Consider the basic HTML below:
<body>
Random HTML content
<div class="container">
<!--Some content loaded via ajax or the like -->
</div>
Other random HTML content
</body>
I want the width of the "container" div to be the MAXIMUM of three potential values:
100% of the window
1024px (for best visual appearance)
the width of the content
I have been able to accomplish #1 and #2 by using the CSS properties width:100% and min-width:1024px. I can also accomplish #2 and #3 by setting display:inline-block and min-width:1024px. However, I haven't been able to get all three: if I add in the width:100% to the display and min-width properties, it overrides the child content sizing effect of the inline-block display and gives me only 100% width, even when that means the content overflows.
I know I can hide overflow or give the div itself scrollbars, but what I want is for the div to expand as needed, or to the full width of the window, whichever is greater - but never narrower than 1024px.
Edit: Note that the content loaded in the div may be less than 1024px. The div itself, however, should never be less than that, as it would no longer blend nicely with the look and feel of the rest of the page.
You can achieve this by adding another div on top of first one:
<div class="container2">
<div class="container">
</div>
</div>
css:
.container2{min-width:100%; display:inline-block;}
.container{min-width:1024px; width:100%;}
http://jsfiddle.net/om10t3gn/4/
You can augment your second proposal with a virtual pseudo-element to achieve the dimensions you want without using javascript
.container {
min-width: 1024px;
display: inline-block;
}
.container::before {
width: 100vw;
display: block;
content: ' ';
}
Basically, it's adding a zero-height element to the top of your container that has the same width as your viewport, which is 100% of the width of <body>. So it adds #1 to your existing solution that already achieves #2 and #3.
And it doesn't use any javascript, and will stay correct with resizes.
I am not very skilled with CSS, but I think I have a solution for this problem.
To have a max-width in pixels and a max-with in percent at the same time, you could first calculate the width with the clamp-method (this includes the first of your two max-widths) and then add a normal max-width. The clamp-method is relatively new and not supported by old browsers unfortunately.
<div class='container'></div>
CSS:
.container{
width:clamp(400px,250px + 25vw,100%);
max-width:700px;
}
This should set a max-width both at 100% and 700px.
I have tested it on a notebook with Firefox and Chrome.
Use javascript to pick the largest value, use jQuery to assign that value to the width of the container div.
var window_width = $(window).width();
var container_width = $('.container').width();
var default_width = 1024px;
var max_width = Math.max(window_width, container_width, default_widht);
$('.container').css('width', max_width);
Related
Is it posible to reduce size off all html content inside of body tag?
I mean how to make all the content in html page to be smaller like when we zoom out the page to 90%.
For example: from this to be smaller like this
Any help is appreciated
All HTML content inside of the body tag can be "zoomed" in and out by using the CSS zoom attribute.
For example, to zoom content to 90% simply modify the body element to
body {
zoom: 90%;
}
The zoom attribute can also be directly added to the body tag.
For example,
<body style="zoom: 90%">
Content Here
</body>
I hope this provides the help you need.
If you've followed responsive design rules then all content will shrink and grow, adjusting to the screen height and width ( Basically, when you zoom out the height and width of the window increases.)
For example, let's say in your case you've set the width of the card to be xxpx, then it won't be responsive it'll always be xxpx on all screens.
If instead, you have set the width to be 20%, then, whatever the width of the window is you card will adjust to 20% of the total width.
Hopefully, I have answered your question correctly.
I've been playing with front-end web design the past couple of days, mainly using floats/clearfix to position my content. I've been marking up the width of the content using % and that has worked perfectly.
However, if I try to define the height as a percentage of the overall page, it fails to work, more accurately it seems to just wrap around what ever content is there and I have to define the height as a px value.
Is there a reason for this? Is there a workaround where I can use a percentage value and it actually divides up the page?
To define the property height in % you need a previous definition on the parent height. Then if you have a parent with fixed height on px you can work with %; but if you want to work % in relation to the window or other % values you need to set a value for all parents.
Then if you want to work with the window % you need this:
HTML like:
<body>
<div id="container">My div with 100% height</div>
</body>
CSS like:
/*Need to set all parents to 100%*/
html, body {
height:100%;
}
/*Then set the container*/
#container {
height:100%;
}
please try this:
give the HTML tag in CSS 100% and then you should try to set the body element in CSS to
display:block;
and give it
min-height:100%
see this topic too:
min-height does not work with body
br paulq
Hi I need to know if there's any way of making all controls
of a column the same width, and that all these controls are as wide as the cells that contain them.
