Given the following HTML:
<div id="container">
<!-- Other elements here -->
<div id="copyright">
Copyright Foo web designs
</div>
</div>
I would like #copyright to stick to the bottom of #container. Can I achieve this without using absolute positioning?
Likely not.
Assign position:relative to #container, and then position:absolute; bottom:0; to #copyright.
#container {
position: relative;
}
#copyright {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
}
<div id="container">
<!-- Other elements here -->
<div id="copyright">
Copyright Foo web designs
</div>
</div>
Actually, the accepted answer by #User will only work if the window is tall and the content is short. But if the content is tall and the window is short, it will put the copyright info over the page content, and then scrolling down to see the content will leave you with a floating copyright notice. That makes this solution useless for most pages (like this page, actually).
The most common way of doing this is the "CSS sticky footer" approach demonstrated, or a slightly slimmer variation. This approach works great -- IF you have a fixed height footer.
If you need a variable height footer that will appear at the bottom of the window if the content is too short, and at the bottom of the content if the window is too short, what do you do?
Swallow your pride and use a table.
For example:
* {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
#container {
height: 100%;
border-collapse: collapse;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<table id="container">
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<div id="main">Lorem ipsum, etc.</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="bottom">
<div id="footer">Copyright some evil company...</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Try it out. This will work for any window size, for any amount of content, for any size footer, on every browser... even IE6.
If you're cringing at the thought of using a table for layout, take a second to ask yourself why. CSS was supposed to make our lives easier -- and it has, overall -- but the fact is that even after all these years, it's still a broken, counter-intuitive mess. It can't solve every problem. It's incomplete.
Tables aren't cool, but at least for now, they are sometimes the best way to solve a design problem.
The flexbox approach!
In supported browsers, you can use the following:
Example Here
.parent {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
.child {
margin-top: auto;
}
.parent {
height: 100px;
border: 5px solid #000;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
.child {
height: 40px;
width: 100%;
background: #f00;
margin-top: auto;
}
<div class="parent">
<div class="child">Align to the bottom</div>
</div>
The solution above is probably more flexible, however, here is an alternative solution:
Example Here
.parent {
display: flex;
}
.child {
align-self: flex-end;
}
.parent {
height: 100px;
border: 5px solid #000;
display: flex;
}
.child {
height: 40px;
width: 100%;
background: #f00;
align-self: flex-end;
}
<div class="parent">
<div class="child">Align to the bottom</div>
</div>
As a side note, you may want to add vendor prefixes for additional support.
Yes you can do this without absolute positioning and without using tables (which screw with markup and such).
DEMO
This is tested to work on IE>7, chrome, FF & is a really easy thing to add to your existing layout.
<div id="container">
Some content you don't want affected by the "bottom floating" div
<div>supports not just text</div>
<div class="foot">
Some other content you want kept to the bottom
<div>this is in a div</div>
</div>
</div>
#container {
height:100%;
border-collapse:collapse;
display : table;
}
.foot {
display : table-row;
vertical-align : bottom;
height : 1px;
}
It effectively does what float:bottom would, even accounting for the issue pointed out in #Rick Reilly's answer!
Pure CSS, without absolute positioning, without fixing any height, cross-browser (IE9+)
check out that Working Fiddle
Because normal flow is 'top-to-bottom' we can't simply ask the #copyright div to stick to the bottom of his parent without absolutely positioning of some sort, But if we wanted the #copyright div to stick to the top of his parent, it will be very simple - because this is the normal flow way.
So we will use this in our advantage.
we will change the order of the divs in the HTML, now the #copyright div is at the top, and the content follow it right away.
we also make the content div stretch all the way (using pseudo elements and clearing techniques)
now it's just a matter of inverting that order back in the view. that can be easily done with CSS transform.
