Please see this pen for an example of my problem http://codepen.io/MarkRBM/pen/EmlJC
I cant get the 3 divs that say book now, subscribe, contact to display inline with the div with with the header and paragraph. I have been trying for a while and looking at learn layout.com. This is part of a larger project and I have tried to float it but it messes up the styling of everything else if I do that so I figured there must a way with inline block
edit I have updated the pen with the full scss file the css in question is on lines 866-894. There may be too much going wrong for you to figure it out and if so thats not a problem I will keep plugging away at it.
Yes, it's certainly possible, and you're on the right track. Just a few errors in the css:
First, .locinfo is inline-block, but it's inside .loc, which is not (so it's block by default) — so set .loc to inline-block as well.
You're also missing a semicolon after inline-block in the definition of .locbook, which is causing that rule to be ignored.
Without knowing exactly what you want the result to look like, I'm not sure if there's more that needs fixing. But those changes seem to get at least most of the way there.
Edit: more detail in response to comment:
.locinfo is alone by itself in its container, so set its width to 100% instead of 49%. The key is that this is the element's width as a percentage of its container. Its container (a .loc) has 49% of the page, so if you give .locinfo 49% of that, it will only have 24% of the page.
Similarly, set .locbook to 32%. Those three divs will then lie side-by-side in their container's 49% of the page.
Finally, set vertical-align: top on .loc and margin: 0 on .locbook, and you'll get everything nicely aligned to the top.
you forgot to add semicolon after display:inline-block
.locbook{
/*width: 49%;*/
background-color: #3475b3;
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: top;
}
You might try switching them to spans. Div's are by default {display: block}, while spans are {display: inline}. Block elements cannot be placed on the same line as other elements. Inline elements' width cannot be specified however, in which case you'll want to style either div or span, whichever you choose (it doesn't really matter) to {display: inline-block}
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I have quite an interesting problem in front of me. I think it would be better to illustrate it in codepen:
https://codepen.io/BooleT/pen/bWdPWe/
In the class names ib means "inline-block" and iib means "inner inline block".
I have created figures to illustrate what I am trying to achieve. In the next 3 paragraphs I will reference the images in this album:
https://imgur.com/a/9CFAm
So there are three inline blocks, one of which is actually a container of three other inline-blocks:
The effect I want to achieve is to make the contents of the container to wrap into 2 lines when I resize the window:
But instead I only manage to wrap the whole container itself to the second line:
Is there actually the way to achieve what I want? I've tried to add nbsp between outer inline-blocks and to add white-space: nowrap to the body element (and overwrite it to white-space: normal for the container), but none of it worked.
I know that I can work around it by adding media-queries or js that simply reduces the width (or max-width) of the container when I reduce the screen width, but it doesn't seem like the solution. I don't even know the width of every block in my real layout.
I will try to keep an open mind, since the solution to this problem might require to change the entire layout of the page, but I do think there is one.
Being not a fan of flexboxes – the burden of old-browser compatibility still standing strong where I come from – here's what we do to make a container on the right occupy all the remaining horizontal space:
Codepen
The fixed-size divs on the left are told to be float: left.
The spanning div on the right is given display: block.
The smallest inner divs are display: inline-block.
If you can use flexbox then this pen: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/RVWwEP seems like it does what you want. Be aware of the compatibility caveats that go along with flexbox, though.
For convenience I've put display: flex; on the body to create top level row, although #10nikov's answer is definitely a better way to do that.
I'm a bit afraid of using floats as I didn't yet understand clearing the floats and all the hacks that are on the internet in regard to that activity so I've used display:inline-block to place two divs in inline fashion. Their container has a
width:auto;
max-width:900px;
and each of the divs has
display:inline-block;
width: 450px;
Now no matter what I do the second div always breaks to another line right below the first div.
Here's the code : http://codepen.io/anon/pen/xgtFd
I have already modified the width of the two divs like for example
width:440px;
but it didn't help. Still the second div is slightly 'off place'. That's weird cause I was making a website and using pretty much the same approach for my header like in this project. Please help me determine the problem.
I would be glad for any help.
The widths are too wide.
Bump the nav down to about 446px, and they come back in line.
Why 444px instead of 450px? Two reasons:
Your border is taking 2px.
There is whitespace between the <div> tags in your markup, which is reflected in the rendering. If you would like it to be able to make it 450px, put the closing div tag and the next opening div tag immediately adjacent, like so: </div><div id="nav">
If you want to be able to keep the border, and set the width to 450px, then you should check out box-sizing, and utilize box-sizing: border-box;.
Edit:
To address your vertical alignment issues, you need to apply vertical-align: top; to the div elements (the nav and logo divs).
And, the ul isn't centered because when you apply display:block to it, it fills the full width. So you could either make the contents of the div centered with text-align: center on the ul, or you could make the ul display: inline-block.
I know this is a common question and I've already tried the searched methods. Here is the jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/ZfZK9/ and here's my problem
Basically, I've got a main div container. It has an image and some text. I need the image on one side, then the text on the other. I tried putting the img in a div, setting it's height to 100%, and floating it right, but as you can see in the jsfiddle once the text goes below the image it doesn't keep the column formation.
