How to make a div to float vertically? If there is empty space above a div then it should go up and fill up the space leaving the empty space at the bottom.
float:left // for floating horizontally
I have many div which are floating horizontally with a fixed width but not a fixed height. I want them to be arranged without leaving the empty space.
How can this be done?
A div would never leave empty space above itself. It will fill the space and then the document would go on to the bottom.
I guess, there is some sort of padding or margin there.
You can try to give the divs an absolute position as:
div {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
}
This way, div will be placed almost to the top of the page! Overlapping other elements, You can give some value to top in such a way that you're giving margin-top.
I hope it helps.
Let me assume you're experiencing the following problem: you have some divs with different heights one after another in several rows. Say, there's a very tall in the first row, forcing all the divs of the second row to "dive" deeper. I have a strong feeling, that there's no cross-browser pure-css way to improve this look much at the moment. However, you can achieve at least something with
display:inline-block;
vertical-align:top
instead of
float:left.
It will look like this:
http://jsfiddle.net/wHTQ2/
if you need something better looking, please, see this question:
css float elements with unequal heights left and up in grid
I believe it's the same thing that you're looking for. Unfortunately, there's not much you can do with pure css
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You can see what I'm going for at http://jsfiddle.net/vW45s/. A center div with two lines of text, and text on the left and right that abuts the text at the bottom of the center div.
I would like the text to be centered on the page (either the main "hello world" or the second line). Right now I'm using an outer div with a specified width and margin: auto. If the width is too large, the text will not appear to be centered; if the width is too small for the inner text, the divs will be stacked: http://jsfiddle.net/vW45s/1/.
Is there a better way to center these three floated divs, while still getting the left and right text to align with the second line of the center div?
Any tips would be appreciated. CSS is not my strong point, but I'm learning.
Floating and centering doesn't mix well. To be able to center something, the browser must be able to determine how wide the element is. To determine it's width, it needs to know how wide the other floating divs are. Their width depends on the width of the element you want to center.
You have these options:
Try to get it to work without assigning a size. It might be possible. Be ready to spend a day or two on this to get it work with Firefox and Chrome and then one week to fix it in IE. ;)
Assign a width to all three divs
Use absolute positioning instead of floating. Make the center column 100% wide and move the side columns in front of it (one left with left: 0 and the other right with right: 0; both will need a definite width). That works until you start resizing the browser window too much (and the side columns start to overlap with the center).
Use a table or display: table-cell because table cells know about their siblings widths without floating. That means you can assign a width to the two side columns and then let the inner column grow.
PS: Yes, I know about the myth that tables are bad. The myth is a gross simplification. It's bad to nest 500 tables to get the design you want if you can get the same result with two divs and some smart CSS. But that doesn't mean you must not use tables at all.
Have you tried adding width: 33% to the left, right, and center divs along with text-align: center?
In its simplest form, the problem is as follows. I have two divs (Ldiv and Rdiv) filling up my screen. Widths are 60% and 40% respectively, and heights vary according to the amount of content. Ldiv floats left and Rdiv floats right. The problem is that, as I narrow the window and push Rdiv against Ldiv, I seem to lose the right margin of Rdiv unless I make its width 35-39% instead of 40%. I have tried wrapping both inside an enclosing div container but this hasn't worked any better.
Can this be fixed by making one of the divs (say, Ldiv) a fixed width (in which case the layout is not entirely liquid, but that wouldn't matter too much)? I've read a number of posts here which say this is the way to go, but I can't see why it should. Many others say that with only 2 divs they should both float, but is there a non-floating alternative?
Thanks
Its not possible to give a real answer without seeing your code, BUT i guess to still have margins and paddings in your divs and/or your body element. So, in consequence the 40/60% dont add up to 100%. You can "remove" this with
body, #Ldiv, #Rdiv {
padding:0;
margin:0;
}
I have something similar to below:
<div style="float:left;margin-left:5px;">Test</div>
The issue is that I need to have this div repeat multiple times. If it repeats to many times, instead of forcing you to scroll right to see the rest of it (like I want it to), it instead goes down to the next line.
Example of the issue: http://jsfiddle.net/ruh7z/1/
Any help with this would be great, thanks
That behavior is exactly what floating is supposed to do. If you use table-cell for your display style, that may give you more of what you're expecting. Note that you'll have to use padding instead of margins if you use table-cell.
.container div
{
display: table-cell;
padding-left: 5px;
}
Here's a sample of this in use.
put the div's in a "fixed width" container div and prevent overflow. then have buttons or whatever at each end of the container div to "slide" the child divs left or right.
Not a front-end UI but have a (probably) very easy problem to fix. Here is a jsfiddle of it: http://jsfiddle.net/trestles/U7mYT/ I have two floated elements shown in this screen shot. One is floated left and the other (index-right-content) is floated right. The floated right div has two columns of content. The second column is much longer but doesn't expand out the box to push down the container. The index-right-content is posistion:relative. The index-right-content is the blue dashed border.
thx
edit #1
fiddle of it: http://jsfiddle.net/trestles/U7mYT/
I think the issue is the 'index-box right' which is right floated needs some way to clear itself but adding a clear:both didn't seem to do it.
don't do this full-time so thx for any help
I don't know why you should use positioning for the div index-right-content. Also, the width is more than it should be... I think I see 640px for the width, which I think is unnecessary, provided that the widths of the columns inside this div is defined.
see the updated jsfiddle adding float to both inner columns in container.
I am facing a problem: I have a div tag and images of 100px width each on both sides of the div. Now I want to add a number of div tags stacked over each other in the middle of it and they have to be fluid (using % width) and relative to support multiple resolutions. How can I do it?
JSFiddle Code
The only way to do that with the center being position: relative is by knowing the height of the center divs and adjusting margin-bottom of the div immediately above. Look at http://jsfiddle.net/XMkDt/10/ (this is only a single line, not very useful), and http://jsfiddle.net/XMkDt/26/ (this is equal height divs, but could be adapted to accommodate different heights; note: on my FF win7 the border's align correctly but the text is tweaked by a pixel and I'm not sure why--but for your purposes, it would work).
Note: you would want to make sure z-index: 1 was set to the div that you are actually showing at the time (as you make your opacity change), to lift it above the other divs.
Something like this? You'll need a hell of a lot of empty spaces though to make them fill the width...
EDIT:
New fiddle with fluid width: http://jsfiddle.net/BXW8y/1/