We rotate the container by 180deg, and now: up-is-down. (and we inverse back the content to look normal again)
If we want to have a scroolbar within the content area, we need to apply a little bit more of CSS magic. as can be showed Here [in that example, the content is below a header - but its the same idea]
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
html,
body,
#Container {
height: 100%;
color: white;
}
#Container:before {
content: '';
height: 100%;
float: left;
}
#Copyright {
background-color: green;
}
#Stretch {
background-color: blue;
}
#Stretch:after {
content: '';
display: block;
clear: both;
}
#Container,
#Container>div {
-moz-transform: rotateX(180deg);
-ms-transform: rotateX(180deg);
-o-transform: rotate(180deg);
-webkit-transform: rotateX(180deg);
transform: rotateX(180deg);
}
<div id="Container">
<div id="Copyright">
Copyright Foo web designs
</div>
<div id="Stretch">
<!-- Other elements here -->
<div>Element 1</div>
<div>Element 2</div>
</div>
</div>
CSS Grid
Since the usage of CSS Grid is increasing, I would like to suggest align-self to the element that is inside a grid container.
align-self can contain any of the values: end, self-end, flex-end for the following example.
#parent {
display: grid;
}
#child1 {
align-self: end;
}
/* Extra Styling for Snippet */
#parent {
height: 150px;
background: #5548B0;
color: #fff;
padding: 10px;
font-family: sans-serif;
}
#child1 {
height: 50px;
width: 50px;
background: #6A67CE;
text-align: center;
vertical-align: middle;
line-height: 50px;
}
<div id="parent">
<!-- Other elements here -->
<div id="child1">
1
</div>
</div>
Create another container div for the elements above #copyright. Just above copyright add a new div:
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
It will force the footer to be under everything else, just like in the case of using relative positioning (bottom:0px;).
Try this;
<div id="container">
<div style="height: 100%; border:1px solid #ff0000;">
<!-- Other elements here -->
</div>
</div>
<div id="copyright" style="position:relative;border:1px solid #00ff00;top:-25px">
Copyright Foo web designs
</div>
While none of the answers provided here seemed to apply or work in my particular case, I came across this article which provides this neat solution :
#container {
display: table;
}
#copyright {
display: table-footer-group;
}
I find it very useful for applying responsive design for mobile display without having to reorder all the html code of a website, setting body itself as a table.
Note that only the first table-footer-group or table-header-group will be rendered as such : if there are more than one, the others will be rendered as table-row-group.
You can indeed align the box to the bottom without using position:absolute if you know the height of the #container using the text alignment feature of inline-block elements.
Here you can see it in action.
This is the code:
#container {
/* So the #container most have a fixed height */
height: 300px;
line-height: 300px;
background:Red;
}
#container > * {
/* Restore Line height to Normal */
line-height: 1.2em;
}
#copyright {
display:inline-block;
vertical-align:bottom;
width:100%; /* Let it be a block */
background:green;
}
Using the translateY and top property
Just set element child to position: relative and than move it top: 100% (that's the 100% height of the parent) and stick to bottom of parent by transform: translateY(-100%) (that's -100% of the height of the child).
BenefitS
you do not take the element from the page flow
it is dynamic
But still just workaround :(
.copyright{
position: relative;
top: 100%;
transform: translateY(-100%);
}
Don't forget prefixes for the older browser.
CodePen link here.
html, body {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
.overlay {
min-height: 100%;
position: relative;
}
.container {
width: 900px;
position: relative;
padding-bottom: 50px;
}
.height {
width: 900px;
height: 50px;
}
.footer {
width: 900px;
height: 50px;
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
}
<div class="overlay">
<div class="container">
<div class="height">
content
</div>
</div>
<div class="footer">
footer
</div>
</div>
If you want it to "stick" to the bottom, regardless of the height of container, then absolute positioning is the way to go. Of course, if the copyright element is the last in the container it'll always be at the bottom anyway.
Can you expand on your question? Explain exactly what you're trying to do (and why you don't want to use absolute positioning)?
