CSS is still fairly new to me. I have a div element and want to define a button element that would be placed right of the div element. However, I want to do this without modifying any of the styling of the div element. Is this possible? Edit: If yes, please show me an example :)
You can use position:absolute for that element and align it using right/left and top/bottom css rules, this will align the element relative to the entire webpage (or nearest position:relative parent), but what you're looking for is usually done by making both elements float:right/left or display:inline-block. Note that the '/' in my answer indicate your choices, not actual css directives.
Simple add the
float:left
or
float:right
to style it will work fine and display after one and other.
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I am trying to absolutely position an element inside a table cell.
The TD has position:relative and the element has position:absolute.
This works great in all browsers except in Firefox where it is positioned relative to an ancestor relative container.
You can see this reproduced in this fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/ac5CR/1/
Does anyone know if I miss some CSS setting that can fix that in Firefox?
the element is not a block element.
add to the style display:block, you will get the needed behavior.
A possible work around would be to wrap the position:absolute element with another position:relative div. It requires an extra div, which is lame, but will give you the right result.
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/pTJUk/
Note -- this still won't give a completely correct result, as the position:relative div will be relative to the text position in the td -- crazy, right? Giving the cell a vertical-align:top will make it orient to 0,0, but of course this could be at the cost of other formatting your design requires.
It was a very old Firefox bug that have been fixed about 13 years after being reported!
You may refer to the entertaining history here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63895
Basically, I have a form, outside of that form in this random space on my page I want to position a div (containing two buttons). I've looked at using absolute positioning. However, it is positioning it outside of the page wrapper.
How can I get the positioning to be specified from the corner point of the actual page and not the window?
How can I get the positioning to be
specified from the corner point of the
actual page and not the window?
You need to add position: relative to the element you would like the top and left values to be offset from.
That might be your form, or it might be your #container/#wrapper element.
See here for details and a visual: http://css-tricks.com/absolute-positioning-inside-relative-positioning/
Looks like you have your answer by now. But ill post this anyways.
A simple and short example which shows how relative positioning to parent is done.
http://jsfiddle.net/EadXw/
If you want it positioned top:0;left:0 on the page, place it immediately after the <body> tag.
If it is wrapped in anything the containers may change it's position. Make sure it is independant and not influenced by any containers.
Sounds like you should read up a bit on the flow of the DOM.
Positioning with CSS and HTML
Make sure your <form> element wraps your whole "page" and that the <div> with the buttons is the first child of <form>.
When you do this you can add the rule position:relative to the form and position:absolute to the <div> and move it around with top and left.
Another option is to have no position rule on the form and have position:relative on the <div>. This is more compatible with iPad and iPhone devices, which don't like absolute positioning. When you go for this approach be sure to have a fixed height for the <div> and a negative margin-bottom of the same size.
I want to keep several divs at one place and want to show them on clicking on the respective buttons but they are coming in a row format. Actually I want to keep then overlapping each another.
You have to use absolute positioning and z-index to put one on top of the other.
Check this example, and modify z-index to see how it changes:
http://jsfiddle.net/Pizzicato/LgN9z/
You can do it with absolute CSS positioning. Here is tutorial on this topic with examples. Overlapping of HTML elements is done through z-index CSS property.
How do you choose when to use DIV and when SPAN, to wrap something?
Many time when we make PSD 2 HTML, in some conditions to get any effect or to wrap something to get needed effect, we use div or span.
And I know div is block level element and span is inline level element and we can change display properties through CSS. and I also know div cannot come inside span.
What are cases when you use div as a display:inline and span as a display:block? and should we try to avoid those scenarios? is this semantically incorrect?
and when we use blank div or span (no content inside) to get some effect, than which is correct?
As you note, you should use divs as dividers of blocks, and spans for marking inline content.
And yes, you should try to avoid changing the display types of them.
Regarding blank element, div is better as you can define its width and height while for span it won't have proper effect.
Most simple example to prove this point can be seen in action here: http://jsfiddle.net/yahavbr/4DZkV/
This is still a good question but the suggested answers only seem to address part of the question. There are three CSS display types, which help put this into perspective: inline, block, and inline-block. If you read this other Stackoverflow topic, CSS display: inline vs inline-block, I think you'll get some useful guidelines. For example, if you need to ensure the element has distinct top and bottom padding and margins, then it probably needs to be a div (with CSS style inline-block), otherwise a span is probably a better choice.
When I remove the display:block from a p inside a div, it ignores the top-margin or it's own hight or something like that. It snuggles up right next to the element above it. Does anyone know why?
The div is floated, the element above is not.
Inline elements simply don't take vertical margins or height into account. Block elements do.
Edit:
In response to comments, it looks like there are two issues at play here.
You have two elements with id='generals'. Change this to class='generals'.
Add overflow: hidden to your generals style. All of the elements inside it are floated, and so don't apply to the height of the element. Adding overflow: hidden changes how the element is displayed, clearing all the floats inside it.