This will sound very "noob", but I'm new to HTML/javascript/php, and so far I've been having a blast discovering new stuff. Right now though, I'm having a minor problem.
I'm trying to make a UI with lots of buttons (it's a matrix of buttons, 5x24). When the browser is maximized, it's all good, the buttons are where they're supposed to be. But when the browser is adjusted so that it becomes narrower (width becomes smaller), the buttons try to remain visible by moving on top of each other.
I want to know how to make it so that a horizontal scroll bar automatically appears.
I've tried putting everything in a <body> tag and putting style="width:100%;overflow:scroll;" but the buttons still do what they do, and that is, ending up on top of each other when they're supposed to be side by side...
Thank you very much!!!
The problem is, width: 100% means the full width of the parent element. Give your container the necessary width (in px, not %) to accomodate all your buttons. Than put that in a div with overflow: auto, and it should work.
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I've made rock paper scrissor game using html,css and js.When window is resized to small, some left portion of the page disappears .Using horizontal scrollbar i can scroll to right but not left.
I've checked for absolute positionings and negative margin but none worked.
What should i try ?
I expect to get entire page without any portion getting clipped off.
Hard to answer this without the code, but I would use devtools first to see what margins are being applied. You can look at the box model for each element in your dom and see what is being applied. Also, how small are you resizing? Do you have any explicit widths? If you are sizing down to 200px, but you have a div that is 250px, it clearly is going to have overflow. Devtools can also help with analyzing different devices too. Use the tool to set a size and see how your page responds, you can change the width of elements in the devtools to see if it removes the overflow.
I have a rather complicated layout.
At the top and bottom are fixed header/footer.
The central display is broken up into two panels:
the left panel is hideable (may be visible, may not); if it is visible then it has a fixed width. It has a scroll within it if needed.
the right panel is always visible and has a variable width. It is scrolled by the window's scroll bar.
The right panel then consists of two parts that each fill the width of the panel - a set of tabs, of various heights (the visible tab should start at the top of the right panel, as the controlling buttons for those tabs are in the header), and directly below that a 'summary' box of unknown height, which comes immediately after the visible tab, no matter which tab we are looking at and how high it is.
Each of these panels/tabs/boxes consist of an outer div, and various internal divs as needed for the content.
The tabs are made by an outer div containing four inner divs, one after the other.
I can change the HTML and css as needed.
See https://jsfiddle.net/jvw8j62t/ (with thanks to JavaSpyder who provided the basic JSFiddle that I adapted for this demo)
I have tried various methods for the left and right panel, and the best one seems to be https://stackoverflow.com/a/4676510 but I would be happy to use a different method.
I then use jquery to hide/show the left panel (using display:none) and fix the right panel's left margin accordingly, though I am happy to use a different system for that.
However the tabs have to be made visible/invisible using visibility: visible and visibility: hidden (not display:none), because the contents of the tabs do not size correctly when using display:none. I cannot easily change this as there are three different libraries from three different sources having this issue.
This means that the different tabs' tops are then positioned incorrectly, because of the visibility css - they follow after each other, per https://stackoverflow.com/a/133064/1910690.
If I try different ways to make the top of the all the tabs fall at the top of the right panel then the summary box is positioned wrong and I can't align it to below the visible tab (changing position when you switch to a tab of a different height); or the right panel's scrolling is messed up; or the bottom of the tab disappears behind the footer; or one of several other problems.
Can anyone suggest a solution to the whole layout?
Is this the kind of thing you're looking for?
I used a flex container to create the left and right sections - the header and footer were easy enough with a fixed position. I used flex-shrink:0 on the left section so its width would be fixed, while leaving the right able to change to the screen width.
I'm not sure I did the tabs the way you specified, but feel free to correct if it isn't right. If you click on a tab, it will toggle visibility:hidden , but of course this leaves an empty gap. You said "the tabs have to be made visible/invisible using visibility: visible and visibility: hidden (not display:none), because the contents of the tabs do not size correctly when using display:none." Is this something we can also take a look at, or perhaps post in another question and link it here? If we could fix this problem, it could simplify this layout issue.
The left section is really another fixed position div with overflow:auto to give it the scrollbars. The height is handled by jquery.
Finally, clicking "Toggle Left Panel" will toggle the fixed position div and the width of the left section from 0 or 200.
With thanks to #JavaSpyder for his JSFiddle, and #Dhaval Chheda for the comment that inspired me...
I realised that I could use position:absolute on the tabs - NOT to position the visible tab correctly, but rather to REMOVE the invisible tabs from the layout of the page, leaving the visible tab and the summary ONLY in the layout of the page - and the result is as wanted.
See JavaSpyder's https://jsfiddle.net/JavaSpyder/fq43Lhez/ which also fixes an issue with the width of the right panel (my original solution is at https://jsfiddle.net/jvw8j62t/ ).
Again, thanks to JavaSpyder and Dhaval Chheda - could not have done it without you.
To preface this question, I am very VERY new to html/CSS so go easy on me please :)
I am currently designing a web-page that has a fixed position header at the top. The header contains a logo, some drop-down menus, and a right floated container showing the name of the person currently logged in.
The problem that happens is if I re-size the screen to be smaller, the elements of the header wrap onto the next line.
The gray background is a parent div (holding the logo, the drop down menus, and the logged in info) with a width of 100%, a fixed height and fixed position. I initially had the logo and the list of menus set to float:left to keep them in-line, but have been playing around with display:inline-block to see if that can help anything (sadly, it hasn't much). The container all the way on the right holding "Logged in as Alex " is set to float: right
I have tried giving the header bar a fixed width, as well as setting its overflow to auto - neither option fixed the problem.
