This question is already on stackoverflow. But the solutions are not working for me. Actually I'm working on an Angular project. I want to align Mode of comparison and the corresponding Dropdown in the middle with respect to each other. Here is the widget that I'm creating. I've clearly marked that part in the image:
Here is my HTML:
Note: pt-label, dls-combobox and dls-option are my custom made angular components.
<table>
<tbody>
<tr class="my-row">
<td class="first-col1">
<div class="comparing-switch1">
<pt-label>Mode of comparison </pt-label>
</div>
</td>
<td class="second-col1">
<div class="comparing-label1">
<dls-combobox placeholder="Time average">
<dls-option>
<pt-label>Time average</pt-label>
</dls-option>
</dls-combobox>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
and here is my CSS:
.my-row {
background: cornflowerblue;
}
.first-col1 {
background: magenta;
width: 50% !important;
}
.second-col1 {
width: 100%;
background: blueviolet;
padding-bottom: 10px;
}
table.stats tbody tr:nth-child(even) {
vertical-align: middle !important;
}
table.stats tbody tr {
vertical-align: middle !important
}
Even If I try to set it through margin and padding then both of them gets shifted even when the class names are different. One more thing I noticed. When I inspect the element table. When I remove vertical-align: baseline from these two places (as marked in the picture below) the my problem is solved:
What is wrong with my code. Please correct me.
Here vertical-align: baseline property is applied to the table. vertical-align: middle !important is applied for tr element.
since table has that property tr itself aligned in baseline. try adding vertical-align: middle for the table
I have some text that is inside a span element and I'd like to left-align it instead of the way it is now which is centered. I tried making a margin to the right and text center with CSS but that didn't work. Can you tell me how to do it? The text that I want to the left is "(Jag arbetade: 4-6 timmar/vecka)" and now it is rendered centered if you look at my fiddle
The code that I'd like to change is
<div id="i4c2" class="artBaseRow">
<div id="i4_tbl_11" class="artWrapper">
<table class="srtbl" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary="">
<caption><b>Vad var det bästa med kursen?</b></caption>
<tbody>
<tr class="srtbl-h1">
<th class="srtbl-qt">
<div>
<br /> <span>(Jag arbetade: 4-6 timmar/vecka)</span>
</div>
</th>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</div>
So that the text "(Jag arbetade..." is aligned to the left alongside the heading. How can I do that?
Where it comes from...
You have put your text inside a table heading <th> element. It's standard browser behaviour to apply font-weight: bold; text-align: center; on <th> in the so-called user-agent style sheet.
... and how to solve it.
You need to specify what you want to override this behaviour, for example like this:
th {
text-align: left;
}
the thing is the span elements has display: inline so its width is exactly the same as the text and like some of its parent has text-align: center, that makes is positioned in the center, so by doing only text-align: left doesn't works so you have to change its to display: block and then text-align: left
to clarify:
span-element{
display: block;
text-align: left;
}
you can do too:
span-element{
display: inline-block;
width: 100%;
text-align: left;
}
Add this css for srtbl-qt class (try put it at the end of CSS file)
.srtbl-qt {
text-align: left;
}
Also I don't know why you need div and break and span elements around that text, but it can be removed (hint: th {padding-top: 10px;})
Add text-align: left; to this class
.reportPage .srtbl .srtbl-h1 th, .reportPage .srtbl .srtbl-h1 td{
text-align: left;
}
I have 3 tables that looks like this:
What I would like to do is have them all 3 line up in a row withou a space between each table(bottom table goes where the red square is). The problem I have is apparent, but I cannot seems to get rid of those gaps inbetween the table wihout using negative margins which I would like to avoid since I heard it's not good practice (browsers might break it). Would it also be possible to align the tables without floating them? I've tried to use a couple of these tricks but none seems to work: http://css-tricks.com/fighting-the-space-between-inline-block-elements/
Here is my css:
my main body is 901px wide so I just changed my width to 300 for each table
.measure_data {
width: 299px;
border: solid 1px;
border-collapse: collapse;
display: inline-block;
}
White space between elements is inevitable when using display: inline-block;. Try this. You need to make sure you "tie" the gaps together, like so:
<div>
<p>1/3</p>
</div><!--
--><div>
<p>1/3</p>
</div><!--
--><div>
<p>1/3</p>
</div>
You should reduce the table with 299 to 290
.measure_data {
width: 290px;
border: solid 1px;
border-collapse: collapse;
display: inline-block;
}
Here click here to see in jsfiddle
Add position to second and third table:
.measure_data {
width: 299px;
border: solid 1px;
border-collapse: collapse;
display: inline-block;
}
.2{
position: absolute;
}
.3{
position: relative;
}
I have a table that I've inserted buttons into the cells of. However, try as I might, I can't get rid of some whitespace that shows up between the top of the cell and the button.
