Let's see this piece of code :)
HTML
<div class="mid">
test inline-block
</div>
<div class="mid">
test inline-block
</div>
<div class="floated">
test block floated
</div>
<div class="floated">
test block floated
</div>
CSS
.mid {
display: inline-block;
margin: 0;
padding: 1em;
box-sizing: border-box;
width: 47.5%;
background: red;
}
.mid + .mid {
margin-left: 4%;
}
.floated {
float: left;
display: block;
background: green;
margin: 0;
padding: 1em;
box-sizing: border-box;
width: 47.5%;
}
.floated + .floated {
margin-left: 5%;
}
You can also see the fiddle for testing purpose : http://jsfiddle.net/LdDSJ/
Now my question : on normal size, both inline-block and floated block are side-by-side, it's ok. But note they are not equal in width.
Try to resize the window : the inline-block elements breaks, one going below the other. By the way, I had to put a lower margin-left to that element because it would have break.
I know there's some whitespace around there, so my question is : is it viable to put layout elements display: inline-block instead of display:block + float property ? As all solution provided (How to remove the space between inline-block elements?) seems hacky (font-size:0, using comments, ...) ?
The CSS property display:inline-block; involves a white-space between elements. The size of this spaces depends on browser. So your calculation :
47.5% + 47.5% + 5% (margin-left) != 100%
Isn't correct because it doesn't include that white-space.
There are many ways to remove that white-space, you can find some here
Edit : to make it very simple ( this can't work in all cases but it can help you choose)
If your question is should I use display:inline-block; (otpion 1) or display:block with float property (option 2), my answer will be it depends on your aim.
Both solutions can need work arounds.
Case 1
You need your elements to expand the total width of container.
Use use option 1 so no work around is needed.
Case 2
You need your parent element to expand it's height according to children.
Use display:inline-block;
Case 3
You need both (parent's height expand according to children and total width of elements = 100%)
Then you will need work around with both options. For option 1 see here for option 2 you will need to clearfix or float parent container.
Related
friends,
I decided to ask this because I've seen many answers on the internet, but no one seems to be a definitive answer.
In out HTML documents we have many elements one inside another. Eventually we'll want to add paddings and margins to these elements.
So, what if we want to have all content horizontally aligned to the center of the page? If the content has 1000px of width and the screen resolution will change from device to device, the most common solution is something like (will work on netscape based browsers):
body{
width: 100%;
}
#content{
width: 1000px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
But if we have lots of other elements inside the #content element, like a table made of DIV elements, we start to face some problems. The parent's height will not adjust to its children's height and padding and margin will not work properly (if we inspect the element we will see that the width and height is not behaving as expected) unless we add some new rules.
I use float: left but then the headache starts! When I add float: left only those elements will work fine, but the parents will not. If I add float: left to an element that already has margin: 0 auto set, it will no longer be aligned to the center of the page...
I've seen some solutions using text-align: center to the parent and display: inline-block; float: none; to the element we want to be aligned to the center. But it also has many problems (for example, we can't set the float rule)
How do you deal with this problem guys?
You need to use clear after you use float on elements in order to 'clear the floats' and make the height propagate up to its parents. You can use clear:left (or right) to just clear float:left elements but typically it's fine to just use clear:both.
In the below example there are two versions of clearfixes, one that uses a pseudo-element on the container and another that is just another element.
Demo
HTML
<div id="content">
<nav>
<ul>
<li>Home</li>
<li>Second</li>
<li>Third</li>
</ul>
</nav>
<div class="float-me">Test1</div>
<div class="float-me">Test2</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>
CSS
#content {
width: 500px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
li {
float:left;
}
/* our pseudo-element clearfix */
ul:after {
display: block;
content: "";
clear: both;
}
.float-me {
float:left;
}
.clear {
clear:both;
}
I have a container with multiple anchor tags styled as buttons (it could have more or less buttons):
<div class="menu-container">
<div class="button-container">
Action1
Action2
Action3
Action4
Action5
</div>
</div>
How ca I style this using CSS to be able to have those buttons listed as a grid with 4 columns max? I tried with display:inline-block and float:left but without success.
