I have two elements (images)
imgA is 2000px high
imgB is 1000px high
I place them one after the other and then move imgB up (I use relative positioning) to overlap the imgA.
Thus, the window in the browser should be 2000px high.
However, it seems, that when placing imgA and then imgB, the browser allocates the place for both of them i.e. 3000px hig, and after I move imgB up to overlap imgA, I have a blank space =1000px left at the bottom of the page.
How can this blank space be prevented?
Thanks
Ignore this
This is because the images are block level elements. To stop the
browser from allocating space you can just add: display:inline-block
to the second image. This will bring the image out of block structure
and so the browser will not allocate it whitespace.
Also have a look at Relatively Absolute positioning, it is very handy for the sort of thing you are doing.
EDITED
As commented below, this does not work. Use instead the Relatively Absolute positioning.
Here is a jsFiddle that shows the code needed to position an image over another
Use display: block on your images, then use position: absolute instead of position: relative to position imgB over imgA.
Don't forget to assign the parent element to anything other than position: static to make the positioning of your image relative to the parent element.
for further clarification you can see the examples of "css block" here
http://www.tutorialswire.com/css/css-display
Absolute positioning is only a specific solution to your case. It may not work in some similar case (For example if you have other elements on top of those two images inside the general containing div).
I believe best solution would be using
margin-top: -1000px;
for the second image.
Related
When I made my HTNL page, it looked perfect, but all of a sudden, I've been getting this huge white space on the bottom of my page. you can see it at http://thomaswd.com/pearinc2. How do I get rid of this?! My stylesheet's at http://thomaswd.com/pearinc2/style.css
If you look at the HTML element with the class back-iphone4s you'll notice it's positioned relatively using CSS.
If you remove the position: relative portion from the CSS rules for .back-iphone4s you'll notice it appears where your white space is.
Using position: relative like this is always horrible, white space appears where the element would have been if it wasn't positioned relatively.
What I would recommend is adding position: relative to the div with devices as its class, then use position: absolute; on .back-iphone4s and set it's position using that method. This way the back-iphone4s element is positioned relatively to it's parent, not relatively to where it would be in the normal document flow.
There are are a number of other ways you could solve this too, at I glance I would be very tempted to just turn those two iphones into one image, less HTML, less CSS and less images to download, but it appears you may have inteneded them to be seperate for a purpose, so maybe that's not a viable solution.
... phew, hope that makes sense, let me know if now.
I just had a quick look at your style, what I saw is technically very ugly.
You set all main elements with position:absolute and made them independent from context and content-flow. And because they are absolute, you have to give them a height - and that causes in things like that ugly white-space.
I would say you have the wrong concept of styling / structuring the page.
Try to use "position:absolute" very rare!
Give a height to the .devices class:
.devices {height: 520px;}
To move the position of an image to a certain part of my website, ive put the image in a div tag and used relative position to get it to the place i want it. This works fine for where i want the image to be positioned however there is a downside that it leaves white space behind where it previously use to be and in that space nothing is occupied and it makes the website look ugly. Is there a way to remove that space that it left behind?
as stated above, you should position the element absolute instead. When positioning relative, the element is still within the document flow and therefore occupies its original place in the document. Positioning absolute will remove the element from the flow and make the space available for other elements.
Use absolute positioning instead.
I have a wrapper surrounding a header with content inside as well as a container with content inside. The wrapper is really on there to keep everything positioned to each other accordingly within the confines I set, as well as to center everything. I have my container to automatically re-size according to the content that goes inside of it, this works without issue. However, the wrapper around the header and the container won't follow the same rule and ends up taking a height of 1px it seems. Please note: the code below will show the wrapper outlined by a dashed white border up at the top, it should instead wrap around everything it contains.
Here's the code to the website on jsFiddle.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I feel as though I closed all of my floats, I don't see why the height: auto; on wrapper won't work, but maybe there's something I'm missing.
height: auto on #wrapper isn't working because virtually every element inside it has position: absolute.
