I'm wondering why the elements in my nav bar appear to have blank space above them? I've checked the margin and padding and there doesn't seem to be an issue, but there is a large space above my #logo and #searchbox which is messing up my layout, how can I get rid of the space above the elements?
Thanks a lot!
Here's my Code:
li {
display: inline-block;
}
ul {
display: inline-block;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
#main_nav, logo {
display: inline-block;
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
}
nav li a:link {
font-weight: bold;
display: inline-block;
text-decoration: none;
font-family: times;
font-size: 24px;
list-style: none;
padding: 5px;
border: 2px solid black;
border-radius: 5px;
color: black;
}
nav li a:visited {
color: rgba(0,0,0,0.7);
}
nav li a:hover {
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.6);
color: white;
}
nav li a:active {
color: black;
border-color: black;
}
nav {
width: 1000px;
height: 130px;
background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.7);
padding: 10px;
margin: 0px auto;
border-bottom-left-radius: 10px;
border-bottom-right-radius: 10px;
}
input[type=search] {
font-size: 16px;
}
#searchbox {
position: absolute;
right: 0px;
top: 0px;
}
#searchbox_div {
position: relative;
display: inline-block;
padding: 0;
width: 100%;
}
#logo {
display: inline-block;
width: 200px;
font-family: arial;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
font-size: 26px;
}
#logo_jeff, #logo_arries, #logo_website {
margin: 0px;
}
#logo_jeff {
letter-spacing: 35.5px;
}
#logo_arries {
letter-spacing: 11px;
}
#logo_website {
letter-spacing: 4px;
}
#main_content {
width: 1000px;
min-height: 600px;
display: block;
background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.7);
margin: 0 auto;
border-top-left-radius: 10px;
border-top-right-radius: 10px;
position: relative; top: 0px;
padding: 10px;
}
#here_you_can_learn {
font-size: 47px;
color: gray;
margin: 0 auto;
margin-bottom: 10px;
text-align: center;
}
#welcome {
text-align: center;
color: rgb(0, 0, 110);
font-size: 100px;
margin: 0;
padding: 10px 10px 20px 10px;
}
#down_arrow {
height: 50px;
margin: auto;
display: block;
padding: 10px;
}
#most_frequent {
width: 600px;
vertical-align: top;
display: inline-block;
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
border-radius: 3px;
}
#m_f_heading {
font-size: 30px;
margin: 10px;
padding: 5px;
text-align: center;
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
border-radius: 5px;
}
#m_f_show_more {
font-size: 20px;
margin: 10px;
padding: 5px;
text-align: center;
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
border-radius: 5px;
}
#recent_activity {
width: 375px;
display: inline-block;
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
border-radius: 3px;
}
#r_a_heading {
font-size: 30px;
margin: 10px;
padding: 5px;
text-align: center;
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
border-radius: 5px;
}
#r_a_body {
font-size: 15px;
margin: 10px;
padding: 5px;
text-align: center;
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
border-radius: 5px;
}
#r_a_show_more {
font-size: 20px;
margin: 10px;
padding: 5px;
text-align: center;
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
border-radius: 5px;
}
#r_a_show_more_link:visited {
color: black;
}
#r_a_show_more_link:hover {
color: gray;
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.9);
}
#r_a_show_more_link:active {
color: black;
}
body {
background-image: url("../pictures/jeff_skiing.jpg");
background-attachment: fixed;
background-position: center;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-size: cover;
min-height: 500px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
aside {
position: absolute;
right: 0px;
background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.9);
width: 170px;
height: 600px;
margin: 0;
border-top-left-radius: 10px;
border-bottom-left-radius: 10px;
padding: 10px;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<title>Home | Jeff's Website</title>
<link href="styles/main_navigation.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="styles/body.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="styles/main_content.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
</head>
<body>
<!--Main Nav-->
<header>
<nav>
<div id="searchbox_div">
<form action="" id="searchbox">
<input id="search_input" type="search" name="searchmysite" placeholder="Search my Site!">
<input type="submit" value="Search!">
</form>
</div>
<div id="logo">
<h1 id="logo_jeff">JEFF</h1>
<h1 id="logo_arries">ARRIES</h1>
<h1 id="logo_website">WEBSITE</h1>
</div>
<div id="main_nav">
<ul>
<li>Home</li>
<li>Blog</li>
<li>Trips</li>
<li>Politics</li>
<li>Pictures</li>
<li>Videos</li>
<li>Computer</li>
<li>Misc</li>
</ul>
</div>
</nav>
</header>
<!--Welcome to jeff's website-->
<div>
<h2 id="welcome">Welcome to my Website!</h1>
<a href="#here_you_can_learn">
<img src="pictures/down_arrow.png" id="down_arrow"/>
</a>
</div>
<!--right side nav-->
<aside>
<p>this is aside</p>
</aside>
<!--Main Content-->
<div id="main_content">
<h2 id="here_you_can_learn">Here you can learn about me and my adventures!</h2>
<!--Most Frequently visited pages: on left side of page-->
<div id="most_frequent">
<p id="m_f_heading">Most frequently visted pages!</p>
<p id="m_f_show_more">Show More</p>
</div>
<!--Recent Activity: on the right side of page-->
<div id="recent_activity">
<p id="r_a_heading">Recent Activity</p>
<p id="r_a_body">test</p>
<p id="r_a_show_more">Show More</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
Your <nav> element has a padding of 10px.
