Divs being pushed down when windows is made smaller - html

Pretty new to html and css and i'm just having the problem described in the title. My nav is pushing down div with the id main.
nav{
width:120px;
float:left;
margin:0px 5px 0px 5px;
#main{
display:inline-block;
padding: 1em;
float:left;
position:relative;
min-width: 900px;
Any help is appreciated, cheers.
edit:
Hi guys, maybe i should explain it better. On the page there is a nav to the left and a div to the right of it. When the windows width is made smaller the div to the right is being pushed below the nav instead of stay where it is and it's content being displayed off the screen.

You have explicitly told your element to behave like that. When you set min-width and a width in pixels, you are telling your elements to stay the same size no matter what happens. Remove min-width and set width to a percentage value like 1% instead of 50px like this:
nav {
width: 50%;
background: red;
height: 50px;
float:left;
}
#main {
display: inline-block;
height:50px;
float:left;
position: relative;
width: 50%;
background: black;
}
body {
margin: 0;
}
<nav></nav>
<div id="main"></div>

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How to stretch div based on body's padding?

I have a problem with styling with CSS.
I can't fit the #main to the screen. I have a menu on the left side and i would like to have the main screen from the right next to the menu.
body {
background-color: lightgray;
padding: 30px 100px 0 100px;
}
nav {
line-height:30px;
width:20%;
float:left;
padding:5px;
}
#main{
position: relative;
width: 80%;
float:left;
padding:10px;
}
Here you are the screenshot how it is looking now:
How should I place "Content of the document" (#main) to be next to the nav?
EDIT: I have placed my code here: http://jsfiddle.net/47tjbnrt/
The problem is caused by your adding padding to the width. width is the width of its content and you set one to 80%, the other to 20%, and then add padding on top of that. Padding is the area around the content and, therefore, the width. That is why your second div drops down.
Either remove the padding or reduce the width of your elements.
body {
background-color: lightgray;
padding: 30px 100px 0 100px;
}
header {
text-align: center;
}
nav {
line-height:30px;
width:20%;
float:left;
padding:5px;
}
#main {
width: 70%;
float:left;
padding:10px;
}
I changed the width to 70%, since you have a lot of padding. (Also removed the position: relative from your #main, do you have anything with position: absolute inside the main section?)
Also changed the width to 70%, since you have a lot of padding.

Can't center div in another div

I'm trying to make a menu bar centered horizontally in the header of my page. For some reason, i can't get the centering to work. I made a little test page roughly displaying the problem: JSFiddle. The inner div has to be 5px away from the bottom, that's whatI use the position: absolute for.
I've tried searching on the web alot, but everything I find gives me the same result, or none at all. Most problems I found were when text-align: center wasn't in the container div, but even with it, it still doesn't work.
I removed two css attributes and it work.
position: absolute;
bottom: 5px;
Check this Fiddle
5px from bottom. Fiddle
This is not a perfect way, but it's still kind of useful. I first think of this idea from this Q&A.
You'll have to make some change to your HTML:
<div id="container">
<div id="wrapper-center"> <!-- added a new DIV layer -->
<div id="inner_container">
TEXT ELEMETNES IN THIS THING!!!!
</div>
</div>
</div>
And the CSS will change to:
#container {
background: black;
width: 100%;
height: 160px;
position: relative;
}
#inner_container {
display: inline-block;
width: auto;
color: white;
background-color: #808080;
padding: 5px;
position: relative;
left:-50%;
}
#wrapper-center {
position:absolute;
left:50%;
bottom:5px;
width:auto;
}
Demo fiddle
The trick is to place the wrapper at the given top-bottom position, and 50% from left (related to parent), and then make the true content 50% to left (related to the wrapper), thus making it center.
But the pitfall is, the wrapper will only be half the parent container's width, and thus the content: in case of narrow screen or long content, it will wrap before it "stretch width enough".
If you want to centre something, you typically provide a width and then make the margins either side half of the total space remaining. So if your inner div is 70% of your outer div you set left and right margins to 15% each. Note that margin:auto will do this for you automatically. Your text will still appear to one side though as it is left-aligned. Fix this with text-align: centre.
PS: you really don't need to use position absolute to centre something like this, in fact it just makes things more difficult and less flexible.
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#container {
background: black;
width: 100%;
height: 160px;
}
#inner_container {
color:red;
height:50px;
width: 70%;
margin:auto;
text-align:center;
}
If you don't want a fixed width on the inner div, you could do something like this
#outer {
width: 100%;
text-align: center;
}
#inner {
display: inline-block;
}
That makes the inner div to an inline element, that can be centered with text-align.
working Ex
this CSS changes will work :
#container {
background: black;
width: 100%;
height: 160px;
line-height: 160px;
text-align: center;
}
#inner_container {
display: inline;
margin: 0 auto;
width: auto;
color: white;
background-color: #808080;
padding: 5px;
bottom: 5px;
}
Try this:
html
<div id="outer"><div id="inner">inner</div></div>
css
#outer {
background: black;
width: 100%;
height: 160px;
line-height: 160px;
text-align: center;
}
#inner{
display: inline;
width: auto;
color: white;
background-color: #808080;
padding: 5px;
bottom: 5px;
}
example jsfiddle
You may set the inline style for the inner div.
HTML:
<div id="container">
<div align="center" id="inner_container" style="text-align: center; position:absolute;color: white;width:100%; bottom:5px;">
<div style="display: inline-block;text-align: center;">TEXT ELEMETNES IN THIS THING!!!!</div>
</div>
</div>
Here is working DEMO