If you do not know the height of child block:
#parent {
background:green;
width:200px;
height:200px;
display:table-cell;
vertical-align:bottom;
}
.child {
background:red;
vertical-align:bottom;
}
<div id="parent">
<div class="child">child
</div>
</div>
http://jsbin.com/ULUXIFon/3/edit
If you know the height of the child block add the child block then add padding-top/margin-top:
#parent {
background:green;
width:200px;
height:130px;
padding-top:70px;
}
.child {
background:red;
vertical-align:
bottom;
height:130px;
}
<div id="parent">
<div class="child">child
</div>
</div>
You can use grid by assigning the available space to the content at the top:
#container {
display: grid;
grid-template-rows: 1fr auto;
height: 10rem; /* or 100% or anything */
}
<div id="container">
This is random content.
<div id="copyright">
Copyright Foo web designs
</div>
</div>
Also, if there's stipulations with using position:absolute; or position:relative;, you can always try padding parent div or putting a margin-top:x;. Not a very good method in most cases, but it may come in handy in some cases.
Solution for this specific scenario:
Place inner at the bottom of parent . The height of the parent is set by the height of its "tallest" sibling
The set up:
I have a row with multiple <div class="container">
These <div class="container"> are next to each other inside another <div class="supercontainer">
Each <div class="container"> has 3 inner divs on top of each other: <div class="title">, <div class="content">, <div class="footer">
The desired result:
All <div class="container"> have the same height. The height is not defined in px, it will be the height of the "tallest" among them.
<div class="title"> should be at the top of <div class="container">
<div class="content"> should be placed below <div class="title">
<div class="footer"> should be placed at the bottom of <div class="container"> without overlapping with the previous content
This is the current state: https://codepen.io/xavier-atero/pen/ExvWQww
.supercontainer {
border: solid 1px black;
display: flex;
}
.container, .other-container {
position: relative;
border: solid 1px red;
width: 200px;
margin: 10px;
}
.title {
margin: 10px;
border: solid 1px blue;
}
.content {
margin: 10px;
border: solid 1px cyan;
}
.footer {
margin: 10px;
background: lime;
}
<body>
<div class="supercontainer">
<div class="container">
<div class="title">
This part represents the title and it is placed on top
</div>
<div class="content">
This one represents the body and it is placed below the title
</div>
<div class="footer">
And this one is the footer. It should always be at the bottom of the container
</div>
</div>
<div class="other-container">
<div class="title">
This part represents the title and it is placed on top.
</div>
<div class="content">
This one represents the body and it is placed below the title. This one is longer than the first one to stretch the parent div. Since it is longer, the footers of the two containers are not alinged.
</div>
<div class="footer">
And this one is the footer. It should always be at the bottom of the container
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
__________ Solution with FLEXBOX __________
This is the outcome: https://codepen.io/xavier-atero/pen/MWvpBMz
.supercontainer {
border: solid 1px black;
display: flex;
}
.container, .other-container {
position: relative;
border: solid 1px red;
width: 200px;
margin: 10px;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
.title {
margin: 10px;
border: solid 1px blue;
}
.content {
margin: 10px;
border: solid 1px cyan;
}
.footer {
margin: 10px;
background: lime;
margin-top: auto;
border: solid 1px fuchsia;
}
<body>
<div class="supercontainer">
<div class="container">
<div class="title">
This part represents the title and it is placed on top
</div>
<div class="content">
This one represents the body and it is placed below the title
</div>
<div class="footer">
And this one is the footer. It should always be at the bottom of the container
</div>
</div>
<div class="other-container">
<div class="title">
This part represents the title and it is placed on top.
</div>
<div class="content">
This one represents the body and it is placed below the title. This one is longer than the first one to stretch the parent div. Since it is longer, the footers of the two containers are not alinged.
