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Given the following HTML:
<div id="container">
<!-- Other elements here -->
<div id="copyright">
Copyright Foo web designs
</div>
</div>
I would like #copyright to stick to the bottom of #container. Can I achieve this without using absolute positioning?
Likely not.
Assign position:relative to #container, and then position:absolute; bottom:0; to #copyright.
#container {
position: relative;
}
#copyright {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
}
<div id="container">
<!-- Other elements here -->
<div id="copyright">
Copyright Foo web designs
</div>
</div>
Actually, the accepted answer by #User will only work if the window is tall and the content is short. But if the content is tall and the window is short, it will put the copyright info over the page content, and then scrolling down to see the content will leave you with a floating copyright notice. That makes this solution useless for most pages (like this page, actually).
The most common way of doing this is the "CSS sticky footer" approach demonstrated, or a slightly slimmer variation. This approach works great -- IF you have a fixed height footer.
If you need a variable height footer that will appear at the bottom of the window if the content is too short, and at the bottom of the content if the window is too short, what do you do?
Swallow your pride and use a table.
For example:
* {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
#container {
height: 100%;
border-collapse: collapse;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<table id="container">
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<div id="main">Lorem ipsum, etc.</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="bottom">
<div id="footer">Copyright some evil company...</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Try it out. This will work for any window size, for any amount of content, for any size footer, on every browser... even IE6.
If you're cringing at the thought of using a table for layout, take a second to ask yourself why. CSS was supposed to make our lives easier -- and it has, overall -- but the fact is that even after all these years, it's still a broken, counter-intuitive mess. It can't solve every problem. It's incomplete.
Tables aren't cool, but at least for now, they are sometimes the best way to solve a design problem.
The flexbox approach!
In supported browsers, you can use the following:
Example Here
.parent {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
.child {
margin-top: auto;
}
.parent {
height: 100px;
border: 5px solid #000;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
.child {
height: 40px;
width: 100%;
background: #f00;
margin-top: auto;
}
<div class="parent">
<div class="child">Align to the bottom</div>
</div>
The solution above is probably more flexible, however, here is an alternative solution:
Example Here
.parent {
display: flex;
}
.child {
align-self: flex-end;
}
.parent {
height: 100px;
border: 5px solid #000;
display: flex;
}
.child {
height: 40px;
width: 100%;
background: #f00;
align-self: flex-end;
}
<div class="parent">
<div class="child">Align to the bottom</div>
</div>
As a side note, you may want to add vendor prefixes for additional support.
Yes you can do this without absolute positioning and without using tables (which screw with markup and such).
DEMO
This is tested to work on IE>7, chrome, FF & is a really easy thing to add to your existing layout.
<div id="container">
Some content you don't want affected by the "bottom floating" div
<div>supports not just text</div>
<div class="foot">
Some other content you want kept to the bottom
<div>this is in a div</div>
</div>
</div>
#container {
height:100%;
border-collapse:collapse;
display : table;
}
.foot {
display : table-row;
vertical-align : bottom;
height : 1px;
}
It effectively does what float:bottom would, even accounting for the issue pointed out in #Rick Reilly's answer!
Pure CSS, without absolute positioning, without fixing any height, cross-browser (IE9+)
check out that Working Fiddle
Because normal flow is 'top-to-bottom' we can't simply ask the #copyright div to stick to the bottom of his parent without absolutely positioning of some sort, But if we wanted the #copyright div to stick to the top of his parent, it will be very simple - because this is the normal flow way.
So we will use this in our advantage.
we will change the order of the divs in the HTML, now the #copyright div is at the top, and the content follow it right away.
we also make the content div stretch all the way (using pseudo elements and clearing techniques)
now it's just a matter of inverting that order back in the view. that can be easily done with CSS transform.
We rotate the container by 180deg, and now: up-is-down. (and we inverse back the content to look normal again)
If we want to have a scroolbar within the content area, we need to apply a little bit more of CSS magic. as can be showed Here [in that example, the content is below a header - but its the same idea]
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
html,
body,
#Container {
height: 100%;
color: white;
}
#Container:before {
content: '';
height: 100%;
float: left;
}
#Copyright {
background-color: green;
}
#Stretch {
background-color: blue;
}
#Stretch:after {
content: '';
display: block;
clear: both;
}
#Container,
#Container>div {
-moz-transform: rotateX(180deg);
-ms-transform: rotateX(180deg);
-o-transform: rotate(180deg);
-webkit-transform: rotateX(180deg);
transform: rotateX(180deg);
}
<div id="Container">
<div id="Copyright">
Copyright Foo web designs
</div>
<div id="Stretch">
<!-- Other elements here -->
<div>Element 1</div>
<div>Element 2</div>
</div>
</div>
CSS Grid
Since the usage of CSS Grid is increasing, I would like to suggest align-self to the element that is inside a grid container.
align-self can contain any of the values: end, self-end, flex-end for the following example.
