Aligning div to center and its content to the left - html

I'd like to have a div that is centered on the document. The div should take all the space it can to display the content and the content itself should be aligned to the left.
What I want to create is image gallery with rows and columns that are center and when you add a new thumb it will be aligned to the left.
Code:
<div id="out">
<div id="inside">
<img src="http://www.babybedding.com/fabric/solid-royal-blue-fabric.jpg"/>
<img src="http://www.babybedding.com/fabric/solid-royal-blue-fabric.jpg"/>
<img src="http://www.babybedding.com/fabric/solid-royal-blue-fabric.jpg"/>
<img src="http://www.babybedding.com/fabric/solid-royal-blue-fabric.jpg"/>
<img src="http://www.babybedding.com/fabric/solid-royal-blue-fabric.jpg"/>
</div>
</div>
and the CSS:
img {
height: 110px;
width: 110px;
margin: 5px;
}
#out {
width: 100%;
}
#inside {
display: inline-block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
text-align: left;
background: #e2e2f2;
}
Live version here: http://jsfiddle.net/anPF2/10/
As you will notice, on right side of "#inside" there is space that I want to remove, so this block will be displayed until the last square and all of it will be centered aligned.
EDIT:
Please view this photo: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qy6trnmdks73hy5/css.jpg
It explains better what I'm trying to get.
EDIT 2:
I've uloaded another photo to show how it should adjust on lower resolution screens. notice the margins on the left and right. This is what I'm trying to get (unsuccessfully so far :\ )
https://www.dropbox.com/s/22zp0otfnp3buke/css2.jpg
EDIT 3 / ANSWER
well, thank you everybody for trying solve my problem. I solved this problem using JS, with a function that listens to a screen resize event. The functions checks the size of the right margin and add padding to the left so all the content is centered. I didn't find a solution using CSS. If you have one, I'd very much like to know it.
Thanks eveyone!

Specify a width for #inside to center it. I used width: 120px. Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/anPF2/7/
Additionally, CSS should be used for the height and width of images, not attributes such as height="300". The fiddle reflects this change.

use of display:inline-block takes extra margins. To remove those set font-size:0px to the #out container. See the demo

This is what you want to achieve? demo
img {
height: 110px;
width: 110px;
margin: 5px;
display: inline-block;
}
#out {
width: 100%;
margin: 0 auto;
position: relative;
border: 1px solid red;
}
#inside {
position: relative;
background: #e2e2f2;
}

You shouldn't use Pixels when laying out your css, it makes it very rigid and causes possible problems for people with high resolution screens and low resolution screens. Its best to declare it as a % or em (% is still probably slightly better when working with widths, but em for height is perfect)
First, the "outer" div must be declared to be smaller than what it is inside. For instance if "outer" is inside body:
#outer{
width: 100%;
}
#inside{
width: 80%;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
#inside img{
height: 110px;
width: 110px;
margin-left: 1%;
margin-right: 1%;
margin-top: 0.5em;
float: left;
}
Okay so, since "inside" is 80% of "outer"'s width, the margin-left:auto, margin-right: auto together make the "inside" div center within the "outer".
Setting the float property to left moves all the imgs of inside to always try to move left while it can.
EDIT: I fixed this after looking at your picture you provided.
I haven't tested this but I believe it should work, let me know if you are having more problems.

To make the boxes not go the entire width of the page, try setting the width less than 100% on #out and add margin:auto; to center it.
#out {
width: 90%;
margin:auto;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/anPF2/36/

Related

Keeping image size fixed

I have an img that I want to not cross over into the below section. It only crosses over when i drag the viewport out and makes the window bigger.
I would like the restrict the image movement.
That probably doesn't explain my issue very well so I have attached two images to explain:
Smaller window:
Larger window:
The first image (smaller window) is what I want the image to look like, however as the larger window shows once the window becomes bigger it moves down as the page is responsive and crosses over into the references section. I would like to be able to stop it from doing this?
General images CSS:
img {
display: block;
margin: auto;
height: auto;
margin: auto;
max-width: 80%;
padding-bottom: 1em;
}
.bassportrait CSS:
.bassport {
float: right;
overflow: hidden;
padding-left: 1em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-top: 1em;
height: 20%;
width: 20%;
}
Hope that makes sense and I have shown you the relevant code - I'm a beginner!
Since your .bassport is floated right, that float will need to be cleared on the element below to prevent the overlap. There are lots of ways to do this, but the most common is to add a clearfix to its parent element.
.parent-element:after {
content: "";
display: table;
clear: both;
}
Notional markup
<div class="parent-element"><!-- Clearfix applies to this element -->
<p>Ulrika's work...</p>
<p>Bass died...</p>
<img class="bassport" src="..."><!-- Floated element that needs to be cleared -->
</div>
Alternatively, if you're using a framework that has a clearfix utility class, you could just add that class to the parent div and it would have the same effect.
Reference: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/clear-fix/

