I want to create a simple side-navigation that takes up the entire screen's height. I am using Milligram for my base, and I want my side-nav to work with it. I have the following set up:
Codepen demo
As you can see, my sidebar is the following element
<div class="sidebar"></div> with the following styles:
div.sidebar {
position: absolute;
width: 250px;
height: 100%;
z-index: 99;
background-color: black;
}
This sort of works, the sidebar appears above all else, but everything else does not get pushed to the side. And if the screen is small, the content clashes with the sidebar.
How can I make it so the sidebar pushes everything else (including the navbar) to the right by 250px(its width)? I know this will make things unusable on smaller screens, but I will give the user a way to toggle it.
Any help is appreciated.
You can set the left margin on your equal to the width of your sidebar.
section .container {
margin-left: 250px;
}
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I have the following page with sidebar: https://www.slagerijrudi.be/product/broodje-ham/
I was wondering if there is a simple way to make my sidebar have the same height of the content next to the sidebar. So the sidebar should stretch from header to footer, instead of stopping halfway the page.
In order to allow the aside (or sidebar) to reach its full height, you can make it have an absolute position. Do remember though to turn it off for smaller screen sizes (where you'd want to collapse the sidebar). The best design practice at the moment is to declare specific behaviour for larger screens: #media screen and (min-size:667px) { .. your code for big screens here .. }
Add the following to solve the issue:
.wf-wrap {
position: relative;
}
.sidebar {
position: absolute;
left: 0;
height: 100%;
}
Edit: as a comment on the question put it, a flexbox is a neater solution, but not a 'quick fix'.
I have a two column layout, where the left side consists out of a menu that should stick and the right side contains a long form. On the bottom of the page is a footer:
There are two problems with this:
If the browser window is smaller then the menu height, it is not possible to see the lower menu items as it is fixed and therefore does not scroll.
If one scrolls down the form to the bottom, the menu will hide the footer
My CSS looks like this:
#menu_side{
color:black;
background-color: #ffffff;
margin:67px 5px 5px 5px;
position: fixed;
width: 250px;
}
As an alternative mentioned inside the comments, one could use a container for the menu and use vh. Unfortunately this seems not to work as the inner elements simply outgrow the div. Illustrated in this img with a red border for the container:
How could I manage to keep the menu in sight of the user while he scrolls down the form and in the same time solve the mentioned 2 problems? Thank you for any help on this.
You should wrap #menu_side in a new container and let that container be fixed and make sure its height equals the viewport height. This can be done with vh units or with Javascript.
<div class="menu_container">
<div id="menu_side">
<!-- your menu -->
</div>
</div>
CSS:
.menu_container{
position: fixed;
height: 100vh;
width: 260px;
left: 0;
top: 0;
}
#menu_side{
margin:67px 5px 5px 5px;
}
As for your second issue: This can best be achieved using Javascript. You could for instance calculate the visible height of the footer element and use Javascript to calculate the appropriate height for .menu-container
I'm pretty lost as to where to even begin so I will try to explain. I'm making a Hardware Store for my term project in Aptana Studio and am running the site in Google Chrome. Apparently, running a site in Google Chrome makes it automatically responsive? As you can see in the following screenshots, the site is fixed on the left side and responsive on the right side:
(resize 1)
(resize 2)
(resize 3)
(resize 4)
Of course, the black and white photo does not resize, but I actually don't want it to. I just want what is in the header (the logo and photograph) to stay the same size - to stay fixed on the page. Take Ace Harware's website as an example: http://www.acehardware.com/home/index.jsp
Everything in the site is constrained to certain dimensions. When the page is fully open, the content is centered and there is a margin of white space on either side. And when the page is resized (smaller), the margins start to disappear until finally there is a cutoff point - and the content does not change position anymore.
(full page)
(first resize)
(second resize - even though the page is smaller, the content is fixed)
This is exactly what I'm trying to do with my Hardware Store site. How do I achieve this effect? I've heard of bootstrap but I really don't know enough about it or which template I would use. Thanks for any help/adivce. If it's too complicated to explain here, please send me to a good tutorial you might know of.
