Weird white gaps and horizontal scrolling issue - html

It seems I'm having an issue with a design I'm working on. I'm using the kickstart HTML framework but I have a couple issues.
Firstly is that there is a very large white gap between the top of my page (logo, navbar) and the text.
Secondly I've tried to overlay the logo over the the navbar by using z-index. However it causes a negative horizontal scroll. I've tried to hide it by hiding overflow-x but it just doesn't seem like the best solution.
You can see the issues at http://jkr.me.uk/problem.html
Thanks,
John

Using position: relative on the logo makes it take up space that you're refferring to.
Instead, use float: right, or position it with position: absolute;

The issue with the white gap is the image. If you disable the position:relative property the image bottom will be touching the top margin of the fist header tag. A dirty fix for this would be something like margin-top: -200px on the first header or alternatively margin-bottom: -200px on the logo image. You could also use the method from the previous answerer.
As for the logo image overlaying the navbar, it does for me in both Chrome and IE 9.

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how to fix Image set in position absolute overlap screen and create space on right side?

I have an Image that is supposed to be half hidden on media query mobile screen. it is set as position: absolute and left: 50% so the half side is hidden in the screen, but when I do this, it creates a space at the right side, creating an overflow, which is not good for the appearance. can this be fixed? or is there a right way implementing it? I've seen other sites have this kind of sections but the scroll the whitespace on the right doesn't appear? or is the overflow hidden for the body just disabled?
I've provided a visual on the problem, hope you can help me with this. still learning CSS.
the black one is the screen, purple one is the new width and the red one is the image. thanks in advance.
You can try this:
html
body {
overflow-x:hidden;
width: 100%;
}
It will force the site to be 100% of the available space and hide any horizontal scrolling.

How do I get rid of the gray space at the bottom of the page?

Scrolling is disabled on this webpage, however, when using an iPad in landscape, this problem occurs. There is no gray space at the bottom until you try to scroll down (this is disabled) but all of the sudden the gray space appears. I've tried to find the answer everywhere with no success. The link to the page is www.papiasxm.com
body {
position: relative;
}
seems to be fixing the issue.
For responsive design, using padding/margin sometime causes the issue of overlapping the main design. For this type of problem, it is good practice to not to use fixed height or if you need to use it then fix it with margin/padding.
you can fix body position to relative. here, position: relative;
positioned relative to its normal position.

Margin from one element obscuring hover state of another

I have a Flexbox based nav menu with a logo aligned in the horizontal center of inline links. Every pen or fiddle I tried making of this doesn't replicate what I'm getting for some reason, but you can go to this Flexbox test here which is almost exactly what I'm working from and if you go into an inspector and add an anchor to the main logo image you'll see what I mean.
The way this is set up is the third link has a left margin of auto applied to fill in the extra gap for the logo to fit in. The logo area is separate from the nav menu in the markup but flexbox layout puts them all in line with each other (at lower breakpoints the nav menu moves down).
Now this all works fine and good until you decide to make the logo a clickable link. When you do that, the margin from that third link obscures the hover state of the logo.
Here's a visual example:
So if you tried hovering over the logo where the margin area intersects it, you would not be able to click the logo, nor get a pointer cursor or any hover states (like a background change). Outside of the margin while over the logo, it works fine, but to a user, they're going to think something strange is going on. This happens if the logo is an img (as it is in the original example) or an SVG (as I'm trying to use).
Trying to see if there's a way around this without having to completely nuke my Flexbox layout. My markup is very similar to what is being used in that example. I've tried toying with a higher z-index for the logo compared to the nav, which didn't work. Giving the nav a negative z-index lets you click the logo but then you can't click the nav items.
You can add a relative position to the logo and then play around with the z-index to make the logo the first element.
.logo {
position: relative;
z-index: 1;
}

How to keep text from going behind an image

I am trying to keep my top-bar navigation from going behind my logo image on the header of my page. See below an example of the page when it is maximized in my screen:
Maximized View
Here is what it looks like when the browser window is made smaller:
Smalller Screen Example
I am trying to fix this page so that the top nav-bar that currently runs behind the image when the window is made smaller, will instead move and extend to the right.
Any ideas? The site is Inhishands.com
Thanks!
Your problem is that the menu (<ul id="display">) has the CSS property float:right, so it will always be positioned relative to the right side of the screen. When the screen is made smaller, the right side moves closer to the left, so the menu moves leftwards too (and overlaps the logo).
If what you want is for the menu to always start from the right side of the logo (and not to overlap it), then you could give it the property float:left and add a margin to its left side (like margin-left:370px). There are other ways of positioning it (like using absolute positioning) but this will get the job done.
Use Z-index on the navigation. In the CSS, set the z-index of the hands image lower than that of your navigation and you will see the navigation on top instead of behind.
Here's some information on Z-Index in case you need it: http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_pos_z-index.asp
Nice design.
First of all you need to fix the minimum width of the top menu HEADER in your CSS.
Fix the header min-width according to the resolution you need:
#Header{
min-width: 1237px;
}
or directly into the HTML
<div id="Header" style="min-width: 1237px">

CSS Nav bar resize issue

So I'm aware that this is a confusing question. Basically, I've got two divs at the top of the page that include navigation and a search bar.
I have a full container
#containPage
width:1000px;
margin:0 auto;
}
for the page that is fixed width. This doesn't end until the end, I think, and there are two smaller containers for a layout, both float right and left.
When I resize the page in a browser, the layout at the top moves and changes the positioning, which I don't want to happen.
Any ideas?
here is the link: it's being even screwier right now and has the navigation links way to the right, so maybe someone could help with that too.
http://www.sophisticatedmoose.com/nerdery/
Resizing horizontally in Chrome and Firefox for Mac. If you scroll to the right, I'm supposed to have a nav bar underneath the search page with home, about, news, and contact. Last I checked- and I'm clearing the cache - it was waaay off on the left along with the footer.
Working on an image. I need reputation 10 to put one in. I've got it though.
You have this odd construct in your CSS:
#containPage { /*page I am in you*/
width:223%;
margin:0 auto;
}
The margin setting is fine and sensible but the width is rather, um, strange. The #containPage element is, essentially, the entire page so it is naturally as wide as the browser window, then the 223% is applied and the page itself becomes more than twice as wide as the browser window. Then, all the block elements that are immediate children of #containPage will be over twice as wide as the window unless you specify or imply a width in some other way.
In particular, the #NavRRT element will be too wide and the menu inside #NavRRT will float to the right all the way out of the window and you'll have to scroll horizontally to see it. Similar positioning strangeness happens with #footer.
Start by getting rid of the width:223% on #containPage. The page looks fine in Safari and Chrome if I turn off just that single piece of CSS.
UPDATE: You might want to add another <div> inside #containPage, then add max-width, min-width, and margin: 0 auto to that to keep the main content centered and reasonably sized. Everything that is currently inside #containPage would go inside this new <div>. If you go with this approach then you probably won't need any CSS at all on #containPage, it would just need to be around to help center the "real" page.
You have to remove the margin-left from your nav LIs (it's inherited from li) and remove their widths.
#nav li { margin-left: 0; width: auto !important; }