Most of my code in a jsFiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/MilkyTech/suxWt/
The content should load on the first page in a white box, with overflowing content pushing the following sections of the page down. However, as can be seen the lower sections load over the top of the first page white box. I have tried changing the positioning/clears of the various sections but cannot seem to create the necessary movement.
<section class="page1">
<div class="huge-title centered">
<div id='detailsbox'>
<h1 id='eorvtitle'></h1>
<img id='eorvimage' src=''>
<div><p>lots of text lots of text
</div>
</div>
</section>
<section class="page2" id='page2'>
</section>
.page1 {
background: url('../img/bg.jpg')#131313;
background-size: cover;
height: 100%;
position: relative;
}
.huge-title {
position: absolute;
top: -20%;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
margin: auto;
width: 100%;
height: 180px;
}
#detailsbox {
top: -4em;
width: 75%;
left: 12.5%;
right: 12.5%;
border: 20px solid white;
border-radius: 10px;
background-color: white;
text-align:center;
position: absolute;
float: left;
clear: both;
}
Absolute Positioning does not push containers down. It places itself above or below them based on the z-indexing. You need to enclose your absolute contents inside a relative container to push other containers downwards similar to those in jquery sliders.
you need to change .huge-title and #detailsbox to position:relative;
you can probably get rid of background-size: cover;
also change .huge-title and #detailsbox to the following:
.page1 {
background: url('../img/bg.jpg')#131313;
height: 100%;
position: relative;
}
.huge-title {
position: relative;
top: 20%;
right: 0;
left: 0;
margin: auto;
height: 100%;
}
#detailsbox {
top: -4em;
width: 75%;
left: 12.5%;
right: 12.5%;
border: 20px solid white;
border-radius: 10px;
background-color: white;
text-align: center;
position: relative;
float: left;
clear: both;
}
The proper function of an absolute position is to overlap content. If you want other content to automatically push down then use relative position.
The solution is to create an empty spacer div with float right or left. This would ensure there is space between the two.
Refer this answer
Absolute positioned elements are removed from the main flow of the HTML. That's why it's not pushing the elements below it down. It's now sitting on top of the elements before and after it rather than in between them.
You may want to check this out.
Whether or not absolute positioning makes sense in your case is hard to say without seeing the design you are trying to implement. Using default (aka "static") or perhaps relative positioning will push the other content down below the white box, but without a deign to look at it's hard to tell if that's the real solution.
You can add another empty section between page1 and page2 and give the css below
height: 100%;
Adding an empty div the size of the absolute entity between the absolute entity and other components may help.
Related
I'm trying to apply absolute position on an error label elemennt, which is inside an input field that is also positioned absolutely. The problem is that auto-width on the error element won't apply correctly, and will break after the first word. Why is that happening? If I use position right instead of left, it seems to work fine. Here's a jsfiddle link: http://jsfiddle.net/u793ata5/
Here's the HTML code:
<div id="outside">
<div id="inside">
<label class="error">Show this error on the side</label>
</div>
</div>
And CSS:
#outside {
position: relative;
width: 250px;
height: 250px;
}
#inside {
position: absolute;
top: 30%;
height: 30px;
left: 40%;
width: 80%;
}
.error {
width: auto;
position: absolute;
left: 90%;
top: 10%;
background-color: red;
color: white;
}
Why so many absolutely positioned elements? Maybe I'm not understanding what you want the layout to look like--and maybe you could clarify--but this modified fiddle looks more reasonable to me.
http://jsfiddle.net/u793ata5/3/
.error {
background-color: red;
display: block;
margin-left: 50%;
color: white;
}
I try not to use position: absolute unless I...uh absolutely have to.
You're putting it's position at 90% from the left. This means it only has 10% of the parent width to place text before wrapping. Try using
float: right;
instead of
left: 90%;
I am a novice at CSS/HTML and need help with a certain issue. I am trying to make my opening div (w/ background image) cover the entire screen (which I have done successfully). The problem is, no matter what I try, I cannot get the next div to start after the initial div. I am including my HTML and CSS. Problem is that I cannot cause #map-contain to start after #opening. Thought it would simply be 'positioning' issue but I cannot solve this. Please help. http://jsfiddle.net/nELQF/ - (need black div to start at bottom of red div)
HTML
<div id="opening">
</div>
<div id="map-section">
</div>
CSS
html, body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
min-height: 100%;
width: 100%;
}
#opening {
position: absolute;
top: 0; right: 0; bottom: 0; left: 0;
border: 1px solid orange;
background-image: url('DSC_0577.JPG');
background-position: center;
background-size: cover;
}
#map-section {
width: 100%;
height: 800px;
background-color: black;
}
Given that the top element is absolutely positioned, you could do the same with the second element and set top:100% in order prevent the elements from overlapping.
