I've got two table-cell divs next to each other, but for some reason one has what seems to be a giant margin-top that I'm not creating, and I don't have any idea why.
<div style="display:table;">
<div style="display:table-cell;">
<img src="http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/3181865974/b3583cd60d3d21ea9b9776634084b710_normal.png" />
</div>
<div style="display:table-cell;">
<div>Your compiler finds a big block of commented-out code… It knows it shouldn't look… Takes the tiniest of tiny peeks… BLUSHES BRIGHT RED.Your compiler finds a big block of commented-out code… It knows it shouldn't look… Takes the tiniest of tiny peeks… BLUSHES BRIGHT RED.</div>
</div>
JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/HycBx/
You have both cells with the same height. The space on top is because the text is defaulting to a vertical align of "baseline".
Add the css to your cells:
vertical-align: top;
The default vertical alignment for the cells is the baseline. You will notice that the image and the first line of the text actually share the same baseline, hence the alignment. This is irrespective of the display property, and you can see the same behavior without splitting the display into cells:
http://jsfiddle.net/ExplosionPIlls/HycBx/2/
The simplest fix is probably to change both cells to have the same vertical alignment. I think vertical-align: middle works best.
http://jsfiddle.net/ExplosionPIlls/HycBx/3/
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I'm trying to vertically align some text in a div by setting the line height equal to the div height. This works just fine when there's just text in the div, and also when there's a small image in the div. But for some reason, when there's an image beyond a certain size in the div, it starts pushing the text downward. Check out this fiddle I made to demonstrate it.
In the fiddle are 4 divs that all have height: 40px and line-height:40px. The only difference is the the 2nd, 3rd & 4th divs also have images of size small, medium and large:
.small{height:20px;}
.medium{height:30px;}
.large{height:40px;}
So why are the third fourth images messing up the vertical alignment?
You need to add vertical-align: middle to your img tag, because it's not inline element, its inline-block element.
See updated Fiddle
Note that your vertical alignment method will not work when your text will be more than 1 row. Use for alignments flexbox, there are really good things :)
There a small space below every image. By default, an image is rendered inline (actually it's inline-block), like a letter. It sits on the same line that other letters sit on. There is space below that line for the descenders you find on letters like j, p and q.
You can adjust the vertical-align of the image to position it elsewhere. In this case vertical-align: middle; would be fine.
This answer describes the issue in details: Mystery white space underneath image tag
Vertical align is one of those things they never got quite right - try googling some articles around it.
My instant reaction here is to try vertical-align:middle on each of your images - but no guarantees - I've always had to experiment and you may get varying results from different browsers.
The only all-browser answer I've found is to create a 2-column table (maybe within the div box, but not necessarily) and put text in one cell (text is automatically vertically centred in table cells) then put the matching image in the next cell (which will automatically expand to the height of the image).
Aren't tables brilliant? (some people don't think so...)
I have a simple layout composed of boxes.
Fiddle of the code
I have <div> tags within <div> tags; I'm using them to 'define' blocks where I can later print out inputs.
<div class=display-window>
<div id=pieces>
</div>
<div id=vline></div>
<div id=message>
<p>Nothing special is going on</p>
</div>
</div>
When I take the <p> element out, the display is fine. But when it's there, the box slides down, making it way off. This is true for both #pieces and #message, here. It seems that the box slides until the paragraph is against its top. I want the box to stay there.
Shouldn't child elements leave their parents undisturbed if they can?! This feels very inflexible!
Note: I get widely different results between codecademy.com and fiddle.net, so it's difficult for me to tell what is going on exactly. Margins and padding solve the problem, but this is, again, inflexible: I want to remove the tags during execution.
This has to do with your inline-block style elements. By default, all inline-block elements have a vertical-align set to baseline, which in your case is the bottom [line-height] (probably 16px) of your vertical line (div#vline) in the middle of your div.
Set the v-align to top on the p element's container and it works great:
#message
{
vertical-align: top;
}
JSFiddle
I've created a jsFiddle to help explain:
http://jsfiddle.net/windthorst/BvgZK/
But here is the HTML right here, for reference:
<header>
<div id="titlebar">
<div id="titlename">
<h1>Title Name Here</h1>
</div>
<div id="titlemenu">
<span>Item One</span><span>Item two</span>
</div>
</div>
</header>
I know that by adding the CSS tag float: left to both of the inner divs (#titlename and #titlemenu) I can have them line up side by side correctly in the containing div (#titlebar). It took a moment to figure out, but that's done.
What I'm wondering is: why do they position the way they do in the jsFiddle, without the floats? When there is no text in the first div (removing the <h1> tag here), the second div positions so that the <span> text inside it "rests" along the bottom of the containing div (#titlebar), and when there is no text in either they both position "correctly" (to my estimation) within the containing div.
Sorry to bother with the "why," but I'm totally stumped on how to avoid struggling with such issues in the future if I don't know what's actually going on here...
It's the vertical-align property that controls the alignment of elements within the inline formatting context - and the reason the <div> moves down when adding text is because the default value of vertical-align is baseline for elements in the inline formatting context, which basically means that an element will adjust it's vertical position based on the baseline of text in surrounding inline-level elements (E.g. the baseline of "Title Name Here"). You can change the default value to top for example, so that it aligns itself to the top of surrounding inline-level elements, which is a bit more intuitive. You may benefit from taking a look at this previous answer for a better explanation of the baseline value - it can be a little hard to wrap your head around at first
http://jsfiddle.net/BvgZK/1/
By default, the text in both inline blocks are vertically aligned along a common baseline for the text.
If you apply vertical-align: top to #titlename, you may get a better result.
See: http://jsfiddle.net/audetwebdesign/BvgZK/2/
I have a div, which contains an image and a span. I would like the text in the span to be middle-aligned with the image. Naturally, I made a fiddle for your convenience.
Here is the HTML:
<div id="legend">
<img src="http://fate.holmes-cj.com/plus.png"/>
<span> * 5</span>
</div>
Here are some of the things I've tried:
span {vertical-align:middle;} seems to do nothing.
span {vertical-align:top;} aligns the text to the top of the image. You would think that if top works, so would middle.
span {vertical-align:20px;} gives me what I want, but it depends upon (and interacts with) the div height, the image height, and the font size.
adding display:table-cell has been suggested elsewhere on SO, but seems to do nothing in Chrome.
You can see the problem in context at my Fate Dice Roller. Click on "roll" a few times, and then mouse over the histogram. You get some neat stats on your dice rolls, but the text portion is misaligned.
Am I just out of luck here, or is vertical alignment really supposed to be this messy? I would love a solution that doesn't have to be tweaked when I change the font size.
Here you go: http://jsfiddle.net/nYbwf/3/
Just vertical-align: middle on the image element, that way it will align vertically right in the middle instead of baseline.
I have 3 <div> blocks placed side by side. They are identical with the only difference being that the last <div> (on the far right) has a bit more text in it. However, all the blocks have a fixed width and height. For some reason, the last <div> is placed higher than the rest. I cannot figure this out for the life of me!
See here: http://jsfiddle.net/ZrSF4/
Any ideas?
You should apply vertical-align: top to all the divs: http://jsfiddle.net/ZrSF4/1/
You have to vertically align then, e.g. vertical-align:top;
http://jsfiddle.net/ZrSF4/2/