I know that a newline in html between elements is treated as space, but I think this is pretty scary when you try to play with responsive layout.
For example, here we have the expected and correct behaviour, but to obtain it I had to remove the newline in the html between the element:
https://jsfiddle.net/xew2szfu/1/
<div class="recommend-friend__dialog">You should see only me</div><div class="recommend-friend__dialog recommend-friend__dialog--variant">... but NOT ME!</div>
Here I wrote the html with a newline, as you normally do, and everything got broken:
https://jsfiddle.net/rL1fqwkc/1/
<div class="recommend-friend__dialog">You should see only me</div>
<div class="recommend-friend__dialog recommend-friend__dialog--variant">... but NOT ME!</div>
I know I can fix the problem with a float: left, but I wonder if I missed something, the default behaviour sounds really incorrect to me.
It is happening because inline-block puts a space in between elements, and with the space the second div moves down, since it can't fit on the line any more.
There are many ways to combat this. As you said, float is one of them. This excellent CSS Tricks article is a great help, but I'll go over the ones you probably want:
Negative margin:
nav a {
display: inline-block;
margin-right: -4px;
}
Very simple, you can have a nice html format, but moves the element over to hide the space.
Set the font-size to 0:
.recommend-friend__slider{
font-size: 0;
}
.recommend-friend__dialog {
font-size: 12pt;
}
Or, my personal favorite, skip the inline block and use flexbox instead.
Related
I've created a codepen for this, but the issue is basically beneath my YouTube embed there's a margin (Seperating the footer from the page) and I don't understand why, I'm still learning when it comes to web development, so I'll be grateful for any explanations.
http://codepen.io/anon/pen/yyjaVJ
Links to codepen must be accompanied by code,
but it's all on codepen, considering there's not much.
It's because an iframe element is inline by default. The reason you are seeing whitespace below the iframe is because inline elements are aligned this way so that there is reserved space below the element for letters such as p, y, q.
You could either change the display of the iframe element to block: (example)
iframe {
display: block;
}
..or you could change the value of the vertical-align property to something other than the default value of baseline. In this case, a value of top would work: (example)
iframe {
vertical-align: top;
}
You can still use what you have, if you edit your CSS and change this code:
#body_wrapper footer {
margin-top: -6px;
}
Not exactly a professional way to do things as you will see the comments i shall get for it but it does fix your problem at hand.
I have divs after each other that look like this.
<div class="tag">one tag</div>
<div class="tag">second tag</div>
<div class="tag">third tag</div>
...50 more of them....
(in CSS)
.tag {
display:inline
}
I found out that I have too many of them and they start breaking in the middle, and I don't want that.
However, when I set the nowrap like this
.tag {
display:inline;
white-space:nowrap;
}
all of them are on one line, making more than 100% of the window. I don't want that.
What I want: if there are too many of these divs on one line, the list of the divs can break, but the divs themselves don't. I just don't want to break the divs in the middle.
I hope I tell it clearly enough.
If I understand right, you want them to lay side to side, and then break to a new line when the row is full, but not in the middle of a div.
All you need is
.tag {
float: left;
}
See fiddle here for demo.
You can also add padding-left: 5px; if you want some space between them.
.tag {
display:inline;
white-space:nowrap;
float:left;
}
That worked. (and adding "clearing" empty div with clear:both under that.)
Depending on the browsers you need/want to support, you may find using
.tag {
display:inline-block;
vertical-align:top;
}
a better solution. Since it is a <div> that you want to apply this to, the style will not work out of the box for IE5-7 - see http://www.quirksmode.org/css/display.html#t03. There are workarounds of course - How to fix display:inline-block on IE6? - if you want to use it with those browsers.
The benefit of inline-block is that you do not need to clear the floated content and also that your elements are not rendered out of normal flow. I try to avoid floating elements where possible as in my experience it has caused layout problems.
However, there are a couple of potential catches with this approach. One of which I have already addressed, by adding a vertical-align:top rule. See a previous answer for why this happens - https://stackoverflow.com/a/12950536/637889
The other is due to potentially unwanted white-space between the inline-block elements. See http://css-tricks.com/fighting-the-space-between-inline-block-elements/ for some clever ways around this.
First.. How do i fix this:
http://jsfiddle.net/kLjcq/
I am seeing this properly formatted on my browser..!
http://picpaste.com/pics/Screenshot_from_2013-02-07_13_31_20-ViIvXLQf.1360273538.png
http://picpaste.com/pics/Screenshot_from_2013-02-07_13_37_15-GBjeEsL8.1360273595.png
But on the fiddel it messes things up.. :( What happened? HOw do i fix this?
Second is.. if i have long string... it shoots over that light gray border of the heading
"Reading from xml..." thingy
What I am looking for is that the maxiumum spread of this text goes upto that border.. and after that.. it breaks to a next line.. so that text is enclosed properly..
