I have a div with horizontal overflow that I can scroll horizontally.
I want that the content of this div is already scrolled all to the right and that you have to scroll to the other direction instead. Is there anything possible to do with CSS? Relative positioning wouldn't be that comfortable because the length of the div's content varies.
Use text-direction:rtl Simple demo
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I've got a fixed header element that I would like to stay fixed on scroll. The scrollable area, however, I would like it to be positioned directed after the fixed element, but I don't want to use position: absolute and remove it from the document flow.
I've created a Codepen here to illustrate the problem I'm having. I would like the red element (.top) to stick on scroll, without hiding the first list item.
Is there a way to go about doing this in CSS (possibly using flexbox) that doesn't require any JS?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
If my understanding of your question is correct, you want to make no changes except for the scrollable content to not be hidden behind the fixed header.
The fixed header seems to have a natural height of nearly 20px.
So you can apply a top margin to the scrollable content which pushes it down from the top, until it clears the header.
Try adding this to your CSS:
div.list { margin-top: 20px;}
This will push the div containing all the list items 20px from the top.
DEMO: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/EVWYJd
UPDATE
The answer above works when the height of the fixed header is known. But based on feedback in the comments, the height of the header varies. So a solution is needed that keeps the scrollable content beneath the header regardless of the height of the header.
This issue has been addressed in these posts:
How do I use CSS to position a fixed variable height header and a scrollable content box?
Creating a variable height "fixed" header in CSS with scrollable content
I've been trying to make a horizontal web page. However I don't want to keep setting the width to a certain width to accommodate the content that is floated is there a way to have the Div automatically re-size to the content that it contains? This way all the content is floated or "horizontally" scrolling? I'm using width:"specific size" but as soon as I have too much content it overflows is there a way to not have that happen and also where I don't have to specify a specific width size?
EDIT:
What I want is the whole website to be horizontally scrolling. I don't want just the specific div itself to have scrollbars, but I want the div to be able to adjust it's width to accommodate the content no matter if I have 3 divs within it or if I decide to add 6 divs later into the div.
For example what I want is like this. (Where even if I have more content it won't drop to the next line) I mean can this be achieved with css alone?) I specifically want that effect where the whole website is scrolling not just the div I don't know exactly if that website is doing that. Basically I want the whole website to scroll horizontally not just a scroll bar on the specific div itself.
For example vertically if you have more content you can keep scrolling down that is what I want, but I want that in a horizontal scroll of the website is that even possible?
Here is my code Jfiddle Code which is for tumblr but I want this for more than just tumblr. As I'm thinking of doing this for a regular website but where I manually will add more list items or Divs. I just want to see if there is a way to have the width adjust to the content so the floated content doesn't drop to the next line.
I think what you need is display: inline-block;
Like this: http://jsfiddle.net/ZDJbH/
Check this fiddle , is that what you need
div{
width:auto;
overflow:auto;
white-space:nowrap;
}
Set the css width property to auto
#yourDiv {width : auto;}
1.display:inline-block
2.float:left or float:right Because it will destroy line box.
3.position:absolute；（and without top, left or position:absolute) May be need to know information to use it.
What is the workaround to allow scrollable overflow with elements positioned negatively from left and top?
Like here in example (jsFiddle), only 3 of the red squares are visible and scroll is not toggled. Although there are 6 of the squares, 3 of them positioned negative of top.
The only way I can think of is to wrap the squares in a div the same height as them and use JQuery's scrollTop() method: http://www.w3schools.com/jquery/css_scrolltop.asp but this will also force a horizontal scrollbar beneath the wrapper div... short answer: no CSS-only solution, and positioning them absolutely obviates the scroll for this solution - try floating left and clearing each row if you want to use this method.
I had the same problem and the only solution I could find is setting min-height & min-width using JavaScript (I wasn't using jQuery at all on this project).
You need to wrap it another div and give it overflow property.
http://jsfiddle.net/pb4bh/1/
I have created a layout in CSS/HTML with the following structure:
Navigation in the footer scrolls the content horizontally to show two different screens. The screen content is fixed height and vertically centered and the layout always fills the entire window.
Because my content has a fixed height, I need the browser to display a vertical scrollbar when the window reaches a certain height.
I also have a couple of position:fixed <canvas> overlays that get cropped by the <html> and <body> elements which are set to height:100%; width:100%.
I hoped that by setting min-height:700px on the <body> selector I could get a scrollbar to appear when the window got too short. This doesn't seem to be work.
How can I make this website generally full-screen but scroll when below a minimum size threshold?
Well, that should effectively make sure the body is always at least 700px. However, position: fixed will still anchor them to the bottom of the viewport, so you will essentially be only scrolling the background. I believe you want the header/footer bars to stick to the top and bottom, so you can always see the full content between them?
So, does something like this fiddle behave more like what you're looking for? http://jsfiddle.net/jblasco/qPB9k/8/
It uses a wrapper div that does the min-height, and uses absolutely positioned bars instead.
Try this: overflow-x: auto;
It will try to put a horizontal scroll bar once the content exceeded the size of its container.
I am currently trying to figure out an way to vertically align an div that is inside an div that has an dynamic height due to it's changing content.
So on this jsFiddle is the setup,
in the left div you have the content that is inside an wrapper element with an fixed width. Next to that div is another div, this is an wrapper for an image and a div element. And on the right is an element with an position absolute.
The idear is that the text "this is an image" is vertically aligned to the middle of the left div which is dynamic. I would like to do it with CSS but it seems impossible...
You can check out this fiddle to get some more info
http://jsfiddle.net/36sfx/2/
It seems that the only way to do it is displaying the div as table-cell. I have tried to solve this problem many times before, and I have read before that there are technicals limitation on this issue.