</div>
<div class="footer">
And this one is the footer. It should always be at the bottom of the container
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
__________ Solution with TABLE-ROW __________
This is the outcome: https://codepen.io/xavier-atero/pen/rNzyKJm
.supercontainer {
border: solid 1px black;
display: flex;
}
.container, .other-container {
position: relative;
border: solid 1px red;
width: 200px;
margin: 10px;
border-collapse:collapse;
display : table;
}
.title {
margin: 10px;
border: solid 1px blue;
}
.content {
margin: 10px;
border: solid 1px cyan;
}
.footer {
margin: 10px;
background: lime;
border: solid 1px fuchsia;
display: table-row;
vertical-align: bottom;
height: 1px;
}
<body>
<div class="supercontainer">
<div class="container">
<div class="title">
This part represents the title and it is placed on top
</div>
<div class="content">
This one represents the body and it is placed below the title
</div>
<div class="footer">
And this one is the footer. It should always be at the bottom of the container
</div>
</div>
<div class="other-container">
<div class="title">
This part represents the title and it is placed on top.
</div>
<div class="content">
This one represents the body and it is placed below the title. This one is longer than the first one to stretch the parent div. Since it is longer, the footers of the two containers are not alinged.
</div>
<div class="footer">
And this one is the footer. It should always be at the bottom of the container
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
#container{width:100%; float:left; position:relative;}
#copyright{position:absolute; bottom:0px; left:0px; background:#F00; width:100%;}
#container{background:gray; height:100px;}
<div id="container">
<!-- Other elements here -->
<div id="copyright">
Copyright Foo web designs
</div>
</div>
<div id="container">
<!-- Other elements here -->
<div id="copyright">
Copyright Foo web designs
</div>
</div>
Don't wanna use "position:absolute" for sticky footer at bottom. Then you can do this way:
html,
body {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
}
.wrapper {
min-height: 100%;
/* Equal to height of footer */
/* But also accounting for potential margin-bottom of last child */
margin-bottom: -50px;
}
.footer{
background: #000;
text-align: center;
color: #fff;
}
.footer,
.push {
height: 50px;
}
<html>
<body>
<!--HTML Code-->
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="content">content</div>
<div class="push"></div>
</div>
<footer class="footer">test</footer>
</body>
</html>
Here is an approach targeted at making an element with a known height and width (at least approximately) float to the right and stay at the bottom, while behaving as an inline element to the other elements. It is focused at the bottom-right because you can place it easily in any other corner through other methods.
I needed to make a navigation bar which would have the actual links at the bottom right, and random sibling elements, while ensuring that the bar itself stretched properly, without disrupting the layout. I used a "shadow" element to occupy the navigation bar's links' space and added it at the end of the container's child nodes.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<div id="container">
<!-- Other elements here -->
<div id="copyright">
Copyright Foo web designs
</div>
<span id="copyright-s">filler</span>
</div>
<style>
#copyright {
display:inline-block;
position:absolute;
bottom:0;
right:0;
}
#copyright-s {
float:right;
visibility:hidden;
width:20em; /* ~ #copyright.style.width */
height:3em; /* ~ #copyright.style.height */
}
</style>
Maybe this helps someone: You can always place the div outside the other div and then push it upwards using negative margin:
<div id="container" style="background-color: #ccc; padding-bottom: 30px;">
Hello!
</div>
<div id="copyright" style="margin-top: -20px;">
Copyright Foo web designs
</div>
Just because this hasn't been mentioned at all, what usually works well in situations like yours:
Placing the copyright-div after the container-div
You would only have to format the copyright-div in a similar way to the other container (same overall width, centering, etc.), and all is fine.
CSS:
#container, #copyright {
width: 1000px;
margin:0 auto;
}
HTML:
<div id="container">
<!-- Other elements here -->
</div>
<div id="copyright">
Copyright Foo web designs
</div>
The only time this might not be ideal is when your container-div is declared with height:100%, and the user would need to scroll down to see the copyright. But even still you could work around (e.g. margin-top:-20px - when the height of your copyright element is 20px).
