolio website. I have a whole array of images that I want to keep in one line (with horizontal scroll). This only happens when I have set a fixed width for the surrounding div (in this case with class '.post-images'), wide enough to contain all images. This could be just fine if the amount of images and their widths wasn't dynamic. Unfortunately this isn't the case here. I want this div to be wrapping around all images and not causing them to float. I have tried to set the div's where I put each image in ('.post-image') to 'white-space: nowrap' to no avail.
See an example here: Link
How can I fix this problem? I hope someone is willing to give me a hand here ;)
Thanks,
Jeroen
Replace the css for .post_images and .post_image with:
.post_images { white-space:nowrap; }
.post_image { display:inline; }
Effectively, this makes the wrapping <div class="post_image"> elements redundant (that's the display:inline); you may as well remove them.
In general, most elements size their width according to that of their container; if you wish an element to size according to content, you'll need a <table>, display: table or single line.
Edit: both white-space:nowrap and display:inline have been supported on all major browsers for years (in IE, all the way back to IE 5.5).