At cjshayward.com/index_new.html, there is a wrapper div around the body's content, about 1000 pixels wide, and it works as intended for the top 100 or so pixels in Chrome and Firefox. Next down the page is a jQuery UI set of tabs, containing a fixed-width accordion and something close to jQuery.load()ed plain old, simple HTML.
However, on the "Browse the Library" tab (but not "About the Author"), which is presently open and which contains the fixed-width accordion, below 100 or 150px down, the area under the tabs appears to have the same width as the window; it has the correct left margin, and horizontally scrolls an apparently equal distance to the right. Furthermore, the body background tile does not display; the whole width is white, as was specified for the wrapper div's interior.
How can I get the "Browse the Library" tab to display as intended (like the "About the Author" tab does)?
Thanks,
You're absolutely positioning way too much and that's ruining the flow of things. I'll go through a list of edits you can do to make this work.
/*
#accordion and #details will be floated, so we'll need to
clear #tabs. Add this property.
*/
#tabs {
overflow: hidden;
}
/*
Remove the absolute positioning from #accordion, along
with the top and left properties and do this instead.
*/
#accordion {
float: left;
width: 400px; /* This already exists */
margin: 0 10px 0 0;
}
/*
Remove the absolute positioning from #details, along
with the top and left properties and do this instead.
*/
#details {
float: left;
width: 580px;
}
This will get you a lot closer. You should also try to avoid using height on these elements. Let the content dictate the height.
Here is what i ended up with making those edits: http://i.imgur.com/niizuoR.png
Okay lets make a step by step solution (watch for the edits).
Background
Your background is set in the body. So the body needs to be extended to fill the whole page.
I would recommend this way but there are others.
body,html{
height:100%;
}
Normally the body would fit its contents but with position:absolute this mechanism doesnt work anymore.
Also remove background: #fff css (normalize.css) from the html.
html {
background: #fff;
color: #000;
font-size: 100%;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;
-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;
}
Also your background scrolls with your content. Set background-atachment: fixed to change this.
Wrapper
Same counts dor your wrapper which holds the white background.
Set its height to 100% too.
div#main {
height: 100%;
}
The reason why your content is bigger than your wrapper is that
<div id="details" style="width: 713px; height: 0px;">
this div holding the content has a fixed size set. Removing that size make it fit the wrapper.
The width seems to be set per javascript in the load event, so I cant help you with that. Provide your .js code and may i can help you with that too.
As stated in the comments, your layout issues are based in your use of absolute positioning rather than flow layout:
I went through your site and quickly switch everything so it was positioned statically (width floats, not absolute values) and this cleared up the issue. There were some other issues as well. You probably need to look over how you are setting up your HTML from the top level on.
I would start out again and concentrate on using floats for your layout, rather than absolute positioning.
For a basic example on doing so, here is a super simply page: http://cdpn.io/kmCFy
Related
I am currently working on this website: http://mdftanzania.com. I am using Wordpress and headway101. I want to have a full width green background color that applies to the begin part of the page: About Us and Services. I add a div class to the part of the page where the green background has to be. I tried to style the div class to a full width green background, this didn't work out and at the moment only a part is styled now (see the website: http://mdftanzania.com).
I understand that there is another solutions, that is creating a container or widget above the container for the content, where I place the first part of the page text in. The problem with this is that it is confusing for my client where to edit the text in the page. The simplicity of Wordpress goes basically away then. Because of that, I am looking for a solution with CSS styling, so the client is only dealing with the 's.
Does anybody has a solution for this?
Since you have predetermined a padding to the content block, it is obviously affecting all the child elements that are contained in it, including the div with green background, which means that you should either remove that padding and apply it only to specific elements, or apply this simple CSS workaround to your div:
{
margin: 0 -25px;
padding: 0 25px;
}
This makes it, in your words, "full width" and applies a padding to its content.
