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I am currently trying to get some experience with html, CSS and JavaScript so I can try to get my foot in the Front End Developer field. I have been working on this adaptive design today but a few issue's have came up. Here is the following problems:
I am not able to get the right DIV to stay on the same line as the left DIV when I re-size the screen. Along the road I will add media rules to make the size even more responsive for the phone/tablet user's.
body {
margin: 0px;
color: #fff;
font: 600 14px/24px"Open Sans", "HelveticaNeue-Light", "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", Sans-Serif;
}
.container {
width: 100%;
}
.contentcontainer {
width: 100%;
}
#header,
#nav {
border-radius: 23px;
}
#header h1 {
text-align: center;
color: white;
padding-top: 35px;
}
#header {
background: #2db34a;
height: 100px;
margin: 15px 10px 0px 10px;
}
#nav {
background: #008e7b;
height: 50px;
margin: 10px 10px 0px 10px;
}
#nav h2 {
text-align: center;
color: white;
padding-top: 10px;
}
#left,
#middle,
#right {
border-radius: 23px;
}
#left {
float: left;
width: 22%;
background: #7DC242;
height: 200px;
margin: 15px 10px 0px 10px;
}
#middle {
float: left;
width: 75.5%;
background: #F68A1F;
height: 200px;
margin: 15px 10px 0px 10px;
}
#middle h1 {
text-align: center;
color: white;
padding-top: 55px;
}
#left h1 {
text-align: center;
color: white;
padding-top: 55px;
}
<body>
<div class="container">
<div id="header">
<h1>Header</h1>
</div>
<div id="nav">
<h2>Navigation</h2>
</div>
</div>
<div class="contentcontainer">
<div id="left">
<h1>Left</h1>
</div>
<div id="middle">
<h1>Middle</h1>
</div>
</div>
</body>
Also as you can see there is probably some repetitive items and just some unnecessary items in my code if you could give me some tips on how to make my code smaller and load faster that would also be amazing!
Thank you! :)
-Neiko Anglin
When you want to create a responsive row of divs, i would really reccommend to not use margin, but padding. at least for left and right. Why? I'll explain.
When you use margin, you have to do calculations (using css calc() ) to make it work properly.
This is because, if you set the column width, the margin isn't included, and the column is actually wider --> it won't fit
When you use padding in combination with box-sizing: border-box, the columns are is still splitted up (except for their backgrounds), but the width of the columns is not wider than you have defined in your css (because of the border-box). --> the columns do fit and it really makes your life easier.
example:
http://jsfiddle.net/n0acjahj/
Related
I'm trying to fix my website. Problem #1 I can't push the list on the header over by using margin-left or padding-left. Problem #2 the Main Header 1 and 3 are creating there own padding. My goal is to fix the padding and bring the headers closer together and get rid of this padding/margin issue.
#hlist {
top: 10px;
margin-right: 3px;
position: relative;
height: 30px;
padding-right: -12px;
}
ul#hlist {
float: right;
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
overflow: hidden;
}
ul#hlist li {
float: left;
}
ul#hlist li a {
font-family: 'Poppins';
color: black;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
padding: 14px 16px;
}
ul#hlist li a:hover {
border-style: solid;
border-width: 1px;
border-color: gray;
color: gray;
}
.content-wrapper {
padding: 0;
}
.text-wrapper {
height: 300px;
width: 100%;
position: relative;
margin-top: -60%;
}
.text-wrapper h1 {
text-shadow: 2px 2px black;
text-align: center;
color: #ffff;
font-size: 10vw;
}
.text-wrapper h3 {
margin-top: 10%;
text-shadow: 2px 2px black;
text-align: center;
color: #ffff;
font-size: 30px;
}
<div id="header">
<ul id="hlist">
<li>WHERE TO WATCH</li>
<li>ABOUT</li>
</ul>
<div id="logo-box">
<img style="height: 32px; padding:5px;" src="https://assets.nationalgeographic.com/styleguide/stable/logos/ng-logo-2fl.svg" alt="logo">
</div>
</div>
</header>
<div class="content-wrapper">
<image id="bg" src="https://i.imgur.com/i2MSrn7.jpg">
<div class="text-wrapper">
<h3> The Giant </h3>
<h1> Panda </h1>
</div>
<image id="ply" style="height: 32px; padding:5px;" src="images.svg">
</div>
Your body has margin: 8px set. That's why there's a gap around the edges. Set margin: 0 on the body tag. Check out this codepen I created. That solves the gap around the edges of the image.