#parent {
display: grid;
}
#child1 {
align-self: end;
}
/* Extra Styling for Snippet */
#parent {
height: 150px;
background: #5548B0;
color: #fff;
padding: 10px;
font-family: sans-serif;
}
#child1 {
height: 50px;
width: 50px;
background: #6A67CE;
text-align: center;
vertical-align: middle;
line-height: 50px;
}
<div id="parent">
<!-- Other elements here -->
<div id="child1">
1
</div>
</div>
Create another container div for the elements above #copyright. Just above copyright add a new div:
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
It will force the footer to be under everything else, just like in the case of using relative positioning (bottom:0px;).
Try this;
<div id="container">
<div style="height: 100%; border:1px solid #ff0000;">
<!-- Other elements here -->
</div>
</div>
<div id="copyright" style="position:relative;border:1px solid #00ff00;top:-25px">
Copyright Foo web designs
</div>
While none of the answers provided here seemed to apply or work in my particular case, I came across this article which provides this neat solution :
#container {
display: table;
}
#copyright {
display: table-footer-group;
}
I find it very useful for applying responsive design for mobile display without having to reorder all the html code of a website, setting body itself as a table.
Note that only the first table-footer-group or table-header-group will be rendered as such : if there are more than one, the others will be rendered as table-row-group.
You can indeed align the box to the bottom without using position:absolute if you know the height of the #container using the text alignment feature of inline-block elements.
Here you can see it in action.
This is the code:
#container {
/* So the #container most have a fixed height */
height: 300px;
line-height: 300px;
background:Red;
}
#container > * {
/* Restore Line height to Normal */
line-height: 1.2em;
}
#copyright {
display:inline-block;
vertical-align:bottom;
width:100%; /* Let it be a block */
background:green;
}
Using the translateY and top property
Just set element child to position: relative and than move it top: 100% (that's the 100% height of the parent) and stick to bottom of parent by transform: translateY(-100%) (that's -100% of the height of the child).
BenefitS
you do not take the element from the page flow
it is dynamic
But still just workaround :(
.copyright{
position: relative;
top: 100%;
transform: translateY(-100%);
}
Don't forget prefixes for the older browser.
CodePen link here.
html, body {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
.overlay {
min-height: 100%;
position: relative;
}
.container {
width: 900px;
position: relative;
padding-bottom: 50px;
}
.height {
width: 900px;
height: 50px;
}
.footer {
width: 900px;
height: 50px;
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
}
<div class="overlay">
<div class="container">
<div class="height">
content
</div>
</div>
<div class="footer">
footer
</div>
</div>
If you want it to "stick" to the bottom, regardless of the height of container, then absolute positioning is the way to go. Of course, if the copyright element is the last in the container it'll always be at the bottom anyway.
Can you expand on your question? Explain exactly what you're trying to do (and why you don't want to use absolute positioning)?
If you do not know the height of child block:
#parent {
background:green;
width:200px;
height:200px;
display:table-cell;
vertical-align:bottom;
}
.child {
background:red;
vertical-align:bottom;
}
<div id="parent">
<div class="child">child
</div>
</div>
http://jsbin.com/ULUXIFon/3/edit
If you know the height of the child block add the child block then add padding-top/margin-top:
#parent {
background:green;
width:200px;
height:130px;
padding-top:70px;
}
.child {
background:red;
vertical-align:
bottom;
height:130px;
}
<div id="parent">
<div class="child">child
</div>
</div>
You can use grid by assigning the available space to the content at the top:
#container {
display: grid;
grid-template-rows: 1fr auto;
height: 10rem; /* or 100% or anything */
}
<div id="container">
This is random content.
<div id="copyright">
Copyright Foo web designs
</div>
</div>
Also, if there's stipulations with using position:absolute; or position:relative;, you can always try padding parent div or putting a margin-top:x;. Not a very good method in most cases, but it may come in handy in some cases.
Solution for this specific scenario:
Place inner at the bottom of parent . The height of the parent is set by the height of its "tallest" sibling
The set up:
I have a row with multiple <div class="container">
These <div class="container"> are next to each other inside another <div class="supercontainer">
Each <div class="container"> has 3 inner divs on top of each other: <div class="title">, <div class="content">, <div class="footer">
The desired result:
All <div class="container"> have the same height. The height is not defined in px, it will be the height of the "tallest" among them.
<div class="title"> should be at the top of <div class="container">
<div class="content"> should be placed below <div class="title">
<div class="footer"> should be placed at the bottom of <div class="container"> without overlapping with the previous content
This is the current state: https://codepen.io/xavier-atero/pen/ExvWQww
.supercontainer {
border: solid 1px black;
display: flex;
}
.container, .other-container {
position: relative;
border: solid 1px red;
width: 200px;
margin: 10px;
}
.title {
margin: 10px;
border: solid 1px blue;
}
.content {
margin: 10px;
border: solid 1px cyan;
}
.footer {
margin: 10px;
background: lime;
}
<body>
<div class="supercontainer">
<div class="container">
<div class="title">
This part represents the title and it is placed on top
</div>
<div class="content">
This one represents the body and it is placed below the title
</div>
<div class="footer">
And this one is the footer. It should always be at the bottom of the container
</div>
</div>
<div class="other-container">
<div class="title">
This part represents the title and it is placed on top.
</div>
<div class="content">
This one represents the body and it is placed below the title. This one is longer than the first one to stretch the parent div. Since it is longer, the footers of the two containers are not alinged.