No absolute positioning
No table layout
No crazy css, that looks different in every other browser (well IE at least, you know)
Simple and clear formatting
Aside: I know the OP asked for a solution that "... sticks to the bottom of the 'container' div ...", and not something under it, but come on, people are looking for good solutions here, and this is one!
There is nothing called float:bottom in CSS. The best way is using positioning in such cases:
position:absolute;
bottom:0;
For those only have one child in the container, you can use the table-cell and vertical-align approach which worked reliably for positioning a single div at the bottom of its parent.
Note that using table-footer-group as other answers mentioned will break the height calculation of parent table.
#container {
display: table;
width: 100%;
height: 200px;
}
#item {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: bottom;
}
<div id="container">
<div id="item">Single bottom item</div>
</div>
According: w3schools.com
An element with position: absolute; is positioned relative to the
nearest positioned ancestor (instead of positioned relative to the
viewport, like fixed).
So you need to position the parent element with something either relative or absolute, etc and position the desired element to absolute and latter set bottom to 0.
It is my fault, I am trying to re-ask the question.
I have some code like this:
<style>
div {
float: left; width: 150px; padding: 10px;
margin: 10px; color: #fff;
}
</style>
<div style="background: #c33">
a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a
</div>
<div style="background: #3c3;">
b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>
b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b
</div>
<div style="background: #33c;">
c<br>c<br>c<br>c<br>c<br>c<br>c
</div>
<div style="background: #399;">
d<br>d<br>d<br>d<br>d<br>d<br>d<br>d<br>d<br>d<br>
</div>
<div style="background: #939;">
e<br>e
</div>
<div style="background: #993;">
f<br>f<br>f<br>f<br>f
</div>
<!--
... and so on ...
-->
when my visitor's screen has enough width, it is works fine like this.
when the screen become smaller, it still works fine at beginning.
but good time doesn't last long, when continually shrink screen size, it displayed like this.
some space appeared between c(the blue one) and e(the purple one).
then a(the red one) and f(the yellow one).
when shrink to 2 columns, a c and e are totally separated.
So, my question is, every my block have certain(fixed) width, uncertain(fluid) height, there is no max-width of this "block area" or say "the parent node of these blocks" or container whatever.
Can I just remove these unnecessary spaces using pure css way?
Hope this time I explained clearly, and thank you for reading my post.
You might try to left float only two, and float right the other:
.aaa,
.bbb,
.ccc {
width: 200px;
padding: 10px;
margin: 20px;
color: #fff;
}
.bbb {
float: right;
}
.aaa,
.ccc {
float: left;
}
<div class="aaa" style="background: #933">
a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a
</div>
<div class="bbb" style="background: #393">
b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br> b
<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>bbr>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b
</div>
<div class="ccc" style="background: #339">
c<br>c<br>c<br>c<br>c<br>c
</div>
Grid, flex... and even simply using floats and clears:
<style>
div {
width: 200px; padding: 10px;
margin: 20px; color: #fff;
}
</style>
<div style="background: #933; float: left;">
a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a
</div>
<div style="background: #393; float:right;">
b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>
b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b
</div>
<div style="background: #339; clear:left;">
c<br>c<br>c<br>c<br>c<br>c
</div>
To some extent you can do that, if you use left AND right floats as shown below and put a wrapper around it to let the right-floated elements not go too far right:
div {
width: 200px;
padding: 10px;
margin: 20px;
color: #fff;
}
.a {
float: left;
}
.b {
float: right;
}
.wrapper {
width: 520px;)
<div class="wrapper">
<div style="background: #933" class="a">
a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a
</div>
<div style="background: #393" class="b">
b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br> b
<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>bbr>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b
</div>
<div style="background: #339" class="a">
c<br>c<br>c<br>c<br>c<br>c
</div>
</div>
Like others have said, there are plenty ways of doing it, but I'd use flexbox.
Just wrap the two boxes on the left in a container div, and use display:flex on that container, and set the flex-direction property to column and they should stack on top of one another.