EDIT: The absolutely positioned search form seems to be causing the problem. I made the following changes and the space went away:
#searchbox_div {
position: relative;
display: block;
padding: 0;
width: 100%;
}
#searchbox {
position: relative;
float: right;
}
#logo {
display: inline-block;
width: 200px;
font-family: arial;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
font-size: 26px;
float: left;
}
#main_nav{
display: inline-block;
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
margin-top: 4em;
margin-left: 1em;
}
I noticed that you`re not using a css reset. A CSS Reset (or “Reset CSS”) is a short, often compressed (minified) set of CSS rules that resets the styling of all HTML elements to a consistent baseline.
In case you didn’t know, every browser has its own default ‘user agent’ stylesheet, that it uses to make unstyled websites appear more legible. For example, most browsers by default make links blue and visited links purple, give tables a certain amount of border and padding, apply variable font-sizes to H1, H2, H3 etc. and a certain amount of padding to almost everything. Ever wondered why Submit buttons look different in every browser?
Obviously this creates a certain amount of headaches for CSS authors, who can’t work out how to make their websites look the same in every browser.
Using a CSS Reset, CSS authors can force every browser to have all its styles reset to null, thus avoiding cross-browser differences as much as possible.
Also, sometimes if I have a problem with blank spaces, I run the html all together so there are no blank spaces between the tags. To make it look neat, I insert carriage returns in the middle of the html tag.
By default, most browsers have an 8px or so margin that is built in or "Added" to the page style. The super easy way to eliminate this is through CSS. Simply use:
html,body{
margin:0;
}
You can also add:
padding:0;
If it's still giving you problems!
You appear to need to reset/normalize your css as that
html,body{
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
The <nav> element is configured to have 10 pixels of padding on all sides.
Related
I am having an issue with the second level menu only in Safari. Top level and submenu work fine on mouse hover on chrome, firefox etc but when opened in Safari, only first menu is opening on hover. I have already tried other solutions available here and on other forums but it's still same.
