How can I make two elements that are inline-block fit within a fixed width?
I don't necessarily know the width of the first element, and the second, longer, element (with white-space: nowrap) takes the width of the fixed element, so overflows the container.
/---------------------/
/Label: |Other content/ that just |
/ |keeps going a/nd overflows|
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JSFiddle
.fixed-width-container{
border: 1px red solid;
width: 200px;
white-space: nowrap;
}
.inline-block-1{
display: inline-block;
border: 1px blue solid;
vertical-align: top;
}
.inline-block-2{
display: inline-block;
white-space: normal;
}
<div class="fixed-width-container">
<div class="inline-block-1">Label:</div>
<div class="inline-block-2">Some really long text that is going to go down to the next line</div>
</div>
I would use display: table and display: table-cell. This is supported by all modern browsers (and IE > 7), and it isn't a float hack.
.fixed-width-container{
border: 1px red solid;
width: 200px;
display: table;
}
.inline-block-1{
white-space: nowrap;
display: table-cell;
border: 1px blue solid;
vertical-align: top;
}
.inline-block-2{
display: table-cell;
}
<div class="fixed-width-container">
<div class="inline-block-1">Label word:</div>
<div class="inline-block-2">Some really long text that is going to go down to the next line</div>
</div>
I'm a bigger fan of the float-overflow trick.
Change the css to this:
.fixed-width-container{
border: 1px red solid; /* Get rid of white space rule */
width: 200px;
}
.inline-block-1{
float: left;
border: 1px blue solid;
}
.inline-block-2{
display: block;
overflow: hidden;
}
Also, I would suggest using css class names that don't rely on "inline-block" in the name. If you ever need to change the display to something else (block, table-cell, etc.) it could get confusing.
Related
I have the following:
#innerLabels,
#innerFields {
display: inline-block;
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 1px;
vertical-align: top;
}
.innerLabel {
display: table;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 1px;
height: 100px;
width: 80%;
}
.innerLabel div {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 1px;
}
#outterFields {
background-color: red;
width: 60%;
min-width: 300px;
height: 300px;
}
#outterFields div {
display: inline-block;
}
<div id="outterFields">
<div id="innerLabels">
<div class="innerLabel">
<div>hello</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
I can't work out why the inner most div isn't being centred? I did look at some of the answers here regarding centring however I can't see what the problem is...
I want the hello to be centred vertically to the centre but not horizontally. All other divs are positioned how I want them. There is no error in the other divs they are positioned side by side for a reason. The only change I want is the hello div moved vertically to the centre
You are just overiding your inner div with
#outterFields div {
display: inline-block;
}
Just remove it or if you where intending a direct child do:
#outterFields > div {
display: inline-block;
}
#innerLabels,
#innerFields {
display: inline-block;
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 1px;
vertical-align: top;
}
.innerLabel {
display: table;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 1px;
height: 100px;
width: 80%;
}
.innerLabel div {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 1px;
}
#outterFields {
background-color: red;
width: 60%;
min-width: 300px;
height: 300px;
}
#outterFields div {
/* display: inline-block; */
}
<div id="outterFields">
<div id="innerLabels">
<div class="innerLabel">
<div>hello</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Your outterfields display inline block is overwriting other display items. I came up with better solution for you. I haven't used table but used flex here learn about flex it's more worth.
#outterFields {
background-color:red;
width:60%;
min-width:300px;
height:300px;
}
#innerLabels, #innerFields {
display:flex;
align-items:center;
width:200px;
height:200px;
border: 1px solid #000;
}
.innerLabel {
display:flex;
align-items:center;
border: 1px solid #000;
height:100px;
width:80%;
}
.innerLabel div {
display:table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
border: 1px solid #000;
}
<div id="outterFields">
<div id="innerLabels">
<div class="innerLabel"><div>hello</div></div>
</div>
</div>
The necessary and most often sufficient condition where you can center a div using a display: table-cell, is as follows:
<div id="a">
<div id="b">
<div id="c">Helo</div>
</div>
</div>
CSS as follows:
body, html {
height: 100%;
}
#a {
display: table;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
#b {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
}
#c {
margin: auto;
text-align: center;
}
You need html and body elements to actually span the entire height of the document area if you want your a div to be able to make use of its 100% height. If your use case demands height that does not depend on the height of the document body, you don't have to use the body, html selector.