Here's a great website to pick up the basics - http://flexboxfroggy.com/
Oddly enough, the closest you could get is using damn CSS columns..
Yeah, that's right. I just said "CSS Columns"
Declaring an auto column layout using your divs width as column width, and making sure no div will wrap into multiple columns with break-inside: avoid; you can get pretty close.
body {
columns: 150px;
column-gap: 2em;
}
div {
break-inside: avoid;
}
https://jsfiddle.net/p0yLs5sh/1/
And yes, I know. I just said columns. Thought that would never be an answer.
How i can center div elements horizontally, so when i change the width of the browser, the last div go down with css?
So:
---||||-||||-||||---
--------||||--------
When i write:
<div style="float: left; position: relative; left: 50%;">
<div style="float: left; position: relative; left: -50%;">
<div style="width:315px; height:340px; float: left; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Text</div>
<div style="width:315px; height:340px; float: left; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Text</div>
...
</div>
</div>
Then after a element go down, all div elements go to the left side.
I would recommend using display: inline-block on the elements and then using text-align: center on the container to handle the centering you want:
I cleaned up your HTML but here is the basic HTML formatting with a container class and multiple (as many as you want) block class DIVs:
<div class="container">
<div class="block">Text</div>
<div class="block">Text</div>
<div class="block">Text</div>
</div>
The CSS modifies the display settings of the blocks and the text-alignment of the container:
div.block {
display: inline-block; /* this changes the elements to behave more like inline elements (think <span>s) */
width: 315px;
margin: 10px 0;
height: 340px;
}
div.container {
width: 100%;
text-align: center; /* this is the magic that centers the elements */
}
I put together a small demo that should help demonstrate this method: JSFIDDLE
Be Aware: a small 'quirk' exists with the display: inline-block CSS. it causes a small amount of space to occur between the elements. This can be removed multiple ways, my preferred methods being either using comments or wrapping the closing tags of the DIVs. (the issue is caused by the return/spaces between the elements in the HTML):
<div class="container">
<div class="block">Text</div><!--
--><div class="block">Text</div><!--
--><div class="block">Text</div>
</div>
<div class="container">
<div class="block">Text</div
><div class="block">Text</div
><div class="block">Text</div>
</div>
reference for the quirk behavior
Create a container <div> that is 100% of a given area. Then set each <div>'s width inside the container to be a % and float: left;. They'll stack next to each other until they do not fit and will break to the next line.
.container {
width: 100%;
}
.three {
width: 33%;
min-width: 225px;
float: left;
border: 1px solid black;
}
<div class="container">
<div class="three">
<p>Something</p>
</div>
<div class="three">
<p>Something</p>
</div>
<div class="three">
<p>Something</p>
</div>
</div>
Run the snippet.
You could use media queries to write different css code for different sizes:
Media Queries
I have placed 3 divs next to each other using the block-inline property.
When I add text inside the div that exceeds the divs width, it will displace surrounding divs by shifting them down slightly.
<div class="explained_container">
<div class="explained_c-1">Why does text in this div displace the other divs</div>
<div class="explained_c-2">Div 2</div>
<div class="explained_c-3">Div 3</div>
</div>
Here is a fiddle I created to present the problem.
http://jsfiddle.net/32E8m/
Add float:left to these classes .explained_c-1, .explained_c-2, .explained_c-3
Missing float: left.
.explained_c-1, .explained_c-2, .explained_c-3 {
display: inline-block;
width: 33.3%;
height: 160px;
margin-right: -4px;
float:left;
}
See http://jsfiddle.net/32E8m/3/
I have added float:left; to all 3 div elements.
now you can add as many text as you want.