.nav {
margin: 2% 10% 0 35%;
/*margin-bottom: 4px;
margin-top: 2%;
margin-left: 35%;
margin-right: 10%;*/
width: 60%;
height: auto;
z-index: 1;
position: absolute;
}
.nav-container {
display: inline-block;
padding: 0;
font-weight: 300;
font-family:"Open Sans";
font-size: 15px;
}
.nav-container a:hover {
color: #FFFFFF;
}
.nav-pos {
display: inline-block;
padding-bottom: 15px;
}
.nav-pos-sp {
/*padding-left: 30px;*/
padding-left: 0px !important;
margin-left: 30px;
}
.navbar-nav {
margin-top: 1%;
display: none;
height: auto;
color: #C7C7C7;
width: 200px;
overflow: hidden;
position: fixed;
}
.navbar-nav-menu a {
font-size: 14px;
display: block;
text-align: left;
padding: 15px 0px 15px 12px;
border-bottom: thin solid #fff;
background-color: #343434;
}
/* child menu dropdown */
.navbar-nav-child {
display: none;
height: auto;
color: #C7C7C7;
width: 200px;
overflow: hidden;
position: fixed;
margin-left: -200px;
margin-top: -50px;
}
.navbar-nav-menu-item-101a:hover .navbar-nav-child {
margin-left: 200px !important;
display: block !important;
}
.navbar-nav-menu-child-text a {
font-size: 14px;
display: block;
text-align: left;
padding: 15px 0px 15px 12px;
border-bottom: thin solid #fff;
background-color: #2B2B2B;
}
.services:hover .navbar-nav-menu {
display: block;
}
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../style/all.css.cf.css" type="text/css"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css"/>
</head>
<body>
<div class="nav">
<div class="nav-container">
<div class="nav-pos nav-pos-sp services">
First Menu <span class="fa fa-angle-down"></span>
<div class="navbar-nav navbar-nav-menu navbar-nav-services">
<ul>
<li class="navbar-nav-menu-item-101a"><a href="#0">Second Level Menu <span class="fa fa-angle-right"
style="float: right;margin-right: 10px;"></span></a>
<div class="navbar-nav-child navbar-nav-menu-child-text">
1
2
3
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I have included the HTML and CSS code for the menu. I have also checked it on chrome using windows OS, and it works but the only issue is with safari browser.
There are a couple of suggestions I have that may help.
Firstly, I would not recommend using position: fixed; to position your submenus because fixed is a position relative to the browser window. You likely want the submenus to be positioned according to the parent, not the window.
Secondly, you have overflow: hidden; on .navbar-nav, which means anything that falls outside the borders of it should be invisible - which would include your submenus.
Here is a JSFiddle with a working example of your snippet with my suggestions, tested and working in Safari:
.nav {
margin: 2% 10% 0 35%;
width: 60%;
height: auto;
z-index: 1;
position: absolute;
}
.nav-container {
display: inline-block;
padding: 0;
font-weight: 300;
font-family: "Open Sans";
font-size: 15px;
}
.nav-container a:hover {
color: #FFFFFF;
}
.nav-pos {
display: inline-block;
padding-bottom: 15px;
}
.nav-pos-sp {}
.navbar-nav {
margin-top: 1%;
display: none;
height: auto;
color: #C7C7C7;
width: 200px;
position: relative;
}
.navbar-nav-menu a {
font-size: 14px;
display: block;
text-align: left;
padding: 15px 0px 15px 12px;
border-bottom: thin solid #fff;
background-color: #343434;
}
/* child menu dropdown */
.navbar-nav-child {
display: none;
height: auto;
color: #C7C7C7;
width: 200px;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 100%;
}
.navbar-nav-menu-item-101a:hover .navbar-nav-child {
display: block !important;
}
.navbar-nav-menu-child-text a {
font-size: 14px;
display: block;
text-align: left;
padding: 15px 0px 15px 12px;
border-bottom: thin solid #fff;
background-color: #2B2B2B;
}
.services:hover .navbar-nav-menu {
display: block;
}
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../style/all.css.cf.css" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" />
</head>
<body>
<div class="nav">
<div class="nav-container">
<div class="nav-pos nav-pos-sp services">
First Menu <span class="fa fa-angle-down"></span>
<div class="navbar-nav navbar-nav-menu navbar-nav-services">
<ul>
<li class="navbar-nav-menu-item-101a"><a href="#0">Second Level Menu <span class="fa fa-angle-right"
style="float: right;margin-right: 10px;"></span></a>
<div class="navbar-nav-child navbar-nav-menu-child-text">
1
2
3
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
https://jsfiddle.net/m59vk802/4/
newbie to HTML & CSS here with only 2 weeks learning under my belt. I'm trying to replicate the Google web page and although I have managed to center the "Google" logo and the searchbar underneath it, i've done it using margin-top and margin-left properties. I did try margin: 0 auto; with some other properties but could not get anything to work. The times when I did manage to center the logo using different properties, it wasn't fully central on the page. Basically what i'm saying is that the way i've done it works, but I know it isn't the most efficient way of making these two elements central on the page and it certainly doesn't represent a responsive webpage.
Would anyone mind having a look at the code i've pasted below and offer advice on the best way to go about this? I've included the whole HTML and CSS code, incase anyone wishes to load the site in Notepad etc. Many thanks in advance!
