I am completely new to HTML and struggling to know how to place align div tags or position containers horizontally. By default, div containers are placed vertically.
From what I found in different links were nested divs that look something like this :
<div id="ParentContainer" style="height:100%; width:100%; overflow: hidden;">
<div id="chart_div" style="float: left; width:50%;">Left Side Menu</div>
<div id="chart_div2" style="float: left; width:50%; ">Random Content</div>
</div>
If this is how I do it, how do I refer to chart_div and chart_div2 ?
Before this, I could refer them directly with div id to place elements at that particular location.Please suggest simplest possible solution as I am completely new to html and infact simplest CSS confuses me.
Edit:
<div id="ParentContainer" style="height:100%; width:100%; overflow: hidden;">
<div id="chart_div" style="float: left; width:50%; display:inline ;">Left</div>
<div id="chart_div2" style="float: left; width:50%; display:inline ;">Random</div>
</div>
How do I refer them now ? Is it just chart_div or something like ParentContainer.chart_div ?
Edit 2 :
<div id="chart_div" style="float: left; width:50%; display:inline ;">Left</div>
<div id="chart_div2" style="float: right; width:50%; display:inline ;">Random</div>
Using floats to horizontally align divs is one of the simplest ways to create complex layouts with HTML and CSS. When floating divs you should almost always apply a width to the div in question. A detailed example here: Three divs in one row and fourth in the second row
Edit: If you are asking how to select those divs in your javascript, a simple method would be to use getElementById( 'chart_div' ) and getElementById( 'chart_div2' ) respectively.
try adding display: inline
for example:
Left Side Menu
You also have a extra ; on the second tag.
Seems like you want to float the div's horizontally if so
<div id="chart_div" style="float: left; width:50; ;">Left Side Menu</div>
Correct the inline style width and don't forget to modify parent div margin and padding.
Set div chart_div Float Left and chart_div2 Float Right then you will achieve what you are looking for.
Another option to use bootstrap which give you great control over your layout.
I'm sending you my code which I was able to float the div's correctly copy my code and save it as HTML then check it out.
<html><head><style type="text/css">#parent{width: 100%;height: 100%;overflow: hidden;background-color: red;}#child1{float: left;width: 50%;height: 50%;display: inline;background-color: blue;}#child2{float: left;width: 50%;height: 50%;display: inline;background-color: yellow;}</style></head><body><div id="parent"><div id="child1">child1</div><div id="child2">child2</div></div></body></html>
Related
I have some divs which don't behave like I wish.
<div class="list-product-with-border">
<div style="width:80px; display:inline-block;">img</div>
<div style="display:inline-block;"><b>Productname</b></div>
<div style="float:right; width:80px;">
<div>
<button id="editBtn">Edit</button>
</div>
<div>
<button id="removeBtn">Remove</button>
</div>
</div>
</div>
JSFiddle link
Two problems here:
the bordered divs is not high enough: the 'remove' button is not visually in the bordered div
When the 'product name' is longer, the buttons are rendered under the div with the product name. I would like the product name to be over multiple lines when this happens. The three divs should always be next to eachother.
The first and last div has a fixed width, the middle div (product name) should stretch with the size of the bordered div
Personally I'd use a table for this. Each row of the table is an item, and you have a column of images, a column of names, and a column of actions. Is this any different to the tables used for invoices?
I can't quite get the effect you want, but improvements can be made: a floated element should come before the elements that are to go around it - so in this case, it should be the first thing inside the list-product-with-border container. Also, you should either have an element with clear:both at the end of the container, or set the container to have overflow:hidden to force the floated element to be inside.
Do you want it like this?
Here's the Fiddle
<style>
.list-product-with-border {
padding:3px;
width:60%;
border:1px solid black;
overflow: hidden;
height: auto;
}
</style>
And now the HTML
<div class="list-product-with-border">
<div style="width:80px; display:inline-block;">img</div>
<div style="display:inline-block; overflow:hidden; height: auto;"><b>Productname Is the right choice baby, as you can see its just done</b></div>
<div style="float:right; width:180px;margin-top: 10px;">
<div style="float: left;">
<button id="editBtn">Edit</button>
</div>
<div style="float: left;">
<button id="removeBtn">Remove</button>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
You must use display:table-cell instead of display:table-column and remove float:left for .divCell.