Here's an example in Jsfiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/7Bz36/1/
Where I have a simple table with a button
<table border="1">
<tr>
<td>
<button id="1"></button>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
with some css and attempts to get rid of it:
button {
height: 15px;
width: 15px;
border-radius: 0px;
margin: 0px;
white-space: none;
}
table {
border-collapse: collapse;
}
tr td {
height: 15px;
padding: 0px;
Can anyone figure out how to get rid of it? Thanks!
You are not using any text value for the button, use font-size: 0; or line-height: 0;
Demo (Font Size 0)
Demo 2 (Line Height 0)
Also id="1" is invalid, id name cannot be started with an int
Try this:
button {
height: 15px;
width: 15px;
border-radius: 0px;
display: block;
}
table, td, button {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
This will set margins and paddings of all the elements involved to 0px; and set the button element to display: block; to get rid of some inline element white-space.
jsFiddle
It is not clear what the problem is via your jsfiddle.
Also, none is not a valid property of white-space in your CSS. Do you know what your doing, or are you just adding random styling hoping that it will work?
Anyway, your code is not properly formatted, the CSS ends in </table>, what? Also, your html is not constructed properly here, nor in the jsfiddle.
It doesn't seem you put much research into this question at all, but rather tried randomness and SO.
I'd love to help you, but I can't see the problem. It's not well explained here and it's not shown in the jsfiddle.
Ok, I had a simple layout problem a week or two ago. Namely sections of a page needed a header:
+---------------------------------------------------------+
| Title Button |
+---------------------------------------------------------+
Pretty simple stuff. Thing is table hatred seems to have taken over in the Web world, which I was reminded of when I asked Why use definition lists (DL,DD,DT) tags for HTML forms instead of tables? Now the general topic of tables vs divs/CSS has previously been discussed, for example:
DIV vs Table; and
Tables instead of DIVs.
So this isn't intended to be a general discussion about CSS vs tables for layout. This is simply the solution to one problem. I tried various solutions to the above using CSS including:
Float right for the button or a div containing the button;
Position relative for the button; and
Position relative+absolute.
None of these solutions were satisfactory for different reasons. For example the relative positioning resulted in a z-index issue where my dropdown menu appeared under the content.
So I ended up going back to:
<style type="text/css">
.group-header { background-color: yellow; width: 100%; }
.group-header td { padding: 8px; }
.group-title { text-align: left; font-weight: bold; }
.group-buttons { text-align: right; }
</style>
<table class="group-header">
<tr>
<td class="group-title">Title</td>
<td class="group-buttons"><input type="button" name="Button"></td>
</tr>
</table>
And it works perfectly. It's simple, as backward compatibile as it gets (that'll work probably even on IE5) and it just works. No messing about with positioning or floats.
So can anyone do the equivalent without tables?
The requirements are:
Backwards compatible: to FF2 and IE6;
Reasonably consistent: across different browsers;
Vertically centered: the button and title are of different heights; and
Flexible: allow reasonably precise control over positioning (padding and/or margin) and styling.
On a side note, I came across a couple of interesting articles today:
Why CSS should not be used for layout; and
Tables vs CSS: CSS Trolls begone
EDIT: Let me elaborate on the float issue. This sort of works:
<html>
<head>
<title>Layout</title>
<style type="text/css">
.group-header, .group-content { width: 500px; margin: 0 auto; }
.group-header { border: 1px solid red; background: yellow; overflow: hidden; }
.group-content { border: 1px solid black; background: #DDD; }
.group-title { float: left; padding: 8px; }
.group-buttons { float: right; padding: 8px; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="group-header">
<div class="group-title">This is my title</div>
<div class="group-buttons"><input type="button" value="Collapse"></div>
</div>
<div class="group-content">
<p>And it works perfectly. It's simple, as backward compatibile as it gets (that'll work probably even on IE5) and it just works. No messing about with positioning or floats.</p>
<p>So can anyone do the equivalent without tables that is backwards compatible to at least FF2 and IE6?</p>
<p>On a side note, I came across a couple of interesting articles today:</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Thanks to Ant P for the overflow: hidden part (still don't get why though). Here's where the problem comes in. Say I want the title and button to be vertically centered. This is problematic because the elements are of different height. Compare this to:
<html>
<head>
<title>Layout</title>
<style type="text/css">
.group-header, .group-content { width: 500px; margin: 0 auto; }
.group-header { border: 1px solid red; background: yellow; overflow: hidden; }
.group-content { border: 1px solid black; background: #DDD; }
.group-header td { vertical-align: middle; }
.group-title { padding: 8px; }
.group-buttons { text-align: right; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table class="group-header">
<tr>
<td class="group-title">This is my title</td>
<td class="group-buttons"><input type="button" value="Collapse"></td>
</tr>
</table>
<div class="group-content">
<p>And it works perfectly. It's simple, as backward compatibile as it gets (that'll work probably even on IE5) and it just works. No messing about with positioning or floats.</p>
<p>So can anyone do the equivalent without tables that is backwards compatible to at least FF2 and IE6?</p>
<p>On a side note, I came across a couple of interesting articles today:</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
which works perfectly.