<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<title>Google</title>
<link href="stylesheet.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
<div class="nav">
<ul>
<li id="sign-in">Sign in</li>
<li id="grid-list">
<center><img src="grid-list.jpg"/></center>
</li>
<li id="images">Images</li>
<li id="gmail">Gmail</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="main">
<img src="logo.jpg" alt="Google"/>
<p id="searchbar"></p>
</div>
</body>
* {
box-sizing: border-box;
}
div.nav li {
display: inline-block;
font-family: Helvetica;
font-size: 13px;
width: auto;
float: right;
color: #414042;
}
#gmail {
margin-right: 15px;
margin-top: 7px;
padding: 0;
}
#images {
margin-right: 22px;
margin-top: 7px;
padding: 0;
}
#sign-in {
margin-right: 22px;
padding: 7px 13px;
background-color: #1789E8;
color: white;
border-radius: 2px;
font-weight: bold;
height: auto;
text-align: center;
}
#grid-list {
margin-right: 22px;
margin-top: 7px;
}
.main img {
margin-left: 536px;
margin-top: 182px;
}
#searchbar {
border: 1px solid #E8DAEB;
border-radius: 2px;
padding: 0;
text-align: center;
margin-left: 390px;
margin-right: 375px;
margin-top: 21px;
height: 46px;
width: 585px;
}
To center an image you can use text-align:center; on the parent element. For the searchbar you can use margin:0 auto; as long as the search bar has a defined width:
* {
box-sizing: border-box;
}
div.nav li {
display: inline-block;
font-family: Helvetica;
font-size: 13px;
width: auto;
float: right;
color: #414042;
}
#gmail {
margin-right: 15px;
margin-top: 7px;
padding: 0;
}
#images {
margin-right: 22px;
margin-top: 7px;
padding: 0;
}
#sign-in {
margin-right: 22px;
padding: 7px 13px;
background-color: #1789E8;
color: white;
border-radius: 2px;
font-weight: bold;
height: auto;
text-align: center;
}
#grid-list {
margin-right: 22px;
margin-top: 7px;
}
.main {
padding-top:182px;
text-align:center;
}
#searchbar {
border: 1px solid #E8DAEB;
border-radius: 2px;
padding: 0;
text-align: center;
margin:21px auto 0;
height: 46px;
width: 585px;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<title>Google</title>
<link href="stylesheet.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
<div class="nav">
<ul>
<li id="sign-in">Sign in</li>
<li id="grid-list">
<center><img src="grid-list.jpg"/></center>
</li>
<li id="images">Images</li>
<li id="gmail">Gmail</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="main">
<img src="https://www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/1x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png" alt="Google"/>
<p id="searchbar"></p>
</div>
</body>
For the searchbar you should be using an input rather than a p(paragraph). Another tip is that instead of defining margin-top, margin-right, margin-bottom, margin-left, you can use the shorthand margin. The first value is the top margin, next is right margin, then bottom, then left.
If you want the top/bottom and right/left margins to be the same, respectively, you can define 2 values(first being top and bottom and second being right and left). If you want to define a different top and bottom margin but use the same margin for left/right you can define 3 values(first being top, second being right/left and third being bottom).
For example:
margin-top:20px;
margin-right:50px;
margin-bottom:20px;
margin-left:50px;
can be written as
margin:20px 50px;
Or the following:
margin-top:50px;
margin-right:100px;
margin-bottom:20px;
margin-left:100px;
can be written as:
margin:50px 100px 20px;
Same thing goes for padding.
you can't use pixels to set margin!