You have this rule set in your css:
.block-type-content {
padding-left: 25px;
padding-right: 25px;
padding-top: 120px;
}
So children of this container, even though they may have a width of 100%, have to obey this padding of their parent. That's why you don't get a full width green bar. You might try negative margin-left and right to expand your green bar:
.color {
margin: 0 -25px;
padding: 0 25px;
}
At least in Firefox/Mac, this solves your issue.
I have a wrapper div with some content in it. Here is its css:
.wrapper{
width: 85%;
min-width: 970px;
max-width: 1500px;
margin: auto;
padding: 0.3%;
}
Now, within this div, I have another div, which I will call div2. It has no relevant styles to it, aside from cosmetic ones (background, font-color, etc.). Its behaviour is to simply take up the entire width of the wrapper div, no matter what the browser's width, zoom, or screen size is. This is as expected, and nothing is wrong here. I'm trying to make an addition onto this, and that is where I'm having trouble.
I have an image that I want to display, such that the bottom of the image is in line and touching the top of div2, and on the right side end of div2, so that the right end of the image is also in line with the right end of div2.
This would sound simple enough to do, but I don't want this image to mess with the vertical space. Adding the image in will of course introduce a larger gap between div2, and any element above it, which means I have to use position:absolute to take the image out of the regular flow of the page. However, my attempts at keeping the image at this same position, in line as described, have been unsuccessful. How can I keep this image aligned at all times, and under all possible user display circumstances, without having this large gap?
I've tried using the offset CSS top and left to move the image, but it doesn't work for all screens/zooms/resolutions/browser widths, and this isn't something I can practically use media queries for.
I'm not quite sure if I got you right, but I guess you need to:
#div2
{
position: relative;
width: 100%;
overflow: visible;
}
#div2 img
{
position: absolute;
bottom: 100%;
right: 0;
}
EDIT: Place your image inside of #div2.
So, your image, will always be on the right top of #div2. That's what you wanted to do?
I've got this problem, I've placed a div within a div, I've positioned the "title" to be height 50, and then "navbar" below it, so I've put height 100% though the thing is, its not staying within the div, its actually straying away from and out of the div and making a scrollbar appear.
I would love "site" to hog the walls and then all the other div fit in that div.
<div id="site">
<div id="title">TitleBar</div>
<div id="navbar">NavBar</div>
<div id="frame">FrameBar</div>
</div>
body{
margin: 0;
}
#site{
position:absolute;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
*border: 1px solid #333;
}
#title{
border: 1px solid #333;
height: 50;
}
#navbar{
border: 1px solid #c38a8a;
width: 200;
height: 100%;
}
I've found an image that shows something similar.
http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/4637/picture1zb1.png
that's because 100% height actually means "use the same height as the container".
But I didn't quite get all your requirements for this layout, if your navbar is a navigation bar, it should be designed in a way that allows scrollbars to appear when the content is too big.
But I think you're going for the wrong structure to accomplish this, is there any actual reason you want a wrapper div? I've created a fiddle on this, check if this is closer to what you wanted: http://jsfiddle.net/6g6HV/2/
This other one is yours, in case you wanna play with it: http://jsfiddle.net/yq8PS/3/
Edit: Adding the javascript solution to the answer http://jsfiddle.net/6g6HV/9
You can make divisions in HTML appear side by side to each other by adding a float property to the css.
#navbar{
border: 1px solid #c38a8a;
width: 200px;
height: 100%;
float: left;
}
Additionally, always add the 'px' unit after a size. Modern browsers assume you mean px, but older ones might not.
There isn't a good way to prevent the overlapping when you have a sidebar that is a set pixel width. To achieve the liquid width (or fluid width) style, you would have to add negative 200px margin on the left to the #frame (to counter sidebar). Then, add another divsion inside the #frame to do the styling for that portion. This is how I have achieved the look on my web site, and it's also the solution used in the previous default Drupal theme (Garland).
