I'm trying to build a page that can run at full screen but as it scales down the divs drop and fit the content and allow scrolling. At fullscreen I'd like one big box with three little boxes on the bottom. The content in the big box changes dynamically so the div needs to be able to scale on a lower resolution device. Also, on a lower resolution device I would like the bottom three boxes to stack on top of one another and all be a fixed width to fit all of their contents. My main issue is text spilling out of the big box and being unreadable on smaller screens.
Here is the HTML:
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="content">
</div>
</div>
<div class="footer">
<div class="widget1">
<div class="widget_contents">
</div>
</div>
<div class="widget2">
<div class="widget_contents">
</div>
</div>
<div class="widget3">
<div class="widget_contents">
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
Here is the CSS:
*{box-sizing: border-box;}
html{height: 100%;}
body{height: 100%;}
.container {
height: 80%;
width: 100%;
padding: 1em;
}
.content {
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
background: rgba(150, 50, 50, 1);
}
.footer {
height: 20%;
width: 100%;
padding-right: 1em;
}
.widget1 {
width: 55%;
height: 100%;
padding-left: 1em;
float: left;
}
.widget2 {
width: 25%;
height: 100%;
padding-left: 1em;
float: left;
}
.widget3 {
width: 20%;
height: 100%;
padding-left: 1em;
float: left;
}
.widget_contents {
height: 100%;
background: rgba(55, 150, 55, 1);
}
Here is a jdfiddles of my basic layout: http://jsfiddle.net/kzoqwz9n/
Thanks!
For allow scrolling, you just need to apply 'overflow:auto;' to your block.
For stack bottom blocks you need to use media queries, something like :
#media screen and (max-width: 600px)
{
.widget1,.widget2,.widget3 {
padding-left: 1em;
float:none;
width: auto;
}
}
This exemple will stack your box when the screen is smaller than 600px.
UPDATE :
For the scrolling thing, we need to apply some changes :
.container {
min-height: 80%;
margin: 1em 1em 0 1em;
background: rgba(150, 50, 50, 1);
}
We delete the style for .content and add 'padding-top: 1em;' to .footer
Exemple here : http://jsfiddle.net/kzoqwz9n/3/
It is what you want to do ? (try to add/remove content)
You basically need media queries to apply different rules depending on the viewport size and possibly device orientation and flexboxes for switching between row and column layout
My main issue is text spilling out of the big box and being unreadable on smaller screens.
set the width to width: fit-content; (+ vendor prefixes) to allow the box itself instead of just the text content to spill out of the parent container
Related
I have a sidebar div that takes up 12% of the total screen width (set as a css property). I also have an <h1> block within this div, with a title. When I switch monitors to a smaller one, the sidebar ends up being skinnier, resulting in the title to extend OUT of the sidebar.
How can I format so that the text will always stay within the line? ("MY TI..." is fine for a result)
If the title text is known, you may be able to using viewport units vw for the font-size either in the original style or in the media queries.
You would also need to set the sidebar width to vw too, or a percentage value to make it all responsive.
html, body {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
}
.sidebar {
border-right: solid;
height: 100%;
float: left;
width: 15vw;
}
.sidebar h1 {
font-size: 4vw;
text-align: center;
}
<div class="sidebar">
<h1>MyTitle</h1>
</div>
jsFiddle
Another solution would be using CSS ellipses, replace the overflow text with "...".
html, body {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
}
.sidebar {
border-right: solid;
height: 100%;
width: 15%;
float: left;
}
.sidebar h1 {
white-space: nowrap;
width: 100%;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
}
<div class="sidebar">
<h1>MyTitle MyTitle MyTitle</h1>
</div>
jsFiddle
There is no 100% sure way when it comes to CSS but the title should normally go onto two lines which would be better than what its doing in your screen shots. Post your code if you want someone to look at that.
What you should do though is use media queries to make the sidebar wider when its on a smaller screen:
.sidebar
{
width:12%;
}
#media screen and (max-width: 600px) {
.sidebar
{
width:30%;
}
}
Here is an example
http://codepen.io/nathanfelix/pen/KzZPGy
Also, here you can read more about media queries:
http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_mediaquery.asp
Please try like this:
<div class="sidebar">
<h1>
MY TITLE
</h1>
</div>
.sidebar {
border-right: 1px solid black;
height: 600px;
width: 186px;
}
I have a box with a margin-top (relative to the top of the page) that gets smaller with the browser window (using vw). But the header of the page (fixed and in a different z-index) is restricted with a min-width, so when it reaches the 1000px I need the box margin-top to stop getting smaller and star getting bigger... Like the smaller the windows gets, the bigger the margin-top is...
This is the box... and now i need to create a #media screen and (max-width:1000px) where it says that the height gets bigger relative to the vw.
#box {
position: relative;
float: left;
width: 100%;
height: auto;
min-height: 350px;
margin-top: 5vw;
}
You can do something like this using calc()
Fiddle
header {
background: black;
height: 50px;
width: 100%;
}
main {
background: green;
margin-top: 10vw;
height: 100vh;
}
#media(max-width: 768px) {
main {
margin-top: calc(150px - 10vw);
}
}
<div class="container">
<header></header>
<main></main>
</div>
I want to know if you can let your site always be at the same size so when you view the site on a bigger screen, it just adds more space/background to the page.
(I don't want media queries so that the style changes when the screen gets bigger)
Using CSS you can center your main div (wrapper).
