Properly position footer - html

I am trying to position a footer under #cont, but inside the #container.
I tried making it so that when there is more content in #content, it would keep the footer inside the div, and allow me to scroll the page, but I got lost. Any idea how I should do it?
http://jsfiddle.net/a9jv7/
As you can see, more content will push it down(because it's not inside the other div, but if it's not inside, I can't set the footer to always be on the bottom of the page)

You can change the floating elements to display: inline-block, so you have more control over them and the container will adapt to their height.
#footer {
background-color:#FFA500;
text-align:center;
max-width:960px;
width: 100%;
}
The example: http://jsfiddle.net/frapporti/TPbCG/
EDIT:
In general, I'd really like to advice you against the use of floating elements for layout, as they were pushed beyond they original intended use from the very beginning, and now we have flex who does magic :)
http://html5hub.com/after-float/
http://jsfiddle.net/Cerebrl/ZkQnD/

If I understood what you want to achieve correctly, than this is one way to do it:
http://jsfiddle.net/a9jv7/1/
On #container add:
border-bottom:30px solid transparent; // used to add spacing bottom
margin-bottom:-30px; // used to add spacing bottom
overflow:hidden; // to give the container height, because it has none since the elements inside it are float-ed; (google clear-float).

Related

Add image to the bottom of a adjustable height section

I am trying to created a CSS design on my web app. I am going for a banner that is flapping in the wind. I want the banner to expand/scroll its height so all text will be displayed on the banner but regardless of how tall the banner is, I want to add a ripped section of the banner at the bottom of it. The banner will be the same width in all cases.
Something like the example below (forgive the horrible Paint screenshot):
I can't seem to wrap my brain around how to accomplish this. Any of you smart people have any ideas?
First, I think it'd be helpful if you could provide an example of what you have so far. For example, what's your HTML & CSS for the adjustable-height divs, just without the image at the bottom? Easier to add onto that.
I believe the best way would be to add an image element at the bottom of your adjustable element (assuming it's a <div>). Position it as absolute, and set it relative to the bottom of its parent container. You may have to fiddle with it a bit to get it to work. Don't forget to also set the position of the parent to relative.
If you'd like to see the shoddiest example ever, go here: https://jsfiddle.net/c2ptfv8o/
Good further reading on position: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/position
Give the container element "position:relative" (to create a new positioning context) and some bottom padding (to make space for the image). Then you can either use a background image set to be at the bottom of the container and not repeat vertically or absolutely position an image to the bottom.
You can use pseudo-elements for this. This way you don't require extra markup for each element.
.myDiv {
position: relative;
}
.myDiv::after {
content: url(image.jpg);
display: block;
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: 100%; /* will be placed immediately where the div ends */
width: 100%;
}
Based on the height of the 'banner curls', set a margin-bottom on .myDiv.
Or directly, without absolute, as long as you don't have paddings:
.myDiv::after {
content: url(image.jpg);
display: block;
width: 100%;
}

How can I get things properly contained in a wrapper div?

