I was trying to customize a theme for a CMS(ocPortal/vanilla) where I wanted the sidebar to be fixed along with the header. Making it fixed it not a tough job, but the problem is that the end user can add widgets to the sidebar which can run out of screen height. And then the fixed attribute would become useless.
Is there a solution to this problem as I have not been able to come around with anything.
There are multiple solutions to this problem, seeing you have not given an example, I will assume these widgets can be added and removed dynamically (meaning at anytime after page load). Assuming this, I have two possible solutions that you can try.
Solution 1 :
Try making each widget inside a tabbed/spoiler type container, so they become small when the end user does not need them at that point in time
Solution 2 :
As Rick Calder mentioned, you can also use the CSS rule overflow-y: scroll; so when the contents of your sidebar becomes larger than the height, a scroll-bar appears allowing the user to scroll through your widgets.
You may also combine these solutions together, to enable a LOT of widgets, dependent on what your personal preference is.
I hope this helps!
NOTE :
A simple search for html javascript spoilers will give you MANY examples of spoilers.
Related
PrinceXML is really great and powerful but I’m offended by the way it manages header/footer.
I am trying to have 3 columns with different background colours to run on the full page height. Not a problem until you add a footer to include the page’s number.
In order to show the footer you need to add a bottom margin to the #page, but doing so cut the columns. I tried to use an absolute position without any luck.
Is there anyone who has some experience with complex layouts and page numbering with PrinceXML ?
As a DocRaptor developer, we run into these kinds of problems all the time. Prince headers and footers live INSIDE the page margins. This provides a lot of useful power, but sometimes complicates things, as you've noted.
Without seeing your exact HTML, I'd suggest the following:
Continue experimenting with a zero page margin and absolute positioning and a negative position/margin on the element inside the footer. I think this would work. It might work better if you used a header element. Prince gets weird and buggy on the edges when you do this kind of tricky stuff.
Alternatively, if your column widths are the same for every page/document, try faking the column background colors by using a background-image on #page.
Am designing a site and am quite new to it. So my question may be naive. There are two pages index.html and aboutUs.html.
For this eg, i have removed most of the invalid contents with regards to my question. My question is related to how can we dynamically change or handle the length of the page based on the content. In my case, index.html does not have too much text, so the UI looks fine, however aboutUS.html has too much content, and the content overlaps with the footer. How do I handle such scenarios? For reference, I have added some images below, the first image has no overlap, but the second one has. You can find the source code over at GitHub (https://github.com/vnmshenoy/global)
Images
Your problematic classes seem to be imageDiv and overlap.
Both these have defined heights.
When the content inside the element is larger than this height, it is visible, but is actually spilling outside that position, and so appears on top of the next element. If you set a border on these elements, you will see what I mean.
You could always use the overflow:scroll style here and scrollbars will appear when this happens, but you'd be better making your design a bit more fluid with regard to heights, especially if you plan to make it responsive.
So I apologize in advance if this question has been answered before- I tried searching but couldn't find much on it.
A designer and I are working to create this website- www.zeinal-jundi.com
This is predominantly a one-page layout using a scroll effect to navigate to different sections, although the site's Discography section does link to a separate page for each album. We also have a fixed header that allows the navigation to be visible the whole time. Originally, I had added a margin to each section of the page to accommodate the height of the fixed header. This however made the space between each section far too large, so my designer requested I find a way around this. I was able to fix it by instead adding a value to the scroll animation script that brings the section around 250px from the top, rather than to the overall top of the page (where it would then be covered by the fixed header)
So now, I've of course encountered the issue of linking to these sections from off another page- using code like the following:
Biography
This of course links back to the front page, but brings the section up to the very top, where it is hidden by our header. I'm wondering if anyone knows of a way I can link to this section from another page but add an action similar to the one I have on the scrolling function that will bring it up to 250px down from the top of the page rather than the very top without me having to add margins to each div.
Another option of course it to just make that pesky fixed header a lot shorter, or possibly hide the site title after the page scrolls to a certain point, but our client seems pretty adamant about having the entire header visible throughout, so I of course am trying to find a work around so we won't have to rethink the entire element (if such a solution even exists).
I hope I explained this well enough! Let me know if you need to see any additional code- would love to hear your thoughts on how to achieve such a thing! :)
If you're placing the block through CSS, you can use the CSS3 :target pseudo selector to position whatever section the link pointed to, e.g.:
:target {
/* ... example:
top: 250px;
*/
}
CSS - Floating two elements side by side
This conversation is similar to what I am trying to achieve. I have a % based layout and have an issue either the menu will get mixed in with the content or the content will fall below the menu when the page is shrunk or viewed on a mobile phone. I've spent several hours on this and cant figure out what I am doing incorrectly.
Problem child: https://www.tendercare-inc.com/new/
Update:
My biggest thing was getting something that worked well with Word Press as it uses very awkward controls and element names. I tried starting with _Underscores but it doesn't seem to have helped as much as I thought it would.
The basic problem is that you are specifying percentage based layouts for some elements like menu-sidebar and main-content but you're not consistent. The menu has a min-width of 200px. What do you want to happen when 200px is greater than 15%? Inside the menu you also have elements specified with exact pixel widths — the various cssmenu maker elements.
The site is very simple — basically a header, footer, side menu, and body. Yet you have two style sheets - one with over 800 lines — and a structure with site-content containing content-area containing site-main containing content-container. It's no wonder it's causing you grief. My advice would be to start over with a simple css framework (like bootstrap mentioned by #jaun above. Keep the structure of the html as simple as possible and avoid copy-paste design with things like menus. Also rather than trying things a seeing what's wrong, describe the behavior you want at various screen sizes and make it happen.
You should use bootstrap (getbootstrap.com) you can use col-md-6 clases to do that. Also mobile phone and tablet ajustment is supported
I'm doing a website that needs to have layout such as the one here:
http://newsmartwave.net/wordpress/trego/home/homepage-1/#featured_products
I've spent 2 days researching how to do proper 2 column layout and tried different options, but none seem to work just right.
Right now I have 2 versions - http://aspenwebsites.com/mpwebsite/index.html and http://aspenwebsites.com/mpwebsite/index_alt.html
The problem with the first one is that if you reduce the height of the browser's window considerably I end up with some white space bellow the sidebar and some of my text ends up outside the border (see screenshot).
The problem with eh second one is that I don't can't place a full-screen background image behind both columns.
In addition, unlike on the sample website ( http://aspenwebsites.com/mpwebsite/index.html and http://aspenwebsites.com/mpwebsite/index_alt.html) that I'm trying to duplicate, I'd like to have a vertical scroll bar appear if browser's window reaches certain minimum height.
I know people sometimes get annoyed with types of questions, but I really just can't figure this out and I did read numerous articles and examples.
I'm not asking to write code for me, although any code samples would be most appreciated. Minimally, I was hoping for directions for some good tutorial, as I really would like to master this layout. It comes up a lot in my work and I'd like to have my own code that I have 100% understanding of rather than using Wordpress.
For the 1st one, add overflow: scroll; to the #sidebar > .row rule.
You do have a fullscreen background image in the second one. It's just that #maincontent, which is in front of it, has a background:white; rule, so you can't see it.
Edit: I did not get annoyed by the way..