CSS DIV weird behaviour

I want to create a div, called 'container' that contains all the other elements on the page.
If I change the size the elements move and rearrange, -BUT- the div itself remains invisible! Using the Firefox inspector, it seems the div is -above- the page.
It seems very weird to me, as the divs are all properly nested and otherwise behave well.
My only guess is that this bit is causing some trouble; if i change the width, my layout goes crazy.
#upper {
float: left;
width: 100%;
height: 40%;
}
#lower {
float: left;
width: 100%;
height: 40%;
}
However I cannot quite pin down what is causing the issue. Any idea?
Here is my code: https://jsfiddle.net/xtaLfuLa/
I would just add display:inline-block; into container class.
#container {
width: 80%;
height: 90%;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
background: rgb(163, 43, 43);
border-radius: 20px;
background: red;
display:inline-block;
}
This is happening because you're floating #upper and #lower to the left. You'll need to clear the float on the parent container. This is often done using a clearfix class. Add the following class to your parent container.
.clearfix {
overflow: auto;
zoom: 1;
}
https://jsfiddle.net/xtaLfuLa/3/
learn more here: http://learnlayout.com/clearfix.html
Not clear what you are looking for(share image layout) but you need to write the code for responsive layout. Make it
#results{
margin-left:0;
}
for smaller device and add it for larger device with media query..

Force divs to be on the same line

I am trying to make a div with text and a div with a button fit side by side. It works fine until you make the screen really narrow. Is there a way to force them to be on the same line and for the first div to shrink to accommodate the min-width of the second?
http://jsfiddle.net/C3877/9/
To see what I mean, resize the window, reducing the width, until the div with the button is forced onto the second line. That is what I'd like to prevent.
Note: I only care if a suggested fix works properly in Chrome.
Instead of floats, you could use display: inline-block. This will keep things all on one line, and respect the min-width as well.
Inline-block fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/C3877/8/
In addition, since you only care about Chrome, you could look into flexible boxes
A (quick) flex fiddle here: http://jsfiddle.net/C3877/11/
You can use negative margin-left for the floated right element. Note that this solution keeps using float for both the left and right divs, without using float, you have dozens of solutions (as some of other answers pointed out).
#right_div {
...
margin-left:-100%;
}
Note that all the next content should be wrapped in a block element and use clear:both. I also added a sample of such an element with background:green in this DEMO.
Appending this does the trick I suppose:
#media (max-width:515px) {
#left_div { width: 100%; margin-right: -100px }
}
UPDATED
You could use margin and absolute positioning:
CSS
#parent_div {
width: 100%;
height: 10%;
position: relative;
min-width: 40px;
}
#left_div {
width: 80%;
min-width: 100px;
height: 80%;
float: left;
background-color: #000;
color: #FFF;
}
#right_div {
width: 15%;
min-width: 100px;
float: right;
background-color: blue;
position:absolute;
right: 0px;
}
input[type=button] {
font-size: 2rem;
}
SEE DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/C3877/19/
You will have to play with some of the css to get it just right when you move it on your website. But this is a sure quick fix.

HTML Inline-Block DIVs Not Lining Up

So I am designing a website right now (pretty nooby at HTML and CSS) but I made a design on Photoshop beforehand so that I could go right through the coding and make the website how I wanted. Well I have an issue. I have two DIV elements inside of a bigger container DIV that won't line up side-by-side, despite using inline-block. Here is the css code:
.contentContainer {
display: block;
width: 700px;
height: 250px;
margin: 20px auto;
}
.topContainer {
height: 230px;
padding: 10px;
background-color: white;
}
.topThumbnail {
display: inline-block;
width: 370px;
height: 230px;
}
.topThumbnail img {
width: 370px;
height: 230px;
}
.topInfo {
display: inline-block;
margin-left: 10px;
width: 300px;
height: 230px;
}
.topInfo p {
width: 300px;
height: 230px;
background-color: pink;
}
The contentContainer is the highest DIV holding my topContent and topThumbnail so I thought I'd throw it into the provided code.
And the HTML code:
<div class="topContainer">
<div class="topThumbnail">
<img src="YT.png" />
</div>
<div class="topInfo">
<p>Testing the information area of the top container or something along those lines</p>
</div>
</div>
Can't post pictures to explain the issue.. need 10 reputation.. will make it hard to describe.
In the design the two containers for the Thumbnail and the Info are supposed to be side-by-side and aligned at the top. The thumbnail is supposed to be on the left of the topContainer and the Info is supposed to be to the right of the thumbnail with a margin of 10. For some reason the info is not going to the right-side of the thumbnail but rather going under it. I have ALREADY set the margin to 0 to fix the default margin issues.
display: inline-block is working correctly in your example. What you need to add is vertical-align: top to your .topInfo div, and get rid of the default margin on your .topInfo p tag. Also, you need to make sure that there is enough room for the .topInfo div to sit to the side of the .topThumbnail div, otherwise it will wrap to the next line.
Like this:
http://jsfiddle.net/hsdLT/
A cleaner solution: I would look at ditching the display:inline-block CSS proporties on these elements altogether and just float them to the left. Then clear the floats by assigning clear:both to the .topInfo css property.
It's less code then your route will be and it's more structurally sound. :D.
.topThumbnail,
.topInfo {
float:left;
}
.topInfo {
clear:both;
}
Other people have already answered this with the solution, but I think it is important to understand why inline-block elements behave this way. All inline, table, and in this case, inline-block elements have the vertical-align property. The default value is set to baseline, hence the need to set vertical-align: top;.
See the docs here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/vertical-align.
This other discussion is also helpful: Vertical alignment for two inline-block elements not working as expected