</div>
<div class="footer">
And this one is the footer. It should always be at the bottom of the container
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
__________ Solution with FLEXBOX __________
This is the outcome: https://codepen.io/xavier-atero/pen/MWvpBMz
.supercontainer {
border: solid 1px black;
display: flex;
}
.container, .other-container {
position: relative;
border: solid 1px red;
width: 200px;
margin: 10px;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
.title {
margin: 10px;
border: solid 1px blue;
}
.content {
margin: 10px;
border: solid 1px cyan;
}
.footer {
margin: 10px;
background: lime;
margin-top: auto;
border: solid 1px fuchsia;
}
<body>
<div class="supercontainer">
<div class="container">
<div class="title">
This part represents the title and it is placed on top
</div>
<div class="content">
This one represents the body and it is placed below the title
</div>
<div class="footer">
And this one is the footer. It should always be at the bottom of the container
</div>
</div>
<div class="other-container">
<div class="title">
This part represents the title and it is placed on top.
</div>
<div class="content">
This one represents the body and it is placed below the title. This one is longer than the first one to stretch the parent div. Since it is longer, the footers of the two containers are not alinged.
</div>
<div class="footer">
And this one is the footer. It should always be at the bottom of the container
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
__________ Solution with TABLE-ROW __________
This is the outcome: https://codepen.io/xavier-atero/pen/rNzyKJm
.supercontainer {
border: solid 1px black;
display: flex;
}
.container, .other-container {
position: relative;
border: solid 1px red;
width: 200px;
margin: 10px;
border-collapse:collapse;
display : table;
}
.title {
margin: 10px;
border: solid 1px blue;
}
.content {
margin: 10px;
border: solid 1px cyan;
}
.footer {
margin: 10px;
background: lime;
border: solid 1px fuchsia;
display: table-row;
vertical-align: bottom;
height: 1px;
}
<body>
<div class="supercontainer">
<div class="container">
<div class="title">
This part represents the title and it is placed on top
</div>
<div class="content">
This one represents the body and it is placed below the title
</div>
<div class="footer">
And this one is the footer. It should always be at the bottom of the container
</div>
</div>
<div class="other-container">
<div class="title">
This part represents the title and it is placed on top.
</div>
<div class="content">
This one represents the body and it is placed below the title. This one is longer than the first one to stretch the parent div. Since it is longer, the footers of the two containers are not alinged.
</div>
<div class="footer">
And this one is the footer. It should always be at the bottom of the container
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
#container{width:100%; float:left; position:relative;}
#copyright{position:absolute; bottom:0px; left:0px; background:#F00; width:100%;}
#container{background:gray; height:100px;}
<div id="container">
<!-- Other elements here -->
<div id="copyright">
Copyright Foo web designs
</div>
</div>
<div id="container">
<!-- Other elements here -->
<div id="copyright">
Copyright Foo web designs
</div>
</div>
Don't wanna use "position:absolute" for sticky footer at bottom. Then you can do this way:
html,
body {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
}
.wrapper {
min-height: 100%;
/* Equal to height of footer */
/* But also accounting for potential margin-bottom of last child */
margin-bottom: -50px;
}
.footer{
background: #000;
text-align: center;
color: #fff;
}
.footer,
.push {
height: 50px;
}
<html>
<body>
<!--HTML Code-->
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="content">content</div>
<div class="push"></div>
</div>
<footer class="footer">test</footer>
</body>
</html>
Here is an approach targeted at making an element with a known height and width (at least approximately) float to the right and stay at the bottom, while behaving as an inline element to the other elements. It is focused at the bottom-right because you can place it easily in any other corner through other methods.
I needed to make a navigation bar which would have the actual links at the bottom right, and random sibling elements, while ensuring that the bar itself stretched properly, without disrupting the layout. I used a "shadow" element to occupy the navigation bar's links' space and added it at the end of the container's child nodes.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<div id="container">
<!-- Other elements here -->
<div id="copyright">
Copyright Foo web designs
</div>
<span id="copyright-s">filler</span>
</div>
<style>
#copyright {
display:inline-block;
position:absolute;
bottom:0;
right:0;
}
#copyright-s {
float:right;
visibility:hidden;
width:20em; /* ~ #copyright.style.width */
height:3em; /* ~ #copyright.style.height */
}
</style>
Maybe this helps someone: You can always place the div outside the other div and then push it upwards using negative margin:
<div id="container" style="background-color: #ccc; padding-bottom: 30px;">
Hello!
</div>
<div id="copyright" style="margin-top: -20px;">
Copyright Foo web designs
</div>
Just because this hasn't been mentioned at all, what usually works well in situations like yours:
Placing the copyright-div after the container-div
You would only have to format the copyright-div in a similar way to the other container (same overall width, centering, etc.), and all is fine.
CSS:
#container, #copyright {
width: 1000px;
margin:0 auto;
}
HTML:
<div id="container">
<!-- Other elements here -->
</div>
<div id="copyright">
Copyright Foo web designs
</div>
The only time this might not be ideal is when your container-div is declared with height:100%, and the user would need to scroll down to see the copyright. But even still you could work around (e.g. margin-top:-20px - when the height of your copyright element is 20px).