There is nothing wrong with using the tools that are available to you to do the job quickly and correctly.
In this case a table worked perfectly.
I personally would have used a table for this.
I think nested tables should be avoided, things can get messy.
Just float left and right and set to clear both and you're done. No need for tables.
Edit: I know that I got a lot of upvotes for this, and I believed I was right. But there are cases where you simply need to have tables. You can try doing everything with CSS and it will work in modern browsers, but if you wish to support older ones... Not to repeat myself, here the related stack overflow thread and rant on my blog.
Edit2: Since older browsers are not that interesting anymore, I'm using Twitter bootstrap for new projects. It's great for most layout needs and does using CSS.
Float title left, float button right, and (here's the part I never knew until recently) - make the container of them both {overflow:hidden}.
That should avoid the z-index problem, anyway. If it doesn't work, and you really need the IE5 support, go ahead and use the table.
This is kind of a trick question: it looks terribly simple until you get to
Say I want the title and button to be vertically centered.
I want to state for the record that yes, vertical centring is difficult in CSS. When people post, and it seems endless on SO, "can you do X in CSS" the answer is almost always "yes" and their whinging seems unjustified. In this case, yes, that one particular thing is hard.
Someone should just edit the entire question down to "is vertical centring problematic in CSS?".
In pure CSS, a working answer will one day be to just use "display:table-cell". Unfortunately that doesn't work across current A-grade browsers, so for all that you might as well use a table if you just want to achieve the same result anyway. At least you'll be sure it works far enough into the past.
Honestly, just use a table if it's easier. It won't hurt.
If the semantics and accessibility of the table element really matter to you, there is a working draft for making your table non-semantic:
http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/#presentation
I think this requires a special DTD beyond XHTML 1.1, which would just stir up the whole text/html vs application/xml debate, so let's not go there.
So, on to your unresolved CSS problem...
To vertically align two elements on their center: it can be done a few different ways, with some obtuse CSS hackery.
If you can fit within the following constraints, then there is a relatively simple way:
The height of the two elements is fixed.
The height of the container is fixed.
The elements will be narrow enough not to overlap (or can be set to a fixed width).
Then you can use absolute positioning with negative margins:
.group-header { height: 50px; position: relative; }
.group-title, .group-buttons { position: absolute; top: 50%; }
# Assuming the height of .group-title is a known 34px
.group-title { left: 0; margin-top: -17px; }
# Assuming the height of .group-buttons is a known 38px
.group-buttons { right: 0; margin-top: -19px; }
But this is pointless in most situations... If you already know the height of the elements, then you can just use floats and add enough margin to position them as needed.
Here is another method which uses the text baseline to vertically align the two columns as inline blocks. The drawback here is that you need to set fixed widths for the columns to fill out the width from the left edge. Because we need to keep the elements locked to a text baseline, we can't just use float:right for the second column. (Instead, we have to make the first column wide enough to push it over.)
<html>
<head>
<title>Layout</title>
<style type="text/css">
.group-header, .group-content { width: 500px; margin: 0 auto; }
.group-header { border: 1px solid red; background: yellow; }
.valign { display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; }
.group-content { border: 1px solid black; background: #DDD; }
.group-title { padding: 8px; width: 384px; }
.group-buttons { padding: 8px; width: 84px; text-align: right; }
</style>
<!--[if lt IE 8]>
<style type="text/css">
.valign { display: inline; margin-top: -2px; padding-top: 1px; }
</style>
<![endif]-->
</head>
<body>
<div class="group-header">
<div class="valign">
<div class="group-title">This is my title.</div>
</div><!-- avoid whitespace between these! --><div class="valign">
<div class="group-buttons"><input type="button" value="Collapse"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="group-content">
<p>And it works perfectly, but mind the hacks.</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
The HTML: We add .valign wrappers around each column. (Give them a more "semantic" name if it makes you happier.) These need to be kept without whitespace in between or else text spaces will push them apart. (I know it sucks, but that's what you get for being "pure" with the markup and separating it from the presentation layer... Ha!)