I don't fully understand the second part of your question. Your page is spread out very wide due to the size of the image. Make the image smaller and so that it doesn't overflow and your site will look much better.
If you want to position the links in an easier way look into using Flexbox and doing something like this:
display: flex;
justify-content: flex-end;
Do that on your links and they should float right if that's what you're trying to do.
Also, look into using a CSS Reset. By default HTML elements come with certain CSS styles applied automatically. A reset will get rid of default styles so they don't interfere with what you're trying to do. Lots of HTML elements have default padding/margins that you may not realize.
I have a text object placed in the middle of my page horizontally. I'm wanting to place it 90% down my page. So if you were looking at my page, it would be a little above the bottom. I would use margin: 330px; but I am pretty sure it will differ for ever user as they use different resolutions. Here is my code, if someone can help
HTML:
<div id="home">
<p>Read More</p>
</div>
CSS:
#home {
width: 100%;
height: 100vh;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
text-align: center;
}
#home p {
font-family: 'Roboto Condensed', sans-serif;
font-size: 60px;
color: #FFF;
margin: 330px;
}
You can set your body to 100%, then use a wrapper div to house all the content above the home dive. The make the wrapper div 90% less the font size.
html,
body {
height: 100%;
margin: 0px;
}
#main_content {
min-height: calc(90% - 60px);
/* Make space for the font size */
}
#home {
clear: both;
position: relative;
width: 100%;
text-align: center;
}
#home p {
font-family: 'Roboto Condensed', sans-serif;
font-size: 60px;
line-height: 60px;
color: teal;
margin: 0px;
}
<div id="main_content">
</div>
<div id="home">
<p>Read More</p>
</div>
Make the container a flexbox, and align the heading to the bottom using margin-top: auto. To bring it up from the bottom a bit add a value for margin-bottom (10% in the example). Use media queries if you want to be very precise with placement across screen sizes.
body {
margin: 0;
}
#home {
height: 100vh;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
align-items: center;
}
#home p {
font-family: sans-serif;
font-size: 60px;
color: #000;
margin: auto 0 10%;
}
<div id="home">
<p>Read More</p>
</div>
For this to work as it should for every user you need to use relative lengths.
To place it "90% down" your page you can use :
margin-top: 90vh;
Check this link you can find what you're looking for there.
Good Luck,
I'd like to make a message-alert box in my web app. I created the main style but I have problems on small screen sizes.
Here's the image for the regular 1366x768 computer screen:
And here is for a typical mobile device:
Problems:
The X button has tagled with the message.
The main message wrapper has fixed and wasn't expand when the message came out of the wrapper.
How to fix the two above problems? Do I have to follow another path? I use position: fixed; property-value to keep my message on top.
Here are my HTMl and CSS code:
HTML:
<div class="top-msg">
<div class="top-msg-ico">
!
</div>
<div class="top-msg-inner">
<p>Only letters and nubers are allowed for email. See security for more info.</p>
</div>
<div class="top-msg-close" style=" cursor: pointer;">✕</div>
</div>
CSS:
.top-msg {
width: 100%;
height: 55px;
position: fixed;
background-color: rgba(42,45,50,0.6);
color: rgba(250,251,255,0.95);
font-family: "Lato", sans-serif;
font-size: 18px;
}
.top-msg-close {
float: right;
padding-top: 17px;
padding-right: 30px;
//border: 1px solid white;
//height: 100%;
width: 3%;
}
.top-msg-inner {
top: 15px;
position: absolute;
display: inline-block;
padding-left: 10px;
width: 80%;
//border: 1px solid white;
}
.top-msg-ico {
min-width: 65px;
height: 100%;
background-color: #fff;
display: inline-block;
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.7);
text-align: center;
font-size: 45px;
}
FIDDLE:
https://jsfiddle.net/4oLvyajo/
UPDATE -SOLUTION!-
After some help from LGSon answer I manage to finish all the design, so I accepts his answer but the hole solution is in the fiddle below.
