I've seen plenty of solutions if the child div has a fixed width, but not if it is fluid.
The parent div should have a fixed height (150px) and fluid width (80%).
The child div should have a fluid height (expands with content) and fluid width (always 100%).
I want to get the child div to vertically align within the parent div. All content within the child div should also be horizontally centered.
Here's what I have right now:
http://jsfiddle.net/6986r/
<div class="s1">
<div class="centereddiv">This green div should be vertically centered.</div>
</div>
-
body, html {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
}
.s1 {
width:100%;
height: 150px;
display: block;
background-color: red;
float: left;
}
.centereddiv {
color: black;
text-align: center;
background-color: green;
}
If you do not mind older browser, you may use the display:flex property (aside the table property already proposed by #SW4)
Notice that display:table can be used as a fall back for older browser
DEMO
Basic update to your CSS:
.parent {
display:flex;
}
.childcentereddiv {
margin:auto;
}
Likely the most flexible implementation would be to leverage display:table, however you will also need to adapt your HTML slightly and add an additional parent:
Demo Fiddle
<div class="table">
<div class="cell">
<div class="childcentereddiv">This green div should be vertically centered.</div>
</div>
</div>
CSS
body, html {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
width:100%;
padding:0;
}
.table {
height: 150px;
background-color: red;
display:table;
width:80%;
}
.cell {
display:table-cell;
vertical-align:middle;
}
.childcentereddiv {
color: black;
text-align: center;
background-color: green;
}
Related
I have a container div (that cannot be floated) with two children elements. I want child elements to be on opposite sides - first on left, second on right. On 100% browser width children summary width is less than container, but on greater scales it is not, so container should be greater too. How to set container to grow when it's gloat child grow?
UPD: something like this
I need all elements to stay one line in any scale.
<div id="page">
<div id="container">
<div id="left">
<div>first</div>
<div>second</div>
<div>third</div>
</div>
<div id="right">
right
</div>
</div>
</div>
<style>
#page {
background-color: grey;
width: 100%;
height: 300px;
}
#container {
/*this styles are needed to other parts*/
position: relative;
clear: both;
/*=====================================*/
background-color:red;
height: 50px;
width: 90%;
margin: 0 5%;
}
#left {
float: left;
background-color: blue;
}
#left div {
width: 50px;
display: inline-block;
}
#right{
float: right;
background-color: green;
display: block;
max-width: 200px;
}
</style>
.container {
display: flex;
justify-content: space-between;
}
It should do that.
Google up FlexBox Introduction for good explaination.
something like this ?
I've used display:flex to let the two divs line up nicely, floats only needed for the inner boxed
https://jsfiddle.net/070rk2e1/1/
I'm struggling with a problem which seems simple:
My code:
* {
font-family: tahoma;
}
body {
background: #333;
}
.wrapper {
padding: 10px;
background: white;
width: 100%;
}
.box {
margin-top: 40px;
width: 1100px;
height: 400px;
background: #aaa;
}
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="box">
box
</div>
</div>
The box contained in the wrapper has a fixed size, which might overflow the wrapper on small screens. Why doesn't the wrapper wrap around the box? How would I do that?
You can also check out the issue in this jsFiddle.
In order to make this work:
Remove width: 100% and add to the wrapper display: inline-block.
Doing so, will enable the wrapper to have as much width as needed to wrap around the box. Putting width: 100% restricts your wrapper to the width of the screen and in case of the box having a bigger with than that of the screen, it won't work.
If you do not want to have a horizontal scrollbar, especially on narrower screens use: box-sizing: border-box on the wrapper.
CSS:
.wrapper {
display: inline-block; /* Ensures that the box stays wrapped */
padding: 10px;
background: white;
box-sizing: border-box; /* Ensures that there won't be a horizontal scrollbar */
}
Here is a working version of your jsFiddle, with both the wrapping issue mended and the horizontal scrollbar abolished.
* {
font-family: tahoma;
}
body {
background: #333;
}
.wrapper {
box-sizing: border-box display: inline-block;
padding: 10px;
background: white;
}
.box {
position: relative;
margin-top: 40px;
height: 400px;
background: #aaa;
}
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="box">
box
</div>
</div>
For reference:
display: inline-block;
box-sizing: border-box;
Use display:inline-block on the wrapper to resize the container based on the content inside.
The div element by default has display:block; so you need to change its display.
You should remove width:100%; from .wrapper class, then you can make it display:inline-block; or display:table;
*{
font-family:tahoma;
}
body{
background:#333;
}
.wrapper
{
padding:10px;
background:white;
display:inline-block;
}
.box
{
margin-top:40px;
width:1100px;
height:400px;
background:#aaa;
}
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="box">
box
</div>
</div>
Your problem occurs, because HTML documents, by default, display all elements as display: block.