The CSS: We use vertical-align:middle to line up the blocks to the text baseline of the group-header element. The different heights of each block will stay vertically centered and push out the height of their container. The widths of the elements need to be calculated to fit the width. Here, they are 400 and 100, minus their horizontal padding.
The IE fixes: Internet Explorer only displays inline-block for natively-inline elements (e.g. span, not div). But, if we give the div hasLayout and then display it inline, it will behave just like inline-block. The margin adjustment is to fix a 1px gap at the top (try adding background colors to the .group-title to see).
I would recommend not using a table in this instance, because that is not tabular data; it's purely presentational to have the button located at the far right. This is what I'd do to duplicate your table structure (change to a different H# to suit where you are in your site's hierarchy):
<style>
.group-header { background: yellow; zoom: 1; padding: 8px; }
.group-header:after { content: "."; display: block; height: 0; clear: both; visibility: hidden; }
/* set width appropriately to allow room for button */
.group-header h3 { float: left; width: 300px; }
/* set line-height or margins to align with h3 baseline or middle */
.group-header input { float: right; }
</style>
<div class="group-header">
<h3>This is my title</h3>
<input type="button" value="Collapse"/>
</div>
If you want true vertical alignment in the middle (ie, if the text wraps the button is still middle-aligned with respect to both lines of text), then you either need to do a table or work something with position: absolute and margins. You can add position: relative to your drop-down menu (or more likely its parent) in order to pull it into the same ordering level as the buttons, allowing you to bump it above them with z-index, if it comes to that.
Note that you don't need width: 100% on the div because it's a block-level element, and zoom: 1 makes the div behave like it has a clearfix in IE (other browsers pick up the actual clearfix). You also don't need all those extraneous classes if you're targeting things a bit more specifically, although you might need a wrapper div or span on the button to make positioning easier.
Do a double float in a div and use the clearfix. http://www.webtoolkit.info/css-clearfix.html Do you have any padding/margin restrictions?
<div class="clearfix">
<div style="float:left">Title</div>
<input type="button" value="Button" style="float:right" />
</div>
<div class="group-header">
<input type="button" name="Button" value="Button" style="float:right" />
<span>Title</span>
</div>
I've chose to use Flexbox, because it made things so much easier.
You basically need to go to the parent of the children you want to align and add display:box (prefixed of course). To make them sit in the sides, use justify-content. Space between is the right thing when you have elements which need to be aligned to the end, like in this case (see link)...
Then the vertical align issue. Because I made the parent of the two elements, you want to align a Flexbox. It's easy now to use align-items: center.
Then I added the styles you wanted before, removed the float from the title and button in the header and added a padding:
.group-header, .group-content {
width: 500px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
.group-header{
border: 1px solid red;
background: yellow;
overflow: hidden;
display: -webkit-box;
display: -moz-box;
display: box;
display: -webkit-flex;
display: -moz-flex;
display: -ms-flexbox;
display: flex;
-webkit-justify-content: space-between;
-moz-justify-content: space-between;
-ms-justify-content: space-between;
-o-justify-content: space-between;
justify-content: space-between;
webkit-align-items: center;
-moz-align-items: center;
-ms-align-items: center;
-o-align-items: center;
align-items: center;
padding: 8px 0;
}
.group-content{
border: 1px solid black;
background: #DDD;
}
.group-title {
padding-left: 8px;
}
.group-buttons {
padding-right: 8px
}
See Demo
I agree that one should really only use tables for tabular data, for the simple reason that tables don't show until they're finished loading (no matter how fast that is; it's slower that the CSS method). I do, however, feel that this is the simplest and most elegant solution:
<html>
<head>
<title>stack header</title>
<style type="text/css">
#stackheader {
background-color: #666;
color: #FFF;
width: 410px;
height: 50px;
}
#title {
color: #FFF;
float: left;
padding: 15px 0 0 15px;
}
#button {
color: #FFF;
float: right;
padding: 15px 15px 0 0;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="stackheader">
<div id="title">Title</div>
<div id="button">Button</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
The button function and any extra detail can be styled from this basic form. Apologies for the bad tags.