FIDDLE:
https://jsfiddle.net/4oLvyajo/4/
Images:
Here is a start for you
.top-msg {
width: 100%;
position: fixed;
background-color: rgba(42,45,50,0.6);
color: rgba(250,251,255,0.95);
font-family: "Lato", sans-serif;
font-size: 18px;
}
.top-msg-close {
float: left;
box-sizing: border-box;
padding-top: 17px;
padding-right: 30px;
width: 45px;
}
.top-msg-inner a {
text-decoration: none;
color: RGBA(0, 0, 0, 0.6);
font-weight: bold;
}
.top-msg-inner a:hover {
color: RGBA(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
}
.top-msg-inner {
float: left;
box-sizing: border-box;
padding: 0 10px;
width: calc(100% - 110px);
}
.top-msg-ico {
float: left;
width: 65px;
height: 57px;
background-color: #fff;
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.7);
text-align: center;
font-size: 45px;
}
<div class="top-msg">
<div class="top-msg-ico">
!
</div>
<div class="top-msg-inner">
<p>Only letters and nubers are allowed for email. See security for more info.</p>
</div>
<div class="top-msg-close" style="cursor: pointer;">✕</div>
</div>
replace the width: 80% with margin-right: 40px, and you'll have to play around with the top: 15px as well (at -11 I had it looking right, but you can play around with that)
Here is the updated Fiddle
If you want everything scalable you'll need a completely different approach. First of all, if you place a right floating element under a block element it will float right, but underneath it. You'll need to define the floating close button element first.
Anyway, here's the updated Fiddle
It needs some minor tweaks in the padding and margins, but I think this is very close to what you're looking for
Here is my HTML:
<body>
<nav>
<div id="navBar">
<ul>
<li>ESILEHT</li>
<li>UUDISED</li>
<li>ÜLEVAATED/ARVUSTUSED</li>
<li>LOGI SISSE</li>
</ul>
</div>
</nav>
<div class="content">
<div id="logo">
<img src="http://i.imgur.com/Y4g5MOM.png" alt="Gaming website logo" height="84" width="540"/>
</div>
<div id="tervitus">
<h3 id="tere">TERE TULEMAST</h3>
</div>
</div>
<div class="artikkel">
<p>check check</p>
</div>
<footer>©2014 Janno.</footer>
</body>
</html>
Here is my CSS:
#navBar{
width: 100%;
float: left;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
background-color: #000000;
left: 0;
min-width:760px;
}
#navBar ul{
list-style:none;
margin: 0 auto;
}
#navBar li{
float: left;
}
#navBar li a:link , a:visited{
font-size: 90%;
display: block;
color: #ffffff;
padding: 20px 25px;
font: 18px "open sans", sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
text-decoration: none;
}
#navBar li a:hover{
background-color: #F0F0F0;
color: #000000;
text-decoration: none;
}
#logimine{
}
body{
margin: 15px;
padding: 15px;
background-color: #F0F0F0;
min-width: 700px;
}
.content, .artikkel{
max-width: 65%;
margin: 1em auto;
box-shadow: 0 3px 7px rgba(0,0,0,.8);
background-color: #ffffff;
padding: 3em;
padding-bottom: 350px;
margin-bottom:50px;
}
#tervitus{
background-color: black;
color: white;
font: 18px "open sans", sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
}
#tere{
margin-left: 5px;
}
#logo{
}
#regnupp{
color: blue; /*miks see valge on muidu*/
}
.uudised{
max-width: 65%;
margin: 4em auto;
box-shadow: 0 3px 7px rgba(0,0,0,.8);
background-color: #ffffff;
padding: 3em;
padding-bottom: 350px;
margin-bottom:50px;
}
.uudised{
padding-left: 115px;
}
.uudised img{
float: left;
width: 100px;
margin-left: -75px;
}
.uudised p, h2{
margin-left: 50px;
}
.uudised hr{
margin-top: 50px;
margin-bottom: 50px;
}
footer {
text-align: center;
margin: 0 auto -40px;
width: 100%;
padding-top: 5px;
padding-bottom: 5px;
font-weight:300;
color:#ffffff;
background-color:#000000;
}
If I understand correctly, the <footer>, when using width: 100%; looks like the width of the <body> element, so I tried quite a few things and nothing. This is my first try at a webpage, so is there anything I can do, to have the <footer> use the entirety of the page width, without drastically changing everything?
