I don't know much about html or css but I have done this much;
I want to stack divs so it looks like this (please excuse the bad drawing) ;
I have googled how to and tried different thing but the likes/dislikes boxes always end up not moving or move to the very left/very right.
<div style="float:left;width:300px;height:350px;text-align:center;">
<div style="float:left;width:500px;height:200px;text-align:center;">
<div id="wrapper">
<div style="align=center;">
<div id="first">1</div>
<div id="second">2</div>
These are th three divs I have.
First one has links [the add/message etc]
Second one has "thelastgecko" and profile text.
And I am trying to use the last box for likes/dislikes but whatever im doing it isn't working.
You usually use one "huge" div, set it below 1024 pixels wide so old screens can view it and then you usually center it in the middle of the screen. Then inside of that big div you put the "add me - message me - gallery" with a "float:left" or "position:absolute" I prefer the latter. then you make another div containing the "The last gecko" + dislikes & likes and center that div, then after that I would make another div and either do a "float:right" or a "position:absolute; left:'huge width minus this ones width".
I did write everything in text and readable since giving the code away doesn't teach as well.
But in case you still didn't get it, here's my idea:
<html>
<head>
<style>
body{margin:0px;padding:0px;width:100%;height:100%;}
#container{width:900px;margin:auto;margin-top:200px;}
#add_me,#dislike_text{position:absolute;width:200px;background-color:#ace;}
#last_gecko,#holder{margin:auto;width:500px;background-color:#eca;}
#likes,#dislikes{float:left;width:250px;display:block;background-color:#cae;}
#dislikes{background-color:#cea;}
#dislike_text{margin-left:700px;background-color:#eac;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="add_me">add me<br>message me<br>wuts going on</div>
<div id="dislike_text">dislike text</div>
<div id="last_gecko">
Last Gecko
<div id="holder">
<div id="dislikes">dislikes</div>
<div id="likes">likes</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Made it workable, it will at least show you in what direction to move, It might not be the best way but it is my way.
You could do something like this: http://jsfiddle.net/jAKgd/
CSS
#wrapper {
width: 800px;
}
#leftColumn {
float: left;
height: 800px;
width: 200px;
margin-right: 5px;
}
#leftColumn a {
display: block;
}
#rightColumn {
width: 100%;
}
#contentDislike,
#contentLike {
display: inline-block;
width: 250px;
}
Obviously the height/widths can be changed to meet your needs. I was just doing a quick example.
HTML
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="leftColumn"> Link
Link
Link
Link
Link
</div>
<div id="rightColumn">
<div id="contentTop">
<img src="/images/image_name.jpg" alt="image text here" />
<p>THIS IS WHERE YOUR PROFILE TEXT WOULD SHOW. IT CAN EXPAND HEIGHT AS NEEDED.</p>
</div>
<div>
<div id="contentDislike">DISLIKE CONTENT HERE</div>
<div id="contentLike">LIKE CONTENT HERE</div>
</div>
<div>YOUR LOWER TWO COLUMNS WILL GO IN THIS DIV</div>
</div>
</div>
It's a bad way of design to use floats to place divs at some place.
It's a much better way to use, for example, a flex layout.
But this is not supported by all browsers (But nearly. If you can, take this option).
Another solution is this one:
Use the width option. You set the width of any div of your html to a fixed number, in percent, of course. Watch this example
But if you do this, you will have to pay attention for very large and very little screens, I think you would have to write alternative css style sheets which are working with (max-width) and (min-width).
And there is another solution: the gridlayout. It is part of the standards since 2013 (I think) but it's not well supported yet. But maybe in future.
Hope I could help
Related
I want to incorporate an image that sits on top of an existing image (and maybe straddles two different divs. In general, I would just like to see what general html structure you'd suggest -- and any CSS rules I should include. I've spent hours trying to replicate the structure I wanted -- but after inspecting elements and trying to de-construct and re-construct I was unable to produce anything close to what I wanted.
Also, in the example provided below -- I noticed the overlapping image was placed inside a span tag. Any idea why? If you could just roughly describe how you'd approach this kind of design -- that would be awesome!
This is a pretty neat effect. This is one way out of multiple you can do.
The trick is to have a fixed height on your div with background, and inside it, another div that contains the image.
I've tried to keep height/widths pretty small so you can check them correctly on the embedded snippet. I've tried to keep styles as minimal as possible to recreate what you asked for.
Let me know if something like this does the job.
.first-image{
background: #eee;
height: 250px;
}
.container{
width: 95%;
margin: 0 auto;
max-width: 400px;
}
.container--padding{
padding: 1rem 0;
}
.second-image{
margin: 2rem auto;
}
<header>
<div class="first-image">
<div class="container container--padding">
<h2>I'm the cool title headline.</h2>
<button>Download</button>
</div>
<div class="second-image">
<div class="container">
<img src="http://placehold.it/400x190" alt="placeholder" />
</div>
</div>
</div>
</header>
In the example you're referring to, the images are not <img /> tags but <div /> overlapping on top of each other. Both of these <div /> have a background image.