I know that I need to fix a width for the container but I'm not able to but all anchor tags inside the container. And this must be dinamic as is could have more or less buttons...
What I'm trying to achieve is something like:
You need to give the links a width and height in addition to float or inline. Also, you need to define a width for the parent element, so that you can define where they can 'float' to.
.button-container {
width: 520px;
background: gray;
overflow-y: auto;
}
.button-container > a {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
float: left;
background: lightgray;
margin: 15px;
}
Here is an implementation with jsfiddle
Next time try to include an example with fiddle so we can understand what you have already tried and where the code could have gone wrong.
Not sure if this is what you are looking for. http://jsfiddle.net/H9Ypc/
I added a div with the css properties
.action-container{
display:inline-block;
margin-bottom: 5px;
}
Definitely suggest inline-block over float.
I am a relative novice in the world of CSS so please excuse my ignorance! I am attempting to use the following CSS to align two divs horizontally:
.portrait {
position: relative;
display:inline-block;
width: 150px;
height: 200px;
padding: 20px 5px 20px 5px;
}
.portraitDetails {
position: relative;
display:inline-block;
width: 830px;
height: 200px;
padding: 20px 5px 20px 5px;
}
Unfortunately, unless I remove the display: inline-block from the .portrait class and replace it with float:left the .portraitDetails div block appears underneath the first div block. What on earth is going on?
Since you provided a working example, the problem seems to be more clear now.
What you have to do is simply remove display: inline-block and width: 830px properties from the right div. Of course remember to NOT add the float property to it.
People sometimes forget what is the purpose of the float property. In your case it is the image which should have float property and the image only. The right div will remain 100% wide by default while the image will float it from the left.
HINT: If the text from the div is long enough to float underneath the image and you want to keep it "indented" at the same point then add the margin to the div with a value equal to the image's width.
The problem with display: inline-block; is that the siblings having this property are always separated by a single white-space but only if there are any white-spaces between their opening and closing tags.
If the parent container has fixed width equal to the sum of the widths of these two divs, then they won't fit because this tiny white-space pushes the second div to the next line. You have to remove the white-space between the tags.
So, instead of that:
<div class="portrait">
...
</div>
<div class="portraitDetails">
...
</div>
you have to do that:
<div class="portrait">
...
</div><div class="portraitDetails"> <!-- NO SPACE between those two -->
...
</div>
People frown upon the center tag, but for me it always works just the way I want it. Nevertheless, center is deprecated so I'll make an effort.
Now I see many people suggest the cryptic CSS margin: 0 auto; but I can't even get it to work (see fiddle here). Other people will go modify position or display, but that always breaks something else.
How can I center a span using css so that it behaves exactly like the center tag?
<div class="container">
<span class='btn btn-primary'>Click me!</span>
</div>
Span is an inline element, and the margin: 0 auto for centering only works on non-inline elements that have a width that is less than 100%.
One option is to set an alignment on the container, though this probably isn't what you want for this situation:
div.container { text-align: center }
http://jsfiddle.net/MgcDU/1270/
The other option is to change the display property of the span:
/* needs some extra specificity here to avoid the display being overwritten */
span.btn.btn-primary {
display: table;
margin: 0 auto;
}
Using display: table eliminates the need to hard code a specific width. It will shrink or grow as appropriate for its content.
http://jsfiddle.net/MgcDU/1271/
You can set .container { text-align:center; } so that everything inside div.container will be centered.
In general, there are two ways centering things.
To center inline elements (such as text, spans and images) inside their parents, set text-align: center; on the parent.
