I have a big absolute div that holds a smaller relative div. The smaller div wraps an Image (png) and auto sizes with height:auto. All works fine. But on one particular site, I get 5px of extra spacing at the bottom of the smaller div after the resize, like it over calculated the height needed? I assume I'm somehow inheriting something from the site that is impacting my resize and div container.
I reworked everything, clear floats, overflow, alternate positioning, removed auto option, flow, etc, but I can't seem to get rid of that 5px extra at the bottom, and its only on that site?
My question - how do you debug your height or auto height issues, and any idea what could be causing this?
Thanx,
Chris
on the container div:
line-height: 0px; will eliminate any height increase caused by white space.
padding: 0px; will eliminate an padding along the inside of the container div.
on the image
margin: 0px will eliminate any space added around the outside of the image.
Could you point us to the site or a jsfiddle so we can get a better idea of what's going on?
As #RyanMcDonough mentioned, Chrome's Inspector is awesome. In IE, you have the IE developer toolbar. In FF you can use Firebug (which is a classic!).
Try
font-size:0;
line-height:0
for smaller div
Example http://jsfiddle.net/U9z5K/14/
Or use
display:block;
for an image
I'd use something like Chrome's Inspect Element, and have a look at the css rules that are affecting it.
You can then go through all the elements and enable/disable on the fly to see what is affecting it.
https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/
Related
so lately I came up with this problem: My wrapper has a max-width of 1440px and I want to add a 10px solid border around it. When I add it the border just takes 10px of the max-width and is being displayed, everything's fine. But I want that the border does not take anything of the max-width, I want to display the 10px of the border by 1440px +
One solution would be media queries, I know that, and this also works fine. I am just wondering if there is a solution without adding a seperate wrapper and without media queries so the border just appears, when you resize your window over the 1440px and simply is cut off when you resize the window under 1440px.
Just for anybody who is wondering. I have a boxed layout and want to limit the content area for larger screens, but whish to use full-width on smaller screens.
Thanks! :-)
You could possibly add a position relative to the container and have a z-index set. Then have a pseudo item like :before have position absolute and a negative z-index with the height and width set to match the parent. This will put it behind your content and if you have the border added to it you should be set. Probably will need overflow-x:hidden on the body so it doesn't create a scroll bar. I'll create the code for this soon for reference.
Or a less complex option would be
outline:10px solid blue;
Outline goes outside of an element even with box-sizing of border-box.
This did it, the next thing I see is how to get a border-radius with the outline. I remember a trick with box-shadow. I will search for it, since the original question wis solved. Thank you very much! :)
CSs for rate box:
.rating-input {
font-size: 25px;
position:relative;
left:101%;
}
Button:
.custom-input-button {
text-align: center;
position:absolute;
left:64.4%;
top:12.1%;
}
image :
<img src="https://graph.facebook.com/<?php echo $user_id; ?>/picture?type=large"
style ="position:relative; top:-46px; left:0px;"/>
It gives different look in chrome and firefox:
Firefox:
In chrome bookmark menu is not open. The change in spacing is due to that?
I am frustrated changing the positions, but problem does not solved.
I agree that your not giving us enough code to really give you a good response to.
If this helps at all, when I do custom form boxes as such, I wrap them in a div to start off with. Then define my widths/heights, and do a left float. This might be a deprecated method, and there may be a better way to do it, but this has always worked for me so I still tend to do it.
That should keep your elements all at the top, then you could do a clear:both, and float your rating system to the right? Just an idea.
Just to sum up conversation in comments.
You could make resizable containers with width in %. That will make your site adjustable to screen resolutions. Make it for minimum resolution of 15" display (1024px in width). Then position elements inside those containers. You can wrap them in another node of wrappers. More wrapper divs - the less can go wrong. But you don't want them too many, ofcourse. It depends on structure of your site. Then you can set margins and size of elements in px inside those containers.
Quick example of what babbling about in upper paragraph
jsfiddle.net/Driveash/qgbLB
You can also make extra css for specific browser.
Are left and margin-left the same?
Left and margin-left could do the same thing but they are not the same. Left is for positioned element (as absolute, relative, fixed). If you don't have positioned element then you want to use margin-left.
add z-index:-999; to the image so it doesn't sit in front of the green banner
I recently designed a website (http://willryan.us/typefun01), mainly using Chrome while coding to test. I recently noticed that there are some weird things happening at the end of certain sections, (the gap after History, the overlap of Styles onto Anatomy).