No absolute positioning
No table layout
No crazy css, that looks different in every other browser (well IE at least, you know)
Simple and clear formatting
Aside: I know the OP asked for a solution that "... sticks to the bottom of the 'container' div ...", and not something under it, but come on, people are looking for good solutions here, and this is one!
There is nothing called float:bottom in CSS. The best way is using positioning in such cases:
position:absolute;
bottom:0;
For those only have one child in the container, you can use the table-cell and vertical-align approach which worked reliably for positioning a single div at the bottom of its parent.
Note that using table-footer-group as other answers mentioned will break the height calculation of parent table.
#container {
display: table;
width: 100%;
height: 200px;
}
#item {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: bottom;
}
<div id="container">
<div id="item">Single bottom item</div>
</div>
According: w3schools.com
An element with position: absolute; is positioned relative to the
nearest positioned ancestor (instead of positioned relative to the
viewport, like fixed).
So you need to position the parent element with something either relative or absolute, etc and position the desired element to absolute and latter set bottom to 0.
I have three div tags and i want to make space between the div tags vertically and also want my first div tag as a fixed one.
When i set my first div position as not a fixed one, i can able to make vertical space.
<html>
<head>
<title>div</title>
</head>
<body style="margin: 0; padding: 0;">
<div style="width:100%; background-color:Lime;">
<div style="width:100%; height:10%; background-color:Blue;">
a
</div>
<div style="width:70%; height:100%; background-color:Gray; margin: auto; margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em;">
b
</div>
<div style="width:100%; height:5%; background-color:Aqua;">
c
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
When i change my "div a" position as fixed , both "div a" and "div b" came down from the margin-top: 2em.
<html>
<head>
<title>div</title>
</head>
<body style="margin: 0; padding: 0;">
<div style="width:100%; background-color:Lime;">
<div style="width:100%; height:10%; background-color:Blue; position: fixed;">
a
</div>
<div style="width:70%; height:100%; background-color:Gray; margin: auto; margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em;">
b
</div>
<div style="width:100%; height:5%; background-color:Aqua;">
c
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Please help me to make my "div a" as fixed and to make space between "div a and b".
In order to keep div.a (the fixed one) to the top of the page, add top: 0; and if you want it to stay on top of the rest of the content, include z-index: 2;.
In order to add spacing between div.a and div.b you are going to have to put a container div around div.b and appropriate padding to it. If you just put padding on the main container div it will offset div.a.
If possible, set a definitive height to div.a, instead of a percentage, as this will make the vertical alignment of div.b and it's container much easier. That way you can set the margin-top for div.b to be the height of div.a.
Below is the CSS and HTML refactored for better readability:
/* CSS */
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
div {
width: 100%;
}
div.container {
height: 100%;
}
div.container,
div.b-container {
background-color: lime;
}
div.a {
height: 70px;
background-color: blue;
position: fixed;
top: 0;
z-index: 2;
}
div.b-container {
position: relative;
padding-top: 2em;
margin-top: 70px;
}
div.b-container div.b {
width: 70%;
height: 100%;
background-color: gray;
margin: auto;
margin-bottom: 2em;
}
div.c {
height: 5%;
background-color: aqua;
}
<!-- HTML -->
<div class="container">
<div class="a">
a
</div>
<div class="b-container">
<div class="b">b
</div>
</div>
<div class="c">
c
</div>
</div>
Make your other two divs as fixed too, keeping the margin-top: 2em parameter
when you set it to fixed it takes it out of the normal document flow. thats why the other elemts are getting lost under it. add a top: 0; to div a and change the margin-top for div b worked for me. its atleast a starting point. im not sure what the end result your looking for. check out the link
http://jsfiddle.net/8ar3kvep/
<body style="margin: 0; padding: 0;">
<div style="width:100%; background-color:Lime;">
<div style="width:100%; height:10%; background-color:Blue; position: fixed; top:0;">
a
</div>
<div style="width:70%; height:100%; background-color:Gray; margin: auto; margin-top:
4em;
margin-bottom: 2em;">
b
</div>
<div style="width:100%; height:5%; background-color:Aqua;">
c
</div>
</div>
</body>
I am creating a sample website which has three divisions horizontally.
I want the left most div to be 25% width, the middle one to be 50% width, and right to be 25% width so that the divisions fill all the 100% space horizontally.
<html>
<title>
Website Title
</title>
<div id="the whole thing" style="height:100%; width:100%" >
<div id="leftThing" style="position: relative; width:25%; background-color:blue;">
Left Side Menu
</div>
<div id="content" style="position: relative; width:50%; background-color:green;">
Random Content
</div>
<div id="rightThing" style="position: relative; width:25%; background-color:yellow;">
Right Side Menu
</div>
</div>
</html>
http://imgur.com/j4cJu
When I execute this code, the divs appear over each other. I want them to appear beside each other!
How can i do this?
I'd refrain from using floats for this sort of thing; I'd rather use inline-block.
