I have a div with which I display basic user information. The 'search-person' div has a height of 'auto'. This is so that profile pictures can be dynamic in size, up to 170px tall. Now, I would like to have a button displayed over the profile picture, and I thought to add relative positioning to the contents in the div and move it up and under the button, button it doesn't seem to want to work right. What can I do wrong?
here is my problem:
http://jsfiddle.net/C9Zj5/
#wrap {
position: relative
height: auto;
width: auto;
}
Make the #person-wrap position:relative and then the #buttons div position:absolute. That should give you the effect you're looking for.
div containing relative position should contain within another div having absolute position so that it can float correctly
If you set position:absolute to #buttons them you will have the button over the profile picture. Use left and top to positioning the button wherever you want inside #person-wrap.
I'm not sure what you mean with "and I thought to add relative positioning to the contents in the div and move it up and under the button", but if you want to show the info inside #person-wrap you can use position absolute or negative margin.
Aside: Is not a good practice to have div elements inside the link tag. Also why you need a button? Maybe you need to rethink the html structure as well ;)
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I want to insert a div into a page, put div into the coordinates that I want, but do not move the rest of the page content
What I had done is to put the parent container a position: absolute and the div that I want to have floating a position: relative and then go tell the px to position it where I want, but doing so the content of the page moves me Site, and I would like you not to move the rest of the content even if the div is above it.
What could I do ?
Instead of floating it, you'll need to position your div with either position: absolute or position: fixed.
You have to set position: absolute to the float div instead of the parent div.
It should be possible with CSS. I would try setting the html tag to be relative and the div you want to absolute (if no other tags are set to relative). Otherwise I would recommend jQuery for the solution.
I created a contact form with a banner at the top of it. I created the entire thing and was planning on moving it to the right, off the screen, so that it will slide onto the screen when it is hovered over. I intended to just wrap a div around all of it and then relatively position it and move it however far I needed it to go to the right to be off the screen. However, when I tried to do this, it made the banner and the contact form box, as well as everything inside of those two elements, show up in a bunch of different random spots around the screen. I figured this was because it applied the relative positioning, as well as the left:100px value I set with it, to every element within the div and that, mixed with the other positioning I had set for each object, caused the weird displacements? Does anyone know how I can move the form and the banner so that they stay attached to each other and everything inside stays where it is?
Here's the JSFiddle where I set up the contact form box and banner: LINK
Thanks for any help
i'm not sure about all your absolute and relative positioning insde of your form - if you dont want to place the elements at very specific points you wouldnt need this.
here's a jsfiddle for what i think you want to have:
https://jsfiddle.net/spmhxteu/
basically you will need to set this for your email wrap
position: absolute;
right: -200px;
and you should set this for your body or whatever is wrapped around
overflow: hidden;
width: 800px; // example
all elements INSIDE your absolute positioned div do not have to be relative or absolute again.
UPDATE: As requested here an absolute positioning inside the element:
https://jsfiddle.net/spmhxteu/1/
Note: Ofcourse your padding etc. of the parent div will not apply on absolute positioning
I'm building a demo for an app I want to create and I am trying to create buttons on a mobile phone. I brought in an image of a phone and created buttons set to absolute positioning which allows me to layer them over the phone, but when I go to resize the page, the element moves a lot and does not stay in the same place on the phone. How can I fix this? Please see fiddle to see exactly what I mean: http://jsfiddle.net/x313vkup/
I would really appreciate a modification of my fiddle link so I can understand how this works.
This is a snippet of the code that shows the list set to absolute positioning:
#phone_view {
position: absolute;
margin-top: -65%;
margin-left: 15%;
}
The beauty of position:absolute is that you can accomplish a lot without setting margins -- you can go straight to using top, left, etc.
An absolutely-positioned element needs to be positioned relative to a wrapper, however. I would recommend setting your #phone element to position: relative and then setting the position and dimensions of #phone_view "manually" in the CSS.
I would also recommend creating another wrapper element inside of phone to act as the relatively positioned element, since your h4 can wrap onto a second line, drive down the phone image, and get it out of sync with the absolute positioning.
EDIT: link to JSFiddle. Note the relatively-positioned wrapper (.phone-wrap). Child elements with position: absolute will define their position based on this wrapper. Also, no need for margins on #phone_view.
Also, re: #phone_view, background-color is just to make it visible for the demo, and while overflow: auto seemed appropriate for the demo, it doesn't affect the positioning of the object itself.
Hi, I am trying to position two images next to each other and have one of them overlap the other one in a corner.
I have tried using the z-index property but this does not work unless i set the position property to something like fixed or absolute and this messes up the layout of my site.
I was wondering that although i have an image container with the width and height set, can i possibly cut out a section of the container like a rectangle to let the image sit inside the cut like the image below me.
Is this possible?
Thanks!
position:relative positions the element relative to its normal position, and pretends, for document flow, that the element is still there. See this example:
http://jsfiddle.net/GtJMF/
position: relative;
I can't see how having a position:absolute for this scenario would mess up your site.
Put position:relative on your "Image Container". Put position:absolute; right:0, bottom:0; on your "Cut out part" (assuming it is also in the Image Container). This will give you the exact effect you are looking for.
Positioning is relative to the containing positioned parent. Just a position:relative is enough make an element a "positioning master" that all interior positioning will use for its coordinate system.
position:relative also "enables" z-index, but unlike absolute and fixed it doesn't mess up any of the rest of the layout.
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.