#frame{
margin-left: -200px;
}
IN this context, 100% for the Navbar doesn't mean the remaining height but 100% of the visible heigth of the parent; so if the parent has a height of 400px then Navbar will also have an height of 400px. If you add to this size the height of the title bar, you get a total value greater than the size of the parent; therefore the appearance of the scolling bar.
While there is usually no problem with the width to make it appears to fill the whole length of a screen, it's very difficult in HTML & CSS to do the same with the height as they have not been designed for this sort of thing; especially with an imbricated structure (div inside div).
Some people will use Javascript to get the size of the screen (browser) and compute the size of their objects accordingly but I don't know if you can do the same with a pure HTML/CSS solution; especially if you want to have your solution compatible accross many browsers.
For more info, take a look at http://www.tutwow.com/htmlcss/quick-tip-css-100-height/
I want to make a header like http://www.chacha.com (doesn't move, is about that wide and that height, and able to fit divs inside it and also has to be an image)
I am starting off with a blank html document and a blank css page, so there I haven't currently written any code.
I've been trying two days straight to do this now so I would really appreciate any help anyone can provide.
I have gimp so if anyone could also give me image dimensions for a perfect header and perfect background size I would appreciate it even more.
CSS:
#header {
position: fixed;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 10px;
background: url(yourimage.png) repeat-x;
}
<!--html -->
<div id="header"></div>
That should give you a starting place, I can't tell you more without seeing exactly what the layout's supposed to be.
The CSS property you're looking for is position: fixed which will position the element relative to the viewport. This is good breakdown of positioning: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/position
In this specific case, what you've got is an element with styles roughly along these lines:
#header_id {
position: fixed;
width: 100%;
height: 35px;
}
You don't have to set the height, but unless there is content in the fixed element, it will collapse if there is no height specified. They also appear to have put a drop-shadow on the element toget the neat floating effect.
If you want to have an image inside, you can just put the <img> inside the header element, or use it as the background-image url in the CSS and position it with background-position (see also: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/background-position although the compatability table at the bottom is important if you want to do anything too specific with this property).
You can do this with any block-level element (or any element with display:block set on it). In your example they are using the HTML5 <header> tag; a <div> would work, too, if <header> wasn't appropriate for your page.
I would recommend using the Firebug addon with Firefox (or similar developer consoles with other modern browsers) -- you can right click on an element on the page and select 'Inspect element' from the dropdown menu and get a breakdown of both the markup and styling to see how other websites are constructed. Very useful for when you're browsing the internet and you see something and think, 'that's a neat trick, how does it work?'
FOR FULL WIDTH FIXED HEADER
header {
width:100%;
background:green;
height:60px;
margin:-8px;
position:fixed;
}
FOR NONFULL WIDTH FIXED HEADER
Create a div and set width and height (you can also set it left or right by float:left, float:right)
then in this div put the code above but without margin:-8px; and change the width to the width that your div has.
Here is a test
I'm writing a mobile/desktop chat application that is supposed to utilize the entire screen. The bottom <div> shown in yellow can be fixed-height if it needs to be.
presently it's Absolutely positioned to the bottom of the window.
My problem: the top <div>, in cyan, doesn't fit to the rest of the window, regardless of whether I use padding, margin, border, etc. Presently it appears to allow the content to wrap, but that's only because the bottom overwrites the scroll bar.
My only solution so far is to have a final <div> or <br> that pads the end of the scrollable div, but that doesn't make the div smaller, or make the scroll bars properly align.
Here is my source code so far in Fiddle.
Can you edit your CSS and set the DIV with the chat text a class like .break-word and then in CSS declare it with word-wrap:
.break-word {
word-wrap: break-word;
}
Unsure on the covering of scrollbars. You should post your code for others to view and might be able to pick something out.
This style code basically sums up what I'm doing to compensate for my issue. (Instead of, say, using HTML tables.) This may not be the best solution.
#topPart {
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
top: 0;
bottom: 40px; /* or however high the bottom is */
}
#bottomPart {
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
bottom: 0;
height: 40px; /* same as above */
}