Without fixing the widths of any of the elements, I would like the parent div element to ignore the text when setting it's width. I want the element's width only to be affected by the width of the image.
<div>
<img src="https://lh4.ggpht.com/9BAW9uE48gxNUmnQ7T6ALpNTsrCHOZBMfF__mbamBC36edSw0uc-kjQxgtZ3O3aQWFY=h900"/>
<p>I want this text to wrap once this paragraph element reaches the width of the image.</p>
</div>
div {
background: green;
display: inline-block;
}
my jsFiddle
Any advice is greatly appreciated
Change display property of div to table-caption
(Tested in firefox and chrome)
Updated jsfiddle
Here's the best that I've found:
http://jsfiddle.net/y8Qnd/3/
What I've done is to take the p tag out of flow with position: absolute so that the containing div has the width of just the image. Then, have the p tag inherit the width of its parent, the container. This does not fix the width of the p tag, and is completely cross browser.
This would mean you would have to move up the DOM tree, as you want the image to determine it's parent width. Moving up the DOM tree is unfortunately not possible (yet).
As an alternative, you could position the text absolute, to lift it out of the document flow, and therefore not influence the width of it's parent div. This however would also mean that the height does not get influenced, which is probably not what you are after. You could mimic the correct height by repeating the parent background, but the content underneath would not get pushed down, so that is also not really an option I think. I set up an example anyway: http://jsfiddle.net/y8Qnd/2/
The only option I can think of is javascript. Get the width of the image and apply it to the parent container. In jQuery (I will probably get bashed for using jQuery for such a trivial thing, but I am just not used to writing 'old school javascript' anymore...) it would look something like this:
var $wrapper = $('div'); // you will probabaly want to use some id or class here
var width = $wrapper.find('img').width();
$wrapper.css('width', width);
and an example: http://jsfiddle.net/y8Qnd/6/
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When I switch off the blog part and sidebars in the terrifico theme in Wordpress I don't seem to be able to place a full width slider anywhere.
The theme looks like this in the form that I'm talking about: http://vpthemes.com/preview/Terrifico/page-full-width/
As you can see all the text is 'bounded' by a box (the black line). Is there any way in which I can make the metaslider go OUTSIDE of this box (i.e. to span the FULL width of the page)? I don't necessarily want to get rid of the box all toghether, the text can stay within it.
I have seen on the Metaslider website that some solutions for certain themes are given (here - but I am not sure how to adapt this to the theme that I'm using.
Thanks in advance!
Disclaimer
Before I suggest a solution, I'd like to point out that what you're asking is to break the Box flow model. I wouldn't recommend that because you're likely to run into inconsistent results across browsers.
That said, what you're trying to accomplish is possible. You could use javascript to do this and it may in fact be easier in some respects but here's a CSS solution.
1. Break out of the box model
float: left;
width: 200%;
margin-left: -50%;
text-align: center;
The float CSS property specifies that an element should be taken from the normal flow and placed along the left or right side of its container, where text and inline elements will wrap around it.
The width of the container is still relative to its parent so if you use % units to scale it up you would need to compensate for the responsiveness of the parent. Here, I'm just overcompensating.
To ensure that our element remains centered, we use a negative margin that is half of the overflow. That is, we want our box to be 100% wide, we have 100% overflow to ensure that so half the overflow is 50% (comment below if that doesn't make sense).
We use text-align to put the element we add in step 3 in the center of the viewport.
2. Allow Overflows
This is where you may well break themes. The parent elements will hide elements that float outside of them if they have the overflow: hidden property (note overflow can also be used to show scrollbars).
You will need to ensure that the parent elements have:
#post-body, .content-posts-wrap {
overflow: visible;
}
As far as I can see that affects #post-body and .content-posts-wrap
3. Add an element that will be the right size
Now we have an oversized container for our slider but we need it to be the width of the page. Inside the div or whatever it is you want to put your slider into you will need to nest another element that will be the correct width. That element will need the following css:
display: inline-block;
width: 100vw;
text-align: left;
You need display because we are back to the box model now and we want our block to obey the width rule we give to it.
We set our width using vw (viewport width) units to make this a bit easier (but they may not be supported on your target browser). There may be some ingenius way to do this without vw units but I would probably just use javascript if it's not an option for you.
Finally, since we set our text-align above, we need to reset it here.
4. Add a Clearing Div
Because you've broken out of the flow, elements aren't too sure what to do. You probably want to add another element after your parent slider that
specifies whether an element can be next to floating elements that precede it or must be moved down (cleared) below them. source
It can be as simple as a <div> element with:
clear: both
write your code something like this...
html like that...
<div id="parent_for_slider">
<div id="slider">
//place your slider code
</div>
</div>
Css for that
#parent_for_slider{
position:relative;
}
#slider{
position:absolute;
width:100% !important;
height:auto;
}
i am recommending to use ResponsiveSlides.js for full width slider with responsiveness
I have a bunch of html that is absolutely positioned and then html snippet that is supposed to show after that. But they over lap.
http://jsbin.com/okamot/1/edit
Everything under .drag-drop is supposed to be absolutely placed so the height and width of .drag-drop become zero. The exhibit button and the exhibit text are supposed to show after the bolded This is Drag and Drop Item. But because the height of .drag-drop is zero it shows right over the contents of .drag-drop`.
I have had this issue before, but fortunately it was easy to calculate the height of the children of .drag-drop and then I would set the height of the .drag-drop to be that using javascript. This time it is harder as it contains more children and they are not constant. How would I change my css so that the Exhibit shows below the drag drop ?
