I want to create a button/link that is centered in the content area of a webpage. Because it's a button, and not just a link, I'm adding some padding and background colour to it.
The link is centered horizontally, but the padding seems to expand outside the line-height of the parent element, causing it to overlap with previous/next elements. See: http://fths.convoke.info/what-can-i-do/
I tried creating a fiddle, but wasn't seeing the same issue: http://jsfiddle.net/convoke/g9wu6ws9/
So what am I missing? Conversely, is there a better way to center a link like this? I don't like using margin: auto because it requires you specify the width. Ideally the width would be dynamic, so if the text on the button was longer or shorter, it would remain centered.
In this case, the answer I needed came from user #CBroe in the comments of my original question. He suggested using display:inline-block and that worked like a charm.
Still unsure as to why I was getting different results on the fiddle vs the actual website...
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See My Fiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/5BEsZ/
I've discovered something very strange that I haven't seen documented anywhere else... Was wondering if you all had a solution.
You'll notice the negative margin hits a limit at around -212% for image elements. Is there a reason for this? Can you think of a work around?
Why I Need This (what I've tried):
I'm making a fluid layout and I want to display a rating system. I have a sprite sheet of stars (similar to the one in the fiddle) that I want to reuse at various sizes.
Because the size changes I can't use a background image. So I decided to use an image inside a container with a variable width and overflow:hidden. The sprite sheet adjusts to the width of the container and the container's viewable content is determined by a padding-top:20%. This is so it can be fluid with its width (since every star is a box, the total height is 20% the width).
Then I try and position the star image inside the container with margin-top. I tried using position:relative and a top:-X%, but because the container technically has no height this was causing issue on mobile phones (-100% of 0 is 0, etc).
So I assumed negative margin would work, but then discovered this strange issue!
NOTE: Because it affects only the last row I can make it work in my situation by using a padding-bottom instead of top (thereby bumping every star row up 1), but this isn't an adequate solution for me because it just ignores the problem. What if I wanted quarter stars?
I've updated your fiddle. img tags are "inline" elements by default, which impacts the way margin is calculated relative to the containing element. By forcing the image element to be rendered like a block (display: block), you're able to achieve the results you were expecting. A div element is a block by default.
As a side note, you'll want to avoid using inline styles (a different sort of "inline"!) wherever possible. Typically your styles would be included in a stylesheet instead of in a style attribute directly on the element. I included the fix (display: block) in the attribute to match the code style of your html.
I don't know why, but if you float the image the problem goes away.
<img src="http://www.whitepages.com/common/images/sprite_stars.gif?1343868502" id="stars" style="width:100%; float: left;" />
So, the answer to fix your problem: http://jsfiddle.net/5BEsZ/2/
If anyone could explain why this happens?
I use some DIV to create blocks with data inside.
I've set them to "inline-block" because I want the div to adjust his width to the content.
IE8 adjust his width to my content but I have a weird problem.
If you go to this fiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/GvMW8/ and click to the first or second link, you can see that divs are overlapping.
If you go to this fiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/hhpRP/1/ and do the same operation, it works!
The only difference between these two fiddles are the 'id' attribute of the main divs.
I don't understand why I have this problem, but can you tell me how to make it works with the inline-block display AND a div id?
Thanks for your help!
Looks like a little IE8 bug.
Check out http://jsfiddle.net/willemvb/fjqUc/
I added an extra class for the div around bigBlock and made it display: inline-block.
I also shortened your javascript.
This seemed enough to make IE8 listen :)
I know this is a common question and I've already tried the searched methods. Here is the jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/ZfZK9/ and here's my problem
Basically, I've got a main div container. It has an image and some text. I need the image on one side, then the text on the other. I tried putting the img in a div, setting it's height to 100%, and floating it right, but as you can see in the jsfiddle once the text goes below the image it doesn't keep the column formation.
I'm not sure why the display: block and height: 100% aren't doing any good on the left column.
Thanks
Edit: I'm assuming height: 100% doesn't work because that gets rendered and then text gets added later. I'm still trying to find an elegant solution though, and general-purpose.
Another problem, is when I set both divs (of the image and of the text) to float: left, it just displays the image then the text under it
It can be done like this: http://jsfiddle.net/ZfZK9/34/
Just create two div's as columns around both sides, then set both those sides to a specific width, then play around with the padding and margin til you get what you want.
To keep your border around your content, I added a clearfix which will help contain the two floated columns....
http://jsfiddle.net/ZfZK9/34/
Had to edit a few things, took a bit to get it right, but now all should be working. Contains two floated divs, with a browser proof clearfix added to the mix. If you wanted the image, or the sidebar to appear as if it continues to the bottom, read about Faux Columns
You have some css in the html and some in the css so this is hard to follow. What I believe I see is a common mistake where you must consider when you set something to 100% you have to think, 100% of what? It's always the parent of that element. So what is the parent set to? If nothing, there's your problem.
Just remember that if the parent is also set to 100%, the same question will apply.
EDIT: I see the problem now. I misunderstood. What you want to do then is set the width of the right div, the one with the text. Float that right and it should solve the problem.
I use example 3 given in this page:
http://simple-navigation-demo.andischacke.com/
and I have a problem because when I open the main page (for example)
http://simple-navigation-demo.andischacke.com/
I get an empty div on the left instead of the content div filling the whole area.
On the other hand when I open a page from the menu (for example)
http://simple-navigation-demo.andischacke.com/books
Everything is just fine.
Can someone propose a solution? How can I completely remove the div in CSS if it does not contain anything?
There are lots of solutions; it depends on where you want your logic to be. A pure CSS solution might be tricky; it might be easier to do this sort of thing in JS.
That said, try changing #sub_navigation's width property to be a max-width instead. This way, it can still be set to float:left, but when there's no ul element inside it, it can collapse.
You might need to modify the width of your content div after that, but hopefully this gets you on the right track.
I have this and it got an HTML img#logo-image, on some occasions it will not be displayed, display:none.
The problem is that the entire div#menu-title should fit the width of the page.
I tried putting width:100%, but when the img#logo-imag" is displayed it breaks the line being below the img#logo-image.
The width:100% does not work with elements float:left
Just unfloat the menu-title div and remove the width.. it will automatically be 100% of the header then.. and if the image is present it will adjust the ul#menu list to make room for it, which is a natural behaviour
if you want the menu-list to really only take the available width (say for a background color or something then you can add overflow: hidden; to ul#menu - though I don't see a need for that in your example code
here's a simplified version of your Fiddle - hover on the header to make the image disappear and see the ul#menu adjust to suit
Example Fiddle
You have both logo-image and menu-title floating left. Since they arent really in separate divs, they are all part of the same div, they appear next to each other. On top of that, you set the menu-title to be 760, which isn't the width of the page. At least that what it looks like you did. Do not use width 100% because resizing the page will shrink that menu title.
You really just have to play around with the divs, but i would say that separating those two divs would make you be able to stack them on top or below each other.
And in using Chrome's inspect element feature, I don't see a display:none for the image's css. I don't know why that would do that.
I'm really not sure of what you are trying to accomplish since making the div#menu-title width: 100% doesn't leave any room for anything else on the same row.
Why not let them both be inline and let the widths be whatever they need to be?
Anyway, I have a guess at what you want. You want those two elements to behave as being in a table, inside a table row, and each in a table-cell so that the image takes a maximum width, and the div#menu-title taking all of the rest of the place. In that case put them in a table, or use display: table-cell for the image and the div and fiddle around with that.