This fiddle demonstrates a container with several elements inside of it:
<div class="container">
<div class="element">Element</div>
<div class="element">Element</div>
<div class="element">Element</div>
<div class="element">Element</div>
</div>
Each element has a white rectangle as a pseudo element appearing over it.
Why are they cut off at the x-axis of the container? Why is overflow-y: scroll affecting the x axis?
Brevity CSS:
.container {
position: absolute;
overflow-y: scroll;
height: 400px;
width: 200px;
border: 1px solid green;
.element {
height: 100px;
padding: 10px;
position: relative;
margin-top: 10px;
&::after {
content: '';
position: absolute;
top: -20px;
left: -30px;
width: 50px;
height: 20px;
border: 1px solid black;
background: white;
}
}
}
***UPDATE****
ok. I found out why. Here are some links:
stackoverflow
,
W3
pretty much its because if one of the x or y is set to anything other than visible... then the opposite (even visible) is automatically set to auto:
"Computed value: as specified, except with visible computing to auto if one of overflow-x or overflow-y is not visible"
JSFIDDLE
//left: -30px;
I'm not 100% on why you think its cut off. The boxes were moved to the left...so if you are asking why the left side of the boxes aren't showing their border...that is why. This fiddle has the left commented out. Please clarify if I have my understanding of your question wrong.
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I have tried a lot of things and searched online but I cannot figure out the solution to this problem.
I have a div container which has a max-height, min-height and also overflow: auto. When the inner content is larger than the max-height, a scrollbar appears as expected. But, inside the content there is a dropdown, which when clicked, the menu expands, and instead of being displayed outside the parent container, it is like changing the inner content height.
The only solution I found online and made sense to me, is to wrap the container to div with relative positioning and make the dropdown absolute, but there is a big drawback now, the dropdown stays fixed on scroll, as it is absolute positioned relative to the wrapper and not the content. Is there any common way to fix this or any other solution ?
I didn't post any code because I do not want the answer to rely on my code.
I just want a minimal example if possible with these properties:
Container has a max-height
If content is larger than the container's max-height then the container should display a scrollbar.
The content has a dropdown which should scroll with every other element of the content.
The menu options of the dropdown element are escaping the container / are displayed outside the boundaries of the container.
To illustrate on my comments on the question, here's an MCVE:
.scroll-container {
border: 3px dashed #eee;
height: 400px;
padding: 10px;
overflow: auto;
width: 400px;
}
.content {
background-color: #f0f0f0;
height: 600px;
position: relative;
}
.dropdown {
background-color: orange;
position: absolute;
height: 300px;
width: 300px;
left: 300px;
}
<div class="scroll-container">
<div class="content">
<div class="dropdown"></div>
</div>
</div>
As you can see, with absolute positioning based on the relative position of div.content the orange div.dropdown creates a horizontal overflow, which is what you don't want. To fix this scenario, you need to remove position: relative from div.content and use transform: translateX(300px); instead of left: 300px;:
.scroll-container {
border: 3px dashed #eee;
height: 400px;
padding: 10px;
overflow: auto;
width: 400px;
}
.content {
background-color: #f0f0f0;
height: 600px;
}
.dropdown {
background-color: orange;
position: absolute;
height: 300px;
width: 300px;
transform: translateX(300px);
}
<div class="scroll-container">
<div class="content">
<div class="dropdown"></div>
</div>
</div>
There are multiple questions named this way, but I didn't find one that applies to my case, so here I am:
In this snippet:
#container:hover {
overflow-x: hidden;
}
#container {
position: relative;
width: 400px;
height: 40px;
background: red;
margin: 2em;
}
#child {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
}
<div id="container">
<div id="child">
a<br/>
b<br/>
hover<br/>
me
</div>
</div>
You can see that overflow-x, which is applied when you hover the red box, will also hide the overflow-y (at least on Chrome). This is annoying because I have a tooltip that I would like to be able to overflow above the red box, and in the meantime I have a menu that will slide from the right side and that should stay hidden.
Is this a bug? Is there a workaround?
You can't change the way overflow-x and overflow-y behave (it's the same in Firefox and other browsers), but you can change the way your HTML is organized.
Put everything that you want to hide when overflowing in a single wrapper. Put your tooltip in another wrapper.
Something like this may suit your needs:
#container {
position: relative;
width: 400px;
background: #f77;
margin: 3em 2em;
}
#child {
overflow: hidden;
position: relative;
}
#menu {
position: absolute;
left: 100%;
top: 0;
background: #dd2;
transition: .2s;
}
#child:hover #menu {
transform: translateX(-100%);
}
#tooltip {
position: absolute;
bottom: 100%;
}
<div id="container">
<div id="child">
hover<br/>
me
<div id="menu">
menu
</div>
</div>
<div id="tooltip">
a<br/>
b
</div>
</div>
Is the clipping behavior a bug?
No, the clipping is in accordance with the spec.
UAs must clip the scrollable overflow area of scroll containers on the
block-start and inline-start sides of the box (thereby behaving as if
they had no scrollable overflow on that side).