And add this style:
.headRow{
display:table-row;
}
How can I achieved aligning of N contiguous divs horizontally with a wrapper whose width is 'auto'?
like:
.boxes{ width:200px;height:200px;float:left; }
<div id="wrapper" style="width:auto;">
<div class="boxes"></div>
<div class="boxes"></div>
<div class="boxes"></div>
. . .
</div>
I tried applying display:inline; and display:inline-block; on wrapper but boxes goes into new y after it reaches the browsers/display width?
But setting document's width into fixed will solve the issue but its not what I want.
Also I can easily achieved this using tables but I don't want to do it because my code will look messy and will be hard for me to maintain.
Add
#wrapper
{
white-space: nowrap;
}
and on your boxes class: change float:left to display:inline-block;
FIDDLE
This will keep your boxes from wrapping.
maybe this is a stupid question but I have a doubt about CSS clear propery use.
I have this template: http://onofri.org/example/WebTemplate/
Why if I delete (you can try with firebug) the propery clear: both from the #footcontainer div I obtain that this div is placed at the top (it seems almost below the header and below the two columns)
My idea is this thing happens because the two columns #content and #sidebar are floated to the left and without setting clear: both on the #footcontainer div the browser try to put also this div on the right of the #content* div but have no space and put at the top.
Is this a right intuition or am I missing something?
Tnx
Andrea
This is happening because everytime you float an element, its container loses its auto height.
If you want to prevent that from happening, there are somethings you can do:
Set a given height to the container
Ex:
<div class="my-container" style="height: 100px">
<div style="float: left;">
Some very interesting text right here.
</div>
<div style="float: left;">
Don't read this and you'll be doomed.
</div>
</div>
Be aware that if you have set a given height, the div won't resize as the content becomes higher than the container.
Append a div with style="clear: both" right after the floated elements
Ex:
<div class="my-container">
<div style="float: left;">
Some very interesting text right here.
</div>
<div style="float: left;">
Don't read this and you'll be doomed.
</div>
<div style="clear:both"></div>
</div>
Yeah, it works. But only noobs do it like that. It's not elegant and pollutes your code.
Set overflow: hidden to the parent container
<div class="my-container" style="overflow: hidden">
<div style="float: left;">
Some very interesting text right here.
</div>
<div style="float: left;">
Don't read this and you'll be doomed.
</div>
</div>
This one is great, but you are in danger if you have someting positioned absolutely and have to move it outside the parent div, for example. You'll have an unpleasant surprise.
Use the ClearFix Hack.
This is the way I do it: easy to implement and works like a charm. Check this link out: http://www.positioniseverything.net/easyclearing.html;
If you mind about not having valid CSS (like me), you can target IE browsers with a different stylesheet and conditional comments, for example.
Further resources about the subject:
Quirks Mode Site: CSS Clearing
http://www.quirksmode.org/css/clearing.html
Chris Coyier's ClearFix Tutorial
http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/clear-fix/
I see you code
your code is too complicated according to me but any way you can used to this css than your problem is solve
Used to this css
#c{position:relative;}
#c:after {
position: absolute;
content: "";
left: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: -42px;
background: url('http://onofri.org/example/WebTemplate/images/footerRight.jpg') no-repeat -3px 0px;
height: 43px;
}
#footerRight{display:none;}
You have no height set on your container. If you change the height of container to the height of its' contents, which in this case is 596 px then when you take away the clear both property on the footer it won't move one iota.
I think it's because if you float an object, the parent object doesn't resize accordingly.
For example, if you had:
<div class="1px-border">
<div class="float">
<h3>TEST</h3>
</div>
</div>
The border would be completely flat, and not resize to the header. You could fix it by having overflow: auto in the container div.
That said, I could be massively wrong.
I am trying to create a 4 column <div> layout.
Why are the row containers not drawing a border around the respective row?
Also, is this a good approach, as in is my css written well to be fluid and for dynamic resizing of the browser window?
Any suggestions or help would be most appreciated.
Here is my current attempt.
You need to set the overflow to auto when using float. http://jsfiddle.net/gJJHs/
The problem seems to be that you are floating your columns, and when you float things, they take up effectively zero space.
