Is a more efficient way of doing this... for some reason I feel like this is an old way of doing this.
I have this page HERE (I'm re-creating a lynda.com webpage for a lesson) and the wrapper doesn't actually wrap around the section id="trailInfo".
In order to do that I would add br class="br_clear" /
Is there a more correct way of doing this? If I add clear=both to the section is doesn't work, I have to add it to the br.
Thanks!
Update your CSS with the overflow:hidden property inside your parent div
#wrapper {
background-color: #FFFFFF;
margin: 0 auto;
overflow: hidden;
position: relative;
width: 960px;
}
Explanation About Clearing floats
A common problem with float-based layouts is that the parent div's doesn't want to stretch up to accommodate the child floated div's. If you will add a border around the parent div you'll have to command the browsers somehow to stretch up the parent div all the way.
Now see the problem as you were facing: demo
its because you didn't clear the floats on that time.
So the Old Solution of this problem is clear:both;
if you will add extra div after the child floated elements like mentioned below code this will clear the floats:
<div class="parent">
<div class="left-child"></div>
<div class="right-child"></div>
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
</div>
New Solution is overflow:hidden;
if you will give overflow:hidden to your parent div this will automatically clear all the child floated elements inside the parent div.
see the new solution demo: tinkerbin.com/WKqFS7Lc
Hi now give to #wrapper overflow:hidden;
as like this
#wrapper{
overflow:hidden;
}
Demo
Add height: auto; to wrapper class. it works
you should use overflow:hidden; property on your wrapper.
#wrapper{
overflow:hidden;
height:auto;
}
Related
I am trying to put an absolute div inside a relatively positioned div. But I don't want to define a height for the relative div.
The relative div has a background colour and when I don't define a height the absolute div goes 'outside' the relative div. I can't control how many lines the text will be so the height of the divs change
HTML
<div class="row top-footer">
<div class="top-footer-text text-center">
<div class="test">
<h1>title</h1>
<div class="footer-btn-wrap">
<div class="footer-btn">button</div>
<div class="footer-btn">button</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div><!-- /top-footer -->
CSS
.top-footer {
position: relative;
background-color: #686a6f;
width: 100%;
padding-top: 40px; margin: 0;
}
.test {
position: absolute;
top: 0px; margin: 0;
}
EDIT
I want .top-footer (position: relative) to contain .test (position: absolute) with space/padding/margin on the top and bottom of .test. the height of the div is unknown because the content may take up more than one line depending on screen size
Adding whitespace around the child div is fairly trivial. However preventing the parent div from collapsing is more tricky and is the thing you need to tackle first. The problem you are having is that with the parent relatively positioned and the child absolutely positioned, the only element on the entire page that actually "knows" where the child is is the parent... and even then it's a fairly bad parent because it won't even make enough space for the child! The rest of the DOM will behave as if the element isn't even there - other non-positioned elements will float over or above it - even text will be obscured by your child div. Assuming you want to put other content in the parent div using absolute positioning in this way only means you're going to have to use absolute positioning all around the place... which can get a bit heavy on the brain debugging layout problems later on.
The only possible solutions I can think of offhand are:
Use javaascript to sniff out the height of the child div and apply that to the parent. A fairly simple job if you use a library like jQuery but that requires extra downloaded files and makes your site unnecessarily bulky if this is the only task you're using it for. THis also wouldn't solve the problem of the child div obscuring other elements on the page.
Rework your CSS (and it might take a lot of reworking depending on how far you've got and the complexity of the styling) to use display:inline-block on the child... this will stop the parent from collapsing but might give you additional layout issues.
Rework your CSS (ditto) to float:left the child div. You would then need to use a CSS "clear hack" in order to prevent the parent divv from collapsing, although this is a tiny piece of CSS you can cut and paste from elsewhere... an easy job.
If you're determined to use absolute positioning like this my preferred solution would be to use jQuery (option 1) because most of my work tends to use a degree of it anyway... it's a tool I would have handy and the code to perform this task would be quite trivial.