In your case, the "block-start" side is the top, and the "inline-start" side is the left. That's why you can put your tooltip below the content, and it will trigger a scrollbar.
#container:hover {
overflow-x: hidden;
}
#container {
position: relative;
width: 400px;
height: 40px;
background: red;
margin: 2em;
}
#child {
position: absolute;
/* bottom: 0; */
top: 0;
}
<div id="container">
<div id="child">
hover<br/>
me<br/>
a<br/>
b
</div>
</div>
So why is it possible to scroll to content overflowing below the box, but not possible to simply make it visible? The reason is that when any overflow property is set to hidden, the entire box becomes a scroll container.
[A scroll container] allows the user to scroll clipped parts of its
scrollable overflow area into view.
You can use overflow: clip, which does not turn the box into a scroll container. If you clip in both direction, you can also adjust the distance at which clipping occurs as well using overflow-clip-margin :
#container:hover {
overflow-x: clip;
}
#container {
position: relative;
width: 200px;
height: 40px;
background: red;
margin: 2em;
}
#child {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
}
<div id="container">
<div id="child">
aazkopekzapoekzapoekzapoekzapoekpozakepozakepozakeoza<br/>
b<br/>
hover<br/>
me
</div>
</div>
I am trying to implement a arrow-headed div. Below is the part of the code that is relevant to the post/question. I have been trying to figure out how to get this done for a while now but no success.
I have a grandparent div, a parent div with a child as follows
<div className="main-segment-container">
<div className="panel panel-default segment-select-box">
<div className="panel-header segment-select-box-header">MAIN SEGMENT</div>
<div className="panel-body segment-select-box-body">
<div className=has-subsegments'>
<input type="checkbox" className="form-check-input" value={checkedSegment.category_id} onChange={this.segmentChecked} />{' '}
<label className="form-check-label">{checkedSegment.name}</label>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Here is what I am trying to achieve (notice the arrowhead):
I am able to achieve this with this css:
.main-segment-container{
width: 100%
}
.has-subsegments{
background-color: #215C64;
width: 100%;
color: #fff;
position: absolute;
height: 30px;
}
.segment-select-box {
border-radius: 3px;
width: 100%;
/* max-height: 400px; */
/* overflow: scroll; */
position: relative;
}
.segment-select-box-body{
width: 100%;
max-height: 400px;
overflow: scroll;
padding: 0px;
display: inline-block;
}
.has-subsegments::after{
content: "";
margin-top: -15px;
border-top: 15px solid transparent;
border-bottom: 15px solid transparent;
position: absolute;
border-left: 21px solid #215C64;
width: 0;
height: 0px;
right: -20px;
top: 50%;
}
Problem:
When I use the css above, the .has-subsegments element seems to be at a fixed position when I scroll. Like this:
Question
How do I implement scroll without removing the element from the normal position?
Note:
When i remove scroll from .segment-select-box-body class, everything works perfect but the children list becomes very long, therefore a scroll is needed.
adding position: relative; to .segment-select-box-body class makes the :after pseudo-element invisible.
EDIT
See JSFIDDLE here : https://jsfiddle.net/uuwhndgu/16/
EDIT
Thanks for posting the jsfiddle. I don't think, what you're trying to achieve is possible the way you are trying to do it.
I updated the fiddle with a suggested workaround/fix: https://jsfiddle.net/uuwhndgu/34/
what I did, is giving the wrapping col a little more width (you probably would have to either increase the col to .col-md-3 or decrease the width of .segment-select-box a little. You probably need to do the latter anyway), a max-heightof 200px and a overflow-y: scroll;. I set the width of .segment-select-box to 90% and changed position: absolute;of .has-subsegments to position: relative;. I don't know if this helps you but I BELIEVE, that there aren't many ways to achieve what you are trying to achieve.
Original answer
I am not quite sure how you intend this thing to behave. But if the highlighted entry (the one with the arrow) just ought to stay where it was, I think you can simply replace position: absolute; with position: relative; in your .has-subsegments class. Now, I wasn't able to recreate this anything close to perfectly, because it's a react app, but still, you should get the idea:
with position: absolute; on .has-subsegments
with position: relative; on .has-subsegments
I am experiencing some trouble while positioning an absolute div inside a relative one. I want my absolute div (inline-block) to grow until it reaches a given px-amount (max-width). This works as expected, until I add a width (smaller than the max-width of the absolutes div) to the relative div.
I want the text in the absolute-div to break at the max-width (400px) and not at the edge of the relative parent div (300px).
When giving white-space: nowrap, the words just flow over the absolute divs end.
Have anyone an idea how to solve this?
Thanks!
See:
http://codepen.io/anon/pen/KVJvmZ
html
<div class="relativeContainer">
<div class="absoluteContainer">
Hello you! This breaks on relativeContainers edge.. This is not what i want. It should just go further an further (until it reaches max-width of 400px).
</div>
</div>
<div class="relativeContainer">
<div class="absoluteContainer">
This should stay small.