There are multiple solutions to make 2 <div /> overlaps, you could use absolute positioning, float, negative margins, having the background in a parent <div /> with a height greater than the height of the background image, etc.
For example, using negative margins, if I have 2 <div /> following each other like:
<div class="bg1"></div>
<div class="bg2"></div>
I could simply add a negative top margin to the second one to make it appears on top of the first one to give an illusion of overlapping like:
.bg2 {
margin-top: -40px;
}
You can check an example using negative margin on this JSFiddle.
A client asked me to fix their image grid CSS. While I thought they just screwed around to much with the HTML for it to function properly it seems the problem is a bit more technical then I initially thought.
Because I cannot think of the right keywords google isn't much help either.
My problem is this:
the banners are png's. And as you might figure, the bottom 3x1 banner should align to the bottom of the other 3x1 banner.
This isn't really a problem if I'm working with columns (in this case 2), but I that's not the case. Since sometimes an image takes on a width of multiple columns, there is no clear line in between.
HTML:
<div class="page-banners grid-container">
<div class="grid12-6 banner">
<img src="3x1.png" />
</div>
<div class="grid12-6 banner">
<img src="3x2.png" />
</div>
<div class="grid12-6 banner">
<img src="3x1.png" />
</div>
</div>
CSS:
.grid12-6 {
width: 48%;
}
.grid12-1, .grid12-2, .grid12-3, .grid12-4, .grid12-5, .grid12-6, .grid12-7, .grid12-8, .grid12-9, .grid12-10, .grid12-11, .grid12-12, .grid-full, .grid-col2-sidebar, .grid-col2-main {
display: inline;
float: left;
margin-left: 1%;
margin-right: 1%;
}
Changing
float:left;
to
display:inline-block;
doesn't do the trick, it just makes the first 3x1 banner vertically align to the baseline of 3x2.
The answer is probably fairly simple. But I've spend way to much time staring at it.
Below is an example (made in excel) for the page could 'look' like if all the images were inserted. Each color as a placeholder for a banner.
Basically, this is what I want, but without the javascript.
http://desandro.github.io/masonry/demos/basic-multi-column.html
It should be enough to put the images together into one column, havent tried it
<div class="page-banners grid-container">
<div class="grid12-6 banner">
<img src="3x1.png" />
<img src="3x1.png" />
</div>
<div class="grid12-6 banner">
<img src="3x2.png" />
</div>
</div>
you might need to adjust the space between them
It's hard to say as you are not giving us the real example of use but try setting the height on the banners as the lowest heigt and the inages will overflow naturaly like so:
.banner{height:100px}
http://fiddle.jshell.net/gndLuqqy/
I don't even know if what I am asking is possible, but it's worth a shot. Basically I have a one page scrolling website controlled by jQuery, but it's a very very simple code, no plugin or external doc. That works great.
Every "page" if you will is divided into different divs to separately control function of pictures, tables, fonts, etc. per each page. Like this:
//home page
<div id="home">
content here
</div>
//about page
<div id="about">
content here
</div>
and so on and so forth... my question is, can i do something like this? I've tried but maybe I don't have the "decimal" in the right spot...
//home page
<div id="home resize">
<div id="home">
content here
</div>
</div>
//about page
<div id="about resize">
<div id="about">
content here
</div>
</div>
and then CSS be
home resize {
position: relative;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
}
Two things I see right away. First, your CSS rule should be .home.resize instead of home resize. Second, height, when using percentages, requires that the height be set on the html tag to make a difference. So you will need rules such as this:
html {
min-height: 100%;
}
.home.resize {
height: 100%;
}
Otherwise, height will never take up the entire browser window height.
This all being said, I would guess that your best solution would involve JS or jQuery in some way. I know there are several single page scrolling plugins that do this job quite well.
First things first. HTML id's cannot contain spaces. You should define a class name resize. That being said. You can achieve this by using this.
Here is a fiddle
div id="home" class="resize">
content here
</div>
<div id="about" class="resize">
content here
</div>
.resize{
display:block;
height:100vh;
margin:0;
}
#home{
background-color:red;
}
#about{
background-color:blue;
}
vh is viewport height. It will set the height of your div same as viewport. 1vh is equivalent to 1/100th of viewport height
I am trying to create a 4 column <div> layout.
Why are the row containers not drawing a border around the respective row?
Also, is this a good approach, as in is my css written well to be fluid and for dynamic resizing of the browser window?
Any suggestions or help would be most appreciated.
Here is my current attempt.
You need to set the overflow to auto when using float. http://jsfiddle.net/gJJHs/
The problem seems to be that you are floating your columns, and when you float things, they take up effectively zero space.
I think the solution is to cancel the float in you "last" class and add a "dummy column" to each row.