EDIT - Here's a little fiddle to get you started. https://jsfiddle.net/fo8mq1vf/
This is how the output of your code looks like: https://jsfiddle.net/s3zLa54t/2/. The parent div (.top-footer) does contain the .test div. What browser are you using to view the output?
As for the padding, I guess you don't see any effect of changing padding-top. Try removing the top: 0px property in the .test div.
If this is not what you were looking for, do clarify the question here.
The answer to your question is simply remove
position:absolute from your absolute div (.test)
position:relative from your relative div (.top-footer)
height:300px from your relative div (.top-footer)
This is the tested version of https://jsfiddle.net/s3zLa54t/3/ with multiple number of divs under your main div. You can check that it is not going beyond the grey background.
.top-footer {
position: absolute;
background-color: #686a6f;
width: 100%;
padding:0px;
margin: 0;
}
.test h1{
padding-left:20px;
position: relative;
top: 5px; margin: 0;
float:left;
color:#FFF;
}
.footer-btn,.footer-btn-wrap
{
padding-left:200px;
color:#FFF;
}
.footer-btn a{
padding:5px 10px;
float:left;
color:#ffffff;
text-transform:capitalize;
text-decoration:none;
}
I want to create a header with a few words aligned to the far left of the header div and a few words aligned to the far right. I initially did this by creating spans (.headerLeft and .headerRight) and adjusting the alignment for the portions I wanted aligned. However, this creates problems if I want a background-color for my header div. Is the best practice solution here to simply add a little inline CSS styling, or is there a better way?
My Code (example)
HTML
<div class="header">
<span class="headerLeft">Welcome to .</span>
<span class="headerRight">Login | Register</span>
</div>
CSS
.header {
width:100%
position:fixed;
top:0;
margin-top:0;
background-color:red;
text-color:#C14000;
}
.headerLeft {
float:left;
text-align:left;
}
.headerRight {
float:right;
text-align:right;
}
#header {
overflow: hidden;
}
This code will fix your problem. The height of #header will automatically take the height from the tallest element inside #header.
Another way would be to manually set the height for #header.
You don't need to style sth inline :)
You need to set the overflow attribute for the header class to force it to wrap around the inner spans. see http://jsfiddle.net/PsychegoPro/rnDT8/
You need to clear the floats in order for the div to have actual height.
This can be achieved by using clearfix. What is a clearfix?
I have a set of elements inside a parent element. The parent element's height can change (it will be changed by some jQuery files). Here is how the layout looks:
<div class = "parent">
<div class="child1">
</div>
<div class="child2">
</div>
</div>
I want the child elements to end up aligned at the middle of the parent div, but i can't figure out how to write the css to do so. I have tried writing things like:
.child1 {
...
vertical-align: middle;
}
Which doesn't work. I have also tried:
.parent {
display:table;
}
.child1 {
display:table-cell;
vertical-align:middle;
}
This also doesn't work. Any ideas how to do this?
You can create a wrapper for the elements you wish to center inside a container that gets centered instead like so:
HTML
<div class ="parent">
<div class="centerme">
<div class="child1">
....
</div>
<div class="child2">
....
</div>
</div>
</div>
Then you can simply do this:
CSS
.block:before {
content: '';
display: inline-block;
height: 100%;
vertical-align: middle;
margin-right: -0.25em; /* Adjusts for spacing */
}
Demo. Method found over at CSS-tricks.
Check this link : http://www.jakpsatweb.cz/css/css-vertical-center-solution.html
this will bring your child div's top to 50% of the container. just add margin-top: -(x)px; where (x) is half of your child div's height.
You have forgotten to apply the same styling on child2 as on child1, like so:
.child1, .child2 {
display:table-cell;
vertical-align:middle;
}
Here is a jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/D853q/1/
This is slightly more complicated than your standard "how do I vertically align a single div inside a parent container."
If you have a multiple number (which can change) of child elements that need to be aligned vertically or if your parent container's height changes, then you will need to use Javsacript/JQuery to set the position as there is no "standard" way to apply a middle vertical alignment to multiple child elements inside a parent container utilizing just CSS.