#wrapper {
width: 500px;
margin: 0 auto;
background: green;
}
body {
margin: 0px;
font-family: Arial;
}
#wrapper {
width: auto; /* You can set the width here, but if you want to make the page smaller on smaller devices you use 'auto' here. */
max-width: 500px; /* Set the maximum width of the webpage. */
margin: 0 auto; /* Center the wrapper */
background: green;
color: white;
}
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<h1>Welcome to your webpage.</h1>
<h2>Site content goes here.</h2>
</div>
</body>
I have 2 divs that I'm setting up to be next to each other in the desktop version of my site, and on the mobile / tablet version, I would like the right div to be on top and the left div to be underneath, with both of them centered inside their parent div. I have it set up like this:
<div id="right-top">right & top</div>
<div id="left-top">left & bottom</div>
And my CSS is like this:
#right-top {
position: relative;
float:right;
width: 430px;
height: 300px;
max-width: 100%;
display: block;
background-color: #ddd;
margin: 0px auto;
}
#left-top {
position: relative;
float:right;
width: 430px;
height: 300px;
max-width: 100%;
display: block;
background-color: #666;
margin: 0px auto;
}
They're floated right so that I can have the right div on top in smaller browser windows. How do I get them to be centered on smaller browsers, rather than aligned to the right side?
I would do it using mobile first design
That means defining how it will look first on small devices and progressively adding more rules for bigger screens
<div class="my-div" id="right-top">right & top</div>
<div class="my-div" id="left-top">left & bottom</div>
So we define the common rules (most of the stuff) between the 2 divs to a class (.my-div), the specifics to ids (#right-top, and #left-top)
And set a breakpoint in 860px (430px times 2 for each div), and only then, float the divs to the right.
.my-div{
width: 430px;
height: 300px;
max-width: 100%;
display: block;
margin: 0 auto;
}
#right-top {
background-color: #ddd;
}
#left-top {
background-color: #666;
}
#media only screen and (min-width: 860px) {
.my-div{
float: right;
}
}
You can test it here
You can use #media queries for responsive layout.
For eg:
#media (max-width: 769px){
#right-top,#left-top{
float: none;/*unset the floated div*/
}
}
demo
//sorry for the bad formating, i am on my phone...
When someone asks how to center a page, then the response is like:
margin-left:50%;
left:(-1/2 width);
I used this code on a site with a width of 1000px,so it comes to screens, where this site does not fit.
Now the site gets centered on the smaller screen and gets equaly pushet to left and right.
So lets say, our screen is 600px wide:
200px are left
600px are on screen
200px are right
You can scroll to the right, but the pixels on the left are unreachable...
How can i solve this to control, how much of my site gets dragged to the left in case of smaller screens?
This is especially important for mobile phones...
If you are worried about different screen sizes then I highly suggest using Media Queries but this is also a useful way of setting up centered elements. Just use a % width instead of a set width and followed by margin: 0 auto;
Look at fiddle for visual aid. (If this answer does not suit your needs at all then I'll gladly remove it)
div {
margin: 0 auto;
width: 80%;
height: 500px;
background: mediumSeaGreen;
}
JSFIDDLE
Your best bet (Ignore the CSS it's from my portfolio.
.subMenu {
display: none;
float: none;
width: 100%;
background: rgba(254, 126, 1, 0.5);
border-bottom: 5px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);
font-size: 20px;
padding-left: 60%;
position: relative;
left: 0;
top: 3.85em;
list-style-type: none;
padding: 1.5em 0;
margin: 0;
overflow: hidden;
}
#media only screen and (max-width: 680px) {
.subMenu {
top: 4.9em;
font-size: 10px;
min-height: 100% !important;
padding: 0;
background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
}
}
You can also use jQuery to dynamically find the width.
var width = $('div').width();
$('div').text(width);
You could try using margin: auto
http://jsfiddle.net/56N9w/
As you see there if you make the window too small for the content to fit it will left align by default
Use this:
margin: 0 auto;
width: 400px;
alternative:
margin: 0 auto;
width: 50%;
another alternative:
#outer-div {
margin: 0 auto;
width: 50%;
}
#inner div {
/* insert any CSS you want here */
}
NOTE 1: When using margin: 0 auto, you need to define the width otherwise it won't center.
NOTE 2: You should really put it inside another box, or make the page width 100% (or a width larger than the box).
NOTE 3: You can't center vertically with margin: auto auto. This simply won't work. See below for the solution to this:
Centered box both horizontally and vertically:
Working in jsbin:
http://jsbin.com/OSUViFi/1/
The code (same as the jsbin above):
page.html
<div id="outer-container">
<div id="inner-container">
<div id="centered-box">
</div>
</div>
</div>
style.css
#outer-container {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
display: table;
position:absolute;
overflow: hidden;
}
#inner-container {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
}
#centered-box {
margin: 0 auto;
height: 400px;
width: 400px;
background: #000;
}
Specific for your needs (not including vertical alignment which it looks like you don't need):
jsbin example:
http://jsbin.com/axEZOTo/2
The code (same as the jsbin above):
page.html
<div id="container">
<div id="centered-box">
</div>
</div>
style.css
#container {
width: 1000px;
margin: 0 auto;
height: 100%;
background: #999;
}
#centered-box {
max-width: 70%;
min-width: 200px;
height: 500px;
margin: 0 auto;
background: #000;
}
Here, the smallest it can go is 200px, this number you can change to the smallest amount that you want to allow your box to have.
NOTE:
I finally figured out what you were trying to say in your question, which was poorly worded.
You only used 600px as an example, but you really just want to have it be a fluid layout that changes with screen size.