When you use display: table the otherwise auto-expanding width for a div element (width: auto implicit rule) does not apply the same way anymore as elements with display: table use a conservative width calculation -- they only by default take as much space as the content requires. Since I am illustrating a "100% 100%" centering to you, I have width: 100% there to have the element expand to available parent width.
height: 100% is likewise needed to have the element expand to available parent height. It does not matter if its display: block as with regular div elements, or display: table -- you need to specify height if you want computed height that goes beyond content height.
The display: table-cell rule only works if there is an ancestor element with display: table, hence you need at least two elements inside one another to apply display: table-cell to the one that is contained in the other. You don't need to specify height because elements with display: table-cell occupy available parent height automatically.
vertical-align rule for the display: table-cell elements is the only case where the alignment applies to the content inside the element, as opposed to its usual behavior where it applies with regard to how the element is positioned within the parent. Meaning that in our case, the vertical-align tells the browser that everything contained in the element with display: table-cell is to be centered vertically within its computed height.
For the c element you would need margin: auto only if you had content that did not completely fill available parent width. Since div elements normally do, it is not necessary, but is forward thinking on my part -- in case you decide to use span or something else that computes its width conservatively. The text-align speaks for itself -- The anonymous textual content and text inside descendant elements, will be centered in the middle along horizontal axis.
I have the following fiddle for this question: http://jsfiddle.net/jcb9xm44/
There are 2 inline-block div's in a parent div:
<div class="outer">
<div class="inner1">
Y
</div>
<div class="inner2">
X
</div>
</div>
The css assigns a width to the parent div and 2 widths to the child div's.
.outer {
width: 210px;
border: 1px solid red;
}
.inner1 {
width: 200px;
border: 1px solid orange;
display: inline-block;
}
.inner2 {
width: 50px;
position:relative;
left: -50x;
display: inline-block;
border: 1px solid lightblue;}
I was expecting that both divs appear on the same line. Although the parent is not wide enough to hold both children, since the second child has a negative offset, it should be possible to fit them both on the same line. Why does it break the line?
Why does it break the line?
As you stated, it's because the parent element isn't wide enough for both elements. To change this behavior, you could add white-space: nowrap to the parent element in order to prevent the inline-block elements from wrapping.
Example Here
.outer {
width: 210px;
border: 1px solid red;
position:relative;
white-space: nowrap;
}
Side notes:
You had a typo - left: -50x -> left: -50px.
inline elements respect whitespace in the markup.
The element's border is included in its width calculations. Use box-sizing: border-box to include it.
You could alternatively use margin-left: -50px as Mary Melody pointed out.
I want to put a colorful outline around a bunch of inline elements. Is there any easy way to make this look right within the flow of the text?
Here's the HTML:
<span>Text Before</span>
<div class="border">
<div>This</div>
<div>is</div>
<div>not</div>
<div>a</div>
<div>public</div>
<div>service</div>
<div>announcement.</div>
</div>
<span>Text After</span>
Here's the CSS:
.border {
display: inline;
background-color: pink;
word-spacing: 10px;
padding: 2px 0 2px 0;
border: solid;
}
.border > div {
display: inline;
font-size: 30px;
background-color: lavender;
}
Screenshot with .border display: inline:
Screenshot with .border display: inline-block:
I want it to look roughly like this (accomplished with a mixture of manual line height, padding, and relative positioning... ugh!):
Basically, inline-block elements do everything right, but they don't break apart between lines as would inline elements. But inline elements collapse their height and have to be manually adjusted. Is there really no way around this?
Try adding a line-height on container div.