you have to set margin of the main class to 50% of page height and width like this:
(to resolve problems change percent of size and margin to fit 100%)
* {
box-sizing: border-box;
}
div.nav li {
display: inline-block;
font-family: Helvetica;
font-size: 13px;
width: auto;
float: right;
color: #414042;
}
#gmail {
margin-right: 15px;
margin-top: 7px;
padding: 0;
}
#images {
margin-right: 22px;
margin-top: 7px;
padding: 0;
}
#sign-in {
margin-right: 22px;
padding: 7px 13px;
background-color: #1789E8;
color: white;
border-radius: 2px;
font-weight: bold;
height: auto;
text-align: center;
}
#grid-list {
margin-right: 22px;
margin-top: 7px;
}
.main {
padding-top:50%;
padding-left:50%;
}
#searchbar {
border: 1px solid #E8DAEB;
border-radius: 2px;
padding: 0;
text-align: center;
margin:21px auto 0;
height: 46px;
width: 585px;
}
img{
margin-left:50%;
}
html , body{
height:100%;
width:100%;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<title>Google</title>
<link href="stylesheet.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
<div class="nav">
<ul>
<li id="sign-in">Sign in</li>
<li id="grid-list">
<center><img src="grid-list.jpg"/></center>
</li>
<li id="images">Images</li>
<li id="gmail">Gmail</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="main">
<img src="https://www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/1x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png" alt="Google"/>
<p id="searchbar"></p>
</div>
</body>
I was hoping for some help with a problem involving some divs.
I am doing a Udemy course to recreate the BBC website and I've got to a point where I have some divs with content but there is a gap between them.
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
font-family: Helvetica, Arial;}
#topbar {
width: 1050px;
margin: 0 auto;
height: 40px;}
#bbclogo {
margin-top: 8px;
float:left;
margin-right: 10px;
}
.topbar-section {
float:left;
border-left: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
height: 100%;
}
#signinimage {
margin: 10px 15px;
height: 20px;
float: left;
}
#signin-text {
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 14px;
position: relative;
top: 12px;
padding-right: 65px;
}
#signin-div {
float:left;
}
#wiggly-line {
height: 40px;
float: left;
}
#bello-image {
height: 26px;
margin: 7px 15px 7px 12px;
float: left;
}
.topbar-menu {
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 14px;
padding: 13px 13px 0 13px;
height: 27px;
}
#more-arrow {
height: 4px;
margin-left: 25px;
}
#searchbox {
background-color: #E4E4E4;
border: none;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 15px;
padding: 5px;
margin: 8px 0 8px 8px;
float: left;
}
#magnifying-glass {
margin-top: 8px;
height: 27px;
}
.clear {
clear: both;
}
#menu-bar-container {
background-color: #BB1919;
width: 100%;
height: 60px;
}
#menu-bar {
width: 1050px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
h1 {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
color: white;
font-size: 40px;
font-weight: normal;
padding-top: 10px;
float: left;
}
#local-news {
float: right;
border: 1px solid #BB4545;
width: 175px;
margin: 15px 10px;
padding: 5px 5px 4px 5px;
}
#local-news a {
color: white;
text-decoration: none;
font-size: 20px;
position: relative;
top: -2px;
}
#local-news:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
}
#local-news img {
height: 20px;
padding-left: 10px;
}
#menu-bar-container-2 {
width: 100%;
background-color: #A91717;
display: block;
}
#menu-bar-2 {
width: 1050px;
margin: 0 auto;
height: 35px;
display: block;
}
#menu-bar-2 a {
color: white;
text-decoration: none;
padding: 0 16px;
border-right: 1px solid #BB4545;
font-size: 12px;
position: relative;
top: 9px;
float: left;
}
<div id="topbar">
<!--white top bar-->
<img id="bbclogo" src="Images\bbclogo.png"/>
<!--left border div with classes-->
<div id="signin-div" class="topbar-section"></div>
<!--Signin image-->
<div id="signin-div">
<img id="signinimage" src="Images\signinimage.png"/>
<span id="signin-text">Sign in</span>
</div>
<!--Bell div-->
<div id="bell-div">
<img id="wiggly-line" src="Images/pointed_line.png"/>
<img id="bello-image" src="Images/bell.png"/>
</div>
<!--Menubar links-->
<div class="topbar-section topbar-menu">News</div>
<div class="topbar-section topbar-menu">Sport</div>
<div class="topbar-section topbar-menu">Weather</div>
<div class="topbar-section topbar-menu">iPlayer</div>
<div class="topbar-section topbar-menu">TV</div>
<div class="topbar-section topbar-menu">Radio</div>
<div class="topbar-section topbar-menu">More
<img id="more-arrow" src="Images/arrow.png"/>
</div>
<!--Search bar-->
<div class="topbar-section">
<input id="searchbox" type="text" placeholder="Search">
<input type="image" id="magnifying-glass" src="Images/glass.png"/>
</div>
</div>
<!--To clear previous floats-->
<div class="clear"></div>
<!--Menu bar-->
<div id="menu-bar-container">
<div id="menu-bar">
<h1>NEWS</h1>
<div id="local-news">
Find local news
<img src="Images/pointer.png">
</div>
</div>
</div>
<!--Menu bar 2-->
<div id="menu-bar-container-2">
<div id="menu-bar-2">
Home
UK
World
Business
Politics
Tech
Science
Health
Education
Entertainent & Arts
Video & Audio
More
</div>
</div>
I've tried playing around with various things (changing display, floating, trying to clear previous divs...) but I can't seem to figure out the problem. I was hoping for some advice about what I am doing wrong.
