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CSS Centering a div in different Screens
I presume the answer to this question is really simple but i am stumped.
I am trying to get a website positioned in the center of the screen like the Guardian website - http://www.guardian.co.uk/. I assumed i was right to use a left and right border, however this has made positioning the footer difficult.
Having looked at the guardian website and using the firefox inspect element capability it appears they are using no divs on the left and right of the screen whatsoever. In fact there container appears to just be in the middle of the screen.
So i suppose my question is. How do you position a container like so?
.container {
/* remember to set a width */
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
}
Here's the fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/d9yBs/
You can also combine to 2 margin properties, and use the shorthand:
margin: 0 auto;
This'll set the top & bottom margin to 0, and the left & right to auto.
quick way is:
#container
{
position: absolute;
left: 50%;
top: 50%;
height: 200px;
margin-top: -100px /* half of you height */
width: 400px;
margin-left: -200px /* half of you width */
}
another way for only centering only is
#container
{
width: 400px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
HTML
<body>
<div class="page_wrap">
</div>
</body>
CSS
.page_wrap
{
border: 1px solid black;
width: 250px;
height: 100px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
body
{
text-align: center; /* required by some browsers */
}
http://jsfiddle.net/pc7AY/ check it out.
It's just a trick with CSS:
margin: 0 auto;
From the guardian site:
div.InSkinAlignCenter {
margin: 0 auto;
}
As far as I remember position property should be set to relative
Try this:
CSS:
.page {
width: 200px;
background: #FF0000;
margin: auto;
}
HTML:
<div class="page">
This is the content.
</div>
Also, check this jsFiddle!
Related
I just finished the landing page for a nonprofit's holiday campaign. I am having a little trouble with some little finishing touches.
Currently, there is extra white space on the right side of the page triggering the horizontal scroll bar in browsers. I am not sure why, I'd like for the page width to adjust to screen size along with the elements.
Also, I am having trouble with the styling of the four images of the people being featured. I'd like the images to display on the same row with no spacing in between when screen is minimum 1200 pixels, each image is 300 x 300 pixels. Otherwise, I'd like them stacked one on top of each other centered on the screen (for mobile). They are stacking, but are displayed to the left.
I am not the savviest of programmers as I am NOT a web developer. I am actually a the Social Media Specialist for the nonprofit. I appreciate your help.
Page can be accessed here:
https://secure3.convio.net/little/site/SPageNavigator/Holiday%20Page%20Wrapper/HolidayCampaign2015.html
Best thing you can do is wrap everything inside tag to a new div & set overflow:hidden;
<body>
<div class="wrapper">
Every other HTML will go here...
</div>
</body>
CSS
.wrapper {
overflow: hidden;
}
ALSO: It is not best practice to call scripts/css inside body tag. Those should be called inside tags
Try placing everything in a Wrapper div with the folowing css:
.container {
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: 0;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
}
You could also try playing around with:
overflow-x: hidden;
For the whitespace (and scrollbar being displayed), add CSS for .row { margin: 0 !important; }. You currently have -10px +10px... I never understood why that was the bootstrap standard.
For centering the images, you want to add margin: 0 auto; to the parent div.box of the image.
The problem is all this margin fudging:
#media (min-width: 480px)
.row {
margin-left: -10px;
margin-right: -10px;
}
.row, #content-wrapper .fc-section__inner, .fc-section-outer .fc-section-row, #testimonial .fc-section__inner, footer .fc-section__inner {
margin-left: -15px;
margin-right: -15px;
}
.row, #content .fc-section__inner, #testimonial .fc-section__inner, footer .fc-section__inner {
margin-left: -15px;
margin-right: -15px;
}
After I turned all that off, things seemed to line up correctly.