I added a demo on JSFiddle with the controls I'm using.
I tried using size for the input texts and style="width:"> for the selects , and even though I managed to make them the same width,(it doesn't seem to work in Chrome) it's kinda difficult , that's why I'd like to know if there is any more straightforward way to do the same thing
Any ideas or insights?
Give them all a class that makes them stretch to 100% width (e.g. class="element") and put them in a div with 30% width.
OR define a class with the property "width: 30%".
You can define classes in a seperate css file or a style tag in the head of your page.
css:
.element{
width: 100%;
}
div.container{
width: 30%
}
html
<div class="container">
<whatever class="element">...stuff.....</whatever>
<sample class="element">...more stuff...</sample>
</div>
I have an image that, depending on the screen resolution, drops down out of sight in my CSS flow layout because I have set its width and height to static values.
Is there a way in a CSS flow layout to have the image automatically resize while someone is making the browser window smaller. I have seen this done in a html-table layout and I assume the tables make it possible there - is there a way to also do this in a CSS flow layout?
A quick test shows that this:
<img class="test" src="testimage.jpg" />
combined with:
img.test { width: 50%; }
Resizes the way you probably want. The image dutifully resized to 50% the width of the box containing it, as well as resizing vertically, maintaining the aspect ratio.
As for resizing based on vertical changes, it doesn't work the way you would like, at least not consistently. I tried:
img.test { height: 50%; }
In current Google Chrome (2.0.172), it resizes somewhat inconsitently; the sizing is correct but does not update after every window drag. In current Firefox (3.5), the height seems to be ignored completely. I don't have any remotely recent IE, Safari, etc to test. Feel free to edit in those results. Even if those do well its still probably something you want to avoid, and stick with width.
EDIT:
For this to work, all the elements containing img.test need to be sized with percentages, not statically.
Think of it this way:
body is 100% of window size.
img is 50% of body.
img is 50% of window size.
Now suppose I add a div. like this...
<div class="imgbox" style="width: 100px;">
<img class="test" src="testimage.jpg" />
</div>
Then
body is 100% of window size.
div is 100px, ignoring body width.
img is 50% of div.
img is 50px, regardless of window size.
If the div has "width: 100%" though, then the logic works out the same as before. As long as its some percentage, and not fixed, you can play with the percentage on the img and make it work out the size you want.
bit of a guess since my css is rubbish, but since nobody is answering, what about setting a % width or height or both in the image so that it is a percent of its parent. dunno?
Try setting max-width to something like 95%. Thank way the image will shrink when the container width is less then the width of the image. All of the parent containers would need to adju
max-width:95%;
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
div {
border:1px solid #000;
min-width: 50%;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div>This is some text. </div>
</body>
</html>
I believe the div should be 50 percent of the page, unless, for some reason, the text inside the div makes it larger. However, the border around the div stretches across the entire page width. This occurs in both IE and Firefox.
Suggestions?
I believe the div should be 50 percent of the page, unless, for some reason, the text inside the div makes it larger.
min-width does not set a minimum starting width from which your block will grow; rather it limits how far the block can shrink.
In min-width: 50%;, the 50% is in reference to the containing block. I've never used percentages with min-width, but I find it can be useful with other units. For example if I have a block (like a column of text) that I want to be full width, but I don't ever want it to go below a minimum width, I could use something like {width: 100%; min-width: 250px;}.
Note the caveats on IE support mentioned by others.
If you provide absolute positioning to the element, it will be 50% in Firefox. However, IE doesn't like the min-width or min-height attributes, so you will have to define width as 50% also for it to work in IE.
Without min-width, your div will take whole page width, that is how display:block elements behave. Adding min-width cannot make it smaller.
Changing display property to absolute or float property to left will make the element to shrink to fit contents. Then, min-width start to make sense.
To add to what Chris Serra said, in IE < 7 (and in 7? I can't keep track these days, but definitely < 8), width behaves exactly like min-width is supposed to behave.
You are telling it that the minimum width is 50%. Since there is nothing else taking up the space, it will take all of it (except for margins).
If you give it a max-width of say 75%, firefox should constrain it to that. IE6 will still ignore it.
As David Kolar already said, many of us typically do not use percentages for min-width.
You may want to try an IE specific style-sheet and include and expression like:
print("width:expression(document.body.clientWidth < 1024? "50%" : "100%");");
This will change the width setting based on the width of the browser window at load time. I personally like to use px as the unit measurement, but you need to try it with your specific setup.