How to align divs next to each other? - html

Question

I'm trying to set these divs to align like this:
but they end up either overlapping eachother (.title takes full width of container) or underneath eachother. Ideas?
.wrapper{
display: table;
float: left;
width: 1000px;
height: 200px;
}
.pic{
float: left;
width: 100%;
height: 20%;
}
.title{
width: 100%;
height: 20%;
}
.content{
width: 100%;
height: 20%;
}
.footer{
width: 100%;
height: 20%;
}
HTML:
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="pic"><img src="..."></div>
<div class="title"><p>title</p></div>
<div class="content"><p>lorem ipsum</p></div>
<div class="footer"></div>
</div>
JS FIDDLE: http://jsfiddle.net/mmb84836/

Answer 1

As per the Best Practice:
Put Pic in one Box and the other three Boxes on right in one Box and use "float:left or **display:inline-block**for those.
Here is the code for the same:
HTML
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="leftBox">
<div class="pic">pic</div>
</div>
<div class="rightBox">
<div class="title">title</div>
<div class="content">content</div>
<div class="footer">footer</div>
</div>
</div>
CSS
div {
border:1px solid #000;
}
.wrapper {
display: block; /*Default Property - You Can Remove Also*/
width: 1000px;
height: 200px;
}
.leftBox {
float:left;
width :20%;
height:100%
}
.rightBox {
width :79.5%;
float:left;
height:100%
}
.pic {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
.title {
width: 100%;
height: 20%;
}
.content {
width: 100%;
height: 20%;
}
.footer {
width: 100%;
height: 20%;
}
Here is the Working Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/7xLyc3q1/

Answer 2

You've got a lot of answers here, but none of them explain what is actually happening here. When using float, there's something important you need to understand: floated elements are lifted out of the box model and have effectively zero width and height as far as other elements are concerned. There is a workaround for this: by specifying overflow:hidden in the parent element, floated elements will no longer "collapse".
Here's an example that demonstrates this. Notice that the title, content, and footer have a width:100%, and they're only filling the space that is remaining for them -- this is probably what you'd expect to happen. Notice also that there was no need to float them to the right... they take the space that's left.

Answer 3

Try adding float: right to .title, .content, and .footer.
Also it may be worth considering using Foundation or Twitter Bootstrap. Both have grid systems so this would guarantee the divs would resize to fit any size screen.

Answer 4

<div class="wrap">
<div class="pic">pic</div>
<div class="other">oth1</div>
<div class="other">oth2</div>
<div class="other">oth3</div>
</div>
.wrap { width:100; height:200px; }
.pic { float:left; width:29%; height:100%; margin-right:1%; background-color:red; }
.other { float:left; width:70%; height:32%; margin-bottom:0.5%; background-color:green; }
and jsfiddle http://jsfiddle.net/t85kz39a/

Answer 5

Here is one way of doing it if you can specify a width for the image. I assumed that the image would be 200px wide in this demo.
Try the following CSS:
.wrapper{
width: 600px;
height: 200px;
padding-left: 200px;
border: 1px dashed gray;
}
.pic{
float: left;
width: 190px;
margin-left: -200px;
border: 1px dashed blue;
}
.pic img {
display: block;
}
.title{
width: auto;
height: 20%;
border: 1px dotted blue;
}
.content{
width: auto;
height: 20%;
border: 1px dotted blue;
}
.footer{
width: auto;
height: 20%;
border: 1px dotted blue;
}
The trick is to open up a space to place the image. Add a 200px wide left padding to
the .wrapper.
The padding will force .title, .content and .footer to align 200px from the edge
of the wrapper.
For .pic, set the width to 200px (or smaller) and set the left margin to -200px to move
it into the padding area.
Finally, set the correct width for .wrapper, 600px. The overall width of .wrapper
will compute to 800px (600px width + 200px left padding - -200px left margin from the
float).
See demo: http://jsfiddle.net/audetwebdesign/mgg1stmc/
The main benefit of this approach is that you don't need to add any other wrapping
elements. (If you use floats, the extra wrappers are necessary.)

Answer 6

There's a much simpler css-only way without changing your HTML structure:
Demo http://jsfiddle.net/bfhng3a9/
All you need:
.wrapper {
overflow:auto;
text-align:center;
}
.pic {
float: left;
width:20%;
}
.title, .content, .footer {
width:80%;
float:right;
clear: right;
}

Answer 7

You can use this code and it is working according to your design.
Live Working Demo
HTML Code:
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="pic"><img src="..."/></div>
<div class="title"><p>Title</p></div>
<div class="content"><p>Content</p></div>
<div class="footer"><p>Footer</p></div>
</div>
CSS Code:
.wrapper{
position: relative;
float: left;
width: 1000px;
height: 200px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
}
.pic{
float: left;
width: 300px;
height: 200px;
background-color: red;
position: relative;
}
.title{
width: 650px;
height: 60px;
background-color: green;
position: relative;
left: 350px;
top:-16px;
}
.content{
width: 650px;
height: 60px;
background-color: blue;
position: relative;
left: 350px;
top: -22px;
}
.footer{
width: 650px;
height: 60px;
background-color: gold;
position: relative;
left: 350px;
top: -28px;
}
Result: