I need to convert an existing layout to right-to-left for different languages i.e., arabic, hebrew, etc. and I'm having issues with IE7 - imagine that. I used this awesome tool to convert the css, https://github.com/ded/R2, which worked very well. However, when the layout is rendered in IE7, giving any input element focus causes the element to reposition itself on the other side of the screen i.e., about 540px to left.
The ltr version of the layout has the form element inside a 200px container div that is positioned to the left of the main content area, a basic to column layout. The rtl version is a mirror image i.e., the 200px form container is positioned to the right of the main content area.
The two column and main containers are templates that get loaded into parent containers on the base html page i.e., there are divs for the sidebar and the main content area templates. I noticed that moving these parent containers around changes where the repositioned input elements are placed when clicked. These parent elements default to the width of their parent, which is 870px, and it looks like the input elements are repositioning themselves to the left inner border of these elements. I tried changing the width of these parent containers and that did nothing, any ideas?
Thanks,
J
Fixed this problem by setting the parent container dir attribute to ltr and then input elements to rtl.
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I have a set of nested HTML, elements that are made up of a parent (AssetContainer) and two main nested parts (MediaViewContainer & AssetDetailsContainer) that are side by side. The right side component (AssetDetailsContainer) has a couple of sub-divs, but they have no styling of their own.
My issue is that the right side component is not rendering at the size it is styled to. The AssetDetailsContainer CSS sets a width of 600px, and this appears in the inspector, but then a different, much smaller value is used to actually render the element. If I set a larger or small value it grows and shrinks but at some non-integer scale of the value that was set. Though "Scaling" is probably a bad term as the rendered value/input value ratio is not a constant.
I'm attaching some images of the inspector panel for the main elements involved in the width, showing their HTML, CSS, and actually rendered properties. I know images aren't ideal, but these seemed to best represent the pertinent data in one place.
AssetDetailsContainer (right side child element) inspector snapshot
Looking at the resulting AssetDetailsContainer shown in the inspector we see the original 600px in the CSS, but then it's rendered as 104.5px instead.
AssetContainer (parent element) inspector snapshot
MediaViewContainer (left side child element) inspector snapshot
What am I missing here with respect to layout?
Turns out the solution was to nest the AssetDetailsContainer in an unstyled <div>. I think since the AssetDetailsContainer had a relative positioning property, that was not playing well with the flex positioning of the parent that was being used to create the side-by-side layout. The extra div layer seems to give it the proper segmenting of the different positioning properties and I now get the expected behavior.
I positioned two div elements side-by-side by using float= left;
But buttons are getting displayed beside the div elements.
I want the button elements right below the two div elements which were placed side- by-side.
When you use float:left property then the div's height and width are set by either of the following
amount of space it's content html elements require
applied css height and width.
hence say if your screen if too big and space is left out on the sides then the next element (if it can be fitted in that space) is rendered (if it requires more then it would appear on the next line).
hence now regarding your problem there are two possible solution's
Increase the widths of your div so that it takes most of the screen width.(mostly never used as it might look ugly on big screens)
but if u want to go by this approach the setting the width's in percent can do the job.
Fiddle demo
use the clear:both property of css (mostly used)
for it's explanation you have to read it's documentation
i would suggest you go by this approach
Fiddle demo
Is this even possible? The basic setup is a sidebar on the right with div elements in it.
Clicking one of these elements would add a "popout" div, that should be displayed left of the clicked element. The popout contains a variable number of buttons.
I'd like to style it using only CSS, so i can just add the correct HTML elements from my script and have the stylesheet do the layout.
I've attepmted the popout inside the sidebar element, positioned absolutely, but then I cannot make the sidebar element itself scale to be at least as tall as the popout. (The sidebar elements are usually shorter in height than the popout).
I tried putting the popout before the element, and using position absolute, but for some reason the popout will not get wider if i add more buttons, and instead overflows them downwards.
Using position relative on the popout will make it leave empty space where it would have been in the sidebar.
Floating it messes up the width of other sidebar elements.
The sidebar is fixed width. The popout is fixed-height. The buttons are fixed-size. The sidebar elements are full-width but variable-height.
I've lost track of all the different things I've tried. My closest attempt at the moment is in this JsFiddle, where the popout is positioned correctly, but does not grow leftwards, only overflow downwards. If I set the width to a large number, it will line the buttons up correctly, but it makes strange things happen if I add a :hover pseudo-class.
How could this be done in HTML/CSS? Or is it only possible using JavaScript? If so, what could be a simple "out-of-the-way" approach of doing this?
Add white-space:nowrap; to div.popout.
This will prevent line breaks between the buttons.
I have made a simple website and am happy witht he fact that I have had minimal use of div elements. I cannot explain why I do not like using divs, I just dont. That being said I have 2 elements side by side and when the browser shrinks the elements collapse one under the other (it's a paragraph with an image next to it, for ease of picturing).
Other than using position relative and adjusting pixels or wrapping the elements in divs is there a way to prevent two floated elements from changing position when the browser screen shrinks?
you could have a min-width on the container of those two elements. and if they aren't in a div, remember that <body> can also have this min-width
Try to give a width on the container for exampleboth the elements for example say
< class="element-container"> in order to seperate both the elements overlaying on each other.
i created two divs first a red background div and then a blue background div both having a width height 100px. Blue div appears below red div. However if i apply a float left or display inline.Blue div appears next to red div. I want to understand how elements are placed on a html page what does applying float or display inline makes a difference to it.
See The Visual Formatting Model in the CSS specification.
Divs are "block" elements which means they have a line break before and after them, making new element appear below them.
If you set display to "inline" then they become inline elements removing the line breaks so new elements appear next to them.
Floating left makes an element "float" on to the left of the page (or containing element), content then flows around the right side of the element from the top of the element (it was designed to replace the "align" attributes for images).