There are two ways to do it as our friends have mentioned before.
First one is to use inline-block value for the display property:
body{
display: inline-block;
}
The second way is to use max-width:
div.wrapper{
max-width: 100%;
/*we have set height property to auto to have coefficient between width & height*/
height: auto;
}
For more information visit these webpages:
inline-block
max-width
You can solve the problem by using the following css:
* {
font-family: tahoma;
}
body {
background: #333;
}
.wrapper {
padding: 10px;
background: white;
display: inline-block;
}
.box {
margin-top: 40px;
width: 1100px;
height: 400px;
background: #aaa;
}
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="box">
box
</div>
</div>
The only change is I have added display: inline-block to .wrapper element.
Why wrapper doesn't wrap around the child div
The problem is all html element has some default CSS styling which gets applied by the browser.
In this case div gets a default property of display: block; It is the same property that makes a default unstyled div to take up full available width of it's parent element.
As you can see with this: snapshot of chrome dev tools
*The css style highlighted in red rectangle is the default styling applied by the browser.
*The red underlined text tells us about the width of the element. The fading out signifies that value of that property is computed by the browser.
** While we are at it I want to point you to a different problem that you might have faced with the previous code and if the goal was to make the wrapper to wrap box at all times.
If the .box div would have width far less than that of the width of the browser then another problem may arise which I have shown in the code snippet bellow.
* {
font-family: tahoma;
}
body {
background: #333;
}
.wrapper {
padding: 10px;
background: white;
}
.box {
margin-top: 40px;
width: 100px;
height: 400px;
background: #aaa;
}
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="box">
box
</div>
</div>
As you can see the box tries to cling to a side of wrapper.
You can read more about display css property here: CSS display property || CSS-Tricks
JsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/techsin/csfvb91u/
(just realized normal div is collapsing ALSO to size of content, is min height completely useless?)
I need two divs, one left, and on right. Left one is 100px wide and stays that way. While, right div expands infinitely and doesn't shrink beyond 400px. Both Divs should be the height of parent. And parent has no exact height but minimum height of 800. So if content of one of these 2 divs were to push the height of div and extend it. Then The height of parent should increase and thus also the height of other div.
I tried using floats. I managed to some extent. However left side which was on float left, its height kept collapsing and didn't follow height:100% rule. It only worked if parent had definite width.
I tried using inline block but then right div won't expand to fillin the available space..
Why in the world css doesn't have fit-content, fill-available, choose what % refers to, choose what to position against, use vector or use pngs to shape div, inset textshadow, etc.
<div class="cont">
<div class="a"></div>
<div class="b"></div>
</div>
try with display:table and display:table-cell for child you will need to give fixed with for the left div
demo - http://jsfiddle.net/z90fma6e/
html,
body {
height: 100%;
}
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
.cont {
display: table;
height: 100%;
}
.left,
.right {
height: 100%;
}
.left {
width: 200px;
background: red;
display: block;
}
.right {
width: 100%;
display: table-cell;
background: green;
}
<div class="cont">
<div class="left">fixed
<br/>height adjusts</div>
<div class="right">expands
<br/>height adjusts</div>
</div>
Sounds like your divs are collapsing. Your going to need a clearfix you can add to divs. There are a few ways to do this; however, this option is best.
.clearfix:after {
content: ".";
visibility: hidden;
display: block;
height: 0;
clear: both;
}
Add this clearfix class and css to your divs so they wont collapse.
You can read more about them at cssTricks
perfect use case for CSS flex layout:
<style>
body {
display: flex;
flex-direction: row;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
div:first-child {
width: 200px;
background: red;
}
div:last-child {
flex: 1;
background: blue;
}
</style>
<div></div>
<div></div>
If you wish to support IE8 or earlier I would suggest you to use positioning:
Here's what I came up with
Fiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/csfvb91u/4/
If the content on the right is going out of the container, you can always use margin-right:200px as the right side container is shifted 200px using left:200px. Hope you get what I'm saying... :)
HTML:
<div class="cont">
<div class="a"></div>
<div class="b"></div>
</div>
CSS:
.a {
position:absolute;
width: 200px;
background-color: green;
height: 100%;
}
.b {
width:100%;
position:absolute;
left:200px;
background-color: blue;
height: 100%;
}
.cont {
position:relative;
border:1px solid #333;
min-height:300px;
overflow:hidden;
}
I want to create three, stacked divs. The top and the bottom ones will be of fixed height, whereas the one in the middle will have a dynamic height that expands to fill the remaining space:
I've tried numerous things, such as setting the height to auto. I do have a solution, but it involves JavaScript (i.e., calculating the remaining height) but I was wondering if there was a pure CSS solution.
