I am trying to make the green div's height to be fluid when adding content in the blue div, the red div work as spected but not the green one.
So I want the green div to be as fluid as the red one when adding content to the blu div.
Here is the code http://jsbin.com/ivobav/1/edit
Well you have multiple things at play here. First, if you want a fluid height on green div, you need to remove height: 90% from the CSS. You will notice this will make your green div disappear (because it has no relative positioned content in it).
If you type something in the green div, you will notice it grows. Now, I am assuming you want the red div to nest inside the green div. In order to do this, you need to remove the absolute positioning on the red div.
If you do this, the red div now disappears. That is because the blue div is floated inside of it, meaning it will not grow to hold the blue div. So simply add overflow: auto; to the red div and you should get what you want.
See the results here:
http://jsbin.com/ivobav/5/edit
This happens because parents don't stretch to fit their float children. To go around this problem, you may either:
not use floats
insert the equivelent of <div style="clear:both"></div> as the last element in the parent container
have otherwise non-floated content inside the parent
Edit: For a more thorough explanation, look at http://www.quirksmode.org/css/clearing.html. Mike's answer is the best way to do it, but unfortunately it won't work on all occasions. Notice that while this seems like a problem for which people have tried to come up with solutions, it's not actually a bug, it's the spec - cue someone to introduce some new standard CSS property to make an element to stretch to fit its floats...
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I have several uniform blue elements (<div style="display: inline-block;">) inside a red div inside a purple div. Mockup (imgur).
I would like the blue elements to be left-aligned (as many in a row as will fit in the purple div width), with a red div shrink-wrapped around them. But then I would like the red div be horizontally centered inside the purple div.
I was hoping to do something like this (jsFiddle), but that only works if the red div has a specified width.
Returning to this problem, I have found a solution with inline CSS and no javascript (which were additional constraints I didn't mention).
If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid! At least that's what I'm telling myself.
My solution is padding the end of the list of child elements with several "invisible" equal-width 0-height inline-block elements. I ended up not needing the "red div" to accomplish this result.
Here is my solution: http://jsfiddle.net/3wVTx/8/
Would putting a margin on #red not work? Granted this would depend on if anything else will be inside of #purple. Is this not what you are looking for? http://jsfiddle.net/3wVTx/3/
I have this:
http://jsfiddle.net/UHrLH/1/
I set the height on the box element to auto, but min-height is 200px;
Now if i try to make more content in the first box, the height expands but it creates a big white space under it. I do not want that, i want to have the box under eachother like you can see above, where the height on all boxes is 200px
See the issue here:
http://jsfiddle.net/UHrLH/2/
http://jsfiddle.net/chricholson/UHrLH/10/
This will give you boxes inline but unfortunately the pairs will not extend to match the height of it's partner. To do this you will need to use tables or a javscript overwrite to capture the height. Also, bear in mind display: inline-block will not work on divs in IE7 and below, it would work on a span though: http://www.quirksmode.org/css/display.html#t03
http://jsfiddle.net/UHrLH/11/
I have added an additional div if that is ok for you...
<div class="box_Container">
black is the browser window in the image bellow.
I want to accomplish the image in the right
I have a div which is centered (blue) and has a fixed width
I have a div which is inside (red)
I want the red div to span from one side of the screen to the other while still aligning all else in the center.
How should I do this?
Should I break it in 3 divs(first fixed and centered, the second to span all width, the third like the first)
Here's an example of how to do it if you want the red div on top. If it's behind the blue, then put it first in the markup and you don't need the third div: http://jsfiddle.net/mGnpr/2/
Well, you answered your own question. I suggest you break it in 3 divs. Seeing how HTML elements function, it's pretty hard to 3-dimensionally stack them ( and making it look good :).
Write two classes in your CSS file: one with the fixed width and second with the "100%" width. Use the first class for top and bottom divs, the latter class for the middle div.
To get an idea of what the hell I'm on about, please go Here and Here
As you will see there is a side bar and a content area, sidebar is floating left, content floating right, and footer clears both.
Height on the sidebar and content are not set so the divs grow!
However, you can see that if one floating div is bigger than the other, the the background image appears.
I need to know how to make the background colour of both divs always be the same, and grow together in peace and harmony
Thanks
display: table-cell on both divs (and removing the floats) can work easily here, though lower IEs won't like it.
Or, you could always use the infamous Faux Columns
What you are asking is for the two divs to be the same height even though their content height is different. This cannot be done without relying on tables or javascript.
What you can do to achieve the same effect, is have a container div (I can see you already have it) and give this a vertically repeating background image of the sidebar and content color. This is known as Faux Columns.
Make sure to clear within the container (move <div class="clear"></div> up one level) so the container gets the height of whichever div is bigger.
I have a div that is float: right and it is inside a parent div. There are p elements inside that same parent div also, and the text wraps around the float: right div properly.
However, if I set the p elements to have a border, or do a <hr />, the border does not stop where the text stops, but extends behind the float: right div.
Here is a beautiful mspaint depiction of the situation:
Note that the green part of the black horizontal line is behind the floating div.
How do I get the border or <hr /> or whatever to be only as wide as the text, and not go behind the div?
I know this problem was posted some time ago, but I had the same problem today and found another solution:
http://jsfiddle.net/MvX62/
I use border-bottom instead of the <hr /> tag and had to add an overflow: hidden;. Look at the fiddle, i think this is more useful then the accepted solution, because you can also add a margin to the horizontal line and there is the same gap, as the text has.
Also you don't need to define z values and don't need any hacks or workarounds.
I've had this problem before, and I wasn't sure if it was solvable.
In your case, however, you could wrap the green box with another element and swap margin with padding and set its background to #fff to cover the offending line.
Check out the fiddle...
http://jsfiddle.net/UnsungHero97/8BwGB/3/
What I did here was give the floated element a z-index CSS property, which will put it "above" the non floated element (which has a smaller valued z-index) and the <hr /> will not go above the floated element.
In regards to getting it as wide as the text, in my example it is as wide as the text, but I'm not sure if that holds across browsers (I'm on Chrome). Let me know if it doesn't.
I hope this helps.
Hristo
p.s. excellent mspaint skillz :)
You would have to set the width of the paragraphs to the width of the container minus the width of the floating element, or you could give them a margin on the same side of the float equal to the float's width.
Div cannot wrap around another div. Wrapping is text-only property. You can simulate wrapping by setting the margin-right for the master div to the width of the div you want it to wrap, but text wil not flow under the inset div.
Some values of the overflow property can cause this behavior. Specifically, overflow: visible which is often set by popular CSS resets/normalization.