I have a sidebar div that takes up 12% of the total screen width (set as a css property). I also have an <h1> block within this div, with a title. When I switch monitors to a smaller one, the sidebar ends up being skinnier, resulting in the title to extend OUT of the sidebar.
How can I format so that the text will always stay within the line? ("MY TI..." is fine for a result)
If the title text is known, you may be able to using viewport units vw for the font-size either in the original style or in the media queries.
You would also need to set the sidebar width to vw too, or a percentage value to make it all responsive.
html, body {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
}
.sidebar {
border-right: solid;
height: 100%;
float: left;
width: 15vw;
}
.sidebar h1 {
font-size: 4vw;
text-align: center;
}
<div class="sidebar">
<h1>MyTitle</h1>
</div>
jsFiddle
Another solution would be using CSS ellipses, replace the overflow text with "...".
html, body {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
}
.sidebar {
border-right: solid;
height: 100%;
width: 15%;
float: left;
}
.sidebar h1 {
white-space: nowrap;
width: 100%;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
}
<div class="sidebar">
<h1>MyTitle MyTitle MyTitle</h1>
</div>
jsFiddle
There is no 100% sure way when it comes to CSS but the title should normally go onto two lines which would be better than what its doing in your screen shots. Post your code if you want someone to look at that.
What you should do though is use media queries to make the sidebar wider when its on a smaller screen:
.sidebar
{
width:12%;
}
#media screen and (max-width: 600px) {
.sidebar
{
width:30%;
}
}
Here is an example
http://codepen.io/nathanfelix/pen/KzZPGy
Also, here you can read more about media queries:
http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_mediaquery.asp
Please try like this:
<div class="sidebar">
<h1>
MY TITLE
</h1>
</div>
.sidebar {
border-right: 1px solid black;
height: 600px;
width: 186px;
}
I have tried everything I know, and I still can't get it to work. I want the four images to be like in the screen shot, but a lot bigger (600px centered). When I do this, however, it causes the entire container to be shifted to the left for some reason unknown to me.
HTML snippet:
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="header">
..
</div>
<div class="menu">
...
</div>
<div class="content">
<div class="photos">
<h2> Here are some photos.....</h2>
<img src="img1">
<img src="img2">
...
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
CSS snippet:
body{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
.container{
background-color: #AAC1CC;
max-width: 1440px;
width: 100%;
height: auto;
margin: 0 auto;
padding-bottom: 10px;
}
.content{
margin-left: 20px;
margin-bottom: 100px;
}
.photos {
background-color: pink; /* for testing */
width: 500px; /*for testing - normally 100% */
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
.photos img{
width: 100px;
display: block;
border: 2px solid black;
margin: auto;
margin-top: 40px;
margin-bottom: 40px;
box-shadow: 0 0 30px 3px #333;
}
Screenshot:
When the images are small (like 100px) the style is the same across the other tabs. However, if I increase the size of the images > 150px, the entire container shifts to the left by like ~20 pixels. I have tried using <br> between the images instead of display:block but it doesn't make a difference.
Why does this happen?
The only thing I can think of is that when the images are larger they cause the browser to display a scroll bar. As you have set the container width to 100% and the window width is now slightly smaller this could cause the shift that you mention.
I had a similar problem with a large image causing my main container to shift off center. threeandme's post reminded me to experiment with the overflow-y property in the css. I added overflow-y: scroll; into the css for "body" and it stopped it from shifting for me.
I have a small website that i tested on IE,FF and it seems to work fine.
when i try it on chrome or safari some of the elements get positioned in the wrong place - but only some of the time. this happens around 50% of the time (5 out of 10 refreshes).
these are the elements and related CSS:
<div id="ctl00_mainFormPlacHolder_incidentsList" class="incidentsList">
<a href="ManageUserTasks.aspx?IncidentID=7">
<div class="incident lightBackgroundMarginBottom completed" runat="server" onserverclick="incidentClicked">
<div class="incidentName"> All Completed Incident </div>
<div class="incidentDateTime"> <span>8/12/2013 | 08:42</span> </div>
</div>
</a>
</div>
.incidentsList {
max-height: 820px;
overflow-y: auto;
overflow-x: hidden;
}
.incidentsList a {
text-decoration: none;
}
.incident {
width: 100%;
height: 64px;
line-height: 64px;
}
.incidentName {
height: 100%;
width: 50%;
text-align: left;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
display: inline-block;
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
margin-left: 10px;
}
.incidentDateTime {
height: 100%;
width: 40%;
text-align: end;
float: right;
margin-right: 10px;
}
as you can see what i want to have is a line (.incident) with 100% width, and in it on the left i should have some text (.incidentName) and on the right side some other text (.incidentDateTime).
i have several lines, but even with a single line i get the same problem -
what happens is that sometimes the right side text (.incidentDateTime) is displayed exactly 1 line below where it should be.
what am i doing wrong?
well I think its the cascading effect, like when the content on either of the div gets a bit larger, the div containing it grows since its in percentages, and maybe giving a "max-width" property to both the adjacent divs shall make it concrete.