In my perfect world, at the point where the content begins to wrap now, I would like the entire page to horizontally scroll instead of pushing the content to the next line. A good example of the functionality I'm looking for is the top bar on Youtube, where the items squish together as you minimize the screen and the page starts to scroll horizontally when they can't be squished any closer.
I've been struggling with this for many hours over the last few days, and happy help or direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks :)
I tried to post images but I don't have enough reputation. I have images that I could find a way to send of before-after resizing if anyone wants
You can specify
min-width
and/or
min-height
:)
overflow is your friend:
Use overflow:scroll on the container, that should fix it. More on overflow here: http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_pos_overflow.asp
Been struggling with this for at least a couple hours now. Tried searching around but no solution seems to be working. So anyways, I have a template that I'm working on, and the issue that I'm having is that the sidebar on the left just will not stretch all the way down! If the window is maximized, it looks totally fine. Once you resize the window though it breaks, leaving a large gap between the sidebar and the footer. It also breaks if the content goes down the page any more than it currently does...
See for yourself here: http://bakedcraft.ca/laboratory/testsites/crock/template.html
and the css: http://bakedcraft.ca/laboratory/testsites/crock/css/default.css
Any ideas?
Add position:relative to your .main class
right now your side bar is 100% height of the window, not the main container. by adding position:relative to the sidebar's parent, when the sidebar is 100% height, it becomes 100% of the main div.
Sorry, this isn't really an answer but it's not letting me write a comment...
I looked at your code in firebug (firefox + web developer add-on) and it's showing a box constraint of 467px height I tried to quickly find where this 467px are coming from but can't see it with quick look (it's 4 AM). It's inheriting that height from somewhere, most likely from a combination of other size constraints of related elements. With all the positioning you have going on, in may be hard to locate.
One suggestion I have is if you plan on making a fluid layout you should work with em's rather than straight pixels. As I said, this isn't an answer but I did notice the size constraint of your sidebar. If this problem is still open in the morning I'll see if I can get a better look at it for you.
Alright I was running your problem through my head and I think I figured it out. Forgive me cuz I'm typing this on my phone and can't use firebug to verify if I'm right or not but the constraint I noticed earlier of 467px is n't inherited from another container it's being constained by the text in the sidebar div. If u were to add more text the box will grow with it. I believe what u may want to do is make a child conatiner within the side bar div. Your main sidebar div will only house your grey background color grey. Create a child div within the sidebar div and put your text and images into those. Make sure on the parent div you make it's height 100%. The height of the elements inside the child div shouldn't need height specifications since they will be inherited from the parent sidebar div. Hope this makes sense.
You can do the fix mentioned earlier with using jquery but remember if someone shuts of their JavaScript then your issue remains and your page will break. You should try to find and fix the root cause not use a bandaid that can be taken off.
I am trying to create a CSS layout where the page looks like it's in the middle of the forest. There is a left and right div with the background trees, some header divs that show the top of the page with various wildlife, and some footer divs that show the bottom with more wildlife that matches up with the left and right div background images, all of which is positioned using "position: fixed" in CSS.
Then there is content in the middle that is positioned normally and scrollable. That all works fine.
The problem I'm having is that the background forest layout is fixed at 1204x768 but of course some web browser windows may not be that large. Unfortunately while the content will scroll as intended, the fixed position elements will never be shown if they are outside the size of the browser window. Clearly not acceptable.
I've tried setting overflow: scroll and height: 768 on the .body and .html elements in the stylesheet but no luck.
Note that I am positioning everything with top: and left: values in the CSS. I know I could get around this by using bottom: and right: but the problem is that the footer images wouldn't line up.
This may just not be possible in which case I'll have to rework the graphic design, but if it is possible I'd love to know how!
of course some web browser windows may not be that large
Or indeed that small! The likelihood of the browser window actually being exactly the right size to put your decorations on the edges is quite small; that's always the problem with fixed layout.
I know I could get around this by using bottom: and right: but the problem is that the footer images wouldn't line up.
Yes, designing images that can alter their joins in response to page size changes is more work, but it's doable. You would have to export the ‘bird+foliage’ layer and the ‘squirrel+foliage’ layer as standalone transparent images, then lay them over the top of a longer side image.
To make the object edges nice and smooth would require PNG's 8-bit transparency, which would necessitate a PNG-rendering hack for IE6. Not the end of the world though.
Unfortunately while the content will scroll as intended, the fixed position elements will never be shown
Is that a problem? They are only decorational in nature.
I've tried setting overflow: scroll and height: 768 on the .body and .html elements
For this approach you would need to set ‘overflow: auto; height: 768px;’ on a wrapper <div> which holds both your #sidebar-left and your #content.
You could have two pictures: 1) a right that contains the right trees and the bottom footer image and 2) and left image with the left trees. Make the bottom footer much wider than it needs to be and the trees (left and right) much taller than they need to be.
Then set the right picture to bottom: and right: and set the left picture to bottom: left:. This will force the pictures to always be on the outsides of the page, no matter the browser size. Then set the z-index of the right picture to be just behind the left picture. It will then always look like the page will be bordered. Or you can set a firm width and height on the parent container, and they will always be on the border of the container. You can also set a min-width and -height if you need to have a certain minimum sizes.
As for things not being visible at a certain resolution, you're really not going to get around this. You could have two sets of pictures, one for normal resolutions, and one for smaller resolutions. Then you can get the width and height of the browser with $(window).height() and $(window).width() with jQuery, and load the appropriate pictures.
EDIT: After looking at your site, i'm pretty sure the second part of that (setting a fixed width for a container, then putting a bottom right picture and bottom left picture) will work for what you want. That will force the page to be a certain width, and thus have the entire border visible.