Set div position while page scrolls - html

I know similar questions have been asked but I've not seen this one. !
I have 3 divs on my page.
WRAP is the main page wrapper and provides a border around the inner divs.
OUTER is the outer div
RIGHT is the div I want to move as the page scrolls.
You can see on this image where RIGHT sits, as the page scrolls down I want right to move with it.
I've tried setting the CSS position to fixed, but if the page is resized this messes up the layout. The css I currently have is :
#wrap
{
width: 100%;
margin: 50px auto;
padding: 20px 20px 20px 20px;
border:2px solid #800000;
}
#outer
{
margin: auto;
width: 700px;
height: 1250px;
display: table;
border: 2px solid #000008;
}
#right
{
float: right;
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
border: 2px solid #008000;
}
I've created a fiddle with how this currently looks.
How do I get right to move correctly with the page ?
Thanks

RouthMedia's answer works, but if you have different constraints, like "it shouldn't be on top of the content if the window is smaller than the layout"
To solve that, you can have a window.onresize function that changes the div's right position depending on the constraints you want to have.
window.onresize = function(event)
{
// is the window smaller than something it shouldn't? calculate the new position
("#right").css("right", newpos);
};
Edit: saw you don't want it out of the outer div.
One way to do it: When the page loads, set the "right" property to something that puts it inside the outer div. If the screen resizes, update it.
Another way to do it: use position: absolute, and update the "top" property with the document.scrollTop value when the onscroll event fires.

Add position:fixed; right:0px; to your #right div.

Related

Position div beneath a div that has position absolute

I want to make a header with a image in it that will use the whole width of the browser even when zoomed out. Directly under that #slider-wrapper with the image in it is the #main-content. But that div is postioned directly after #topheader now as you can see what indicates my problem. That div must be right after the #slider-wrapper (and thus ) but because #slider-wrapper is positioned absolute, the div #main-content is positioned after #topheader.
How can I get the #main-content positioned after the #slider-wrapper? Is there some other way to make the header image use the whole width of the screen instead of position absolute? Please help me with this, trying this for hours now.
I have made a jsfiddle for the first time that's not 100% correct but it will do I think. So atm the header image is using the whole screen even after zoomed out but I can't get the #main-content positioned well. Thanks alot
https://jsfiddle.net/hj28fuw7/4/embedded/result/
https://jsfiddle.net/hj28fuw7/4/
If I understand your issue correctly, I think what you need to do is set a top margin on the #main-content to the value of the height of the #slider-wrapper. i.e.
change:
#main-content {
width: 1060px;
margin: 0 auto;
border: 1px solid #000000;
}
to:
#main-content {
width: 1060px;
margin: 426px auto 0px auto;
border: 1px solid #000000;
}

Place div near fixed div

I want to place a div fixed on the left and near I want to place other div.
Imagine a twitter webpage, I want to fixed the left panel (where you write yout tweets) and near I want to place the panel where you read tweets.
Now I have the following code:
<div id="container">
<div id=fixed-menu>
</div>
<div id="content">
</div>
</div>
#fixed-menu {
position:fixed;
background: #fff;
padding: 10px;
top:60px;
left: 10px;
width:300px;
max-width: 300px;
}
#content {
background: #fff;
padding-top: 10px;
}
In this way, the div with id="content" appear on left so, the fixed-menu doesn't appear, because it is under content div.
If I use margin-left in #content the error is solved, but I don't want use that, any other solution?
Thanks.
One of the first things to note is that by putting a position Fixed on div#fixed-menu breaks it out of the normal document flow. What this means is that the other block/inline level elements do not know about it. Also by making it fixed, you make it fixed relative to the window. If you want it "fixed" within the container and not to a certain point on the screen I would go with position:absolute and then a position:relative on it's parent container.
Either way, the problem you're experiencing where div#content doesn't respect the position of the fixed element, is due to the fact that the fixed element is no longer part of the normal document flow. Adding a z-index to div#fixed-menu should bring it above the content. However, you will see overlapping and will have to account of the offset of div#content with either margin on div#content or padding on the parent container.
If you look at this fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/f38aj/
css:
#container {
position: relative;
height: 700px;
padding: 0 0 0 320px;
}
#fixed-menu {
position: fixed;
background: red;
padding: 10px;
top:8px;
left: 8px;
width: 300px;
max-width: 300px;
}
#content {
background: blue;
padding-top: 10px;
}
If you notice we create padding in the container, where we end up overlaying the div#container object.
we have a fixed container on the left while the right side content will scroll with the page. If you can come up with a non fixed solution it might be better, as there are phone browsers like older versions of iOS that will take anything that is position fixed and replace it with position absolute.
A side note, working with fixed/absolute positioning is useful especially in some crazy cases, but it does require a little more due diligence on your/your teams parts to maintain. If you start getting into z-indexes you might want to look at a library like less or sass just to create global css variables, which will make it easier to manage what can turn into an almost unmanageable experience.
hope that helps.