Apply this to your CSS maybe styles.css it looks to be the stylesheet with the highest priority.
html,
body {
box-sizing: border-box;
width: 100vw;
height: 100vw;
overflow-x: hidden;
overflow-y: auto;
position: relative;
}
*,
*:before,
*:after {
box-sizing: inherit;
}
/* place this div right aftter thr <body> and before the </body> */
#jar {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
position: absolute;
margin: 0 auto;
overflow-y: auto;
}
UPDATE
I forgot to post a solution for your images. This code applies to an element wrapped around the images. Most people use a <div>, but I'm using a <figure> since it's semantically proper.
Using max-content on a container like .frame makes it act like shrink wrap. You need to use the vendor prefixes which is a pain as you can see you have to write out height and width 3 times each.
You might have to use negative margins and reset padding and borders to 0 in order to get rid of the space in between the images.
.frame {
width: -moz-max-content;
width: -webkit-max-content;
width: max-content;
height: -moz-max-content;
height: -webkit-max-content;
height: max-content;
margin: 0 auto;
max-width: 100%;
height: auto;
border: 0;
}
.frame img {
padding: 0;
margin: -2px;
border: 0;
display: inline-block;
width: 24%;
height: auto;
}
<figure class="frame">
<img src="http://placehold.it/150x85/000/Fff.png&text=FIRST" />
<img src="http://placehold.it/150x85/048/Fee.png&text=SECOND" />
<img src="http://placehold.it/150x85/fa8/375.png&text=THIRD" />
<img src="http://placehold.it/150x85/9a7/a10.png&text=FOURTH" />
</figure>
My page has a max width of 1280px. The body is centered on larger screens using margin: 0 auto; Now I want to place an element in the bottom right corner. That has to be fixed as it should scroll with the content. On screens larger than 1280px the element should stay on the corner of the centered body and not stick to the right side of the window.
The element should stick there, independent of the current viewport width.
I've solved this by using a combination of media-query and CSS3-calc operation. It feels like an overkill for this simple task but I can't find a solution simpler as mine. Here is some sample css (I've changed the maximum page width to 500px here):
body {
max-width: 500px;
height: 1000px;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 0;
border: 1px solid black;
}
div {
position: fixed;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
height: 30px;
width: 30px;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
background-color: red;
}
#media all and (min-width: 515px) /*max body width + (element width / 2)*/ {
div {
margin-right: -webkit-calc((100% - 500px) / 2);
margin-right: -moz-calc((100% - 500px) / 2);
margin-right: calc((100% - 500px) / 2);
}
}
JSFiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/nh95dc8u/
My JSFiddle shows exactly what I want. I'm just asking if this is possible to achieve with more "standard-CSS" (I'm not really sure about calc across different browsers)? What could be a simpler solution?
#media all and (min-width: 515px) {
div {
right: 50%;
margin-right: -250px;
}
Moves fixed div to 50% of window width and then to 50% of container width
https://jsfiddle.net/nh95dc8u/5/
You could also do it with just one more element and a bit of CSS.
As example, your HTML could be:
<div class="content">
Your content here
<div class="fixed-wrapper">
<div class="fixed">HEY</div>
</div>
</div>
And then, the CSS:
.content {
max-width: 500px;
margin:0 auto;
position:relative;
}
.fixed-wrapper {
position:absolute;
bottom:0;
right:0;
width:30px;
height:30px;
}
.fixed-wrapper .fixed {
position:fixed;
width:30px;
height:30px;
bottom:0;
background:red;
}
By adding position:relative to .content and using a wrapper to the fixed element, you can position it where you would like. As an element with no specified position renders where its parent is, you can just omit the right property from the fixed element and let the wrapper position it for you.
For an example, see this FIDDLE.
You can get rid of both calc and the media query by wrapping it in another div, which is horizontally aligned like body, and has the same width as body, but is fixed and sticks to the bottom of the screen.
Inside that div, you can then float the red little box to the right.