At cjshayward.com/index_new.html, there is a wrapper div around the body's content, about 1000 pixels wide, and it works as intended for the top 100 or so pixels in Chrome and Firefox. Next down the page is a jQuery UI set of tabs, containing a fixed-width accordion and something close to jQuery.load()ed plain old, simple HTML.
However, on the "Browse the Library" tab (but not "About the Author"), which is presently open and which contains the fixed-width accordion, below 100 or 150px down, the area under the tabs appears to have the same width as the window; it has the correct left margin, and horizontally scrolls an apparently equal distance to the right. Furthermore, the body background tile does not display; the whole width is white, as was specified for the wrapper div's interior.
How can I get the "Browse the Library" tab to display as intended (like the "About the Author" tab does)?
Thanks,
You're absolutely positioning way too much and that's ruining the flow of things. I'll go through a list of edits you can do to make this work.
/*
#accordion and #details will be floated, so we'll need to
clear #tabs. Add this property.
*/
#tabs {
overflow: hidden;
}
/*
Remove the absolute positioning from #accordion, along
with the top and left properties and do this instead.
*/
#accordion {
float: left;
width: 400px; /* This already exists */
margin: 0 10px 0 0;
}
/*
Remove the absolute positioning from #details, along
with the top and left properties and do this instead.
*/
#details {
float: left;
width: 580px;
}
This will get you a lot closer. You should also try to avoid using height on these elements. Let the content dictate the height.
Here is what i ended up with making those edits: http://i.imgur.com/niizuoR.png
Okay lets make a step by step solution (watch for the edits).
Background
Your background is set in the body. So the body needs to be extended to fill the whole page.
I would recommend this way but there are others.
body,html{
height:100%;
}
Normally the body would fit its contents but with position:absolute this mechanism doesnt work anymore.
Also remove background: #fff css (normalize.css) from the html.
html {
background: #fff;
color: #000;
font-size: 100%;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;
-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;
}
Also your background scrolls with your content. Set background-atachment: fixed to change this.
Wrapper
Same counts dor your wrapper which holds the white background.
Set its height to 100% too.
div#main {
height: 100%;
}
The reason why your content is bigger than your wrapper is that
<div id="details" style="width: 713px; height: 0px;">
this div holding the content has a fixed size set. Removing that size make it fit the wrapper.
The width seems to be set per javascript in the load event, so I cant help you with that. Provide your .js code and may i can help you with that too.
As stated in the comments, your layout issues are based in your use of absolute positioning rather than flow layout:
I went through your site and quickly switch everything so it was positioned statically (width floats, not absolute values) and this cleared up the issue. There were some other issues as well. You probably need to look over how you are setting up your HTML from the top level on.
I would start out again and concentrate on using floats for your layout, rather than absolute positioning.
For a basic example on doing so, here is a super simply page: http://cdpn.io/kmCFy

Footer is in the middle of the screen

I'm trying to make a layout where the footer is always at the end.
However, the HTML body should have a div fixed to the left and right split another with the remaining size.
Until then I have no problem ...
But when the right div has many lines of HTML not generally continues until the end, and the footer is in the middle of the screen.
When # main is with position: relative; happens the error, but if you take it, the speakers do not work the way I need.
I've tried everything and could not fix.
Example here:
http://jsfiddle.net/WzE3g/
#principal
{
width:100%;
float : left;
word-wrap: break-word;
/*display: block;*/
position:relative;
/*position:inherit;*/
bottom:0;
}
Use position:fixed; instead of absolute in #rodape element. This way it will be always at the the end.
I think you are talking about the sticky footer...
Here is an example with the explanation

CSS buggy in chrome

On the website http://thornhillss.ca/pages.php?id=7 The footer looks fine in every browser. Yet in chrome it doesn't touch the bottom of the frame. Why is that. It should be a simple fix however I just dont know why it wont work.
*It should stick to the bottom of my div. Not my page.
This is because the div with the id "main2" isn't set to expand with the right-hand floated div. By default divs won't expand to fit floated child elements, so you need to tell it to hide overflow (which will tell it to expand to fit all child elements as long as you don't also give it a fixed height):
#main2 {
width: 860px;
margin-top: 15px;
margin-left: 20px;
margin-right: 20px;
position: relative;
overflow:hidden;
}
You're p.clear class has a margin on it as you're not using a reset.
If you add margin:0 to your .clear styles the margin goes away and it displays how you want it to.
This is what you are looking for it works and is awesome sticky footer

How to make dynamic content positioning?

You see tons of sites with their content very nicely centered, like dribbble.com for example. Even when the window is resized, the content stays centered and when it hits against the side of the page, stops.
I would really like to get this behavior on my website but I'm not really sure how to go about the CSS to make this happen... I'm aware of the position property and using percentages for the left/right positioning but it doesn't seem to be quite that simple.
Can someone help me figure out how to do something like this?
The standard practice is to have a div that wraps your centered content, such as...
<div id="container">
...everything you want to center
</div>
And the in your CSS:
#container {
width: 970px;
margin: 0 auto; /*first value the margin for top and bottom, auto puts automatic margins in the left and right to center the content*/
}
I'm aware of the position property and using percentages for the left/right positioning but it doesn't seem to be quite that simple.
It's simpler.
selector-that-matches-a-container {
width: <some length>
margin: auto;
}
Maybe with this CSS:
.content {
position:absolute;
left:100px;
right:100px;
}