I have this example for the very known fill-parent height problem: http://fiddle.jshell.net/y9bM4/379/ I've really tried to find a solution by googling but I cannot find anything for these requirements:
The height of the element is not known, neither by percentage nor by absolute size. So position: absolute; top: ?px; bottom: 0px would not work
The upper box should only take up the space it needs for its content, so with my little knowledge about flexbox, it seems that I cannot use it either (just used it in the example because this is kind of as closest as I got)
The outer container has a fixed height (90% of the body in this example)
It would be nice if flex: 1 in each container, is kind of the maximum growth of the upper container. Is this even possible with css yet?
I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to do, but I'm assmuning you would like the second container to use whatever space is left over after the first container is sized to its content.
If so, set the .content class with height:0 and flex-grow:1
UPDATED EXAMPLE:
http://fiddle.jshell.net/y9bM4/385/
I think problem was that you gave the container id height:90%; so it will have to forcefully cover inside it, which is not posibble, So change it with height:auto;.
This will solve your problem
JSFiddle : Updated
CSS : Code to change (Edited)
#container
{
display: block;
position: fixed;
height: 90%;
width:100%;
overflow: hidden;
background: #fff;
border:2px solid green;
}
.content:nth-child(2)
{
position: relative;
display: block;
overflow: auto;
height: 100%;
}
.content{
border:1px solid red
};
.text
{
height: 100%;
display: block;
}
Related
I know this title is probably about the most common on SO, but I seem to have a very specific problem that I can't find documented.
I have a div that I want to be exactly square, so I followed the CSS advice in this answer. I also want a child div to fill this space, so I've followed all the standard guidelines of having a clear:both div in a wrapper, etc, but my child div is still not filling its parent. The problem is the height: 0 of the parent div - is there a solution to this but still maintaining the exact square (preferably pure CSS, I'm aware there are JS solutions). Example of this is at this fiddle.
You can give the inner box an absolute position and set it to conform to the edges of the containing box:
.box div {
position: absolute;
top: 0; right: 0; bottom: 0; left: 0;
border: 1px solid black;
display: block;
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
}
jsfiddle
Not sure if it's any better to what you proposed, maybe if you wanted content in the box?
If you're not too worried about support then using vh, vw, or vmin would be a good alternative. Since height would actually be set you could easily set the child element to fill the parent.
CSS:
.parent {
width: 50vmin;
height: 50vmin;
background-color: blue;
margin: 0 auto;
}
.child {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
background-color: red;
}
HTML:
<div class='parent'>
<div class='child'></div>
</div>
Here's an example. I like vmax, but it's not as well supported as vmin, vh, and vw.
This padding trick for responsive boxes work with absolute positioning.
css-padding-trick-responsive-intrinsic-ratios
So use absolute positioning for inner div.
.box {
...
position: relative;
}
.box div {
...
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: 0;
}
Adding padding-bottom: 100% to the child div does fill the space and seems to be a fix; the updated jsfiddle reflects this
As can be seen here (please make it wider): http://jsfiddle.net/CZayc/1368/, I wanted to make my navbar width 100% of browser width, and place some links (First Second Third Fourth) in the centered, 1200px wide space.
I do not know why, but the middle container just overlaps the navbar.
Changing position: absolute; on navbar caused it to shrink to 1200px size (not desired).
What can I do about it? There is also a problem with link container, because I couldnt center First Second Third Fourth in the desired 1200px space (probably due to overlap).
Thanks!
Using absolute position on an element takes it out of the content flow: meaning that other elements in the flow act like its not there. The elements overlap because there is nothing to push the middle content down below the header.
There are 2 things you could do:
stop using position absolute. as #NendoTaka suggests, relative should be fine. If there is some reason for absolute positioning you haven't explained, then
add a margin to the middle content area.
Example CSS
.middle {
background-color: #7f7f7f;
height: 1050px;
margin: 74px auto 0; /* height of nav plus its borders*/
}
You can move .middle out of the way by adding margin-top: https://jsfiddle.net/CZayc/1371/
Be sure to set margin-top to the height of .nav. This includes borders, too.
Change your nav class to
.nav {
background-color: #34384A;
height: 70px;
width: 100%;
border-top: solid;
border-bottom: solid;
}
Note: You don't need the width: 100% but just in case.
You need to apply position:relative to both the .nav and the .middle
Your problem before was that .nav had an absolute position which caused the overlap. the relative positioning keeps that from happening because it formats each div relative to the previous div as written in your HTML.
.nav {
position: relative;
background-color: #34384A;
height: 70px;
/* position: absolute; */
left: 0;
right: 0;
border-top: solid;
border-bottom: solid;
}
.middle {
position: relative;
background-color: #7f7f7f;
height: 1050px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
You’re trying to solve the wrong problem with your question. The example below is a cleaned up version of your code.
* { margin:0; padding:0 }
nav {
background-color: #34384A;
height: 70px;
border-top: solid;
border-bottom: solid;
text-align: center;
}
<header>Test test</header>
<nav>
<a>First</a>
<a>Second</a>
<a>Third</a>
<a>Foruth</a>
</nav>
<div class="middle">
11111<br>22222<br>33333<br>44444<br>55555<br>66666
</div>
<footer>Test</footer>
Be mindful of the HTML you use. The HTML tags you choose should provide meaning to the content they wrap. Also you should avoid using position: absolute for general layout concerns such as this one.