</div>
</div>
css
.relativeContainer {
width: 300px;
height: 100px;
border: 1px solid black;
position: relative;
margin-bottom: 50px;
}
.absoluteContainer {
display: inline-block;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
max-width: 400px; /* Word-break should happen here. */
border: 1px solid red;
}
I am afraid it is not possible to solve this issue with your markup. But there is light at the end of the tunnel: You could change your markup or use javascript to achieve what you want.
Depending on your requirements, this could help you: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/eJXYOJ
html
<div class="relativeContainer">
<div class="absoluteContainer">
<div class="contentContainer">
Hello you! This breaks on relativeContainers edge.. This is not what i want. It should just go further an further (until it reaches max-width of 400px).
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="relativeContainer">
<div class="absoluteContainer">
<div class="contentContainer">
This should stay small.
</div>
</div>
</div>
css
.relativeContainer {
width: 300px;
height: 100px;
border: 1px solid black;
position: relative;
margin-bottom: 50px;
}
.absoluteContainer {
position: absolute;
width: 100vw; /* do a large number of px for ie8 compatibility*/
top: 0;
left: 0;
background-color: lightgray; /* just to show you what I've done*/
}
.contentContainer {
display: inline-block;
max-width: 400px; /* Word-break should happen here. */
border: 1px solid red;
}
Absolute container is directly related to the relative parent container.
There is no way to make an absolute container bigger (width or height) than a relative parent container.
If you want an absolute container bigger (width or height) than his parent the parent should not be relative.
Hope this help.
Have a good one
I don't think what you want to do is possible without using another class, or using JS. Here's how you can do it with css:
<div class="relativeContainer">
<div class="absoluteContainer bigger">
Hello you! This breaks on relativeContainers edge.. This is not what i want. It should just go further an further (until it reaches max-width of 400px).
</div>
</div>
<div class="relativeContainer">
<div class="absoluteContainer">
This should stay small.
</div>
</div>
.relativeContainer {
width: 300px;
height: 100px;
border: 1px solid black;
position: relative;
margin-bottom: 50px;
}
.absoluteContainer {
display: inline-block;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
max-width: 400px; /* Word-break should happen here. */
border: 1px solid red;
}
.absoluteContainer.bigger{
width: 400px;
}
I have looked at your example and I don't think you can do what you want if the absolute is inside the relative and you don't specify a width. Currently, with only a max-width, the inner absoluteContainer has no reason to go outside the relative container so it won't. Once you set a width, you get what you want but the small cannot stay small! You might be able to 'spoof' what you want by locating the absolute outside the relative but in the same location. This gives you something of what you want - but it won't (say) scroll the relative one if the absolute is bigger.
Example at: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/Nxovey
If you don't want to (or can't) identify longer text in CSS with extra classes then this is the best you can do without javascript.
Code:
<div class="spoofContainer">
<div class="absoluteContainer">
Hello you! This breaks on relativeContainers edge.. This is not what i want. It should just go further an further (until it reaches max-width of 400px).
</div>
</div>
<div class="relativeContainer">
</div>
<div class="spoofContainer">
<div class="absoluteContainer">
This should stay small.
</div>
</div>
<div class="relativeContainer">
</div>
CSS:
.spoofContainer {
width: 400px;
height: 0px;
overflow: visible;
position: relative;
}
.relativeContainer {
width: 300px;
height: 100px;
border: 1px solid black;
position: relative;
margin-bottom: 50px;
}
.absoluteContainer {
display: inline-block;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
max-width: 400px; /* Word-break should happen here. */
border: 1px solid red;
}
This question already has answers here:
CSS overflow-x: visible; and overflow-y: hidden; causing scrollbar issue
(9 answers)
Closed 6 years ago.
When I set overflow-y on a block, it seems to be affecting the overflow-x property. I've made a JSFiddle with an example of this problem. It seems to be happening in all browsers, so I think I'm missing something that should be obvious.
I have two non-overlapping blocks (blue and green) along with a third block (red) with the following requirements:
The blue and red blocks are adjacent
The red block is contained in the blue block, but it overlaps the green block
The blue block must allow vertical scrolling, but not horizontal scrolling
However, if I set overflow-x: visible so the red block overlaps to the right, instead it behaves as though I set it to scroll. However, if I remove the overflow-y property or set it to visible, the red block behaves as I expect.
I do need vertical scrolling, so I'm at a loss for what to do.
With the code below
HTML:
<div id="container">
<div id="left">
<div id="floater"></div>
</div>
<div id="right">
</div>
</div>
CSS:
#container {
height: 200px; width: 200px;
position: relative;
background-color: #ccc; border: solid 5px black;
}
#left {
position: absolute;
top: 0; left: 0; bottom: 0; width: 100px;
overflow-x: visible;
overflow-y: auto; /** REMOVING THIS CHANGES THE RESULT **/
background-color: blue;
z-index: 2;
}
#right {
position: absolute;
top: 0; right: 0; bottom: 0; width: 100px;
z-index: 1;
background-color: green;
}
#floater {
position: absolute;
right: -20px; top: 30px; height: 40px; width: 40px;
background-color: red;
}
See: CSS overflow-x: visible; and overflow-y: hidden; causing scrollbar issue
If you are using visible for either overflow-x or overflow-y and
something other than visible for the other, the visible value is
interpreted as auto.