Make sure that firstly your css is set up properly such as:
body {
margin: 0;
}
then your footer css should be something like this:
.footer {
margin: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 120px;
background-color: red;
}
This should work obvious then your html should be something like:
<html>
<body>
<div class="footer">
</div>
</body>
</html>
Hope this helps!
JsFiddle
I added extra styles to the JSFiddle for presentation and proof, but the code works the same without.
Do this:
HTML
<body>
<footer>Hi</footer>
</body>
CSS
html,body{
width:100%;
height:100%;
marging:0;
}
footer{
height:120px;
width:100%;
position:absolute;
bottom:0;
}
Block level elements
To understand this issue you need to understand about display:block. Block level elements (elements which declare display:block) by default take up the full width of their containing element.
In this case, the footer is, in all newish browsers, a block level element, and so will take up the full width of its container, in this case the body. There is no need to set width:100%;
Older browsers
In older browsers, the newer HTML5 elements, including block, are inline by default, so you need to set them to be block level in your CSS, like so:
footer {
display:block;
}
This is good practice.
Floats
There are several things which can get in the way of this behaviour, notably floats. If you float an element, to the left or right, it will become as narrow as it possibly can, while still enclosing it’s contents. This may or may be your issue here.
Do please post your code.
set footer width to viewport width width: 100vw;, and add the viewport meta tag to your header:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
There is a good full width and sticky to bottom (if you need) solution:
<div class="content">
<!-- content here -->
<div class="hfooter">
<!-- For Content not to lay under the Footer -->
</div>
</div>
<div class="footer">
<!-- footer content here -->
</div>
and CSS:
body, html {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
.content {
height: 100%;
}
.hfooter {
height: 100px;
}
.footer {
height: 100px;
margin-top: -100px;
}
Hope it is that what you need)
DEMO here: http://jsfiddle.net/verber/63gbg/11/
I've been meaning to replace the tables in my site with css positioning and have been trying to teach myself through tutorials etc. I've had some early success but it all came crashing down when I tried to create a sidebar. I'm hoping the problem has some kind of simple solution. The relative/absolute positioning of the elements is not going anywhere close to what I wanted to do. My goal is to have a sidebar with images that stack (float?) from top to bottom, with the middle elements being part of an unordered list. I got it to work once but now that stack on top of each other. It has to be the way I am setting the float and the absolute/relative positioning. After reading some articles here I tried adding a div wrapper to put them inside but I think I got myself even more confused. Is it possible someone could nudge me in the right direction? Here is the code:
CSS
body
{
background: #b6b7bc;
font-size: .80em;
font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grande", "Segoe UI", Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif;
margin: 50px;
padding: 0px;
color: #696969;
height: 160px;
}
a:link, a:visited
{
color: #034af3;
}
a:hover
{
color: #1d60ff;
text-decoration: none;
}
a:active
{
color: #034af3;
}
p
{
margin-bottom: 10px;
line-height: 1.6em;
}
/* HEADINGS ----------------------------------------------------------*/
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6
{
font-size: 1.5em;
color: #666666;
font-variant: small-caps;
text-transform: none;
font-weight: 200;
margin-bottom: 0px;
}
h1
{
font-size: 1.6em;
padding-bottom: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
}
h2
{
font-size: 1.5em;
font-weight: 600;
}
h3
{
font-size: 1.2em;
}
h4
{
font-size: 1.1em;
}
h5, h6
{
font-size: 1em;
}
/* PRIMARY LAYOUT ELEMENTS ---------------------------------------------------------*/
.page
{
width: 960px;
background-color: #fff;
margin: 20px auto 0px auto;
border: 1px solid #496077;
}
.header
{
position: relative;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
background: #4b6c9e;