Hope that helps.
All throughout a page I'm working on I continue to get a repetitive layout error that stems from an attempt to float elements left and right in congruence with one another. However, on re-sized and small browsers the float:right elements collapses under the float:left elements each time.
http://jsfiddle.net/g4dbr3ho/4
#wrap {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
#main {
float:left;
max-width: 70%;
max-height: 100%;
margin-left:112px;
padding: 20px;
}
#side {
float:right;
width:auto;
max-height:100%;
background-color:black;
border-style:solid;
border-width:2px;
border-color:red;
}
What I'm looking for is to understand what method is best to use to try executing this format. I'm aware of the inline:block strategy in formatting too, but I find that inaffective in my situation here, also creating new issues.
You should create a div around the #main text. Float that one to the left, give it a width and your sidebar to.
*{
box-sizing: border-box;
}
I've added box-sizing to all. It includes borders and paddings to the width and height.
http://jsfiddle.net/qmd9shu0/1/
You can use
Inline-block (css display property) (with proper width and media queries for responsive if required)
Table-layout (widely supported)
Flexbox (good to use if >ie8 support required)
First at all, is it nessessary to put the sidemain-div inside the main-div ? If not, put both of them as a direct child of the wrapper. With this, you're able to style these elements by position attributes.
Like this:
#wrap {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
#main {
position: absolute;
}
#sidemain {
position: absolute;
right: 0;
margin-left: 10px;
}
I am trying to make a div with text and a div with a button fit side by side. It works fine until you make the screen really narrow. Is there a way to force them to be on the same line and for the first div to shrink to accommodate the min-width of the second?
http://jsfiddle.net/C3877/9/
To see what I mean, resize the window, reducing the width, until the div with the button is forced onto the second line. That is what I'd like to prevent.
Note: I only care if a suggested fix works properly in Chrome.
Instead of floats, you could use display: inline-block. This will keep things all on one line, and respect the min-width as well.
Inline-block fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/C3877/8/
In addition, since you only care about Chrome, you could look into flexible boxes
A (quick) flex fiddle here: http://jsfiddle.net/C3877/11/
You can use negative margin-left for the floated right element. Note that this solution keeps using float for both the left and right divs, without using float, you have dozens of solutions (as some of other answers pointed out).
#right_div {
...
margin-left:-100%;
}
Note that all the next content should be wrapped in a block element and use clear:both. I also added a sample of such an element with background:green in this DEMO.
Appending this does the trick I suppose:
#media (max-width:515px) {
#left_div { width: 100%; margin-right: -100px }
}
UPDATED
You could use margin and absolute positioning:
CSS
#parent_div {
width: 100%;
height: 10%;
position: relative;
min-width: 40px;
}
#left_div {
width: 80%;
min-width: 100px;
height: 80%;
float: left;
background-color: #000;
color: #FFF;
}
#right_div {
width: 15%;
min-width: 100px;
float: right;
background-color: blue;
position:absolute;
right: 0px;
}
input[type=button] {
font-size: 2rem;
}
SEE DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/C3877/19/
You will have to play with some of the css to get it just right when you move it on your website. But this is a sure quick fix.
I'm currently changing a PSD design to a HTML site. I've come into an issue however. I am unable to center a certain element. I've tried all the usual tricks.
http://lowhop.net/
See here the main blue header is out of line (not centered). I tried
#slider{
position:absolute;
left:0;
right:0;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
Before, however it didn't work reliably. (Appeared only to work on my screen resolution/browser).
Thanks
You need to explicitly define a width on the element when using margin: 0 auto to center.
Block elements take up the full available viewport width unless you explicitly give them a width.
Since you explicitly set the width of the slider DIV, you can use another trick to center it:
#slider
{
z-index: 2;
background-image: url(../img/sliderbg_09_09.png);
position: absolute;
display: block;
width: 982px;
height: 251px;
left: 50%;
margin-left: -491px; /** half DIV width */
}
I'd probably steer away from having this as a position absolute DIV, doesn't look like it needs it but that's a quick and dirty centering :)
Hope that helps
If you must use absolute positioning, you can use something like my answer here.
Basically, you declare an explicit width for your element, then give it
left: 50%;
margin-left: -[your width/2];
like user showdev mentioned :
Does it need to be positioned absolutely? Does it even need to be centered? It looks like you've positioned div#navBar simply by adding margin-left: 85px. It seems that you could use that same method for div#slider.
you have
#navBar {
background-image: url("../img/navbg_07.png");
display: block;
height: 38px;
margin-left: 85px; /* attention on this */
margin-top: 31px;
position: relative;
width: 879px;
z-index: 1;
}
and this
#slider {
background-image: url("../img/sliderbg_09_09.png");
display: block;
height: 251px;
position: absolute;
width: 982px;
z-index: 2;
}
so, try 'margin-left: 85px;' your #slider.