I'm not sure why the display: block and height: 100% aren't doing any good on the left column.
Thanks
Edit: I'm assuming height: 100% doesn't work because that gets rendered and then text gets added later. I'm still trying to find an elegant solution though, and general-purpose.
Another problem, is when I set both divs (of the image and of the text) to float: left, it just displays the image then the text under it
It can be done like this: http://jsfiddle.net/ZfZK9/34/
Just create two div's as columns around both sides, then set both those sides to a specific width, then play around with the padding and margin til you get what you want.
To keep your border around your content, I added a clearfix which will help contain the two floated columns....
http://jsfiddle.net/ZfZK9/34/
Had to edit a few things, took a bit to get it right, but now all should be working. Contains two floated divs, with a browser proof clearfix added to the mix. If you wanted the image, or the sidebar to appear as if it continues to the bottom, read about Faux Columns
You have some css in the html and some in the css so this is hard to follow. What I believe I see is a common mistake where you must consider when you set something to 100% you have to think, 100% of what? It's always the parent of that element. So what is the parent set to? If nothing, there's your problem.
Just remember that if the parent is also set to 100%, the same question will apply.
EDIT: I see the problem now. I misunderstood. What you want to do then is set the width of the right div, the one with the text. Float that right and it should solve the problem.
I have this and it got an HTML img#logo-image, on some occasions it will not be displayed, display:none.
The problem is that the entire div#menu-title should fit the width of the page.
I tried putting width:100%, but when the img#logo-imag" is displayed it breaks the line being below the img#logo-image.
The width:100% does not work with elements float:left
Just unfloat the menu-title div and remove the width.. it will automatically be 100% of the header then.. and if the image is present it will adjust the ul#menu list to make room for it, which is a natural behaviour
if you want the menu-list to really only take the available width (say for a background color or something then you can add overflow: hidden; to ul#menu - though I don't see a need for that in your example code
here's a simplified version of your Fiddle - hover on the header to make the image disappear and see the ul#menu adjust to suit
Example Fiddle
You have both logo-image and menu-title floating left. Since they arent really in separate divs, they are all part of the same div, they appear next to each other. On top of that, you set the menu-title to be 760, which isn't the width of the page. At least that what it looks like you did. Do not use width 100% because resizing the page will shrink that menu title.
You really just have to play around with the divs, but i would say that separating those two divs would make you be able to stack them on top or below each other.
And in using Chrome's inspect element feature, I don't see a display:none for the image's css. I don't know why that would do that.
I'm really not sure of what you are trying to accomplish since making the div#menu-title width: 100% doesn't leave any room for anything else on the same row.
Why not let them both be inline and let the widths be whatever they need to be?
Anyway, I have a guess at what you want. You want those two elements to behave as being in a table, inside a table row, and each in a table-cell so that the image takes a maximum width, and the div#menu-title taking all of the rest of the place. In that case put them in a table, or use display: table-cell for the image and the div and fiddle around with that.
I have a bunch of float: left elements and some are SLIGHTLY bigger than others. I want the newline to break and have the images float all the way to the left instead of getting stuck on a bigger element.
Here is the page I'm talking about : link
If they are all the same size if works beautifully : link
Thanks! (I'd rather not get into javascript or server side scripting if I don't have to)
Well, if you really need to use float declarations, you have two options:
Use clear: left on the leftmost items - the con is that you'll have a fixed number of columns
Make the items equal in height - either by script or by hard-coding the height in the CSS
Both of these are limiting, because they work around how floats work. However, you may consider using display: inline-block instead of float, which will achieve the similar layout. You can then adjust their alignment using vertical-align.
I fixed it by removing float:left, and adding display:inline-block instead. Haven't used it for images, but should work fine, there, too.
Use display:inline-block
You may also find vertical-align: top or vertical-align:middle useful.
This is what I did. Seems to work in forcing a new line, but I'm not an html/css guru by any measure.
<p> </p>
You can wrap them in a div and give the div a set width (the width of the widest image + margin maybe?) and then float the divs. Then, set the images to the center of their containing divs. Your margins between images won't be consistent for the differently sized images but it'll lay out much more nicely on the page.
This is an old post and the links are no longer valid but because it came up early in a search I was doing I thought I should comment to help others understand the problem better.
By using float you are asking the browser to arrange your controls automatically. It responds by wrapping when the controls don't fit the width for their specified float arrangement. float:left, float:right or clear:left,clear:right,clear:both.
So if you want to force a bunch of float:left items to float uniformly into one left column then you need to make the browser decide to wrap/unwrap them at the same width. Because you don't want to do any scripting you can wrap all of the controls you want to float together in a single div. You would want to add a new wrapping div with a class like:
.LeftImages{
float:left;
}
html
<div class="LeftImages">
<img...>
<img...>
</div>
This div will automatically adjust to the width of the largest image and all the images will be floated left with the div all the time (no wrapping).
If you still want them to wrap you can give the div a width like width:30% and each of the images the float:left; style. Rather than adjust to the largest image it will vary in size and allow the contained images to wrap.
Add to .icons div {width:160px; height:130px;} will work out very nicely
Hope it will help