Updated Example
#map-section {
width: 100%;
position: absolute;
height: 800px;
top: 100%;
background-color: black;
}
As an alternative, an arguably better approach allowing you to avoid having to absolutely position both elements would be to simply set a height of 100% on the html/body elements.
Example Here
Examining this HTML:
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="content">
</div>
</div>
<div class="footer">
<hr />
<p>some text</p>
</div>
and CSS:
.footer {
position: absolute;
height: 100px;
width: 100%;
bottom: 0;
background-color: black;
}
.wrapper {
padding-bottom: 100px;
background-color: blue;
height: 100%;
}
.content {
width: 200px;
height: 100px;
margin: auto;
background-color: green;
}
html, body {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
You can see that footer have position absolute and stay at the bottom of the page. wrapper will cover the remaining space and contain a content inside it. I want to vertical-align content without breaking the current layout. Do you have any suggestion?
Here is JSFiddle link. (Note: jsfiddle doesn't work as expected, there always a space beneath footer, this behavior doesn't occur when run the HTML file in browser).
Note: I don't want to use fixed height for wrapper, I want it covers all the remaining space, so please don't suggest me to use line-height
I tried the example here but it doesn't seem to work
NOTE I want the layout easy to modify (like add a header or content at the top) without breaking it therefore I want to avoid using absolute position on wrapper and content
NOTE 2 Sorry for not to clarify, actually, content doesn't have fixed size, its size depend on the content inside it, so the solution using negative margin doesn't work as I mentioned above
Here is one approach using the following CSS:
.footer {
position: absolute;
height: 100px;
width: 100%;
bottom: 0;
background-color: black;
}
.wrapper {
background-color: blue;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
bottom: 100px;
left: 0;
right: 0;
}
.content {
width: 200px;
height: 100px;
background-color: green;
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
margin-top: -50px;
margin-left: -100px;
}
html, body {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
}
Use absolute positioning and then negative margins, since your content has well-defined
dimensions, this is relatively straightforward.
See demo at: http://jsfiddle.net/audetwebdesign/DgUV2/
For .wrapper, use the top, bottom, left and right offsets to stretch the div to the
full width and height, taking into account the 100px for the footer.
For .content, set top and left to 50%, the center point of the .wrapper and then adjust
for the center of the .content div using negative margins.
Remember to zero out the margin for the body or else you might see 10px whitespace
depending on your browser.
Add this to your .content
position: relative;
top: 50%;
transform: translateY(-50%);
Just 3 lines of code to vertical align
I was able to get it to work using Method 1 from the example you linked
I added the following:
.content {
width: 200px;
height: 100px;
margin: auto;
background-color: green;
/* THE BELOW WAS ADDED */
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
margin: -100px 0 0 -100px;
}
html, body {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
/* BELOW ADDED TO REMOVE EXTRA SPACE AROUND EDGES */
margin: 0;
}
jsFiddle of working example
Click here for visual
As you can see from the picture, my parent container is not expanding to fit my child container. The page container (#contain) actually stops at the bottom left hand corner of the kitchen photograph. The child container (#zone2) is clearly overflowing outside its parent container (#contain). I would like to be able to have (#contain) expand automatically to fit (#zone2). The CSS is:
#contain {
position: relative;
width: 100%;
margin: 0 px;
background: #E3DCCC;
z-index: 0;
}
#zone1 {
width: 100%;
height: 850px;
background: url(http://waly1039.com/sites/default/files/k4.jpg) no-repeat center top;
position: absolute;
z-index: -1;
}
#head {
position: absolute;
top: 20px;
width: 100%;
height: 330px;
}
#head img {
max-width: auto;
height: auto;
}
#zone2 {
position: relative;
overflow: hidden;
padding: 3px;
top: 360px;
float: right;
right: 15px;
width: 53%;
height: auto;
border: 4px solid #715E40;
background-color: white;
}
#zone2 img {
max-width:100%;
height: auto;
float:left;
margin: 5px;
}
#zone3 {
position: relative;
top: 710px;
left: 15px;
float: left;
height: 340px;
width: 38%;
border: 4px solid #715E40;
background-color: white;
}
This is a float issue. Try adding the traditional CSS clear fix to #zone2's container:
.container:after{
visibility: hidden;
display: block;
font-size: 0;
content: " ";
clear: both;
height: 0;
}
Be sure to put this in the :after pseudo selector, otherwise it won't work for you. Floated elements exist outside of normal document flow, which is why the container isn't expanding to contain them. The clear fix forces the floats to be cleared, which will cause the container to expand around the bottom of this element.
