Whenever I add margin to any element I get overflow, I tried adding box-sizing, position:relative. but nothing works
searched on google but nothing seems to help me
can anyone know why is this happening?
Sample Image
The margin is outside the element. One way to deal with it is to use calc on width as in the following snippet.
And note that margin is diferent from padding: paddingis inside the border (so it is included in the area covered by the background color), margin is outside:
.x {
box-sizing: border-box;
margin: 30px;
width: calc(100% - 60px);
background: yellow;
border: 5px solid red;
}
<div class="x">margin....</div>
With padding instead of margin, this would be:
.x {
box-sizing: border-box;
padding: 30px;
width: 100%;
background: yellow;
border: 5px solid red;
}
<div class="x">Padding....</div>
You can't add margin to a div that is a sibling of your container or else it'll create an overflow. Use padding instead. See how the text in the margin example shifts the text.
.parent {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
background: red;
}
.padding-example {
padding: 10px;
}
.margin-example {
margin: 10px;
}
<div class="parent">
<div class="padding-example">Correct</div>
</div>
<hr>
<div class="parent">
<div class="margin-example">Wrong</div>
</div>
There is an odd problem here that I don't really understand.
I'm trying to just make the middle of the 3 vertical divs have another div inside it which has a black border and 10px of margin on all sides.
However, on the right side there is no visible margin, and on the bottom the div flows right out of the parent div and out of site into the footer.
What am I doing wrong? CSS for the middle div pair...
#mainContent {
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
}
#platter {
border: 1px solid black;
margin: 10px;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/Lf7wuty0/1/
Solution: http://jsfiddle.net/efordek0/1/
Borders are applied outside of the element, therefore if your element is width:100%; with a border: 1px solid black;, the border will fall outside of your desired constraint.
Instead of applying a margin to the inner-div #platter, apply a padding to the outer div #mainContent. This way the 100% values will still apply but be subtracted by the 10px padding of the #mainContent and your borders remain inside the desired area.
Here's the correct solution : http://jsfiddle.net/5L4tnwtg/
The changes:
Add:
*{
box-sizing:border-box;
-webkit-box-sizing:border-box;
-moz-box-sizing:border-box;
}
Modify:
#mainContent {
height: 100%;
width:100%;
padding: 10px;
}
#platter {
border: 1px solid black;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
}
I'm making a site and trying to center the image head. However, it doesn't appear to be working.
Here is the HTML:
<body>
<div id="templatemo_header">
<div class="image"><img src="images/server_banner_lax_en5.png" alt="Header"></div>
</div>
</body>
And the CSS:
#templatemo_header {
height: 263px;
border-top: 5px solid #FFF;
overflow: visible;
width: 762px;
float: left;
background: url(images/templatemo_headerimg_bg.jpg);
}
#templatemo_header .image {
width: 762px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
I tried to add margin: 0 auto; to the image, but it still is not centered. How can I do this?
Modify the css for the div containing your image with:
margin: 0 auto;
width: 100%;
Add the following to your CSS file:
.image { width:762px; margin:0 auto;}
Your wrapping div is the same width as the image, this stops any margins from being automatically applied since there is no space.
There are a few ways to fix this, but easiest would be to set the width of templatemo_header (the wrapper div) to 100%. This way the image margins can expand, thereby centering the image.
So in your css, modify the width from 762px to 100%, like so:
#templatemo_header {
height: 263px;
border-top: 5px solid #FFF;
overflow: visible;
width: 100%;
float: left;
background: url(images/templatemo_headerimg_bg.jpg);
}
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.
I have this HTML
.container_1
{
width: 80%;
border: 5px solid black;
overflow: hidden;
}
.container_2
{
float: left;
border: 5px solid red;
width: 100%;
}
.container_1
{
width: 80%;
border: 5px solid black;
overflow: hidden;
}
.container_2
{
float: left;
border: 5px solid red;
width: 100%;
}
<div class="container_1">
<div class="container_2">
Content 1
</div>
<div class="container_2">
Content 2
</div>
</div>
Fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/uZVnB/3/
The problem is that as you see in fiddle the border of .container_1 overlaps the border to the border of .container_2 , so is any form that show complete the border of both containers
Remove float & width from
.container_2. Write like this:
.container_2
{
border: 5px solid red;
}
Check this http://jsfiddle.net/uZVnB/4/
Change the width of .container_2 from 100% to 98%, and everything will be fine. When you set its width to 100%, naturally, it will expand to the maximum, and the borders will overlap.
Remove float: left and width: 100%, since block element fills the entire width of its container, it works fine.
If you have to use float: left style (although I don't think it is required since you have a width: 100% which makes float not behaving as it is defined), you could use box-sizing: border-box, but it only works for mordern browsers, lower version of IE does not support this property.
You may also use position: absolute; left: 0; right: 0; to absolutely position it, but it also conflicts with float: left style and IE6 does not support it.
You can achieve it by using CSS attribute box-sizing:border-box;
SEE DEMO
CSS:
.container_1 {
width:80%;
border:1em solid;
overflow: hidden;
}
.container_2 {
box-sizing:border-box;
-moz-box-sizing:border-box; /* Firefox */
-webkit-box-sizing:border-box; /* Safari */
width:100%;
border:1em solid red;
}
Considering IE in mind, here is my solution.
The border will always be extra than the 100% width.
Here is the solution http://jsfiddle.net/uZVnB/41/
Hope this helps