In my layout I've got some teaser text and an image which is floated to the left so the text flows around it.
Then I have got a "Button" which you can click onto in order to show the complete text.
This "Button" should be displayed below the text and fill the whole width.
This is no problem as long as the text is long enough to wrap below the image so I can use e.g. display: block to make it 100% width. But when the text is short I don't find a way to make an element which fills 100% of the remaining width.
https://jsfiddle.net/ybtshvqL/
In the website I'm building I use this button with an transparent-to-white background and moved some distance to the top in order to fade the lower part of the text to make it more visual that there is more text available. When using something like a div / block element it always gets drawn 100% of container's width and renders ugly over (or below) the image.
So is there some way to make either a span (display: inline-block) 100% width or a div (display: block) to honor a float?
(or some other good ideas?)
Thanks in advance.
This is a simple fix if you are willing to change the <span> to a <div> tag.
HTML:
<div class="container">
...
<div class="more">Read on ...</div>
</div>
CSS:
.more {
border: 1px solid red;
width: 100%; /* Or another preferred width percentage */
margin: auto !important;
text-align: center !important;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/rtkbykbu/
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When you do something like:
.container {
column-width: 200px;
height: 300px;
}
<div class="container">
... a lot of text...
</div>
If the text is large enough it will cause that the corresponding text overflows the container width to the right. That's awesome if you want an horizontal layout, however, the div width won't grow because the text has "overflow" the container. If you put a background to the div you will see that the background won't be there after the end of the screen (if the text is sufficienty large). That why, if you put a second div next to this one in an horizontal fashion, the second will be over the overflowed content of the first div, which is undesirable.
The question is: how can I make the first div be adjusted to the content inside him no matter how large it becomes in the horizontal line?
I would probably do it like this (if i understood what you want)
.container {
width: auto;
height: 300px;
}
.text{
Padding-left: 10%;
Padding-right: 10%;
}
<div class="container">
<div class="text">
... a lot of text...
</div>
</div
The container should now change size depending on the text. :)
With CSS3 Intrinsic Sizing, you can use this: width: max-content which expands the width of the parent container based on text it encloses.
Caution - not supported in IE. Check this: https://caniuse.com/#search=max-content
There are a lot of "fill available space" questions on this site, but my issue is a bit particular in that I've already gotten a solution, but it doesn't work for buttons. I'd like to understand why this doesn't work for buttons, and how I can make it work. I imagine it's just some browser-style for the button element that I need to override.
I have two floating elements within a (fixed-width, if that matters) wrapping div. The right element has fixed width, and the left element should take up whatever width remains.
I can accomplish that by setting the right element to have fixed width and float: right, and leaving the left element without any special styling. This works perfectly for divs. It also works for spans, but only if I set display: block on them. For buttons, I can't get it to work at all. I tried block, inline-block, and every obscure width value I could find on the MDN.
http://jsfiddle.net/wjFbD/2/
I don't know why I didn't think of just wrapping the buttons in divs earlier. Here's what I've come up with:
http://jsfiddle.net/SkczB/2/
This involves the overflow: hidden box formatting context trick (which I suspected was going to make an appearance here, but couldn't quite see where to fit it in). Highlights:
The two buttons are wrapped in divs with class buttonWrapper.
Those divs are formatted according to the trick I outlined in the third paragraph, above. The right div has float: right and a fixed width, the left div has no special styling.
We now apply the box formatting context trick. The left div is given overflow: hidden, which causes it to make space for the right-floated div.
We can now apply a left margin to the right div, and change its width, and the left div will always be the right size.
The divs create the desired "fill available width" effect for us, now we just have to put the buttons inside the divs and give them a height and width of 100%.
If it's the left button you wanted to have a fixed width, then basically repeat the above steps with left and right swapped.
This may not be exactly what you're looking for here, but here's an option that seems to have worked out for me with your fiddle.
If you've got a fixed width div that the elements are contained in, you could split get the remaining width of the div after button A has been set to fill up, say, 100 pixels and then set button 2 to be the remaining size.
Alternatively, another option would be to run it as percentages 20%/80%, 30%/70%, that kind of thing. Here's a fiddle that achieves what you're looking for on just the button wrapper at the bottom. I've applied specific classes for it and added divs around each button for a bit more control. The button wrapper divs are set to 20% and 80% respectively, while the button is set to fill 100% of the containing space.
