I'm trying to use overflow:hidden on a div element so that when I resize it the text it contains doesn't overlap other elements, but when I do it my :after element dissapears too.
Here's a couple images:
That happens because the pseudo-element is positioned outside the left edge of the div element, not inside.
See if you can move the pseudo-element to a different element (preferably a parent) where it won't be affected by the overflow setting on your div. If no suitable element exists, you may have to add a wrapper to the div and put the pseudo-element there.
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I am trying to show a hidden Div on click event using JS. This Div contains UL which sometimes happens to be of height more than the parent Div. In such cases, parent Div scroll appears.
What I want is to show this list inside a child Div, on top of parent Div. This way the height of list will not affect the UI of page.
Here's the image of what's happening :
Note: Blue border represents the parent Div & list with grey background is inside a child Div.
And I have already tried applying position:relative;z-index:9999;
Make sure to give the parent a zindex (lower) too. See Z-index does not work in ie fir more ideas.
Only using CSS2 i want to change background color of parent on mouse over of its child element can any body help me out. "I'am using div as parent and span as child on mouse over of child span i want to make parent div background color change"
well.... not really but you can make it look like. selectors always go the direction from parent to child. but you can try something using position: absolute of a background-simulating element inside the child element
http://jsfiddle.net/Kq4JJ/
edit note: this highly depends on the rest of your css! no element between the parent that should have the background and the hovering child (including itself) must have position, no matter if relative or absolute. otherwise the background will only cover that element.
What I'm trying to do is literally as the question says, float a span outside of a table, but keeping the span tag within it (for per row reuse purposes).
My understanding was that I needed to use something like overflow: visible;, but this does not seem to be having the desired effect (it's currently everywhere in the fiddle below as I was messing with testing it, but I think if it was working, I'd only need it in the inner div (the one using divStyle2)?
http://jsfiddle.net/uVQHr/
You simply need to add position: relative to the span's parent <td>.
Here's an updated Fiddle.
The problem is not to do with overflow - you were positioning the <span> outside the viewport. If you had inspected the element using your dev tools you would've seen it positioned off the left edge of the screen. You can remove all the overflow: visible properties now too.
position: absolute positions the element relative to the closest parent element with a position attribute that's something other than static (default). Your code was positioning the span relative to the <body> as no element with a position was found.
When I remove the display:block from a p inside a div, it ignores the top-margin or it's own hight or something like that. It snuggles up right next to the element above it. Does anyone know why?
The div is floated, the element above is not.
Inline elements simply don't take vertical margins or height into account. Block elements do.
Edit:
In response to comments, it looks like there are two issues at play here.
You have two elements with id='generals'. Change this to class='generals'.
Add overflow: hidden to your generals style. All of the elements inside it are floated, and so don't apply to the height of the element. Adding overflow: hidden changes how the element is displayed, clearing all the floats inside it.
I am using firebug to debug, one useful feature of firebug is when I click the element in HTML, firebug will show highlight on the actual browser window so that I know which part is currently selected.
But I noticed, with some css, below code is interesting:
<div>
<div>
</div>
</div>
The parent divs highlight area didn't cover the child div's highlight area. In my opinion, the child divs area should be a subset of parent's, is it right? In which cases that that is not true?
There are some cases:
If the child uses position: relative; top: 200px and move away from the parent.
If the child does something similar using a negative margin. (similar to 1)
If the child is a float, and there is no clearing or some kind of clearfix, such as the newest method of making the parent overflow: auto, then the parent will not enclose the floated child.
It is mostly likely because the child divs are floated. In this case you need to use a clearfix hack, or add an additional div into the container like so:
<div style="clear: both"></div>
It depends upon the style being applied. Generally what you are saying holds good. But positioning of a child element can be made independent of the parent.
You may please show the css to get clear idea.
If the inner element is floating or positioned absolutely, it won't affect the size of the parent.
If the inner element is floating you can change the overflow setting of the outer element to make it contain the child. You can specify overflow:hidden; for the parent element, but no size, which has the side effect that it will be sized to contain it's children.