Some more points to consider:
Inline styles are bad for maintainability
You shouldn't have spaces in selector names
You missed some important HTML tags, like <head> and <body>
You didn't include a doctype
Here's a better way to format your document:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Website Title</title>
<style type="text/css">
* {margin: 0; padding: 0;}
#container {height: 100%; width:100%; font-size: 0;}
#left, #middle, #right {display: inline-block; *display: inline; zoom: 1; vertical-align: top; font-size: 12px;}
#left {width: 25%; background: blue;}
#middle {width: 50%; background: green;}
#right {width: 25%; background: yellow;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="left">Left Side Menu</div>
<div id="middle">Random Content</div>
<div id="right">Right Side Menu</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Here's a jsFiddle for good measure.
I know this is a very old question. Just posting this here as I solved this problem using FlexBox. Here is the solution
#container {
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
display: flex;
}
#leftThing {
width: 25%;
background-color: blue;
}
#content {
width: 50%;
background-color: green;
}
#rightThing {
width: 25%;
background-color: yellow;
}
<div id="container">
<div id="leftThing">
Left Side Menu
</div>
<div id="content">
Random Content
</div>
<div id="rightThing">
Right Side Menu
</div>
</div>
Just had to add display:flex to the container! No floats required.
You can use floating elements like so:
<div id="the whole thing" style="height:100%; width:100%; overflow: hidden;">
<div id="leftThing" style="float: left; width:25%; background-color:blue;">Left Side Menu</div>
<div id="content" style="float: left; width:50%; background-color:green;">Random Content</div>
<div id="rightThing" style="float: left; width:25%; background-color:yellow;">Right Side Menu</div>
</div>
Note the overflow: hidden; on the parent container, this is to make the parent grow to have the same dimensions as the child elements (otherwise it will have a height of 0).
Easiest way
I can see the question is answered , I'm giving this answer for the ones who is having this question in future
It's not good practise to code inline css , and also ID for all inner div's , always try to use class for styling .Using inline css is a very bad practise if you are trying to be a professional web designer.
Here in your question
I have given a wrapper class for the parent div and all the inside div's are child div's in css you can call inner div's using nth-child selector.
I want to point few things here
Do not use inline css ( it is very bad practise )
Try to use classes instead of id's because if you give an id you can use it only once, but if you use a class you can use it many times and also you can style of them using that class so you write less code.
Codepen link for my answer
https://codepen.io/feizel/pen/JELGyB
.wrapper {
width: 100%;
}
.box {
float: left;
height: 100px;
}
.box:nth-child(1) {
width: 25%;
background-color: red;
}
.box:nth-child(2) {
width: 50%;
background-color: green;
}
.box:nth-child(3) {
width: 25%;
background-color: yellow;
}
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="box">
Left Side Menu
</div>
<div class="box">
Random Content
</div>
<div class="box">
Right Side Menu
</div>
</div>
You add a
float: left;
to the style of the 3 elements and make sure the parent container has
overflow: hidden; position: relative;
this makes sure the floats take up actual space.
<html>
<head>
<title>Website Title </title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="the-whole-thing" style="position: relative; overflow: hidden;">
<div id="leftThing" style="position: relative; width: 25%; background-color: blue; float: left;">
Left Side Menu
</div>
<div id="content" style="position: relative; width: 50%; background-color: green; float: left;">
Random Content
</div>
<div id="rightThing" style="position: relative; width: 25%; background-color: yellow; float: left;">
Right Side Menu
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Also please note that the width: 100% and height: 100% need to be removed from the container, otherwise the 3rd block will wrap to a 2nd line.
Get rid of the position:relative; and replace it with float:left; and float:right;.
Example in jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/d9fHP/1/
<html>
<title>
Website Title </title>
<div id="the whole thing" style="float:left; height:100%; width:100%">
<div id="leftThing" style="float:left; width:25%; background-color:blue;">
Left Side Menu
</div>
<div id="content" style="float:left; width:50%; background-color:green;">
Random Content
</div>
<div id="rightThing" style="float:right; width:25%; background-color:yellow;">
Right Side Menu
</div>
</div>
</html>
Given the following HTML:
<div id="container">
<!-- Other elements here -->
<div id="copyright">
Copyright Foo web designs
</div>
</div>
I would like #copyright to stick to the bottom of #container. Can I achieve this without using absolute positioning?
Likely not.
Assign position:relative to #container, and then position:absolute; bottom:0; to #copyright.
#container {
position: relative;
}
#copyright {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
}
<div id="container">
<!-- Other elements here -->
<div id="copyright">
Copyright Foo web designs
</div>
</div>
Actually, the accepted answer by #User will only work if the window is tall and the content is short. But if the content is tall and the window is short, it will put the copyright info over the page content, and then scrolling down to see the content will leave you with a floating copyright notice. That makes this solution useless for most pages (like this page, actually).
The most common way of doing this is the "CSS sticky footer" approach demonstrated, or a slightly slimmer variation. This approach works great -- IF you have a fixed height footer.
If you need a variable height footer that will appear at the bottom of the window if the content is too short, and at the bottom of the content if the window is too short, what do you do?
Swallow your pride and use a table.