I think the solution is to cancel the float in you "last" class and add a "dummy column" to each row.
This CSS seems to work:
.col
{
float: left;
width: 25%;
}
.last{
clear: left;
}
.row{
border: 1px solid green;
}
Revised HTML (with dummy last column):
<div class="row">
<div class="col">1</div>
<div class="col">2</div>
<div class="col">3</div>
<div class="col">4</div>
<div class="last" />
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col">5</div>
<div class="col">6</div>
<div class="col">7</div>
<div class="col">8</div>
<div class="last" />
</div>
When an element is floated, its parent no longer contains it because the float is removed from the flow. The floated element is out of the natural flow, so all block elements will render as if the floated element is not even there, so a parent container will not fully expand to hold the floated child element.
As such, the border will seem like it is not bordering anything :( Take a look at the following article to get a better idea of how the CSS Float property works:
The Mystery Of The CSS Float Property
As others have said, if you add overflow: auto; to your .row class, it'll take care of the problem. Here's another article that explains why to use overflow.
http://www.quirksmode.org/css/clearing.html
I hope this helps.
Hristo
it's the float left. That takes the divs "out of flow" and it's drawing the border around empty space essentially
Yet another option, in addition to the other answers, is to add overflow: hidden; to your .row.
The reason for the behavior you saw is that float takes the div outside of the normal flow. The div then essentially takes up no space in the document.
This makes sense if you think about the ostensible purpose of floating an image in order to wrap text around it. The next p tag (for example) is positioned as if the floated image wasn't there, i.e. overlapping the image. Then, the browser wraps the text within the 'p' tag around the image. (If the floated image was not "removed from the flow", the p tag would naturally appear below the image—not giving the desired effect.)
Here's how I'd write the code.
HTML:
<div class="row">
<div class="col">1</div>
<div class="col">2</div>
<div class="col">3</div>
<div class="col">4</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col">5</div>
<div class="col">6</div>
<div class="col">7</div>
<div class="last">8</div>
</div>
CSS:
.col
{
float: left;
width: 25%;
}
.row{
border: 1px solid green;
overflow: hidden; /* "overflow: auto;" works just as well instead */
width:100%; /* Helps older versions of IE */
}
Add a "float:none;clear:both" to your .row and you'll see the rows appropriately. But for the fluid behavior and design that you are looking for, you'll want to apply some javascript (like jQuery Equal Height: http://www.jainaewen.com/files/javascript/jquery/equal-height-columns/) to be consistent across browsers without a ton of CSS hacking.
I always seems to get this simple HTML stuff wrong. I am currently trying to add side by side divs in the middle of a page on this test page I made:
http://www.comehike.com/hiking_dev.php
The code I added was something like this:
<div style="width: 460px; float: left; ">
<strong>Test hello</strong>
</div>
<div style="width: 300px; float: right; ">
<strong>Test hello 2</strong>
</div>
I added <strong> tags so you can spot it on the page better.
But do you see there is text that appears there that reads like this "When considering the injury risk of any" - but that text is in the <p> tag below. Why is it appearing there?
Is it better practice to wrap my 2 divs that I am trying to align, within another div?
After your two floating divs, add another empty div...
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
This will cause the two floating divs to push all subsequent content below them. As you have it now, there is 200 pixels of empty space after the first div allowing the other content to simply wrap around it.
Increasing the width of the floating divs may not be desirable for your layout so clear:both; is most typical for this situation.
Surround those two divs in a parent div with overflow set to hidden.
<div style="overflow:hidden;">
<div style="width: 460px; float: left; ">
<strong>Test hello</strong>
</div>
<div style="width: 300px; float: right; ">
<strong>Test hello 2</strong>
</div>
</div>
An alternative (as others have pointed out) is to use a third element:
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
It's debatable as to which is better. Usually, either is just fine. Here's a post about the topic:
Floated Child Elements: overflow:hidden or clear:both?
You'll either need to add a div below your two divs with clear:both; as others have suggested, or you could add clear:both; to the following <p> element.
Because you have an entire page width of 960px. You're combined div widths are 760px (400+300). If you add 200px to the second div you should be fine.
Edit: Because of padding, you can increase either of the divs by 150px and be fine.