I read somewhere that whitespace between divs can sometimes be an issue. Could this be the problem?
(strangely, when I created the code snippet above, the gap was not showing in the results window but when I try it in Chrome, IE or Firefox, the problem occurs)
Many thanks in advance
thanks for the advice on my problem.
As mentioned in my last comment, it was the height of the div which was creating the gap (it wasn't tall enough). I think this was due to another element's padding pushing the lower div down, so when I increased the height it brought everything into alignment.
I'm still learning a lot about web development and I am grateful for the responses. I'm sure I'll be learning a lot more along the way. Many thanks!
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I'm currently building a website and and I can't find a CSS positioning method that works, meaning any CSS positioning element that doesn't make other HTML elements behave weirdly. Is there any CSS positioning methods that would position an HTML element precisely, accurately and not cause (many) issues with other elements? So far float and position: absolute; don't work well. Thanks!
Since apparently what I'm asking is unclear, I'm asking "What kind of positioning can I use that doesn't have any (or few) side effects?"
Here's the Code I'm working on:
li {
display: inline-block;
}
ul {
display: inline-block;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
#main_nav, logo {
display: inline-block;
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
}
nav li a:link {
font-weight: bold;
display: inline-block;
text-decoration: none;
font-family: times;
font-size: 24px;
list-style: none;
padding: 5px;
border: 2px solid black;
border-radius: 5px;
color: black;
}
nav li a:visited {
color: rgba(0,0,0,0.7);
}
nav li a:hover {
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.6);
color: white;
}
nav li a:active {
color: black;
border-color: black;
}
nav {
width: 1000px;
height: 130px;
background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.7);
padding: 10px;
margin: 0px auto;
border-bottom-left-radius: 10px;
border-bottom-right-radius: 10px;
}
input[type=search] {
font-size: 16px;
}
#searchbox {
position: absolute;
right: 0px;
top: 0px;
}
#searchbox_div {
position: relative;
display: inline-block;
padding: 0;
width: 100%;
}
#logo {
display: inline-block;
width: 200px;
font-family: arial;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
font-size: 26px;
}
#logo_jeff, #logo_arries, #logo_website {
margin: 0px;
}
#logo_jeff {
letter-spacing: 35.5px;
}
#logo_arries {
letter-spacing: 11px;
}
#logo_website {
letter-spacing: 4px;
}
body {
background-image: url("../pictures/jeff_skiing.jpg");
background-color: red;
background-attachment: fixed;
background-position: center;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-size: cover;
min-height: 500px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
aside {
position: absolute;
right: 0px;
background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.9);
width: 170px;
height: 600px;
margin: 0;
border-top-left-radius: 10px;
border-bottom-left-radius: 10px;
padding: 10px;
}
#main_content {
width: 1000px;
min-height: 600px;
display: block;
background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.7);
margin: 0 auto;
border-top-left-radius: 10px;
border-top-right-radius: 10px;
position: relative; top: 0px;
padding: 10px;
}
#here_you_can_learn {
font-size: 47px;
color: gray;
margin: 0 auto;
margin-bottom: 10px;
text-align: center;
}
#welcome {
text-align: center;
color: rgb(0, 0, 110);
font-size: 100px;
margin: 0;
padding: 10px 10px 20px 10px;
}
#down_arrow {
height: 50px;
margin: auto;
display: block;
padding: 10px;
}
#most_frequent {
width: 600px;
vertical-align: top;
display: inline-block;
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
border-radius: 3px;
}
#m_f_heading {
font-size: 30px;
margin: 10px;
padding: 5px;
text-align: center;
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
border-radius: 5px;
}
#m_f_show_more {
font-size: 20px;
margin: 10px;
padding: 5px;
text-align: center;
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
border-radius: 5px;
}
#recent_activity {
width: 375px;
display: inline-block;