Fix left and right floating images in HTML

Here's what I'd like to do: have a banner across the top of a website which stretches all across. On the left is a menu, and on the right a logo image; the menu floats left, the image floats right.
The problem is the resizing of the browser window. Because the image floats right, it correctly moves as the window gets smaller. However, at some point it begins to float into the menu. Here is a Fiddle that illustrates this effect with two floating images. Resize the browser window to see how the two images overlap.
Setting
body {
min-width: 800px;
}
I can now make sure that the scrollbar appears as the browser window reaches a certain minimum width. However, that doesn't hinder the right-floating image to keep moving as the browser window keeps getting smaller. I tried to change position: relative but that didn't work. I tried to use Javascript to fixate the images once the browser window reaches its min-width but that didn't seem to have an impact either. Using min-width on the DIV and making the images children of the DIV didn't work either.
My question is: how can I make sure that, starting at a certain window size, the right-floating image stays put instead of floating into the left-floating menu?
EDIT: Oh dear, I forgot to mention a rather important detail: the menu bar at the top needs to be sticky. That is why I used the position: fixed property for the DIV. The other page content is supposed to scroll under that menu and out of the window, see the modified fiddle here which is based on ntgCleaner's answer. This kind-of changes the whole thing, doesn't it! Sorry about that...
Thanks!
A couple things I changed:
I made your banner DIV a container instead of just a free floating div. Probably not necessary.
I gave that banner div a min-width:280px and made it overflow:hidden;
I made the images just float left and right, not positioned relatively or absolute (since it's in the div container now).
#banner {
left: 0px;
top: 0px;
width: 100%;
height: 60px;
background-color: lightblue;
z-index: 1;
opacity: 0.8;
overflow:hidden;
min-width:280px;
}
#left {
float:left;
margin:5px;
height:40px;
}
#right {
float:right;
margin:5px;
height:40px;
}
​
​
Here's the fiddle
EDITED FOR THE EDITED QUESTION:
You will just need to place all of your content under your header into a div, then give that div a top margin of the height of your fixed div. In this caes, it's 60px.
Add this to your HTML
<div id="content">
this <br>
is <br>
some <br>
test <br>
text <br>
</div>
then add this to your CSS
#content {
margin:60px 0px 0px 0px;
}​
Here's the new fiddle
Is this what you are after? http://jsfiddle.net/9wNEx/10/
You are not using the position: fixed correctly. Fixed means 'positioned relative to the viewport or browser window', and that is exactly what you are experiencing.
I removed the position: fixed from the images, and placed them inside the div. This should keep them always on top of the page, as they are inside the div that is still positioned fixed.
Also I tweaked some of the other styling to replicate your example. Note that i removed the fixed height of the head and replaced it by a padding bottom. This way the height will follow the content whenever the screen size becomes to small and the images are forced underneath each other.
The css looks like this now:
#banner {
left: 0px;
top: 0px;
width: 100%;
padding-bottom: 15px;
background-color: lightblue;
z-index: 1;
position: fixed;
opacity: 0.8;
}
#left {
float: left;
margin-left: 10px;
margin-top: 5px;
height: 40px;
}
#right {
float: right;
margin-right: 10px;
margin-top: 5px;
height: 40px;
}
I changed your HTML to put the <img> tags inside the banner, and added the min-width to the #banner since it has position: fixed. You'll still need to add min-width to the body or a container that wraps all other elements if you want there to be a min-width of the entire page.
http://jsfiddle.net/Wexcode/s8bQL/
<div id="banner">
<img id="left" src="http://www.google.com/images/srpr/logo3w.png" />
<img id="right" src="http://www.google.com/images/srpr/logo3w.png" />
</div>
#banner {
width: 100%;
min-width: 800px;
height: 60px;
background-color: lightblue;
z-index: 1;
position: fixed;
opacity: 0.8; }
#left {
float: left;
margin: 5px 0 0 10px;
height: 40px; }
#right {
float: right;
margin: 5px 10px 0 0;
height: 40px; }
​
When I look at your Fiddle I think your problem isn't the floats at all. position:fixed supersedes float. Those two elements aren't floating at all, they're in a fixed position (similar to an absolute position), which is why they overlap when they don't have enough room.
Take out float:left and float:right, the result will be the same. Also, top, left, bottom, and right don't work on non-positioned elements. So they are superfluous on your banner.
If you use floats, however, when there is not enough room the right image will wrap underneath the left. See http://codepen.io/morewry/pen/rjCGd. Assuming the heights on the images were set for jsfiddle testing only, all you need is:
.banner {
padding: 5px; /* don't repeat padding unnecessarily */
min-width: ??; /* to keep floats from wrapping, set one */
overflow: hidden; /* clearfix */
}
.right { float: right; } /* only need one float, don't over-complicate it with two */