I have a css reset in my stylesheet (not sure if that has anything to do with this), and I can't figure out what's causing this, and how to get the site to look like how it does when viewed in Chrome
The gap after History is due to:
#historyWide {
margin: 250px 80px 75px;
}
It could be remedied with:
div#content > div {
overflow: hidden; /* or auto */
}
You could also move the large top and bottom margins of elements inside the child divs of #content to padding on the child divs themselves. Anything will work as long as it's all contained by those child divs.
You're simply seeing the different ways that browsers handle imperfect layout.
If you want to avoid the gap after History you would want to use a padding in historyWide instead of a margin; the margin pulls aways elements while padding makes them bigger
On anatomy what's happening is that you're using the property "top" to modify #styles, this will move the element but the parent will reserve only the original space for the element. You will be better off working with margins and padding than with "top" if you have to keep a relation between the elements.
Lastly, i woulnt position elements with margins like you did with #stylesMono. I think you could better work with paragraphs to keep keep the vertical position and, from there, working with floats, margin and padding in the scope of the "p".
No mater how much I play around with padding and margin properties I can't seem to solve an issue I have on larger screens - the bottom of the html has a "cut off" where it appears to have a margin from the bottom of the screen. I do not know which element this is but all the elements have been reset to have 0 padding or margin.
When I add the following css I find that the gap really is at the bottom - there are no elements underneath:
* {outline: solid 1px;}
Here is a url to the site if any kind person would like to take a look: http://preview.tinyurl.com/7ywoqpf
Your div.holder has a min-height of 650 pixels.
When I remove that, the gap vanishes for me.
The best thing to do in these cases is a document inspector like Firebug or Chrome's built in one. They will show you which elements in the DOM take up which space exactly.
Remember that block level elements will fill their container widthways but not in height. So maybe it's the case that divs and containers within your page aren't tall enough to reach the bottom. There's something called a "push divs", "sticky footers" where that div will stay at the bottom. Maybe you'd put your background image within that and it'd stay at the bottom. There are several errors in your css though, and you can't have .5 of a pixel.
I fiddled with firebug and noticed that setting:
html {height: 100%;}
has solved the problem, will update the site later this evening
When I resize window and when vertical scrollbar appears, if I scroll it way to the bottom, - the bottom breaks. I dont understand why, but I think it has something to do with the way how page uses 100% height. Any help would be appreciated!
Here's the page: zxsdesign.com/main1.html
Here's a screenshot
zxsdesign.com/bug1.PNG http://zxsdesign.com/bug1.PNG
It's a mix of you using the CSS height property and absolute positioning. ajm has talked about using min-height - ideally, you should be using it instead of height when you make things 100% high.
Onto your other problem. When you position elements absolutely, they're no longer part of the page structure. Instead, they live in a separate plane, and so do not affect the page dimensions. When your <div id="flashcontent"> runs past the window boundary, it doesn't affect <body>'s borders.
You can fix this by not using position: absolute. There's no real need to. Instead, you can position the #flashcontent element normally, and get rid of the #bg element completely - just give #flashcontent a background instead. Then use margin: 0 auto; and padding-top: 179px; to position it in the correct place.
Unfortunately height: 100%; is implemented differently... You can not be sure that a browser does what you want when you use it.
Try to use clear: left; or clear: both; in your style.
100% height is one screen height. If you scroll up, it does cover 100% of the height. Make your blocks scale too, or at least move to the center of the screen. You can do this by setting their top and bottom padding to auto.
Also, your head tag isn't closed properly. Check this
Your page is based entirely on using 100% height for all of your Elements. If the user's browser viewport is big enough, that's fine; however, if they resize their browser to be small enough, your page will be 100% of that smaller height and things will drop out of the bottom.
Look into setting a min-height on one of your container Elements. That will force things to stop resizing if the browser window falls below that height. Or, you can set a plain old height big enough to contain your flash piece on one of your container items and let the others inherit from that.
And, since IE6 doesn't support min-height (FF2+, IE7, Safari all do), you'll need to hack it in like so.