Hi everyone! First time posting on stackoverflow.
I was wondering if there was a way/how to stop the size of a container shifting when a scrollbar is added to it
like, if I take a div and slap overflow-y:scroll; into its style, it adds a nice and nifty scrollbar, but aligns all the dynamically positioning content inside of it to the left a little bit because the scrollbar changes the actual size of the content area?
I'm not great with web dev vocabulary, but I hope you understand what I mean.
I found that on iOS, adding overflow-y:scroll; also doesn't physically add a scroll bar and doesn't change the size of the container; all of the stuff inside of it stays centered
But if I add a scroll bar to a div with items inside of it positioned to a relative percentage, the size of the container will change and therefore all the content will move
tl;dr how do I keep my stuff in the dead center even after I add a scroll bar
I was thinking making it statically positioned but I want the horizontal height to stay relative
can I specify a static position for the x but not the y?
thanks.
you can use overflow-y:hidden;
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I'm wrestling with two unruly elements - a navigation menu and background bar (kept separate to deal with an opacity issue). Their positions are fixed so they stay visible during scroll. Their widths, which should mimic their parent's, is set with a 100%. Unfortunately, when the window is stretched narrow enough their width extends outside of the parent.
This is a diagram of the html:
<html>
<body>
<content>
<nav-bar>
<nav-menu>
...
</content>
</body>
</html>
Showing should be easier than describing, so here's a link to the page:
http://www.seanoneill.us/test/index.html
When the browser is stretched beyond the max-width of the content, everything looks fine. When the browser is made narrow, the right end of the nav-bar and nav-menu breaks out of the content width. In other worts, the right edge of "Contact" should be inset from the right edge of the content div by 20px of padding. The best way to see this is to scroll down a big so the menu covers an image and the semi-opaque nav-bar is visible. Then stretch the browser to the max-width of the content and wiggle it back and forth over that threshold.
Can anyone tell me how to keep the nav-bar and -menu inboard of the content div?
I've held off listing any of the css here since there are a handful of elements involved and I have no idea which is the critical one. I'm hoping it's acceptable to just post a link.
Thanks so much for reading.
You have content { min-width:700px }, and with your nav floated right, it will stay there.
If you can remove the min-width it will fix itself, or you can move .nav-manu outside of the .content container and, if you don't wrap it with something else that has min-width, it will honor the width of the body/window
I have centered a div on a page for a group project and while the div itself is centered, the websites contents are centered with the scroll bar in mind. What I mean by this is that the web page contents are centered so that the width of the screen is measured without the scroll bars width. So if the monitor was originally 100px wide, it gets read as 100-(scroll bar width) px wide. Unfortunately, this has caused my fixed position div to be a scroll bars width off center from the rest of the site and it looks pretty funky. Any way to fix that? Can't use jquery, can potentially use a little bit of JS.
Here's the link to my site so you can see what I'm talking about. http://51713941.nhd.weebly.com/index.html
Lets see some code.
This can normally be sorted out with css. Margin:auto
You should use the box model concept in css to style and place the content on the site
Again, the question seems rather vague.
I have an overlay that I created with a width of 700px and height of 500px.
The contents of it will be quite long though and so the user will have to be able to scroll up/down within the overlay.
Could I get a suggestion on how to set this up taking into consideration the fact that scroll bars vary in width in each browser?
For example if I add 15px of padding-right to the overlay wrapper, it displays great in Firefox.
The contents will fit perfectly within the div and a horizontal bar will not appear.
However in another browser, the vertical scroll bar may be 20px wide, this would cause the contents to be forced to scroll horizontally, or, if I disable overflow-x, they would be cut off by 5px on the right.
How can I get it so that, no matter the browser, when the vertical scroll bar appears, the width of the overlay wrapper adjusts so that its contents can be displayed perfectly with no horizontal scroll bar?
Overflow property sounds like what you need: overflow:scroll;? But I guess I'm not sure what your concern of the different width of scrollbars is. How is it setup that this is variable?
Or a different look at your problem, put the div with your overlay wrapper inside another div and have the new div have the scroll property, thus making it so the first directly has nothing to do with scroll bars. Ex: [link]
EDIT: Looking at example you provided, do you want something like this? Trick is like I said above putting div around everything, but instead not giving it a width and having it display:inline-block; (display) so it fits the child (but the scroll wheel stays outside of the child).
EDIT 2: Note if you need it to center on screen, you must have another parent div surrounding the inline-block, and have the inline-block text-align:center;. (example)
use max-width and jquery scrollbar plugin jscrollpane.
You can define the scrollbar width and styles for each browser, if the need it.
http://jscrollpane.kelvinluck.com/
I'm making a webpage where I have a div ("container") that is a parent to the div "rounded". For some odd reason, the webpage doesn't let me scroll down even though both of the divs' height are larger than the screen.
Here's a jFiddle with the components that aren't working out: http://jsfiddle.net/pmg92/19/
Any ideas as to why this isn't working?
You need to take the position:fixed off the .container so that it allows the page to be scrollable
EDIT
Check this out here http://jsfiddle.net/pmg92/23/ I think this is what you are looking for. I took out the non relevant css so don't just copy and paste to yours. I eliminated your background rounded image in place of using border-radius because by using a background image you can't really shrink or expand depending on content. This won't work on older browsers unless you use webkits and so on.
If you want to use an image I would suggest slicing the image between a top, bottom, and middle. The top would contain the top section with the radii. The middle would be 1px tall that repeats vertical as needed. The bottom would contain the bottom section with the radii.
The problem is that you have the position of the container fixed.
I would like an element fixed to the top of the viewport, when the user scrolls down the page it remains at the top of the viewport... easy. If the window is narrower then 960px the horizontal scrollbars appear. If the window is scrolled horizontally I would like the content inside this fixed element to scroll with it.
Please check out the demo, the two green boxes should always line up. Make your window narrow and scroll horiz, notice how they no longer line up.
Is this possible without JavaScript? Should work in IE7+ and not totally break in IE6.
http://www.louiswalch.com/beta/t/_scrolltest4.html
I don’t think you can achieve that without JavaScript.
position: fixed means that the element is positioned relative to the viewport. You want that vertically, but you don’t want it horizontally. I don’t think there’s any way to achieve that in CSS.
You can't have position:fixed on an overflow scrolling content. You need to use JavaScript for this. i answered a similar question using jQuery at Fixed header inside scrolling block where a div is fixed even if content is scrolling by overflow.
Check working example at http://jsfiddle.net/VswxL/3/