There's a CSS solution, but it won't work in older browsers. You need to use the calc "function" that is new to CSS, combined with height: 100%. If you've never used height: 100% before, you know that every parent element of the one you want to be 100% tall must also be set to height:100%. calc can take a percentage value and subtract pixels from it, so you just need to set it to be 100% minus however tall the top and bottom divs are.
Supported by: IE9+, Firefox 4+, Chrome 19+, Safari 6+
http://caniuse.com/calc
HTML
<div id='top'></div>
<div id='mid'></div>
<div id='bot'></div>
CSS
html, body
{
height: 100%;
}
#top, #bot
{
height: 50px;
background: red;
}
#mid
{
height: calc(100% - 100px);
}
FIDDLE: http://jsfiddle.net/jakelauer/9cYUB/
One solution is to do it with position absolute.
The downside of this approach is that if the total height of surrounding is smaller then the sum of the fixed heights the container will not be visible anymore.
Another thing to be noted is that this is probably a bad solution if you want to target mobile devices. It always depends on the exact situation if this solution is suitable.
If i remember right you will only have problems with IE 6 (on desktop) which does not support the top bottom combination for the position absolute.
HTML
<div class="header"></div>
<div class="container"></div>
<div class="footer"></div>
CSS
.header, .container, .footer{
position: absolute;
outline: 1px solid black;
}
.header {
left: 0px;
top: 0px;
right : 0px;
height: 50px;
}
.container {
left: 0px;
top: 50px;
right : 0px;
bottom: 50px;
}
.footer {
left: 0px;
bottom: 0px;
right : 0px;
height: 50px;
}
JSFiddle
You can do it with a HTML table if you need older browser support, or if you need to support IE8+ or higher you could use the CSS table layout.
Here's a jsFiddle using CSS table layout.
HTML
<div>
<div>
<div>Fixed Height</div>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<div>Variable Height</div>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<div>Fixed Height</div>
</div>
</div>
CSS
html, body {
height:100%;
width: 100%;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
text-align: center;
font-size: 20pt;
font-family: Verdana;
}
body > div {
display:table;
width: 100%;
height:100%;
}
body > div > div {
display: table-row;
}
body > div > div > div {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
}
body > div > div:nth-child(odd) {
background: grey;
color: #FFF;
height: 100px;
}
body > div > div:nth-child(even) {
height:100%;
width:100%;
}
body > div > div:nth-child(even) >div {
height:100%;
width:100%;
overflow:hidden;
}
If i understand you request you need to use wrap div: http://www.cssstickyfooter.com/using-sticky-footer-code.html
I have two divs inside a container div. One need to float left the other float right. They also both need to be vertically centered inside their parent. How can I achieve this?
<div id='parent'>
<div id='left-box' class='child'>Some text</div>
<div id='right-box' class='child'>Details</div>
</div>
If no float is applied to either they vertically align to the middle with this css
.child{ display:inline-block; vertical-align:middle; }
However adding #right-box{ float: right; } causes the children to lose their vertical alignment. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks guys
here is the online demo of the solution you needed
it was made with this html:
<div id='parent'>
<div id='left-box' class='child'>Some text</div>
<div id='right-box' class='child'>Details</div>
</div>
and this css:
#parent {
position: relative;
/* decoration */
width: 500px;
height: 200px;
background-color: #ddd;
}
.child {
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
height: 70px;
/* if text is one-line, line-height equal to height set text to the middle */
line-height: 70px;
/* margin-top is negative 1/2 of height */
margin-top: -35px;
/* decoration */
width: 200px;
text-align: center;
background-color: #dfd;
}
#left-box { left: 0; }
#right-box { right: 0; }
You can try the display:table and display:table-cell styles.
Check this site out for more details http://www.quirksmode.org/css/display.html
NB: if you want the parent div height to be a percent (like 100%), then it will be relative to the height of it's container. If the container is the body, then you will have to set the body and html's height as well, like to 100%.
Here's an example of what the code might look like:
<div id='parent'>
<div id='left-box'>Some text</div>
<div id='right-box'>Details</div>
</div>
<style>
body,html{
height:100%;
}
#parent{
border:1px solid red;
display:table;
height:100%;
width:100%;
}
#left-box{
background-color:#eee;
display: table-cell;
vertical-align:middle;
padding:3px;
width:50%;
}
#right-box{
background-color:#dddddd;
display: table-cell;
vertical-align:middle;
padding:3px;
width:50%;
}
</style>