I tested adding more images to #zone2 and #contain expands vertically. Somehow you've got an element(s) in #zone2 with padding or margins that aren't being added to the parent's total height.
If you want a quick fix in order to move on then add margin-bottom: 30px; to #zone2.
I've duplicated your problem and was able to resolve it with this: You might want to try it. It's looks a bit odd so make a class for it if you like. I'm more concern with where it is placed.
Just beneath lines of your code, add my third line. Just that and you are done. Note, it more about positioning.
<div id="zone3"></div>
<div id="zoneclear"></div>
<br style="clear:both; float:none; display:block; height:1px;" />
Just add the third line.
and just modify one of your styles:
#zoneclear {
clear: both;
float:none;
display:block;
height: 30px;
position: relative;
}
[EDIT]
The codes have a serious bug in firefox which is not present in Google Chrome (that I tested in earlier due to your relative positioning. So I've modified the #zoneclear style to fix that. You might have to test if the other browsers like this hack.
I hope it helps you
let's say I have to place an image RIGHT in a proper spot, but I need its CENTER to be in that spot. I wanted to place an image in the top-left corner of a div, so I placed the image in the div, gave position: relative to the div and position: absolute to the image then set its top and left values to 0. It quite worked but I'd need the CENTER of that image to be right over the top left corner. I'd do it manually setting top: -xpx, left: -ypx BUT I don't have any specific value for the image size (which could vary a lot).
So is there any way to say something like: position: absolute-but-i'm-talking-about-the-center; top: 0px; left: 0px;?
Thank you very much indeed!
Matteo
You could use javascript yo get the size of the image and then set the css left value needed.
Be mindful of the way images are loaded though as they are asynchronous so will not necesserily be available when the document is ready. This means that unless you handle the images correctly you will end up with width and height dimensions of 0.
You should wrap the image in another block element and put a negative left position to the image.
Something like this:
<div id="something">
<div class="imagewrap">
<img>
</div>
</div>
Then give #something a relative position, .imagewrap an absolute, etc... And img should have a relative position with left:-50%. Same for the top.
have you tried;
name_of_div_with_image {
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto }
give that a go.
No need to use Javascript, this can be done in CSS.
The required HTML: (you must change the div to an img obviously)
<div id="container">
<div id="imgwrapper">
<div id="img">Change this div-tag to an img-tag</div>
</div>
</div>
The required CSS:
#container
{
position: absolute;
left: 200px;
top: 100px;
height: auto;
overflow: visible;
border: 2px dashed green;
}
#imgwrapper
{
position: relative;
margin-left: -50%;
margin-top: -50%;
padding-top: 25%;
border: 2px dashed blue;
}
#img
{
display: block;
width: 200px;
height: 100px;
border: 2px solid red;
}
Click here for a jsFiddle link
The margin-left: 50%; obviously works when using the container div, because the width of the container will be exactly that of the content. (You might need to add width: auto;)
But margin-top: -50%; will not work because the height of the container div will change with it, thus you need yet another wrapper div in which you use this margin-top: -50%; and then you need to fix this error it makes by using a positive percentage based padding. Obviously there may be other solutions to fix this, but the solution should be something like this.
Probably one of the simplest solutions is to place the image in the upper left corner at position
left: 0px; top: 0px; and then use translate to move its center to this position. Here's a working snippet for that:
#theDiv {
position: absolute;
left: 100px;
top: 100px;
background: yellow;
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
}
#theImage {
background: green;
position: absolute;
left: 0px;
top: 0px;
transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
}
<div id="theDiv">
<image width=31.41 height=41.31 id="theImage"></image>
</div>