What does position: absolute do? http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#absolute-positioning
In the absolute positioning model, a
box is explicitly offset with respect
to its containing block. It is
removed from the normal flow entirely
(it has no impact on later
siblings). An absolutely positioned
box establishes a new containing block
for normal flow children and
absolutely (but not fixed) positioned
descendants. However, the contents
of an absolutely positioned element do
not flow around any other boxes.
The choices to fix your problem:
Give #wrapper an explicit height - but that won't work if you don't know the height beforehand.
As #jeroen said: use JavaScript to set the height of #wrapper.
What you should really do is completely redo your CSS:
position: absolute is not how you should position every element on the page. You should use floats instead.
For a comparison of using position: absolute vs floats, see:
http://www.htmldog.com/guides/cssadvanced/layout/
You are using absolute positioning for the contents of the wrapper, #container and that takes it completely out of the document flow. The same applies to the contents of your header.
The only way to get your wrapper to wrap, is using javascript to calculate and set the height manually.
Basically, I have a form, outside of that form in this random space on my page I want to position a div (containing two buttons). I've looked at using absolute positioning. However, it is positioning it outside of the page wrapper.
How can I get the positioning to be specified from the corner point of the actual page and not the window?
How can I get the positioning to be
specified from the corner point of the
actual page and not the window?
You need to add position: relative to the element you would like the top and left values to be offset from.
That might be your form, or it might be your #container/#wrapper element.
See here for details and a visual: http://css-tricks.com/absolute-positioning-inside-relative-positioning/
Looks like you have your answer by now. But ill post this anyways.
A simple and short example which shows how relative positioning to parent is done.
http://jsfiddle.net/EadXw/
If you want it positioned top:0;left:0 on the page, place it immediately after the <body> tag.
If it is wrapped in anything the containers may change it's position. Make sure it is independant and not influenced by any containers.
Sounds like you should read up a bit on the flow of the DOM.
Positioning with CSS and HTML
Make sure your <form> element wraps your whole "page" and that the <div> with the buttons is the first child of <form>.
When you do this you can add the rule position:relative to the form and position:absolute to the <div> and move it around with top and left.
Another option is to have no position rule on the form and have position:relative on the <div>. This is more compatible with iPad and iPhone devices, which don't like absolute positioning. When you go for this approach be sure to have a fixed height for the <div> and a negative margin-bottom of the same size.
What's the recommended & most elegant way of getting rid of the gap caused by position:relative?
I have a front page and want to put a banner that will be partially above the header and content section, but using position:relative produces an empty area...
See example (I want the text to be just below the red box):
http://jsfiddle.net/Ru2CT/
I know I could create another relative positioned div as a parent of my text, but then I'll still have the gap but between content section & footer...
Any ideas? :)
Take the entire contents of the grey box, and place it within a div (stretched to be the same size). Then move that box up with position:relative. This will have the effect of moving the text with the red "slider"/banner thing, without moving the gray background.
Here we go:
http://jsfiddle.net/4BLFJ/ [animated and annotated]
This is not what you asked, but is one of the two ways I would do it:
The main idea here is to make the banner an absolutely-positioned div (not absolutely-positioned on the page, though you can do that too; it may in fact be better).
First set the #content area to be position:relative, but NOT change anything else. This creates a new stacking context (child elements use top/right/bottom/left and percentages relative to it).
Then put the banner-thing as a child element of the #content area, and set it as follows:
position:absolute;
width:80%; height:100px; /*there are other ways to set the height and width*/
bottom:100%; /*this puts it at the top*/
/*you can also use bottom:105% or bottom:90% or other things, or if you really
want to use non-relative units like px, you can create a third nested div that is
relatively positioned by whatever px amount*/
Negative margin would be a much more elegant solution in this situation (revised jsFiddle). Note that I've had to move the #eee background to div#main, as it would otherwise overlay on the background of div#top.
As a general rule of thumb, I'd also recommend avoiding relative positioning unless absolutely necessary - can often lead to z-index headaches in older versions of IE.
I've finally resolved this issue, simple:
position: relative;
bottom: 200px;
margin-bottom: -200px;
Does the magic! :)