Although the outer div only seems to behave like body with max-width: 100% and width set to body's max-width + 2 (for the left and right border):
body
{
max-width: 500px;
height: 1000px;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 0;
border: 1px solid black;
}
.hack
{
position: fixed;
bottom: 0;
max-width: 100%;
width: 502px;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 0;
}
.box
{
height: 30px;
width: 30px;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
background-color: red;
float: right;
}
<body>
This is the centered body
<div class="hack">
<div class="box">E</div>
</div>
</body>
Updated fiddle.
Tested and working in Chrome 44 and IE 8.
Remove media-query also it will work,
Remove and see the output again
Output
Try this in simple css -
.main{
width: 500px;
height: 1000px;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 0;
border: 1px solid black;
}
.footer {
position:fixed;
bottom: 0;
height: 30px;
width: 30px;
left:510px;
background-color: red;
}
Here is the fiddle - https://jsfiddle.net/maL5nvbu/
I feel this question has been answered but I searched and searched and no answer seems to deal with dynamic main content width.
I simply want this scenario:
|-|nav|-|main content|-|
Where nav is a DIV and main content is a DIV and both are placed inside another DIV container which has a width of 100%. - is simpy a spacing between the DIVs, a margin.
nav has a fixed width of 300px and "main content" div should always take the rest of the space available (to fill the 100% of the parent div) - without the use of JavaScript.
Also I want to have some margins left and right of each DIV (nav, main content) so that they have some space between them and the "browser border"/body.
I experimented with table, table-cell but the border-collapsing drove me nuts so I am heading back to god old "float: left" and clearfix. This is what I have so far:
<div id="container" class="cf">
<div id="nav">
Nav stuff
</div>
<div id="main">
Main stuff
</div>
</div>
#container {
padding: 0;
width: 100%;
background-color: orange;
min-height: 50px;
}
#nav {
display: inline;
float: left;
min-width: 300px;
width: 300px;
margin-left: 10px;
margin-right: 10px;
}
#main {
display: inline;
float: left;
background-color: green;
margin-right: 10px;
}
.. /* clearfix stuff omitted (class 'cf') */
So now the problem is, how to make "main content" (#main) fill the rest of the parent (#container). If I use a width of 100% the 100% is of course the full width of the parent and the div will go under the "nav" div. If i use "auto" the same thing happens. It of course works if I pass in a fixed width e.g. in pixels but I don't know the correct pixels in advance and using JS to calculate that seems a bit odd to me.
I've seen a solution where the "nav" was put inside "main" but that leads to problems with the margins. Try to insert a margin to create some space beside a div that is inside another div... I don't think that's anyhow possible in this universe.
Thanks for your help!
Maybe you should create BFC to face this problem.
For example:
#container{
border: 1px solid red;
}
#nav{
float: left;
width: 300px;
border: 1px solid green;
height: 200px;
margin-left: 20px;
margin-right: 20px;
}
#main{
overflow: hidden;
height: 400px;
border: 1px solid blue;
margin-right: 20px;
}
overflow: hidden; is the key to create BFC for #main.
JSFiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/yujiangshui/yMFB6/
More about BFC : https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/CSS/Block_formatting_context
For example:
#container {
width: 100%
position: relative;
}
#nav {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 300px;
}
#main {
margin-left: 320px;
}
JSFIDDLE
I want to make a perfectly centered/responsive div.
How would I go about that? Typically to move things I float them or use position: absolute;, but I would like to do so in relation to the browser window as opposed to just generally moving things around.
This will center the div horizontally:
#yourDiv {
margin: 0 auto;
}
You can use margin: auto; along with absolute positioning for responsive vertical/horizontal centering:
<section></section>
section {
position: absolute;
top: 0; left: 0; right: 0; bottom: 0;
background: #f4d4c4;
height: 100px; /* The only caveat is there needs to be a height defined */
margin: auto;
width: 100px;
}
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/uLDVM/
Here s fiddle that centers it both horizontally and vertically
div {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
border: 3px solid red;
margin: 50% auto;
}
This is what I use.
.centered {
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
The best method using CSS would be to use margin and a max-width to control its width. Like this:
div {
max-width: 50px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
Now to change its value on the browser resize, either use media query or you can use %.