For example:
* {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
#container {
height: 100%;
border-collapse: collapse;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<table id="container">
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<div id="main">Lorem ipsum, etc.</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="bottom">
<div id="footer">Copyright some evil company...</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Try it out. This will work for any window size, for any amount of content, for any size footer, on every browser... even IE6.
If you're cringing at the thought of using a table for layout, take a second to ask yourself why. CSS was supposed to make our lives easier -- and it has, overall -- but the fact is that even after all these years, it's still a broken, counter-intuitive mess. It can't solve every problem. It's incomplete.
Tables aren't cool, but at least for now, they are sometimes the best way to solve a design problem.
The flexbox approach!
In supported browsers, you can use the following:
Example Here
.parent {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
.child {
margin-top: auto;
}
.parent {
height: 100px;
border: 5px solid #000;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
.child {
height: 40px;
width: 100%;
background: #f00;
margin-top: auto;
}
<div class="parent">
<div class="child">Align to the bottom</div>
</div>
The solution above is probably more flexible, however, here is an alternative solution:
Example Here
.parent {
display: flex;
}
.child {
align-self: flex-end;
}
.parent {
height: 100px;
border: 5px solid #000;
display: flex;
}
.child {
height: 40px;
width: 100%;
background: #f00;
align-self: flex-end;
}
<div class="parent">
<div class="child">Align to the bottom</div>
</div>
As a side note, you may want to add vendor prefixes for additional support.
Yes you can do this without absolute positioning and without using tables (which screw with markup and such).
DEMO
This is tested to work on IE>7, chrome, FF & is a really easy thing to add to your existing layout.
<div id="container">
Some content you don't want affected by the "bottom floating" div
<div>supports not just text</div>
<div class="foot">
Some other content you want kept to the bottom
<div>this is in a div</div>
</div>
</div>
#container {
height:100%;
border-collapse:collapse;
display : table;
}
.foot {
display : table-row;
vertical-align : bottom;
height : 1px;
}
It effectively does what float:bottom would, even accounting for the issue pointed out in #Rick Reilly's answer!
Pure CSS, without absolute positioning, without fixing any height, cross-browser (IE9+)
check out that Working Fiddle
Because normal flow is 'top-to-bottom' we can't simply ask the #copyright div to stick to the bottom of his parent without absolutely positioning of some sort, But if we wanted the #copyright div to stick to the top of his parent, it will be very simple - because this is the normal flow way.
So we will use this in our advantage.
we will change the order of the divs in the HTML, now the #copyright div is at the top, and the content follow it right away.
we also make the content div stretch all the way (using pseudo elements and clearing techniques)
now it's just a matter of inverting that order back in the view. that can be easily done with CSS transform.
We rotate the container by 180deg, and now: up-is-down. (and we inverse back the content to look normal again)
If we want to have a scroolbar within the content area, we need to apply a little bit more of CSS magic. as can be showed Here [in that example, the content is below a header - but its the same idea]
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
html,
body,
#Container {
height: 100%;
color: white;
}
#Container:before {
content: '';
height: 100%;
float: left;
}
#Copyright {
background-color: green;
}
#Stretch {
background-color: blue;
}
#Stretch:after {
content: '';
display: block;
clear: both;
}
#Container,
#Container>div {
-moz-transform: rotateX(180deg);
-ms-transform: rotateX(180deg);
-o-transform: rotate(180deg);
-webkit-transform: rotateX(180deg);
transform: rotateX(180deg);
}
<div id="Container">
<div id="Copyright">
Copyright Foo web designs
</div>
<div id="Stretch">
<!-- Other elements here -->
<div>Element 1</div>
<div>Element 2</div>
</div>
</div>
CSS Grid
Since the usage of CSS Grid is increasing, I would like to suggest align-self to the element that is inside a grid container.
align-self can contain any of the values: end, self-end, flex-end for the following example.
#parent {
display: grid;
}
#child1 {
align-self: end;
}
/* Extra Styling for Snippet */
#parent {
height: 150px;
background: #5548B0;
color: #fff;
padding: 10px;
font-family: sans-serif;
}
#child1 {
height: 50px;
width: 50px;
background: #6A67CE;
text-align: center;
vertical-align: middle;
line-height: 50px;
}
<div id="parent">
<!-- Other elements here -->
<div id="child1">
1
</div>
</div>
Create another container div for the elements above #copyright. Just above copyright add a new div:
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
It will force the footer to be under everything else, just like in the case of using relative positioning (bottom:0px;).
Try this;
<div id="container">
<div style="height: 100%; border:1px solid #ff0000;">
<!-- Other elements here -->
</div>
</div>
<div id="copyright" style="position:relative;border:1px solid #00ff00;top:-25px">
Copyright Foo web designs
</div>
While none of the answers provided here seemed to apply or work in my particular case, I came across this article which provides this neat solution :
#container {
display: table;
}
#copyright {
display: table-footer-group;
}
I find it very useful for applying responsive design for mobile display without having to reorder all the html code of a website, setting body itself as a table.
Note that only the first table-footer-group or table-header-group will be rendered as such : if there are more than one, the others will be rendered as table-row-group.
You can indeed align the box to the bottom without using position:absolute if you know the height of the #container using the text alignment feature of inline-block elements.