.border {
display: inline;
background-color: pink;
word-spacing: 10px;
padding: 2px 0 2px 0;
border: solid;
font-size: 30px;
}
.border > div {
display: inline-block;
margin-bottom: 15px;
background-color: lavender;
}
This is a cop-out answer on my part, but It Works™, at least for my purposes, so I'm using it until something better comes up.
If you're willing to commit the relatively minor crime of putting a span around the content of each inner div and setting the text style for the span instead of the div, you can make each of the divs an inline-block, give the background and border style to each individual div instead of the parent div, set the left/right margin of each div, to 0, and extend the borders of the divs via padding to make it seem like one continuous background rect. If you want an outline, you can use the nth-item selectors and set the borders accordingly.
Here's the revised HTML (also compressed onto one line, to get rid of the spaces between inline-block elements):
<span>Text Before</span>
<div class="border">
<div><span>This</span></div><div><span>is</span></div><div><span>not</span></div><div><span>a</span></div><div><span>public</span></div><div><span>service</span></div><div><span>announcement.</span></div>
</div>
<span>Text After</span>
And here's the revised CSS:
.border {
display: inline;
word-spacing: 0;
}
.border > div {
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
background-color: pink;
padding: 5px;
margin: 2px 0 2px 0;
border-top-style: solid;
border-bottom-style: solid;
}
.border > div:nth-child(1) {
border-left-style: solid;
}
.border > div:last-child {
border-right-style: solid;
}
.border > div > span {
background-color: lavender;
font-size: 30px;
vertical-align: middle;
}
And here's what it looks like:
This technique breaks down if you want something more complex than a background color with a border, but for my purposes, the benefits — those being far simpler CSS and mostly automatic layout — outweigh the cons.
Alright, this one should be pretty easy for you front-end guys out there. I have the styled purple link all set to go. I'm just having trouble getting the vertical line to look OK. Assume the line is 1px #000 solid
I kind-of got it working making a div w/ a bottom-border and floating the styled link to the right. If I do that, I can't seem to get there to be space between the divider line and the link.
The following involves some extra markup and uses table-cells.
HTML:
<div class="wrapper">
<span class="leader">
<b></b>
</span>
<span class="cell">
<button>Sample Button</button>
</span>
</div>
CSS:
.wrapper {
border: 1px dotted gray;
display: table;
width: 100%;
}
.wrapper .leader, .wrapper .cell {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
}
.wrapper .leader {
width: 100%;
padding: 0 10px;
}
.wrapper .leader b {
display: block;
border-bottom: 1px solid red;
}
.wrapper button {
white-space: nowrap;
}
Demo at: http://jsfiddle.net/audetwebdesign/8aSBA/
There are a few advantages to this approach:
You can control the spacing to the left and right of the horizontal line
Vertical alignment is independent of font-size, line-height
You don't need to specify the width of the button
You can use a :before selector in css, though im not sure is compatable in < ie7
.button:before {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #000000;
content: "";
float: left;
height: 1px;
margin-top: 12px;
width: 59%;
}
I have to divs floated, one is on the left, the other on the right. What i want to do (without js) is that the right div fills the available space (width: 100%). The problem is, that the left div has an dynamic width, else I could simply use margin-left.
I also tried display: table-cell; but that won't allow me to use margin, only border-spacing.
Any suggestion?
You can probably do it like this, works in IE8 and better, in FF, in Safari. You could use padding instead of margin, as in this example:
<style>
.c_0 {
display: table;
width: 100%;
border: 4px solid orange;
}
.c_1 {
display: table-cell;
width: 20%;
border: 1px solid red;
padding-right: 20px;
}
.c_2 {
display: table-cell;
border: 1px solid blue;
}
</style>
<div class="c_0">
<div class="c_1">
has a width and padding instead of margin
</div>
<div class="c_2">
has the rest
</div>
</div>
EDIT
This only works with "%" on the first row. I saw it too late, that you want pixels.