I have been teaching myself front end web development for a while now and have taken on several client projects with good success so far. I am currently working on the site www.thrivetech.com and having an issue. There are 3 text columns with images above each on the home page of this site, and I cannot come up with a good way to make them all stay the same height. At different screen widths these 3 columns change height and sometimes don't match. Squarespace objects are natively responsive, and when the screen gets small enough these 3 columns stack on eachother and look fine. I have added a lot of Custom CSS to change background colors, text colors, etc. but can't figure out how to make this work. Even if I remove ALL CSS and just have a plain white page with black text, these columns still do this and don't stay the same height. I have even contacted Squarespace support and they haven't come up with a solution. See image below:
I would include some CSS source, but it's best to navigate to the site at thrivetech.com and inspect the CSS to see what is going on. I have considered doing something like using JS and jQuery to get the height of all 3 of these, determine which is the greatest, then set the height of all 3 to the greatest height, but it seems like there should be an easier, more elegant pure CSS solution?? Thanks for looking!
RESOLVED:
I fixed the issue by using a media query to set the parent element of these 3 columns to display: flex; when the window is at least 640px wide. The reason I need the media query is because they need to display as blocks when the window gets smaller so we can take advantage of Squarespace's native responsive design so the columns will stack on top of eachother on mobile and smaller screens. Here's some simple pseudocode:
#media only screen and (min-width: 640px) {
#parentDiv { display: flex; }
}
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I am first year student Software Engineering and I use to have an assignment to make a web page. It is not complicated at all but after writing the web page I realised that when you open the site in smaller resolution (than mine 1080p) device it doesn't fit very well. I don't know what resolution uses the teacher who is going to assess me so i want to modify the site for 1600;900 and 1336:768 at least.
I should say that I used other suggestions that I should divide div tags by % not by pixels but it still doesnt work.
I googled the problem and I think I found a solution - actualy it is something with #media where you can set different percentages for different screen resolutions in advance and then you get the cliend screen resolution and open it in appropriate proportions
So I wanted to ask you how exactly to write this?
P.s you could take a look at my webpage here
The answer really depends on how intricate your site is, what the layout looks like, and what elements need to do at what sizes.
In general, HTML is "fluid" by default, so text will wrap, and elements will resize to fit their contents, so if your design is simplistic, you shouldn't have to do anything.
When you start sizing things with absolute/static pixel sizes, you get yourself into situations where things no longer fit.
You should generally avoid making designs that are fixed pixel sizes, and allow for elements to re-size naturally as HTML is designed to do.
#media queries are appropriate for changing appearances at specific resolutions, and are generally set up to make "responsive" designs, where elements can change styling or be hidden/shown at different resolutions. This is usually used for more complicated or dynamic layouts, and still needs to be planned for accordingly, because it is usually set up to accommodate a range of resolutions. For example an element might be 100% wide from 0 to 1024 pixels wide, and become 50% wide when the window is over 1024 pixels wide.
In the case of your web site, you are sort of breaking it by floating everything left. float tends to be really over-used in CSS without understanding its side effects.
Remove width from your menu element, and remove width and float from your content element.
This will cause the menu to be as wide as its contents (the buttons) and "float" next to the contents, which will try to be 100% wide, but be narrowed to allow the menu to fit next to it.
Good luck in school you will need to read up on responsive design which you acheave via CSS.
eg.
#media screen and (min-width: 500px) {
// Write your style
}
#media screen and (min-width: 501px){
// Write your style
}
That is what you need to do, there is lot of documentation and tutorials on this you will have no problem finding the resources.
Here is a TutsPlus page to get you started: Tutorial link
Okay so I am trying to get my website to fit all resolutions or screen sizes because I am currently working on a 17" 1920x1080 screen size and my website looks fine but when i try run it on a 10" or 15" screen etc the website screws up, the content goes everywhere (mainly drops down) So I was wondering how this can be fixed?
Thanks
First of all you should use percentage values (e.g. width:20%; instead of width:200px;) whenever you can, so you don't rely on absolute pixel resolutions (which often screw up your whole design/layout).
For all the other things and tuning you should take a look onto the css media query (e.g. w3schools):
#media screen and (min-width:1024px) {
/* ... */
}
It sounds like your web content isn't being positioned relative to a fixed width parent container, because if it was a scrollbar would load rather than your containers being pushed down. If you want to make the website layout respond to the screen size then you'll need to use a responsive layout.
Here's more info on getting started with responsive design/development:
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_responsive_intro.asp
You can also look at using a framework which is really good for learning responsive grid lay outs (and much more). Bootstrap is one of the most popular mobile first responsive frameworks:
http://www.w3schools.com/bootstrap/default.asp
http://getbootstrap.com/
You could dive in learning few things:
Relative Lengths
Flexbox
Media Queries
This is a follow-up question to one I asked before:
"CSS - elements position when the window size changes".