Here's the modified fiddle and the modfied HTML/CSS. Hope it helps for what you're looking for...
http://jsfiddle.net/wjFbD/7/
HTML
<div class="btnWrapper">
<div class="buttonWrapperB">
<button class="left">
button Left
</button>
</div>
<div class="buttonWrapperA">
<button class="right">
button Right
</button>
</div>
</div>
CSS
.btnWrapper
{
width: 100%;
background-color: #FEE;
border: 2px solid black;
margin-bottom: 10px;
height: 50px;
}
.buttonWrapperB{
float: left;
width: 20%;
}
.buttonWrapperB button{
width: 100%;
height: 50px;
}
.buttonWrapperA{
float:left;
width: 80%;
}
.buttonWrapperA button{
width: 100%;
height: 50px;
}
I adjusted the background opacity of your .right elements to see what was going on below them. It looks like the .left elements are not only taking up the remaining space-- they're also taking up the entire row. Weirdly, the text inside these elements is centered as if it were only taking up the remaining space.
If you want the same to work for the buttons, it seems like the only solution involves a little hack. Buttons are quite complex indeed.
button.left {
margin: 0;
position: absolute; /*this seems to be the only way to get the button to stay on the same row - floating it left won't even work*/
z-index: -1; /*hides the "overflowing" part below the right button*/
width: 100%; /*make the button stretch to the full width of the row*/
padding-right: 400px; /*add a padding-right hack so that text will be centered correctly - should be same size as fixed width .right element*/
padding-left: 0;
display: block;
}
See updated fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/wjFbD/6/
starting with
One element has fixed width, and the other element should take up
whatever width remains.
here is my general solution:
<div class="container">
<div class="two">125 €</div>
<div class="one">my favorite provider</div>
</div>
(stylus syntax, in your mind just add {,},;)
.one // red
border none
height auto
overflow hidden
white-space nowrap
text-overflow ellipsis
.two // green
float left
white-space nowrap
text-overflow ellipsis
You can set the one green thing to a fixed width, but indeed, you do not even have to! Things full up nicely. And String get's truncated with an ellipsis, if it gets too long.
Things get a bit more complicated, when one of them is a <button> rather than a <div> (and I can't figure out, which style property differenciates them, so I would need to style away), but anyway, with a wrapper, that also works:
→ See full codepen here. (Feedback appreciated.)
I have an img element with style='width:40%;height:40%;'. I would like to add a div that automatically wraps it. However when I insert the div instead of wrapping the img it just expands to the div inside.
How can I force this div to wrap img so it can be used as a frame. The reason why I do not preset the div's height and width is because img's percentages will be given dynamically, so div should wrap the img according to img's sizes.
If you do it like this
<div id="wrapper">
<img src="...">
</div>
you could add the display: inline-block; attribute to the wrapper. That did it for me. Yet still, your style='width:40%;height:40%;' will make its height being adjusted by its parent as #jesse-van-assen already mentioned.
The problem with a width and height of 40% with an image tag, is that the image isn't downscaled to 40% of it's original size, but takes up 40% of it's parent, as you can see here.
In your case, you want to wrap the image in a div, but still want to size it to 40% of it's parent. In this case, the parent IS the wrapping div. You see the problem.
If you just want to use the div as a frame, you can use css to style the image to gain a similar effect, like this:
<img src="..." style="border: 1px solid #000000; padding:10px;"/>
Example of this principle here.
make all your images float to left.
img
{
float:left;
}
and clear each div with
<div style="clear:both"></div>
as the very last element in the wrap div before it closes.
hope it helps.
simple question
if I make a div with border all way round with some text in, the div box will only be as wide as the content.
how do I make it that the div always stretches 100% of the screen across, even if nothing inside it.
I understand min-width doesnt work with IE, is there a safe, stable way to do this?
No, a <div> will always take up the 100% of width unless a style(css) alters it.
Keep in mind that a <div> is a block element.
If you set the display value of <div> to be inline, for example, it would only take up the width of its content.
Example:
.myDiv
{
display: inline;
}
<div class="myDiv">I will take up width of my content only</div>
On the otherhand,
A <span> will only take up as much width as the context because its an inline element.
Here is an example.
jsFiddle
I have this code:
<div id="one">
<div id="two">my text here</div>
</div>
I have styled the div with id=two and put a box around it. The problem is that it doesn't enclose the text but instead expands to the width of the outer DIV. Is there a way I can make it just size to match the text without specifying width?
You can either
#two {
display: inline; /* or 'inline-block' */
}
Or:
#two {
float: left; /* or right */
}
display: inline; stops the div being displayed as a block-level element, causing it to collapse (for want of a better word) to the size of its contents. If you use the alternative display: inline-block then the div retains its ability to have a defined width and height, which may be required for your layout. However it's worth noting that Internet Explorer 6 and 7 only accepts display: inline-block for those elements that are 'naturally inline.'
float has much the same effect; but using float might/will obviously affect the layout of the page, and may need to be cleared by subsequent elements.
display:inline-block;
This way you keep the block behaviour of your div.