Here you can see it in action.
This is the code:
#container {
/* So the #container most have a fixed height */
height: 300px;
line-height: 300px;
background:Red;
}
#container > * {
/* Restore Line height to Normal */
line-height: 1.2em;
}
#copyright {
display:inline-block;
vertical-align:bottom;
width:100%; /* Let it be a block */
background:green;
}
Using the translateY and top property
Just set element child to position: relative and than move it top: 100% (that's the 100% height of the parent) and stick to bottom of parent by transform: translateY(-100%) (that's -100% of the height of the child).
BenefitS
you do not take the element from the page flow
it is dynamic
But still just workaround :(
.copyright{
position: relative;
top: 100%;
transform: translateY(-100%);
}
Don't forget prefixes for the older browser.
CodePen link here.
html, body {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
.overlay {
min-height: 100%;
position: relative;
}
.container {
width: 900px;
position: relative;
padding-bottom: 50px;
}
.height {
width: 900px;
height: 50px;
}
.footer {
width: 900px;
height: 50px;
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
}
<div class="overlay">
<div class="container">
<div class="height">
content
</div>
</div>
<div class="footer">
footer
</div>
</div>
If you want it to "stick" to the bottom, regardless of the height of container, then absolute positioning is the way to go. Of course, if the copyright element is the last in the container it'll always be at the bottom anyway.
Can you expand on your question? Explain exactly what you're trying to do (and why you don't want to use absolute positioning)?
If you do not know the height of child block:
#parent {
background:green;
width:200px;
height:200px;
display:table-cell;
vertical-align:bottom;
}
.child {
background:red;
vertical-align:bottom;
}
<div id="parent">
<div class="child">child
</div>
</div>
http://jsbin.com/ULUXIFon/3/edit
If you know the height of the child block add the child block then add padding-top/margin-top:
#parent {
background:green;
width:200px;
height:130px;
padding-top:70px;
}
.child {
background:red;
vertical-align:
bottom;
height:130px;
}
<div id="parent">
<div class="child">child
</div>
</div>
You can use grid by assigning the available space to the content at the top:
#container {
display: grid;
grid-template-rows: 1fr auto;
height: 10rem; /* or 100% or anything */
}
<div id="container">
This is random content.
<div id="copyright">
Copyright Foo web designs
</div>
</div>
Also, if there's stipulations with using position:absolute; or position:relative;, you can always try padding parent div or putting a margin-top:x;. Not a very good method in most cases, but it may come in handy in some cases.
Solution for this specific scenario:
Place inner at the bottom of parent . The height of the parent is set by the height of its "tallest" sibling
The set up:
I have a row with multiple <div class="container">
These <div class="container"> are next to each other inside another <div class="supercontainer">
Each <div class="container"> has 3 inner divs on top of each other: <div class="title">, <div class="content">, <div class="footer">
The desired result:
All <div class="container"> have the same height. The height is not defined in px, it will be the height of the "tallest" among them.
<div class="title"> should be at the top of <div class="container">
<div class="content"> should be placed below <div class="title">
<div class="footer"> should be placed at the bottom of <div class="container"> without overlapping with the previous content
This is the current state: https://codepen.io/xavier-atero/pen/ExvWQww
.supercontainer {
border: solid 1px black;
display: flex;
}
.container, .other-container {
position: relative;
border: solid 1px red;
width: 200px;
margin: 10px;
}
.title {
margin: 10px;
border: solid 1px blue;
}
.content {
margin: 10px;
border: solid 1px cyan;
}
.footer {
margin: 10px;
background: lime;
}
<body>
<div class="supercontainer">
<div class="container">
<div class="title">
This part represents the title and it is placed on top
</div>
<div class="content">
This one represents the body and it is placed below the title
</div>
<div class="footer">
And this one is the footer. It should always be at the bottom of the container
</div>
</div>
<div class="other-container">
<div class="title">
This part represents the title and it is placed on top.
</div>
<div class="content">
This one represents the body and it is placed below the title. This one is longer than the first one to stretch the parent div. Since it is longer, the footers of the two containers are not alinged.
</div>
<div class="footer">
And this one is the footer. It should always be at the bottom of the container
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
__________ Solution with FLEXBOX __________
This is the outcome: https://codepen.io/xavier-atero/pen/MWvpBMz
.supercontainer {
border: solid 1px black;
display: flex;
}
.container, .other-container {
position: relative;
border: solid 1px red;
width: 200px;
margin: 10px;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
.title {
margin: 10px;
border: solid 1px blue;
}
.content {
margin: 10px;
border: solid 1px cyan;
}
.footer {
margin: 10px;
background: lime;
margin-top: auto;
border: solid 1px fuchsia;
}
<body>
<div class="supercontainer">
<div class="container">
<div class="title">
This part represents the title and it is placed on top
</div>
<div class="content">
This one represents the body and it is placed below the title
</div>
<div class="footer">
And this one is the footer. It should always be at the bottom of the container
</div>
</div>
<div class="other-container">
<div class="title">
This part represents the title and it is placed on top.