I am trying to get a centered in the space that is left empty by a sidebar. This is how I'd like it to look like:
I actually managed to make this work OK for most browsers using margin: auto for the div in question, while setting overflow: hidden:
Fiddle here
CSS
#header {
height: 50px;
background: #224444;
color: #fff;
}
#container div {
padding: 1em;
}
#content {
max-width: 400px;
margin: auto;
background: #ddd;
height: 300px;
overflow: hidden;
}
#sidebar {
float: right;
width: 200px;
background: #aaa;
height: 300px;
}
HTML
<div id="container">
<div id="header">
PAGE HEADER
</div>
<div id="sidebar">
Sidebar
</div>
<div id="content">
Centered Content
(Works everywhere but on IE9)
</div>
</div>
However, it does not work with IE9. It is strange as IE8 works OK!
I am running out of ideas, so I thought that maybe someone knows what is going on? The trick seems to work perfectly everywhere else.
NOTE: Please note that the content div should be flexible as it is in the demo. As the available space decreases, it should change size and squeeze in.
Isolate the centering from the floating
This affects IE9/10.
It works fine if the floated element is removed, or if width is used instead of max-width. The presence of floated content, combined with the use of margin:auto and max-width instead of width, appears to be confusing IE9+.
To fix this, put the centered content in a wrapper div, so that the centering of the content can be separated from the floating of the sidebar. In other words, too much is happening layout-wise in a single div, more than IE9+ can handle. So split up the #content div into two separate divs.
#header {
height: 50px;
padding: 1em;
background: #224444;
color: #fff;
}
#content-wrapper {
overflow: hidden;
}
#content {
max-width: 400px;
margin: auto;
padding: 1em;
background: #ddd;
height: 300px;
}
#sidebar {
float: right;
width: 200px;
padding: 1em;
background: #aaa;
height: 300px;
}
<div id="container">
<div id="header">
PAGE HEADER
</div>
<div id="sidebar">
Sidebar
</div>
<div id="content-wrapper">
<div id="content">
Centered Content
</div>
</div>
</div>
This tested fine in IE7/8/9/10. On a side note, because a wrapper div was added, the padding: 1em; now has to be added to each element individually.
IE is notorious for not working without proper doctypes.
Try adding the HTML5 one
<!DOCTYPE html>
Floats are a tricky business. Strictly speaking, they're only supposed to affect the inline content that flows around them, so margins acts like the floats aren't even there.
Try this instead:
#container {text-align:center}
#content {display:inline-block;text-align:left}
This should make the content box act like an inline element, and therefore appear centered in the space.
As far as I remeber I've always problems with margin:0 auto because I didn't specify width property.
So everytime you want use margin:auto you propably should write this:
#content {
max-width: 400px;
margin: auto;
background: #ddd;
height: 300px;
overflow: hidden;
width:500px;
}
or in percentage:
#content {
max-width: 400px;
margin: auto;
background: #ddd;
height: 300px;
overflow: hidden;
width:30%;
}
EDIT
If you want to create flexible layout please take a look to bootstrap and fluid grids.
I can’t get padding-bottom to work when I use overflow-y: auto on a box. I use Firefox.
#container {
padding: 3em;
overflow-x: hidden;
overflow-y: auto;
width: 300px;
height: 300px;
background: red;
}
#some_info {
height: 900px;
background: #000;
}
<div id="container">
<div id="some_info"></div>
</div>
See the JSFiddle.
One more solution without extra DIVs.
#container:after {
content: "";
display: block;
height: 50px;
width: 100%;
}
Working in FF, Chrome, IE8-10.
I'm late to the party, but I thought it was worth adding a different solution that addresses some of the concerns raised above.
I came here because of exactly the kind of situation that #Philip raised in response to Alexandre Lavoie's solution: I have dynamically generated content inside the container, so I can't just apply styling to a specific div name like #some_info.
Happily, there's a simple solution for browsers that support CSS3: instead of applying bottom padding to the container, apply a bottom margin to the last child element inside the container.
#container > :last-child {
margin-bottom: 3em;
}
As long as the last child element in the container div is a block-level element, this should do the trick.
DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/rwgZu/240/
P.S. If Firefox's failure to scroll to the bottom of the padding is indeed a bug (as suggested by #Kyle), it still hasn't been fixed as of Firefox 47.0. Frustrating! Internet Explorer 11.0.9600.17843 exhibits the same behavior. (Google Chrome, in contrast, shows the bottom padding as expected.)
The solutions above were not working for my needs, and I think I stumbled on a simple solution.
If your container and overflowing content share the same background color, you can add a top and bottom border with the color matching the background color. To create equal padding all around, set the border width equal to the left and right padding of the container.
Link to modified version of OP's fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/dennisoneil/rwgZu/508/
A simple example below.
Note: Stack Overflow puts the snippet results into an overflow scroll, which makes it a little harder to see what's going on. The fiddle may be your best preview option.