What you're trying to do (at least, what i understood) is not a matter of "responsive". You're just trying to keep the whole page content always centered. (acehardware.com is not responsive eather).
You just need to define a constant width for the main div (the one which will contain the whole page content, except the background), and then keep it centered in the outer div, no matter the screen size.
This is what you got to do:
#main-wraper {
margin-top: 5px;
margin-bottom: 5px;
width: 360px;
height: 420px;
position: relative;
left: 50%;
margin-left: -180px;
background-color: white;
color: black;
}
#outter-div {
background-color: grey;
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
height: auto;
min-height: 100%;
overflow: hidden;
}
<div id='outter-div'>
<div id='main-wraper'>
<!-- The whole page content -->
</div>
</div>
This will keep the div centered in the parent container, and the parent container will be hidden the smaller the screen is.
I used smaller dimensions for main-wrapper in the snippet in order to make it easier for you to watch the effect in a smaller box. BUt you should use your own width. Just have in mind that the "left margin" for that div must have "half the width of the div" as a negative value. "left: 50%" will always center the div and keep the effect.
I've been working a lot with responsive webdesign lately, and I've come across a bit of an issue. I have a one-page based website, where I currently have 2 sections (pages) first one is the intro, and second one is "about me". Now, I had a couple of my friends to visit my website on their computers (1 being a laptop, which screen height is very low compared to my 24 BenQ) I want to ask how I can make my content static, so the intro doesn't sort of disappear underneith the "about me" section.
.intro-container
{
width: 70%;
letter-spacing: .2em;
height: 100%;
text-align: center;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
#ContentWrap-2-about
{
width: 100%;
height: 50%;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
}
these are the wrappers that sort of interacts the wrong way. You can visit www.old.vhammershoi.dk and scale down your browser to see that the box with the arrow in it (click and explore popdown) will move underneith the about me section
Thank you in advance
First off all, there is no need for custom height. You have set height to element with overflow: hidden, and because content is longer than element, button is pushed down. Remove height from all main elements, also, remove margin from intro container. In that way, button will be visible, and rendered page will be the same as without changes (except visible button)
Try one of these to fix your DIV (intro container) to the top of the screen.
position:fixed;
position:static;
position:absolute;
Here is a working example : http://jsfiddle.net/19Lhchyy/1/
Using postition:fixed;
http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_class_position.asp
#ContentWrap {
min-height: 100%:
padding-bottom:30px;
}
#clickAndExploreText{
position: absolute;
}
I dont know if ure able to position it but if you dont, your container will grow on hover
Then your Text 'Click and Explore' will never be under the following container.
aditionally you are missing some white-space:nowrap in your mobile version to prevent linebreak for the headlines and the tet 'click and Explore'
I'm writing a mobile/desktop chat application that is supposed to utilize the entire screen. The bottom <div> shown in yellow can be fixed-height if it needs to be.
presently it's Absolutely positioned to the bottom of the window.
My problem: the top <div>, in cyan, doesn't fit to the rest of the window, regardless of whether I use padding, margin, border, etc. Presently it appears to allow the content to wrap, but that's only because the bottom overwrites the scroll bar.
My only solution so far is to have a final <div> or <br> that pads the end of the scrollable div, but that doesn't make the div smaller, or make the scroll bars properly align.
Here is my source code so far in Fiddle.
Can you edit your CSS and set the DIV with the chat text a class like .break-word and then in CSS declare it with word-wrap:
.break-word {
word-wrap: break-word;
}
Unsure on the covering of scrollbars. You should post your code for others to view and might be able to pick something out.
This style code basically sums up what I'm doing to compensate for my issue. (Instead of, say, using HTML tables.) This may not be the best solution.
#topPart {
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
top: 0;
bottom: 40px; /* or however high the bottom is */
}
#bottomPart {
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
bottom: 0;
height: 40px; /* same as above */
}