Media Query
#media only screen (max-width: 800px) {
// change the properties if the screen is no
// larger than 800px in width
}
Percentage
div {
max-width: 5%;
margin: 0 auto; // will only align it horizontally
}
You can use position: absolute and then use 0 for each four sides of it. To keep it centered and strecthed to the borders, while it won't strecth because of max-width.
This way, you will have the div centered and responding to the browser.
//sorry for the bad formating, i am on my phone...
When someone asks how to center a page, then the response is like:
margin-left:50%;
left:(-1/2 width);
I used this code on a site with a width of 1000px,so it comes to screens, where this site does not fit.
Now the site gets centered on the smaller screen and gets equaly pushet to left and right.
So lets say, our screen is 600px wide:
200px are left
600px are on screen
200px are right
You can scroll to the right, but the pixels on the left are unreachable...
How can i solve this to control, how much of my site gets dragged to the left in case of smaller screens?
This is especially important for mobile phones...
If you are worried about different screen sizes then I highly suggest using Media Queries but this is also a useful way of setting up centered elements. Just use a % width instead of a set width and followed by margin: 0 auto;
Look at fiddle for visual aid. (If this answer does not suit your needs at all then I'll gladly remove it)
div {
margin: 0 auto;
width: 80%;
height: 500px;
background: mediumSeaGreen;
}
JSFIDDLE
Your best bet (Ignore the CSS it's from my portfolio.
.subMenu {
display: none;
float: none;
width: 100%;
background: rgba(254, 126, 1, 0.5);
border-bottom: 5px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);
font-size: 20px;
padding-left: 60%;
position: relative;
left: 0;
top: 3.85em;
list-style-type: none;
padding: 1.5em 0;
margin: 0;
overflow: hidden;
}
#media only screen and (max-width: 680px) {
.subMenu {
top: 4.9em;
font-size: 10px;
min-height: 100% !important;
padding: 0;
background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
}
}
You can also use jQuery to dynamically find the width.
var width = $('div').width();
$('div').text(width);
You could try using margin: auto
http://jsfiddle.net/56N9w/
As you see there if you make the window too small for the content to fit it will left align by default
Use this:
margin: 0 auto;
width: 400px;
alternative:
margin: 0 auto;
width: 50%;
another alternative:
#outer-div {
margin: 0 auto;
width: 50%;
}
#inner div {
/* insert any CSS you want here */
}
NOTE 1: When using margin: 0 auto, you need to define the width otherwise it won't center.
NOTE 2: You should really put it inside another box, or make the page width 100% (or a width larger than the box).
NOTE 3: You can't center vertically with margin: auto auto. This simply won't work. See below for the solution to this:
Centered box both horizontally and vertically:
Working in jsbin:
http://jsbin.com/OSUViFi/1/
The code (same as the jsbin above):
page.html
<div id="outer-container">
<div id="inner-container">
<div id="centered-box">
</div>
</div>
</div>
style.css
#outer-container {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
display: table;
position:absolute;
overflow: hidden;
}
#inner-container {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
}
#centered-box {
margin: 0 auto;
height: 400px;
width: 400px;
background: #000;
}
Specific for your needs (not including vertical alignment which it looks like you don't need):
jsbin example:
http://jsbin.com/axEZOTo/2
The code (same as the jsbin above):
page.html
<div id="container">
<div id="centered-box">
</div>
</div>
style.css
#container {
width: 1000px;
margin: 0 auto;
height: 100%;
background: #999;
}
#centered-box {
max-width: 70%;
min-width: 200px;
height: 500px;
margin: 0 auto;
background: #000;
}
Here, the smallest it can go is 200px, this number you can change to the smallest amount that you want to allow your box to have.
NOTE:
I finally figured out what you were trying to say in your question, which was poorly worded.
You only used 600px as an example, but you really just want to have it be a fluid layout that changes with screen size.