#container {
background: #ccc;
overflow-y: scroll;
height: 190px;
padding: 0 20px;
border-top: 20px solid #ccc;
border-bottom: 20px solid #ccc;
}
#overflowing {
background: #ccc;
}
<div id="container">
<div id="overflowing">
This is content<br/>
This is content<br/>
This is content<br/>
This is content<br/>
This is content<br/>
This is content<br/>
This is content<br/>
This is content<br/>
This is content<br/>
This is content<br/>
This is content<br/>
This is content<br/>
This is content<br/>
This is content<br/>
This is content<br/>
</div>
</div>
Here is a possible approach that is working perfectly :
#container {
overflow-x: hidden;
overflow-y: auto;
width: 300px;
height: 300px;
}
#some_info {
height: 900px;
background: #000;
border: 3em solid red;
}
Style the parent div normally and make the inner div do what you want it to do.
Remove overflow-x and overflow on #container, change height to 100% and add overflow-y:scroll; on #some_info
#container {
padding: 3em;
width: 300px;
height: 300px;
background: red;
}
#some_info {
height: 100%;
background: #000;
overflow-y:scroll;
width:100%;
}
Working Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/9yuohxuh/
For those who are looking for a simple solution and can change the DOM, put the overflow on the outer element and the padding on the inner element.
.scroll {
overflow-x: hidden;
overflow-y: auto;
}
.scroll__inner {
padding: 3em;
}
In the example from the original question, it would look like this:
#container {
overflow-x: hidden;
overflow-y: auto;
width: 300px;
height: 300px;
background: red;
}
#some_info {
height: 900px;
background: #000;
padding: 3em;
box-sizing: border-box; /* only needed if wanting padding to not be added to height */
}
Note the use of box-sizing: border-box here, which is only needed as the OP has a hardcoded height (generally bad practice but could be needed in edge cases), so adding this border-box enables the 3em padding to not increase the height, but pad inside the 900px.
A final note, I'd advise avoiding ID's for styling, mostly due to their extremely high specificity, see this post for more info on that.
Demo
Hi now used to this css
#container {
padding: 3em;
overflow-x: hidden;
overflow-y: auto;
width: 300px;
height: 300px;
background: red;
padding-bottom:0; // add this line in your css
}
#some_info {
height: 900px;
background: #000;
margin-bottom:3em; // add this line in your css
}
Demo
It's not only with bottom padding. Right padding/border/spacing is also ignored (you can't see it in your example because it has no content, and the width is not scrolling)
All the answers above fail in chrome 43, generating up to 3 scrollbars! or if the content overflows #some_info.
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/LwujL3ad/
If it worked for you, it's probably because the content was not as wide as the scrolling element, or fixed sized.
The right solution is:
Set #some info to display:table, and add padding or border to it, not to the scrolling container.
#container {
overflow: scroll;
width: 300px;
height: 300px;
background: red;
padding-bottom:0;
}
#some_info {
display:table;
border: solid 3em red;
height: 900px;
background: #000;
margin-bottom:3em;
color: white;
}
DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/juh7802x/
The only element that doesn't fail, and respects ANY border and padding you add in there as separator is a TABLE.
I tried, and no matter if it's the next direct child or it's nested many items deep, any non-content styling will NOT expand to wrap the content, and will stay 100% width of the parent. Which is nonsense, because having content BIGGER than the parent is EXACTLY the scenario in which a scrolling div is required!
For a dynamic solution (both the container and the content) set the container of the elements inside the scrolling container to display:table.
Based on isHristov's answer:
#container {
padding: 3em 3em 0 3em; /* padding-bottom: 0 */
overflow-x: hidden;
overflow-y: auto;
width: 300px;
height: 300px;
background: red;
}
#container:after {
content: "";
display: block;
height: 0;
width: 100%;
margin-bottom: 3em; /* length you wanted on padding-bottom */
}
However, his solution adds extra space in browsers that handle this situation properly.
Dan Robinson's answer is great too unless you have multiple elements, in #container, that are dynamically shown/hidden. In that case :last-child might target a hidden element and have no effect.
You just need to add box-sizing: border-box to the same element where you applied the overflow rule.
I think #-moz-document url-prefix() is what you need.
#container {
padding: 3em;
overflow-x: hidden;
overflow-y: auto;
width: 300px;
height: 300px;
background: red;
}
#some_info {
height: 900px;
background: #000;
}
#-moz-document url-prefix() {
#container > :last-child {
margin-bottom: 3em;
}
}
<div id="container">
<div id="some_info"></div>
</div>
The top answers did not work in FireFox 89. The only sensible solution I could think of is to use a div containing only a non-breaking space and with a fixed height set.
HTML
<div className="spacer"> </div>
CSS
.spacer {
height: 30px;
}
This works as it does not utilize margin or padding.
I have just faced this issue, it persists even in Firefox 87, version being released in 2021.
But it is finally fixed very recently. After update to Firefox 93 bottom padding with scroll works normally.