To center a block level element (such as header, div or paragraph), it must first have a specified width (width: 50%; for example). Then set the left and right margins to auto. Your example of margin: 0 auto; says that the top and bottom margin should be 0 (this doesn't matter for centering) ad that the left and right margins should be auto - they should be equal to each other.
The <center> element is really just a block-level element with text-align:center;. If you sent border: solid red 1px; on it, you can see that it's 100% wide, and that everything inside it is centered. If you change text-align to left, then its children are no longer centered. Example: http://jsfiddle.net/KatieK/MgcDU/1275/. Perhaps you should just consider your <div class="container"> with text-align:center; } to be equivalent to <center>.
You make the span block level, give it a width so margin:auto works
see this fiddle
.center {
display:block;
margin:auto auto;
width:150px; //all rules upto here are important the rest are styling
border:1px solid black;
padding:5px;
text-align:center;
}
UPDATE: In order to NOT specify a width and have natural width of element on the span you will have to use textalign on parent
see this fiddle
.container{text-align:center}
.center {
border:1px solid black;
padding:5px;
}
<span> is an inline element. <div> is a block element. That's why it is not centering.
<div class="container" style='float:left; width:100%; text-align:center;'>
<span class='btn btn-primary'>Click me!</span>
</div>
You can center the content of span only when you convert it into block, using 'inline-block' style.
Your parent element needs to have a larger width in order to let a child element be positioned within it. After that the trick with margin: 0 auto; is getting the parent and child container position and display values to be compatible with each other.
.container {
border: 2px dashed;
width: 100%;}
.btn {
display: block;
margin: 0 auto;
width: 25%;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/rgY4D/2/
I have two <div> elements, one next to the other. Both have the CSS attribute display: inline-block;. Now the second <div> element has a fixed width of 100 px, whereas the first <div> element doesn't have a fixed width: it depends on the size of the window.
My problem is that the first <div> element will spread over 100% vertically if the window is narrow. I would like to restrict its width to 100% minus 100px, so that both <div> elements can align one next to the other at all times.
I've looked at posts with similar questions, but none really dealt with the case of inline-block.
EDIT: Here is a jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/y3sXu/ I want the first <div> to provide some room for the second <div> on the same line.
There's no particular reason to use display: inline-block to do this.
Here's a clean implementation using floats instead: http://jsfiddle.net/y3sXu/14/
<div id="container">
<div id="DivB">b</div>
<div id="DivA">a</div>
</div>
#container {
overflow: hidden;
}
#DivA {
overflow: hidden;
}
#DivB {
float: right;
width: 100px;
}
This is an old question but has some weight in Google so I thought I'd update it with a new answer. A more modern way to accomplish this is to stick with display:inline-block; and use calc for the width of the variable element.
So long as you have one fixed width inline element width: 150px, you can offset the variable width element by the fixed width calc(100% - 150px).
Your code should look like this:
.fixed-width-element {
display: inline-block;
width: 150px;
}
.variable-width-element {
display: inline-block;
width: calc(100% - 150px);
}
I think I understand what you are asking for. http://jsfiddle.net/y3sXu/6/
I have gone for a traditional two column layout, as it seems like the best way to solve your problem.
float has been used to ensure that the right hand div always sits on the right, and margin-left to keep the left div away. overflow:hidden is used a cheap and cheerful clearfix.
best way I can figure doing it is with absolute positioning:
div#TextB{
position:absolute;
right:10px;
top:10px;
}
div#master{
margin-right:120px;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/Vnxr7/1
There is one very ugly solution:
Set the overflow of the outer div to hidden, take the div out of the dom using position:relative, setting the left to -100px and the width to 100%.
You have to play around with the display, position and left/top etc. or get back with some more details so one could know what you want to achieve.
what about this ?
div {
background:green;
margin-right:100px;
}
#TextB{
width:100px;
background:red;
float:right;
margin:0px;
}
Updated version
Just give the outer div a padding of 50px on both left and right side
EDIT
Place this where u want to put the gap:
<div width="100px" height="1em"> <div>