EDIT:
Per Mat's suggestion below, I fiddled with jsFiddle and came up with the "real" problem.
Positioning content absolutely within the center DIV doesn't produce the required results:
http://jsfiddle.net/yxFQK/22/
In order to position children absolutely, the parent needs to be relative, right? But that messes up the nice left/center/right layout:
http://jsfiddle.net/yxFQK/23/
Any ideas? Thank you in advance.
ORIGINAL POST:
We want to have a fixed-width parent DIV with three dynamic-width children DIVs:
The left and right DIVs should size based on content. The center DIV should fill the space between the left and right DIVs:
[[Left][ Center ][Right]]
(or)
[[Big Left][ Center ][Big Right]]
The center DIV should scroll overflow content (so we can't use overflow: hidden).
Also, we would like to change the parent DIV size (using CSS media queries), and have everything continue to fill in nicely:
[[Left][ Center ][Right]]
[[Big Left][Center][Big Right]]
[[Left][ Center ][Right]]
[[Big Left][ Center ][Big Right]]
Any ideas? Thank you in advance.
I don't have enough reputation to comment on your answer so I'm submitting as an answer. Is this what you're looking for?
http://jsfiddle.net/yxFQK/
Remember it's always easier to make a jsfiddle rather than try to explain visually/conceptually. If you frame the problem well it's easier for people to help you out.
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I'm building a website with fluid layout and I want avoid things like setting dimensions. I'm having success in almost everything, but I have a div that doesn't work as expected. See this link: http://cssdesk.com/Bshqe.
I expect that "div_botao_comecar_convite_cadastro_b" were placed to the right of "div_descricao_curta_convite_cadastro_b", but it was placed below this div. I want that the div be placed at left.
As I say, I don't want set a width for anyone div. Sorry for bad english. Thanks in advance.
If you don't want to set a specific width but want the children elements aligned horizontally, use css3 flexboxes -
apply display:flex to #div_elementos_convite_cadastro_b and adjust the other css accordingly....
demo
more about flexboxes # CSSTricks
How to make a div to float vertically? If there is empty space above a div then it should go up and fill up the space leaving the empty space at the bottom.
float:left // for floating horizontally
I have many div which are floating horizontally with a fixed width but not a fixed height. I want them to be arranged without leaving the empty space.
How can this be done?
A div would never leave empty space above itself. It will fill the space and then the document would go on to the bottom.
I guess, there is some sort of padding or margin there.
You can try to give the divs an absolute position as:
div {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
}
This way, div will be placed almost to the top of the page! Overlapping other elements, You can give some value to top in such a way that you're giving margin-top.
I hope it helps.
Let me assume you're experiencing the following problem: you have some divs with different heights one after another in several rows. Say, there's a very tall in the first row, forcing all the divs of the second row to "dive" deeper. I have a strong feeling, that there's no cross-browser pure-css way to improve this look much at the moment. However, you can achieve at least something with
display:inline-block;
vertical-align:top
instead of
float:left.
It will look like this:
http://jsfiddle.net/wHTQ2/
if you need something better looking, please, see this question:
css float elements with unequal heights left and up in grid
I believe it's the same thing that you're looking for. Unfortunately, there's not much you can do with pure css
Before someone down votes me for asking yet another centering problem. Please read my situation before judging!
I'm familiar with most common techniques for centering stuff but here is my situation. I have a DIV that must be both vertically and horizontally centered within its parent but it must also be fluid and not exceed the width of 890px.
Max-width achieves the fluid-ness that I want but because absolute positioned elements need width rather than max-width my vertical/horizontal centering breaks. At the moment i'm having to sacrifice fluid-ness over centering (or vice-versa) but I NEED both.
I'd like to keep the content within my centered DIV in view at all times, my current code doesn't do this, it hides the content as the window is made smaller http://jsfiddle.net/cCQ2w/
Can anyone propose a solution that might work for me?
I've tried to solve your problem. See this page: http://jsfiddle.net/PGce2/. So it centered horizontally and vertically and it is "fluid" and not exceed the width of 890px.
You can provide a width of 100% with max-width set to 890px.
I have shown [here][1] the sample of a div with both horizontally and vertically align center.
[1]: http://jsfiddle.net/r2qL5sgj/1/
You can see what I'm going for at http://jsfiddle.net/vW45s/. A center div with two lines of text, and text on the left and right that abuts the text at the bottom of the center div.
I would like the text to be centered on the page (either the main "hello world" or the second line). Right now I'm using an outer div with a specified width and margin: auto. If the width is too large, the text will not appear to be centered; if the width is too small for the inner text, the divs will be stacked: http://jsfiddle.net/vW45s/1/.
Is there a better way to center these three floated divs, while still getting the left and right text to align with the second line of the center div?
Any tips would be appreciated. CSS is not my strong point, but I'm learning.
Floating and centering doesn't mix well. To be able to center something, the browser must be able to determine how wide the element is. To determine it's width, it needs to know how wide the other floating divs are. Their width depends on the width of the element you want to center.
You have these options:
Try to get it to work without assigning a size. It might be possible. Be ready to spend a day or two on this to get it work with Firefox and Chrome and then one week to fix it in IE. ;)
Assign a width to all three divs
Use absolute positioning instead of floating. Make the center column 100% wide and move the side columns in front of it (one left with left: 0 and the other right with right: 0; both will need a definite width). That works until you start resizing the browser window too much (and the side columns start to overlap with the center).
Use a table or display: table-cell because table cells know about their siblings widths without floating. That means you can assign a width to the two side columns and then let the inner column grow.
PS: Yes, I know about the myth that tables are bad. The myth is a gross simplification. It's bad to nest 500 tables to get the design you want if you can get the same result with two divs and some smart CSS. But that doesn't mean you must not use tables at all.
Have you tried adding width: 33% to the left, right, and center divs along with text-align: center?
Not a front-end UI but have a (probably) very easy problem to fix. Here is a jsfiddle of it: http://jsfiddle.net/trestles/U7mYT/ I have two floated elements shown in this screen shot. One is floated left and the other (index-right-content) is floated right. The floated right div has two columns of content. The second column is much longer but doesn't expand out the box to push down the container. The index-right-content is posistion:relative. The index-right-content is the blue dashed border.
thx
edit #1
fiddle of it: http://jsfiddle.net/trestles/U7mYT/
I think the issue is the 'index-box right' which is right floated needs some way to clear itself but adding a clear:both didn't seem to do it.
don't do this full-time so thx for any help
I don't know why you should use positioning for the div index-right-content. Also, the width is more than it should be... I think I see 640px for the width, which I think is unnecessary, provided that the widths of the columns inside this div is defined.
see the updated jsfiddle adding float to both inner columns in container.