The issue was - How to avoid the elements from being pushed aside when the screen gets smaller.
The answer was - use static width.
Static width indeed solves the problem, however it causes another problem (now we get to my follow-up question):
Let's say I use a picture as a background for the headline of the site and another one for the footer.
On the one hand I want them to always take the whole screen width but on the other hand I don't want them to be pushed aside when the window displaying the site gets smaller.
Using static width will cause different display in different browsers or in different versions of the same browser - will not always take the whole width. (there isn't one static width value that is good for all cases)
Using width: 100% seems to be the solution but then I find myself where I began.
How can I accomplish both?
Thanks.
This is the reason that we have css media queries and max-width, max-height attributes
Media queries allow you to change the css depending on how big the screen size is. Plus they can do a lot more.
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_mediatypes.asp
What I would do is design your site with max-width: someamount, and width: 100%. Once your finished, then worry about making it look better on smaller screens.
Designers usually go one of two ways when designing a responsive website. Either design for desktop size screen first, then adjust for the smaller sized screens towards the very end. OR design for mobile sized screens first and then the larger screens towards the very end.
When i make websites, it fits on my screen, but when i open the website on another screen, it doesn't work correctly (The divs overlaps eachother). It's the same when i resize the window. I saw a couple of posts about this, but still, no good answer. I tried making a container to put them all in. But it's still the same.
Any answers, why this is happening?
Container CSS code:
#container
{
width: 960px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
I put it into HTML like this:
<div id="container">
Content goes here
</div>
EDIT: Guys, i don't think you understand me. When i'm on another screen resolution, all the divs moves. I think everything moves, if i'm not completely wrong. I would like to know the real way of doing this. What do you do?
http://i49.tinypic.com/8wwo6r.jpg
http://i48.tinypic.com/359ydc9.jpg
FINAL EDIT: I fixed it with the percentage. It seems to work quite well! Thanks for all your answers! I know this will give me a kind of bad reputation, because i didn't make myself clear enough.
You can use percentages instead of pixel.
#container {
width: 80%;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
You can figure out percentages having screen resolution and the size you want using this forumla:
WidthPercentage = ContainerWidth / ScreenWidth * 100
So for your example if your screen resolution is 1360x768:
WidthPercentage = 960 / 1360 * 100 = 70.5%
This is called responsive design.
You can find some guidelines here and some good articles here.
If you don't want to use percentages, you can go with Responsive Design and Media Queries. Basically, you call different CSS rules based on different browser properties (for example: width). See a nice tutorial about this here (you can also see it in action).
Quote:
The second part of responsive design is CSS3 media queries, which currently enjoy decent support across many modern browsers. If you’re not familiar with CSS3 media queries, they basically allow you to gather data about the site visitor and use it to conditionally apply CSS styles. For our purposes, we’re primarily interested in the min-width media feature, which allows us to apply specific CSS styles if the browser window drops below a particular width that we can specify
You've set your <div> (<div id="container">) to be 960 pixels wide. If you view the page in a browser window that's less than 960 pixels wide, then the <div> won't fit in it.
Your question isn't very clear. You've said "when i open the website on another screen, it doesn't work correctly", but you haven't said how it doesn't work. To get help, you need to describe the following three things with enough detail:
What you've done (e.g. what code you've written, what steps you're taking to run that code)
What results you expect from what you've done
What results you're actually getting
On this template I've built using Foundation, everything looks correct and responsive except for both navigation bars. They're both on their own <div class="row">, yet they overlap eachother on window resize.
(There is a #media only screen and (max-width: 767px) that is supposed to make it look even cleaner, if it helps at all).
Actually if you open the page on chrome with the developer tools or in firefox with firebug, you can see that when you make the page smaller than 767px width, is when the problems enters, due your #media only screen and (max-width: 767px). i would recommend to check that css cause if you removed it from the html you get a better result, so you may check what attributes inside that css are making your div crazy.
try adding foundation.css (around line 148) .row class height to 140px and moving main-links somewhere inside top of the main-content? That code seriously need either playing around with heights/margin or div blocks imo :)
Edit: roughly editing foundation.css lines is not what you need, make separate css class for that specific height setting and trigger usage of it with correct media query (width which causes problem to occur). That way you can tune any classes you like around the top navigation, its not pretty but it gets things work.
As Jorge Aguilar said, the problem lied in a float: none that was applied to every <li>. Furthermore, I used a width: 100% property to stretch the elements across the entire screen (like it originally was with the floats, but without the overlapping)