This CSS seems to work:
.col
{
float: left;
width: 25%;
}
.last{
clear: left;
}
.row{
border: 1px solid green;
}
Revised HTML (with dummy last column):
<div class="row">
<div class="col">1</div>
<div class="col">2</div>
<div class="col">3</div>
<div class="col">4</div>
<div class="last" />
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col">5</div>
<div class="col">6</div>
<div class="col">7</div>
<div class="col">8</div>
<div class="last" />
</div>
When an element is floated, its parent no longer contains it because the float is removed from the flow. The floated element is out of the natural flow, so all block elements will render as if the floated element is not even there, so a parent container will not fully expand to hold the floated child element.
As such, the border will seem like it is not bordering anything :( Take a look at the following article to get a better idea of how the CSS Float property works:
The Mystery Of The CSS Float Property
As others have said, if you add overflow: auto; to your .row class, it'll take care of the problem. Here's another article that explains why to use overflow.
http://www.quirksmode.org/css/clearing.html
I hope this helps.
Hristo
it's the float left. That takes the divs "out of flow" and it's drawing the border around empty space essentially
Yet another option, in addition to the other answers, is to add overflow: hidden; to your .row.
The reason for the behavior you saw is that float takes the div outside of the normal flow. The div then essentially takes up no space in the document.
This makes sense if you think about the ostensible purpose of floating an image in order to wrap text around it. The next p tag (for example) is positioned as if the floated image wasn't there, i.e. overlapping the image. Then, the browser wraps the text within the 'p' tag around the image. (If the floated image was not "removed from the flow", the p tag would naturally appear below the image—not giving the desired effect.)
Here's how I'd write the code.
HTML:
<div class="row">
<div class="col">1</div>
<div class="col">2</div>
<div class="col">3</div>
<div class="col">4</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col">5</div>
<div class="col">6</div>
<div class="col">7</div>
<div class="last">8</div>
</div>
CSS:
.col
{
float: left;
width: 25%;
}
.row{
border: 1px solid green;
overflow: hidden; /* "overflow: auto;" works just as well instead */
width:100%; /* Helps older versions of IE */
}
Add a "float:none;clear:both" to your .row and you'll see the rows appropriately. But for the fluid behavior and design that you are looking for, you'll want to apply some javascript (like jQuery Equal Height: http://www.jainaewen.com/files/javascript/jquery/equal-height-columns/) to be consistent across browsers without a ton of CSS hacking.
I'm helpless, tried my best understanding CSS but it's just not for me.
I would like to make a really simple MasterPage:
at the top a div of full width and height 40px (1)
at the bottom also a div of full width and height 40px (2)
in the middle:
on the left: a div of width 200 px (3)
on the right side of the left div: a div with contentPlaceHolder (4)
What I would like to get is: if i make some site that uses my master page and place a panel in the contentPlaceHolder that has width 800px, I would like my site to adjust to it - top, middle and bottom divs to have their width of 1000px (200 + 800). I also wouldn't like (and I have a huge problem with that) the (4) to move down if I resize (shrink) the browser window - I would like all the divs to be blocked.
This is my master page html:
<div>
<div class="header">
</div>
<div>
<div class="links">
</div>
<div class="content">
</div>
</div>
<div class="footer">
</div>
</div>
What kind of CSS do I have to write to make this finally work?
Not sure if you have checked into this or not, but we use the YUI-Grids CSS Framework for our layouts. It keeps us from having to spend a lot of time on CSS, which we are not great at being developers.
There is even a grid builder which will let you graphically layout a page, and then copy and paste the required HTML to make it happen :)
To prevent floated divs from being "squeezed" out of the alignment you want, you usually use either width or min-width.
For example, in this code the div containing the links and content will never be smaller than 1000 pixels. If the screen is smaller than 1000 pixels, a scrollbar is displayed.
<div style="min-width: 1000px">
<div class="links"></div>
<div class="content"></div>
</div>
You could also use width instead of min-width:
<div style="width: 1000px">
<div class="links"></div>
<div class="content"></div>
</div>
The difference between the two is simple: if you specify min-width, the div CAN grow to be larger if it needs to. If you specify width, the div will be exactly the size you specified.
Be aware that min-width is not supported by IE6.
Here's a quick stab at specific CSS/Markup for this problem.
Markup:
<!-- Header, etc. -->
<div class="contentView">
<div class="links">
</div>
<div class="content">
</div>
</div>
<!-- Footer, etc. -->
CSS:
.contentView {
/* Causes absolutely positioned children to be positioned relative to this object */
position: relative;
}
.links {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 200px;
}
.content {
padding-left: 200px;
}
You might want your footer to be "sticky." Check here for information on that: http://ryanfait.com/resources/footer-stick-to-bottom-of-page/
How appropriate this is depends on precisely what the design calls for. This makes the links section more of a floating box on the left than a column for example.
This ends up looking like this (.content is green, .links is red):