In div.content
div.content {
background-color: #add8e6;
display:inline-block;
margin-top: 20px;
border-radius: 10px;
position: relative;
top:-5px;
}
I tried to add limit and stuff.. but it limits the blue box to a pixel value
but instead i want text (and blue box) to limit upto certain limit after which it
breaks to a new line...
any clues.
Thanks
You're absolutely positioning the .checksheet class. This removes it from the document flow. Other elements like your .content-class don't care for it.
I don't know why you use position: absolute; in this context, but it's producing your mistake.
Your fiddle is breaking because you're using absolute positioning. When the screen is narrow, your elements in the checklist are wrapping around, but the elements that follow are positioned in a way that assumes the preceding element is only 1 line instead of 2.
Without the actual markup relating to your second question, we can only guess at what the actual problem is. However, since you're using pre in the sample provided, the culprit is most likely there. What you need is to add a property like this:
white-space: pre-wrap
Without this property, the pre tag generally does not allow elements to word-wrap, which will cause it to take up as much horizontal space as possible to display all of the text.
I am trying to transcribe some of Prof. Dr. Edsger Dijkstra's EWD's, but running into a little problem. In his writing he likes to place comments such as 'End of Proof' at the end of the paragraph, right aligned when there is room, or on the next line otherwise. I would like to recreate this formatting, but seem unable to do so. I'd really prefer a solution using only CSS, but if that proves impossible, JavaScript is also allowed.
Please see http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd10xx/EWD1001.PDF on page number 0 (2nd page of PDF) the comment "End of Legenda" and page number 3 (5th page of PDF) the comment "End of Remark".
I've tried using the display: block / float: right combo which #starx answered with. However, as it is a float, it does not move the rest of the text down. Looking through the source document, the formatting seems ad-hoc, but it seems Dijkstra liked to keep it on the same line if possible, or move it to the next, right aligned, if not.
Searched through the different CSS specs, but I can't as yet fathom a way to accomplish this.
Assuming, you are giving class block to the element.
.block {
display: block;
width: 200px; /* minimum needed to be inline */
float: right;
}
My suggestion would be to use the :after pseudo-element to add the caption at the end of the appropriate paragraph:
.remark:after {
content: 'End of Remark';
color: red;
display: inline-block;
float: right;
}
Example: http://dabblet.com/gist/2406457
If this (End of sth) text must be on its own line, then make it a block (it could be already a block if it's a paragraph or an HTML5 footer element but then it doesn't change anything ;) ) and align text to the right with text-align: right;.
If text isn't exactly 100% right, then you can play with its width or with padding-right:
.end_of {
display: block;
text-align: right;
padding-right: 20px;
}
EDIT: by default, an element rendered as a block is 100% wide. No float, no need to either clear next element from any float or clear block element from previous floats.
If you float the extra content to the right, you will also need to clear the float, otherwise the extra content will conflict with the rest of the text.
So here's my solution. Tested on all major browsers.
.theEnd:after {
display:block;
content:'End of Latin';
text-align:right;
white-space:nowrap;
padding-left:1em;
float:right;
}
.theEnd + * {clear:right}
See jsFiddle.
http://www.lethalmonk6.byethost24.com/index.html
If you inspect with firebug the spacing between the "project-link" divs, there are a few pixels of added margin between each div. I have the margin set to 20 px, and then these little bits gets added on. Where is it coming from?
You're using display:inline-block so the white space between the elements is what you are seeing there. You can either remove the white space between the divs or use float: left instead.
To elaborate... if you're using display: inline-block do this:
<div></div><div></div>
Instead of this:
<div></div>
<div></div> // White space is added because of the new line
As Terminal Frost said, add float: left to the class, and remove display: inline-block. Additionally, add content: "." to the parent div container to fix the wrapping issue you'll have from doing that.
As Lucifer Sam said, display:inline-block will show you space between element if there are one.
The slution given is good:
<div></div><div></div>
But for element with large content, i personnaly prefer this solution of not having the white space between display:inline-block elements. This is what i do:
<div>
large content
</div><!-- No space
--><div>
large content 2
</div>
I wasn't quite happy with the provided solutions here and then I came across a fix that I actually was using to address this issue before, but forgot about it...
All you might need is to simply add font-size: 0; to the parent container (you can overwrite this rule for the children, so it shouldn't break your fonts).
So, here's a basic example:
<div class="font-zero">
<div class="inline-block"></div>
<div class="inline-block"></div>
<div class="inline-block"></div>
</div>
<style>
.font-zero { font-size: 0; }
.inline-block { display: inline-block; }
</style>
With that example you don't have to worry about the markup in your code (personally, I think removing line breaks in the code to solve this issue is really ugly) and also you don't need to use floating, which might be not optimal for many reasons.
Since this page was the first Google result, I hope I'll get here next time I come across this issue and forget the easy fix... And maybe it would be useful for someone else too :)