Absolute positioning removes the element from the layout, therefore the children are no longer part of the calculation of the parent's sizing. You'll need to use JS to solve this.
The best way is not to make the content absolute positioned at all. Could you make them relative positioned, or float them? You can still manipulate their position, height, width, etc., and they'd have layout so the containing div would have the correct height.
Note if you float them, you may need to add a "float breaker" at the bottom of the containing div to get it to calculate the height correctly:
....
<div>some floated content</div>
<br style="float: none;"/> // float-breaker right before containing div closes
</div>
Otherwise the previous answerer is correct, you'll need some js hackery.
So i have:
<body style="border:1px solid red;width:100%;">
<div style="position:absolute;left:2000px;">
1
</div>
<body>
Is there any way to make body width to be 100% of document (including "scrolling space") instead of 100% of inner window width in this case?
I mean i need the result as if i applied "width:2000px;" to the body, but without knowing this number.
I know, that it will take one line of code in js and still i wonder, if i can do this with pure css.
To clarify:
When i write "width:100%;" i expect, that body width will stretch up to 2000px (to include that absolutely positioned div), but it stretches only to 1024px (browser window width).
There is a logical puzzle with this layout.
<body style="background:red;width:100%;">
<div style="position:absolute;left:2000px;">
1
</div>
<body>
Because the inner div is positioned absolutely, it is out of the document flow, and therefore, the parent block container, <body>, cannot compute a width based on the absolutely positioned child element.
By assigning a percentage width of 100% to <body>, the width is actually being computed based on the width of the root element, in this case, <html>, which may in turn, inherit its height from the viewport.
This effect cannot be achieved by CSS alone.
If you need the inner div to be absolutely positioned, then you will need some JavaScript/jQuery functionality to determine the width of <body> based on some custom rules that you want to specify.
The problem is position: absolute what you can do is wrapping your div inside another one like this:
<body style="border:1px solid red;width:100%;">
<div style="width:2000px;">
<div style="position:absolute;left:2000px;">
1
</div>
</div>
<body>
because when you make any element absolute is not belongs to is parent anymore and it becomes separate element in document (in document flow). If this answer is not what you want, tell me what you want exactly to do (what is your design decision) then I can give you alternative designs to solve your problem.
The width property doesn't have anything to do with the objects' child elements. Additionally, by absolute positioning that element, it actually causes the parent to COMPLETELY ignore any size parameters of that particular child element. But even with a relatively positioned object with an offset, only the initial position of the element would have an impact on its parent and not the offset location of it.
Setting width to 100% will cause it to fill 100% of its parent container, in this case the <html> element. And by explicitly stating a width, even if you had a large amount of unwrapped content inside that container, your width would actually be locked at 100% (or the width of the browser window) regardless of said child content.
You could TRY and set the width to 200%, which would cause it stretch to the right beyond its parent container. But this width would not be driven by the absolute positioned child element, and may not be responsive enough for your needs.
As was already stated above, there is no pure CSS solution for what you're trying to do and you'll need to use at least some javascript to accomplish what it sounds like you're trying to accomplish.
I have a div that shows some text and is absolutely positioned on a page. While it is absolutely positioned the div is just large enough to show the text it contains. When I add an inline style to that div to change it to be relatively positioned, the width of the div suddenly expands to take up 100% of the page...
I used the Chrome dev tools to toggle the relative position on/off. Turning it off causes the width to be correct, turning it back on causes the div to expand. It is an inline style so there isn't any CSS class or selector that is changing the width on me.
I experience the same issue in Firefox. Removing position: relative in Firebug causes the width to shrink back down to be just wide enough to fit the text.
If you want relative position DIV take his content width then you can give float, display:inline or display:inline-block to your DIV
could you please post the HTML and CSS, and I could have a look at it..
Meanwhile you might wanna have a look at
Position an HTML element relative to its container using CSS
and see if that could possibly help you?
to change size as content grows/shrinks use something like:
<div style="min-height:30px;max-height:300px;">
Which will mean it'll vary between 30 and 300 px depending on content
or
<div style="min-height:30px;height:auto;">
which will vary between 30px and as big as its container will allow (so forever, essentially)
I am using firebug to debug, one useful feature of firebug is when I click the element in HTML, firebug will show highlight on the actual browser window so that I know which part is currently selected.
But I noticed, with some css, below code is interesting:
<div>
<div>
</div>
</div>
The parent divs highlight area didn't cover the child div's highlight area. In my opinion, the child divs area should be a subset of parent's, is it right? In which cases that that is not true?
There are some cases:
If the child uses position: relative; top: 200px and move away from the parent.
If the child does something similar using a negative margin. (similar to 1)
If the child is a float, and there is no clearing or some kind of clearfix, such as the newest method of making the parent overflow: auto, then the parent will not enclose the floated child.
It is mostly likely because the child divs are floated. In this case you need to use a clearfix hack, or add an additional div into the container like so:
<div style="clear: both"></div>
It depends upon the style being applied. Generally what you are saying holds good. But positioning of a child element can be made independent of the parent.
You may please show the css to get clear idea.
If the inner element is floating or positioned absolutely, it won't affect the size of the parent.
If the inner element is floating you can change the overflow setting of the outer element to make it contain the child. You can specify overflow:hidden; for the parent element, but no size, which has the side effect that it will be sized to contain it's children.