</div>
<div class="content">
This one represents the body and it is placed below the title. This one is longer than the first one to stretch the parent div. Since it is longer, the footers of the two containers are not alinged.
</div>
<div class="footer">
And this one is the footer. It should always be at the bottom of the container
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
__________ Solution with TABLE-ROW __________
This is the outcome: https://codepen.io/xavier-atero/pen/rNzyKJm
.supercontainer {
border: solid 1px black;
display: flex;
}
.container, .other-container {
position: relative;
border: solid 1px red;
width: 200px;
margin: 10px;
border-collapse:collapse;
display : table;
}
.title {
margin: 10px;
border: solid 1px blue;
}
.content {
margin: 10px;
border: solid 1px cyan;
}
.footer {
margin: 10px;
background: lime;
border: solid 1px fuchsia;
display: table-row;
vertical-align: bottom;
height: 1px;
}
<body>
<div class="supercontainer">
<div class="container">
<div class="title">
This part represents the title and it is placed on top
</div>
<div class="content">
This one represents the body and it is placed below the title
</div>
<div class="footer">
And this one is the footer. It should always be at the bottom of the container
</div>
</div>
<div class="other-container">
<div class="title">
This part represents the title and it is placed on top.
</div>
<div class="content">
This one represents the body and it is placed below the title. This one is longer than the first one to stretch the parent div. Since it is longer, the footers of the two containers are not alinged.
</div>
<div class="footer">
And this one is the footer. It should always be at the bottom of the container
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
#container{width:100%; float:left; position:relative;}
#copyright{position:absolute; bottom:0px; left:0px; background:#F00; width:100%;}
#container{background:gray; height:100px;}
<div id="container">
<!-- Other elements here -->
<div id="copyright">
Copyright Foo web designs
</div>
</div>
<div id="container">
<!-- Other elements here -->
<div id="copyright">
Copyright Foo web designs
</div>
</div>
Don't wanna use "position:absolute" for sticky footer at bottom. Then you can do this way:
html,
body {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
}
.wrapper {
min-height: 100%;
/* Equal to height of footer */
/* But also accounting for potential margin-bottom of last child */
margin-bottom: -50px;
}
.footer{
background: #000;
text-align: center;
color: #fff;
}
.footer,
.push {
height: 50px;
}
<html>
<body>
<!--HTML Code-->
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="content">content</div>
<div class="push"></div>
</div>
<footer class="footer">test</footer>
</body>
</html>
Here is an approach targeted at making an element with a known height and width (at least approximately) float to the right and stay at the bottom, while behaving as an inline element to the other elements. It is focused at the bottom-right because you can place it easily in any other corner through other methods.
I needed to make a navigation bar which would have the actual links at the bottom right, and random sibling elements, while ensuring that the bar itself stretched properly, without disrupting the layout. I used a "shadow" element to occupy the navigation bar's links' space and added it at the end of the container's child nodes.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<div id="container">
<!-- Other elements here -->
<div id="copyright">
Copyright Foo web designs
</div>
<span id="copyright-s">filler</span>
</div>
<style>
#copyright {
display:inline-block;
position:absolute;
bottom:0;
right:0;
}
#copyright-s {
float:right;
visibility:hidden;
width:20em; /* ~ #copyright.style.width */
height:3em; /* ~ #copyright.style.height */
}
</style>
Maybe this helps someone: You can always place the div outside the other div and then push it upwards using negative margin:
<div id="container" style="background-color: #ccc; padding-bottom: 30px;">
Hello!
</div>
<div id="copyright" style="margin-top: -20px;">
Copyright Foo web designs
</div>
Just because this hasn't been mentioned at all, what usually works well in situations like yours:
Placing the copyright-div after the container-div
You would only have to format the copyright-div in a similar way to the other container (same overall width, centering, etc.), and all is fine.
CSS:
#container, #copyright {
width: 1000px;
margin:0 auto;
}
HTML:
<div id="container">
<!-- Other elements here -->
</div>
<div id="copyright">
Copyright Foo web designs
</div>
The only time this might not be ideal is when your container-div is declared with height:100%, and the user would need to scroll down to see the copyright. But even still you could work around (e.g. margin-top:-20px - when the height of your copyright element is 20px).
No absolute positioning
No table layout
No crazy css, that looks different in every other browser (well IE at least, you know)
Simple and clear formatting
Aside: I know the OP asked for a solution that "... sticks to the bottom of the 'container' div ...", and not something under it, but come on, people are looking for good solutions here, and this is one!
There is nothing called float:bottom in CSS. The best way is using positioning in such cases:
position:absolute;
bottom:0;
For those only have one child in the container, you can use the table-cell and vertical-align approach which worked reliably for positioning a single div at the bottom of its parent.
Note that using table-footer-group as other answers mentioned will break the height calculation of parent table.
#container {
display: table;
width: 100%;
height: 200px;
}
#item {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: bottom;
}
<div id="container">
<div id="item">Single bottom item</div>
</div>
According: w3schools.com
An element with position: absolute; is positioned relative to the
nearest positioned ancestor (instead of positioned relative to the
viewport, like fixed).
So you need to position the parent element with something either relative or absolute, etc and position the desired element to absolute and latter set bottom to 0.
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;