width: 100%;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
}
.header h1
{
font-weight: 700;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px;
color: #f9f9f9;
border: none;
line-height: 2em;
font-size: 2em;
}
.main
{
padding: 0px 12px;
margin: 0px 4px 4px 4px;
min-height: 420px;
width: 500px;
float: left;
}
.leftCol
{
padding: 6px 0px;
margin: 12px 8px 8px 8px;
width: 200px;
min-height: 200px;
}
.footer
{
color: #4e5766;
padding: 8px 0px 0px 0px;
margin: 0px auto;
text-align: center;
line-height: normal;
}
/* MISC ----------------------------------------------------------*/
.clear
{
clear: both;
width: 936px;
height: 35px;
}
.title
{
display: block;
float: left;
text-align: justify;
}
.bold
{
font-weight: bold;
}
p.clear
{
clear: both;
height: 0;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#wrapper
{
position:relative;
height: 500px;
width: 900px;
}
#insidemain
{
position:absolute;
float: left;
width: 500px;
height 180px;
}
/* ---------------- Sidebar Items ---------------------*/
#sidebar /* Sidebar container */
{
position:absolute;
border-top: 1px solid #99CC33;
border-left: 1px solid #99CC33;
height: 300px;
width: 180px;
margin-right: 5px;
padding: 5px 0 0 5px;
}
#sidebarHeader
{
position:absolute;
height: 37px;
width: 172px;
float: left;
background-image: url(../img/TopMenu.jpg);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
}
#sidebarItems ul
{
position:absolute;
height: 27px;
width: 172px;
float:left;
background-image: url(../img/MenuItems.jpg);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
/*left: 6px;
top: 45px;*/
background-position: 0px -27px;
}
#sidebarFooter
{
position:absolute;
height: 46px;
width: 172px;
float:left;
background-image: url(../img/BottomMenu.jpg);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
}
And the HTML:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title></title>
<link href="Styles/Simple.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<div class="page">
<div class="header">header
<div class="title">
<h1>
Test Page
</h1>
</div>
</div>
<p class = "clear">clear</p>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="sidebar">
<div id="sidebarHeader">
</div>
<div id="sidebarItems">
<ul>
<li>test item</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="sidebarFooter">
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="insidemain">
main
</div>
</div>
<div class="clear">clear</div>
<div class="footer">
<a href="http://www.google.com/">
Blah blah test to see how far this will go across the page blah blha lorem ipsum and various other stuff that is meaningless etc
</a>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Typically (for non-responsive sites especially), you'd have your .wrapper div around the entire content (header, content, sidebar, footer, etc). Then set your .wrappers width. Your .sidebar would have a set width and it would either float: left; or float: right; depending on the side you want it on. Set your .content div's width which would be less than or equal to your .wrapper width - your .sidebar width. Then add your .clearfix below so the .footer falls beneath everything. In most cases (at least for the large page chunks) you can avoid position:absolute; which helps make things more easily fall into place.
You really shouldn't have to float your div's or list. Those are block elements by default and will stack vertically regardless.
Also, as Scrimothy mentioned, you do not want absolutely positioned elements as that will take the element out of the page flow. In other words, they no longer take up "real" space in the page, and instead render at whatever coordinates you position them.
Similarly, floats also take up no space, except with other floated elements. That's why some UI developers will float almost every element on the page and "clear" them using a footer or at key breaks in the page. I personally don't recommend positioning in that fashion, but to each his own.
See if this quick tutorial helps you with some key positioning concepts: HERE
Don't target the same element with both float and position:absolute. It doesn't make much sense. Anywhere where you have float, you should get rid of position:absolute
Next, get rid of those silly class="clear" elements. Instead, target .footer with clear:both and .page with overflow-y:hidden;