EDIT: I've been proven wrong, you can apparently with using :before pseudo-element, but it won't work in IE7 unless you hack around it.
I've implemented this in a fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/rJJah/20/
Key parts
Each Child element has a position:relative. This is important because certain child elements may have variable height, and this eliminates the need to calculate the top position separately for each.
Everytime you change the height of the parent container, you will need to rerun the height calculations and setting the top offset to each child.
I have the following code:
http://jsfiddle.net/3fT2M/
Why isn't the two floated div background color isn't #666666 even though they are under the container div?
It works only if I set the container height which I would like to set to auto.
How can I make it work with .container { height: auto; } ?
Thanks,
http://jsfiddle.net/3fT2M/3/
Because the elemtns are floated inside the div.
This takes the element out of the normal flow of the document.
I've added the overflow: hidden; fix
Right now your div.container has no height. So you cannot see the background-color.
A simple fix is to add a <br /> before the last closing </div>.
See the fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/3fT2M/2/
It also seems a simple .container div{background: inherit;} works.
I have to create a div that should look like
<div id=1>
<img></img>
<div id=2></div>
</div>
the div with id 2 should appear at bottom-right corner of image, and the size of image is not fixed what should be the css applied to div with id=2
div with id =1 has no position defined so uses default and same is with image and i cannot change these
only div with id=2 is editable to me. Please suggest something
If you need to position the second DIV on top of the first DIV, then the best solution would be to position the first DIV with position:relative; and then use absolute positioning on the second DIV. The first DIV would have to have a fixed width or to be floated to limit it's width to that of the image.
If you have no way to control the first div, you are in a bit of a tight spot. You still need to make sure that the first div has the same width as the image, either by setting width explicitly or by using a float. You could then position the second DIV with negative margin and using position:relative in conjunction with z-index to make it flow on top of the image. But that would mean you'd have to know the height of the second DIV to make up for that exact amount using negative margin. It would work, but the solution wont be as robust as the first.
If you just need to have the text below the image it's a bit easier, just using plain old floats. I've coded up a very basicc version of all the three scenarios here: http://jsfiddle.net/laustdeleuran/7CnSh/
I hope it's useful.
If you cannot edit the CSS for div #1, you're sort of screwed.
If you could just add {position:relative} to that div, you'd be in business. Absolute positioning will target the first parent with 'Relative' positioning. Since the default of div 1 is 'Static'...Positioning won't work.
'Float' might work, div 2 would technically need to come before div 1 - thus causing div 1 to inherit the float of div 2; however, that would also stack your image atop div 2 rather than below it. ... So Float is out as well.
IF you can add CSS to div 1 and div 1 img, then an easy fix is this:
* { margin:0; padding:0 }
#one {position:relative; text-align:right;}
#two {position:absolute; bottom:0; right:0}
Good luck...
I think you are looking for float style.
Using numeric ids is a bad idea, so let's say you've called your divs div1 and div2.
As you can't style #div1 or the image, the only thing you might try is setting a negative margin on #div2. Try either one of:
#div1 { display: inline-block; width: 100px; margin-left: -100px }
Or, simply:
#div1 { margin-top: -100px }
Where the 100px values are just arbitrary and you'll need to decide on appropriate values depending on what you're putting in #div2
First, some valid HTML. But I guess that wasn't your real HTML?
<div id="div1">
<img [..] />
<div id="div2"></div>
</div>
You could this with position: absolute and negative margins.
#div1 { display: table; position: relative; }
#div2 {
position: absolute;
width: 50px;
height: 50px;
margin-top: -50px;
right: 0;
}
display: table should make the first div match the width of the image. position: relative so the second div will position itself relative to first div.
This might work (not sure of relative+table). But I haven't tested it. If it does't work, I suggest that you work with JS to position the second div, it's very easy.
try this:
<div id="d1">
<img src="https://encrypted.google.com/images/logos/ssl_logo_lg.gif"></img>
<div style="margin-left:225px;margin-top:-25px;z-index:1000;position: relative;" id="d2">Your Text</div>
</div>
you can play with the margin-left and margin-top