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
border-radius: 3px;
}
#r_a_heading {
font-size: 30px;
margin: 10px;
padding: 5px;
text-align: center;
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
border-radius: 5px;
}
#r_a_body {
font-size: 15px;
margin: 10px;
padding: 5px;
text-align: center;
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
border-radius: 5px;
}
#r_a_show_more {
font-size: 20px;
margin: 10px;
padding: 5px;
text-align: center;
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
border-radius: 5px;
}
#r_a_show_more_link:visited {
color: black;
}
#r_a_show_more_link:hover {
color: gray;
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.9);
}
#r_a_show_more_link:active {
color: black;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<title>Home | Jeff's Website</title>
<link href="styles/main_navigation.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="styles/body.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="styles/main_content.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
</head>
<body>
<!--Main Nav-->
<header>
<nav>
<div id="searchbox_div">
<form action="" id="searchbox">
<input id="search_input" type="search" name="searchmysite" placeholder="Search my Site!">
<input type="submit" value="Search!">
</form>
</div>
<div id="logo">
<h1 id="logo_jeff">JEFF</h1>
<h1 id="logo_arries">ARRIES</h1>
<h1 id="logo_website">WEBSITE</h1>
</div>
<div id="main_nav">
<ul>
<li>Home</li>
<li>Blog</li>
<li>Trips</li>
<li>Politics</li>
<li>Pictures</li>
<li>Videos</li>
<li>Computer</li>
<li>Misc</li>
</ul>
</div>
</nav>
</header>
<!--Welcome to jeff's website-->
<div>
<h2 id="welcome">Welcome to my Website!</h1>
<a href="#here_you_can_learn">
<img src="pictures/down_arrow.png" id="down_arrow"/>
</a>
</div>
<!--right side nav-->
<aside>
<p>this is aside</p>
</aside>
<!--Main Content-->
<div id="main_content">
<h2 id="here_you_can_learn">Here you can learn about me and my adventures!</h2>
<!--Most Frequently visited pages: on left side of page-->
<div id="most_frequent">
<p id="m_f_heading">Most frequently visted pages!</p>
<p id="m_f_show_more">Show More</p>
</div>
<!--Recent Activity: on the right side of page-->
<div id="recent_activity">
<p id="r_a_heading">Recent Activity</p>
<p id="r_a_body">test</p>
<p id="r_a_show_more">Show More</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
Each positioning method has a purpose and well-defined, if sometimes not intuitive, behavior. You cannot pick one that "won't mess things up". There's no shortcut like "always use relative", because each method accomplishes something different that cannot be accomplished by the other methods.
I happen to think positioning in CSS is abysmally defined, but it's what we have to work with and the only thing you can do is learn what each one does and how they interact. There WILL be some things you cannot accomplish1, and until CSS layout matures that will continue to be the case.
The only advice I can give you is to budget some time, say 8-16 hours over the next few weeks, to play with basic layouts and experiment with all the positioning methods. Use Firefox or Chrome's developer tools to examine in detail how things are laid out, and make specific changes one at a time until you start to develop a feel for how the options interact with each other. This is a highly complex mess and it will take some time to learn it. But once you do you will have a skillset that will serve you well.
1 As I recently learned to my great disappointment. I did find some workarounds gross hacks that involved duplicating content but that way lies madness. I hope the new flex positioning stuff gets worked out with some sanity but I'm not holding my breath.
Remove this from your HTML :
<div id="searchbox_div">
</div>
but obviously keep the form inside it, it dosent need to be contained in a div since its already inside the nav element.
Here is working Fiddle
Problem:
https://postimg.cc/image/tunhwh8qj/
The trouble I am currently having is that the border around my body is not outlining everything. As I have recently learned I'm guessing this means an element is out of the flow due to floating? However I am not certain how to fix it in this case.