setting up css background margins

I'll start by saying that my css skills are very weak.
Here is the site, and I was trying to add some margins to this background so I can see all the content. I now understand that I am not able to use margins on a background, so what are my options here?
Here is my HTML
<body>
<div id="container">
<nav id="navigation">
<ul>
<li>Homepage</li>
</ul>
</nav>
</div>
</body>
and here is my css
body {
background: url('images/prices.jpg');
min-height: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
#btn {
color: #FAF3BC;
background: #4FB69F url('images/texture.png') no-repeat right bottom;
padding: 15px 30px;
margin: 150px 0px;
border-top: 5px;
border-radius: 25px;
text-decoration: none;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
I am also having issues with the homepage button, I would like some room there as well, but I've tried couple of things like padding and margin and was not able to do it...
I would appreciate any help .... here is the page live, if you like to take a peak http://brewstahs.com/menu.html
I know why your css is not working. The most basic use of CSS is to create a layout, but even though your DOM contains div representing container and footer, the height occupied by each is
equal to the height of its content(because you have not provided any height to the div containers).In short,
margin : 150px 0px does not work because the parent container(nav) does not have that height to provide the margin to it. So provide a height to nav and div and it will work.
Use tools like Firebug to see your layout and see where you're going wrong.
All the best!!
Maybe you should try with background-position attribute:
http://www.w3.org/wiki/CSS/Properties/background-position
What do you want to do?
In case of moving the button, try
margin-top: 50px; for example in the css of btn. This way, the button is moved 50pixels to the bottom. Margin-left moves the button to right, ...
if you are trying to move the button down then you need to first put it in a wrapper
if not try this .
body {
background: url('images/prices.jpg');
min-height: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
#navigation {
position:relative;
display:block;
margin:40px 0px 0px 0px;
padding:0px;
width:auto;
height:auto;
}
#navigation ul {
display:block;
position:relative;
margin:auto;
padding:0px;
}
#navigation ul li {
list-style:none;
}
#btn {
color: #FAF3BC;
background: #4FB69F url('images/texture.png') no-repeat right bottom;
padding: 15px 30px;
margin: 150px 0px;
border-top: 5px;
border-radius: 25px;
text-decoration: none;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
and about your background you can try one thing. Have a looping background texture similar to the one you have right now with background-repeat:repeat; and then put the main background image above it with z-index and centered if required. Just to give you a simple example
body {
background-image:url('images/loop.jpg);
background-repeat:repeat;
}
#backgroundimg {
background-image:url('images/prices.jpg);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
display:block;
position:relative;
width:980px;
height:700px;
margin:auto;
padding:0px;
}
hope this helps :)

float in the center in CSS?

How to center several boxes in CSS? Suppose I have a div "navigation". Now, the navigation margin is auto, that is, it is in the center, how would I add lists(display:inline) inside navigation that will expand navigation on both sides. I haven't set the width property so the width will be dynamically expanding. Its like float :center.
Set margin:auto and width:940px and you are done. You can change width as per your need. But giving some width is compulsory.
Check this fiddle and tell me if it helped you.
http://jsfiddle.net/JNMZ3/4/
You can change padding of the li elements for more space. And then adjust width of the navigation div to keep it in center.
try this
your css replace with
http://jsfiddle.net/JNMZ3/3/
.navigation li{
margin: 3px 6px 3px 6px;
display: inline;
border: 2px solid black;
padding: 2px;
zoom:1;
width:auto;
}
Here's a working one.
Use margin: 0 auto; will get your element centered most of the time. (Quick note: your element must have a declared width for this to work.)
The margin: 0 auto; rule is shorthand for 0 top and bottom margin, and automatic left and right margins. Automatic left and right margins work together to push the element into the center of its container.
The margin: 0 auto; setting doesn't work perfectly in every centering situation, but it works in a whole lot of them.
reference: You Can't Float Center with CSS
HTML
<div class="leftsidebar">a</div>
<div class="rightsidebar">b</div>
<div class="content">c</div>
CSS
.leftsidebar
{
height: 608px;
width: 100px;
background:red;
float:left;
}
.rightsidebar {
background:blue;
height: 608px;
width: 100px;
float:right;
}
.content {
width: auto;
margin:0 auto;
background:yellow;
height:608px;
}

Align 2 span one left and the other right inside a div

Could anybody write the CSS fragment to do this?
<div class="container">
<span class="left">Left</span><span class="right">Right</span>
</div>
Here's the CSS for .container:
.container {
position:absolute;
bottom:0;
margin: 0 5px 5px 5px;
}
Notice the position is absolute because it is "absolute positionated" on its containing element.
I've alredy tried float:left/float:right on the two nested elements but nothing happens.
Set the elements to block, set a width and float them.
.left{
display: block;
float:left;
width: 100px;
}
.right{
display: block;
float:right;
width: 100px;
}
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/LML2e/
float: left and float: right will work perfectly when you set a (relative or absolute) width for your .container div
Demo
.container {
position:absolute;
bottom:0;
margin: 0 5px 5px 5px;
width: 200px; //either absolute width
width: 100%; // or relative width
}
Side note: If you set the .container to width: 100% you will get ugly scroll bars due to the margin. Just use the margin in the .left and .right classes. See here.
You need to set a width in order to use float. If you want a width of 100% you can set .container { width: 100%; } or improve your code into something like:
.container {
position:absolute;
bottom:5px;
left:5px;
right:5px;
}