Fix left and right floating images in HTML

Here's what I'd like to do: have a banner across the top of a website which stretches all across. On the left is a menu, and on the right a logo image; the menu floats left, the image floats right.
The problem is the resizing of the browser window. Because the image floats right, it correctly moves as the window gets smaller. However, at some point it begins to float into the menu. Here is a Fiddle that illustrates this effect with two floating images. Resize the browser window to see how the two images overlap.
Setting
body {
min-width: 800px;
}
I can now make sure that the scrollbar appears as the browser window reaches a certain minimum width. However, that doesn't hinder the right-floating image to keep moving as the browser window keeps getting smaller. I tried to change position: relative but that didn't work. I tried to use Javascript to fixate the images once the browser window reaches its min-width but that didn't seem to have an impact either. Using min-width on the DIV and making the images children of the DIV didn't work either.
My question is: how can I make sure that, starting at a certain window size, the right-floating image stays put instead of floating into the left-floating menu?
EDIT: Oh dear, I forgot to mention a rather important detail: the menu bar at the top needs to be sticky. That is why I used the position: fixed property for the DIV. The other page content is supposed to scroll under that menu and out of the window, see the modified fiddle here which is based on ntgCleaner's answer. This kind-of changes the whole thing, doesn't it! Sorry about that...
Thanks!
A couple things I changed:
I made your banner DIV a container instead of just a free floating div. Probably not necessary.
I gave that banner div a min-width:280px and made it overflow:hidden;
I made the images just float left and right, not positioned relatively or absolute (since it's in the div container now).
#banner {
left: 0px;
top: 0px;
width: 100%;
height: 60px;
background-color: lightblue;
z-index: 1;
opacity: 0.8;
overflow:hidden;
min-width:280px;
}
#left {
float:left;
margin:5px;
height:40px;
}
#right {
float:right;
margin:5px;
height:40px;
}
​
​
Here's the fiddle
EDITED FOR THE EDITED QUESTION:
You will just need to place all of your content under your header into a div, then give that div a top margin of the height of your fixed div. In this caes, it's 60px.
Add this to your HTML
<div id="content">
this <br>
is <br>
some <br>
test <br>
text <br>
</div>
then add this to your CSS
#content {
margin:60px 0px 0px 0px;
}​
Here's the new fiddle
Is this what you are after? http://jsfiddle.net/9wNEx/10/
You are not using the position: fixed correctly. Fixed means 'positioned relative to the viewport or browser window', and that is exactly what you are experiencing.
I removed the position: fixed from the images, and placed them inside the div. This should keep them always on top of the page, as they are inside the div that is still positioned fixed.
Also I tweaked some of the other styling to replicate your example. Note that i removed the fixed height of the head and replaced it by a padding bottom. This way the height will follow the content whenever the screen size becomes to small and the images are forced underneath each other.
The css looks like this now:
#banner {
left: 0px;
top: 0px;
width: 100%;
padding-bottom: 15px;
background-color: lightblue;
z-index: 1;
position: fixed;
opacity: 0.8;
}
#left {
float: left;
margin-left: 10px;
margin-top: 5px;
height: 40px;
}
#right {
float: right;
margin-right: 10px;
margin-top: 5px;
height: 40px;
}
I changed your HTML to put the <img> tags inside the banner, and added the min-width to the #banner since it has position: fixed. You'll still need to add min-width to the body or a container that wraps all other elements if you want there to be a min-width of the entire page.
http://jsfiddle.net/Wexcode/s8bQL/
<div id="banner">
<img id="left" src="http://www.google.com/images/srpr/logo3w.png" />
<img id="right" src="http://www.google.com/images/srpr/logo3w.png" />
</div>
#banner {
width: 100%;
min-width: 800px;
height: 60px;
background-color: lightblue;
z-index: 1;
position: fixed;
opacity: 0.8; }
#left {
float: left;
margin: 5px 0 0 10px;
height: 40px; }
#right {
float: right;
margin: 5px 10px 0 0;
height: 40px; }
​
When I look at your Fiddle I think your problem isn't the floats at all. position:fixed supersedes float. Those two elements aren't floating at all, they're in a fixed position (similar to an absolute position), which is why they overlap when they don't have enough room.
Take out float:left and float:right, the result will be the same. Also, top, left, bottom, and right don't work on non-positioned elements. So they are superfluous on your banner.
If you use floats, however, when there is not enough room the right image will wrap underneath the left. See http://codepen.io/morewry/pen/rjCGd. Assuming the heights on the images were set for jsfiddle testing only, all you need is:
.banner {
padding: 5px; /* don't repeat padding unnecessarily */
min-width: ??; /* to keep floats from wrapping, set one */
overflow: hidden; /* clearfix */
}
.right { float: right; } /* only need one float, don't over-complicate it with two */

How to make an element with variable width always stick out a specific width?