My html is:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="swaggersstyle.css">
<title>Oamaru Backpackers Hostel, Swaggers Backpackers - Home</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5/jquery.min.js"></script>
<!-- include Cycle plugin -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://cloud.github.com/downloads/malsup/cycle/jquery.cycle.all.latest.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$('.slideshow').cycle({
fx: 'fade' // choose your transition type, ex: fade, scrollUp, shuffle, etc...
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<img src="final.jpg" id="banner">
<ul id="nav">
<li class="links">Home</li>
<li class="links">Location</li>
<li class="links">Facilities</li>
<li class="links">Attractions</li>
<li id = "endlink">Bookings</li>
</ul>
<div id="leftcolumn">
<p>hghadgadgadg</p>
<p>easfasf</p>
<p>safSFS</p>
<p>afafafadf</p>
<p>safasf</p>
<p>saasfasf</p>
<p>fasfsaf</p>
</div>
<div id="mainc">
<p>Make Yourself at Home</p>
<p>Swaggers Backpackers is a converted old house located within walking distance of all the best parts of Oamaru. Explore the old victorian era buildings and shops of the city centre, or see the penguin colonies down the street. Swaggers is owned and operated by camp mum Agra, who makes all guests feel welcome, informed, and perhaps a bit mothered. </p>
<div class="slideshow">
<img src="1.jpg" width="600" height="450" />
<img src="2.jpg" width="600" height="450" />
<img src="3.jpg" width="600" height="450" />
</div>
</div>
<div id ="footer">
<p> fsafasfasf </p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
and my CSS is:
html{
font-family: sans-serif;
background-color:#464E54;
height: 100%;
}
body{
width: 960px;
margin: auto;
background-color: white;
border: 3px solid black;
padding: 0;
height: 100%;
}
#banner{
padding: 0px;
margin: 0;
display: block;
}
#nav {
list-style-type: none;
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
overflow: hidden;
border-bottom: 1px solid #7f7f7f;
border-top: 1px solid #7f7f7f;
}
#mainc {
float: left;
width: 654px;
background-color: white;
margin: 0;
padding-left: 8px;
padding-right: 4px;
height: 100%;
}
#leftcolumn {
padding-left: 3px;
float: left;
background-color: #dad8bf;
width: 290px;
border-right: 1px solid #7f7f7f;
height: 100%;
}
#footer {
clear: both;
position: relative;
bottom: 0.5px;
margin: 0;
background-color: #dad8bf;
border-top: 1px solid #7f7f7f;
}
#footer p{
margin: 0;
}
.links {
float: left;
margin: 0px;
border-right: 1px solid #7f7f7f;
}
#endlink {
float: left;
margin: 0px;
border-right: none;
}
#lastlink{
display: block;
width: 184px;
font-weight: bold;
color: #444444;
background-color: #dad8bf;
text-align: center;
padding: 4px;
text-decoration: none;
text-transform: uppercase;
margin-top: 0px;
}
#lastlink:hover{
background-color: #999999;
}
a:link {
display: block;
width: 183px;
font-weight: bold;
color: #444444;
background-color: #dad8bf;
text-align: center;
padding: 4px;
text-decoration: none;
text-transform: uppercase;
margin-top: 0px;
}
a:visited {
display: block;
width: 183px;
font-weight: bold;
color: #444444;
background-color: #dad8bf;
text-align: center;
padding: 4px;
text-decoration: none;
text-transform: uppercase;
margin-top: 0px;
}
a:hover {
background-color: #999999;
}
a:active{
background-color: #999999;
}
.slideshow {
height: 483px;
width: 632px;
margin: auto;
padding: 0px;
}
.slideshow img {
padding: 0px;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
background-color: #eee;
}
thanks in advance guys!!
This is happening because your body has fix height of 100%.Change body tag css as:
height:auto;
min-height: 100%
if this doesn't work then add following with this:
overflow:auto;
Probably better NOT to use the body element for your container. Instead, just add
<div class="container"></div>
around your code and in your CSS changehtml to body and body to div.container.
body{
font-family: sans-serif;
background-color:#464E54;
height: 100%;
}
div.container{
width: 960px;
margin: auto;
background-color: white;
border: 3px solid black;
padding: 0;
}
Edit: I completely missed the 100%, that's gotta be it.
Add overflow: hidden to your body element. When elements are floated it will not push the parent container height past it unless there is a clearer