<div class="explained_container">
<div class="explained_c-1">Now you can have as many text as you want</div>
<div class="explained_c-2">Div 2</div>
<div class="explained_c-3">Div 3</div>
</div>
.explained_container{
width: 604px;
}
.explained_c-1, .explained_c-2, .explained_c-3 {
display: inline-block;
width: 33.3%;
height: 160px;
margin-right: -4px;
float: left;
}
.explained_c-1 {
background: #bbb;
}
.explained_c-2 {
background: #ccc;
}
.explained_c-3 {
background: #ddd;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/32E8m/4/
I would just set the vertical-align: top; property to those classes (.explained_c-1, .explained_c-2, .explained_c-3) because you might not always want to float them.
Check it out here: http://jsfiddle.net/32E8m/5/
This way, you are aligning the elements to each other from the top of each of them.
I'm reworking a layout currently using tables for a two-column design, and ran into some problems.
<div id="frame">
<div id="leftcol">
<div id="1">blah</div>
</div>
<div id="leftcol">
<div id="2">blah</div>
<div id="3">blah</div>
</div>
</div>
#leftCol
{
margin-right: 10px;
width: 49%;
float: left;
}
#rightCol
{
width: 49%;
float: left;
}
Originally I had a two-columned table with width=100% - this worked perfectly in Firefox, but in IE the table overflowed the #frame div container. I removed this table and added two floated divs, but I still have issues getting the columns to be equal.
All of my content resides inside the div #frame, which has height constraints as well as padding and a margin (I use this to leave a "gutter" around the edge of the page).
I need the two floated DIV columns to be the same width, and sit next to each other with a 10px (ish) gutter in between. I tried making both width: 50%, but this fails because the container they are in (#frame) is smaller width-wise then the whole body of the page. (If I get rid of the gutter padding, it works in FF but still not in IE.
Making each column width: 49% works, but looks ugly as the size changes between browsers and the right column does not line up with the edge of the #frame container.
I tried doing this before but ultimately went back to tables 9since it seemed to be working), but now that I see it's incompatible with IE I've been working for hours to find a cross-browser css solution. Any ideas?
Setting each column to 50% should work, if you make sure they don't have any margins or paddings.
If they need padding, put in an extra wrapper div, that can have as much padding/margins as neccesary.
For the gutter in between, you could give these wrapper divs a border on left/right side to make it look like a space in between the columns.
Posting a full code example (on jsbin.com for example) would also help us understand your problem more easily. :)
I think you might benefit from a css framework like 960gs or blueprint css it allows absolute grid placement and is cross browser compatible out of the box.
http://www.blueprintcss.org/
http://960.gs/
If you know the width of the frame, you can do this
#frame {
background-color: green;
width: 500px;
overflow: auto;
}
#leftCol
{
width: 245px;
float: left;
background-color: red;
}
#rightCol
{
width: 245px;
float: right;
background-color: blue;
}
<div id="frame">
<div id="leftCol">
<div id="1">blah</div>
</div>
<div id="rightCol">
<div id="2">blah</div>
<div id="3">blah</div>
</div>
</div>
Otherwise, an add an extra div, and do this
<div id="frame">
<div id="leftCol">
<div id="hack">
<div id="1">blah</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="rightCol">
<div id="2">blah</div>
<div id="3">blah</div>
</div>
</div>
#frame {
background-color: green;
width: 500px;
overflow: auto;
}
#leftCol
{
width: 50%;
float: left;
}
#hack {
margin-right: 10px;
background-color: red;
}
#rightCol
{
width: 50%;
float: right;
background-color: blue;
}
Ok here you go. This is how it can be achieved.
CSS
#leftCol, #rightCol{
width: 48%;
float: left;
background: red;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
#leftCol{
margin-right: 1%;
}
#rightCol{
margin-left: 1%;
}
HTML
<div id="frame">
<div id="leftcol">
<div id="1">blah</div>
</div>
<div id="rightCol">
<div id="2">blah</div>
<div id="3">blah</div>
</div>
</div>
If you need here is the vendor prefix for box-sizing.
-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
-webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
Note that you have typo in your HTML wher both div are called #leftCol. There is no#rightCol.