I have a div that has a variable width, depending on its content. I want to use it for a menu bar that slides in from the side of the page when the user clicks it, so it has to stick out. I want it to stick out exactly 16px (because the arrow image has that size), no matter how wide it actually is.
How can I realize that without using JavaScript?
EDIT:
Thanks for your answers! But it came to my mind that I could do it just like I did with the navbar on that site – modify the width instead of sliding it in.
See here: http://dev.mezgrman.de/tagwall/
The easiest way to do that is to add another class to your menu item when it is collapsed and set another width there and a text indent like so (instead of write again all your css in a new class)
.collapsed {
width: 16px;
text-indent: -9999px;
background: url("/images/arrow_left.png") no-repeat scroll right center rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85);
}
Now the only thing you have to do in javascript is to add and remove that class depending on the user's click. (You won't get rid of javascript. because css doesn't know when you click an element)
http://jsfiddle.net/LruWn/
No matter how long the .box is, it will always overlap the .container only by exactly 16px:
html:
<div class="container"><div class="box">text</div></div>​
css:
.container {
position: relative;
outline: 1px solid red;
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
}
.box {
width: 70px;
position: absolute;
left: 100%;
margin-left: -16px;
outline: 1px solid black;
}​
Add overflow: hidden; to .container to see how it might look like in action.
I solved my problem by modifying the width of my element now. Silly me.

How to fit content which goes past footer i.e. overflows using CSS and Div tags?

I have spent hours looking for a solution and cannot find anything on this particular issue, so please forgive me if it has been answered.
I have a standard CSS page with a masthead, a navigation row, a left column for links, a right column for contents and a footer.
I have set everything to the center of the page at 1024px wide.
What I just cannot achieve is to have the 2 columns stay at the same height when one has longer content than the other.
Let me explain this - both columns have a 1px border that I would like to extend all the way down to the footer. The right column has much longer content so it reaches the footer very quickly but the left column doesn't so the border stops, where the links finish.
To fix this problem I have set the heights to 100% in the html, body, container and the two columns as follows:
html {
height: 100%;
}
body {
height: 100%;
}
#masthead {
width: 1024px;
height:100px;
margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;
}
#top_nav {
width: 1024px;
height:100px;
margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;
}
#container {
width: 1024px;
height:100%;
margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;
}
#left_col {
width: 198px;
float: Left;
height: 100%;
border: 1px solid #FF0000;
}
#page_content {
margin-left: 200px;
width: 824px;
height: 100%;
border: 1px solid #000000;
}
#footer {
bottom: 0px;
clear: both;
width: 1024px;
height: 50px;
margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;
border: 1px solid #000060;
}
This works BUT now the content of the right column (which is much longer) goes way past the footer? and no matter what I try I cannot fix this without affecting the left column's border i.e. I can use min-height: 100%; which fixes the overflow and footer problem, BUT this has the side effect of capping the border on the left column back to the Navigation link's height i.e. so the border no longer flows to the bottom of the left column and down to the footer (grrrhhh!)
Here is a link to the page itself which you can copy and paste into DW or EW etc. to see what's going on:
http://www.iifuture.org/downloads/testzzz.html
If anyone knows how to fix this paradox I'd love to know about it!
Thanks
Shaun
Actually scratch that : remove the height:100% on the container, left col and page content. That's it.
Edit(revised answer after discussions)
This article helps.
style="background: blue url(someimage.png) repeat-y left;"
Add the above style to container. This is a hack, the DIV doesn't grow but the background image covers it up to get the layout you want!
Please refer this question and answer selected to learn more.
Original answer
Please take a look at overflow property. I was able to get your example page working with the below style added to page_content DIV.
position:absolute;overflow:auto;
With this code the scrollbars appear if the content exceed the height set. If you do not want to get the scrollbars and are okay with not showing the data beyond the DIV height, just use hidden instead of auto. Likewise, to display the scrollbars at all times, you may use scroll.
The last option visible will make it *(mis)*behave the way it is behaving right now i.e. letting the data grow beyond the DIV height. Notice that the DIV is not growing, only the content is.