I cannot get positioning, max-width, and 'right: 0px' to work together in harmony! I'm creating a div that is fixed on my site in the upper right corner. The content of the page has a max-width of 1000px, however the label only obeys my rule of 'right: 0px' and sticks to the right, disobeying once max-width has been reached. It should also be noted that by default, the div is in the upper left and obeys the max-width (if I type 'left: 0px;' though, it does not obey the rule and it sticks to the left).
CSS:
#content {
margin: 0 auto;
max-width: 1000px; }
#div {
width: 150px;
position: fixed;
right: 0px; }
Here are some alternatives that I've already tried:
width: 100% (with text-align: right) <--- not quite right, and I don't like the 100% width as opposed to 150px
adding code to position the div "manually" in the html (not CSS)
I've discovered that float and text-align don't affect to fixed positioning
Help is greatly appreciated! Thank you.
If I understand correctly, this is what you're after.
You need to add a container with an absolute position to get the content over to the right and then use a fixed position container to keep it top right where you need it.
Alternative if you don't want to add additional absolute container
#div {
width: 150px;
position: fixed;
right: calc(50% - 500px); /* will move the div as far as 50% of viewport
then move it back to 500px (that is half of max-width) */
}
/* if needed, you can add media query */
#media (max-width: 1000px) {
right: 0;
}
I got it working with no problem in a jsfiddle. You may want to look around at the CSS that is affecting the area. You may have an issue if #content is not a block level element (no width will be applied and such. More code from you would be greatly helpful so we know exactly what is going on and can help you out more.
I think you need this one:
#content {
margin: 0 auto;
max-width: 1000px;
height:20px;
background:yellow;
position: relative;
}
#div {
width: 150px;
position: absolute;
right: 0px;
}
position:fixed is not relative to any container. It is relative to the html element of the DOM. That is the reason you're seeing it at extreme right whatever you do to the #content.
Related
So I've been told (maybe this is wrong) that if you want to overide (go beyond) the margins of a parent div simply make the child position:absolute. The problem with this is that it will overlap text that is set below that div.
Is there a way to;
Override the margins of the parent div and have that div still push down the adjacent text?
Can this be executed by not applying a margin-top: to the first block of text? This solution seems sloppy, the layout would blow up while in mobile view.
Thanks for you help / opinion on this one.
The page in question can be found here.
remove the image background for the div has the position absolute and put the image as a background for the parent div with the following selector:
.entry-content {
padding: 0 40px 40px;
background: url('http://www.gridviper.com/phelan/wp-content/uploads/back-blue-top4.jpg') no-repeat;
background-size: 100% 219px;
}
and change the absolute div css to be as the following:
.content-masthead {
max-width: 100%;
min-height: 219px;
position: relative;
left: 0;
right: 0;
margin-left: 0px;
padding-left: 0px;
}
Few hinds to help you fixing this:
This this not the parent, but the first positioned ancestor (with position other than null, can be "relative").
You can define the size of this element in percentage relative to this ancestor.
You can use padding instead of margin to keep the space.
As you can see in this page: http://pitchfork.com/ , there are some audio elements on the right side. I've inspected them and they seem to have absolute positioning. But if you scroll down, you'll see that they are fixed.
How can achieve this behavior? Can be an element Absolute and Fixed positioned?
This is the only way I've found: like #DreamTek said:
<div id="relative-layer">
<div id="fixed-layer">
</div>
</div>
and in the styles file:
#relative-layer {
position:relative;
}
#fixed-layer {
position: fixed;
margin-top: 10px;
margin-left: 10px;
}
because using top and right rules positions the layer relative to the window, but if using margin-top and margin-left it is positioned relative to the parent layer.
JSFIDDLE: http://jsfiddle.net/9HQ4b/1/
Create a fixed scrolling sidebar with no JavaScript and a few lines of CSS.
The fixed div in the fiddle below appears to be positioned relative to the container but this is just an illusion.
It can be achieved using percentage widths or by using fixed widths and the setting a negative margin relative to the container width.
FLUID WIDTH
.wrap {
background: #ccc;
width: 90%;
height: 1000px;
}
.fixed {
position: fixed;
top: 10px;
right: 0;
background: #333;
height: 100px;
width: 10%;
}
<div class="wrap">WRAP</div>
<div class="fixed">FIXED</div>
FIXED WIDTH
.wrap {
background: #ccc;
width: 200px;
height: 1000px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
.fixed {
position: fixed;
top: 20px;
right: 50%;
background: #333;
height: 100px;
width: 50px;
margin-right: -160px;
}
<div class="wrap">WRAP</div>
<div class="fixed">FIXED</div>
A note about CSS positioning.
FIXED
Element is always positioned relative to the screen.
ABSOLUTE
Element is positioned relative to the nearest parent container with a position attribute.
Well, the inspected element IS absolute positioned, but is placed inside a wrapper (in another parent element) - #player-modal, which is fixed positioned!
The absolute position is used inside the fixed positioned parent, so the .hud element to be just a few pixels outside the content area (same spacing in every resolution!). This way the floating is fixed to the content area, instead of depending on the resolution (using fixed positioning + using the "right: 20px;" setting).
I just forgot to mention that it's possible, because the site has fixed width and not responsive layout, adjusting to every resolution. If you plan to use this efect on site with fixed width - it will work, otherwise you could need another solution.
I hope I've explained it well! :-)
You can also use calc() to achieve this. (supported in IE9+):
.fixed {
position: fixed;
right: calc(50% - 360px);
/* Replace 360px with half of container width plus desired positioning */
}
or if you want your fixed div on the left, for instance:
.fixed {
position: fixed;
left: calc(50% - 360px);
/* Replace 360px with half of container width plus desired positioning */
}
In image above you can footer top border is not aligned with the login box.I want to restrict border width equal to login container width.
and also I dont want x axis to scroll as in image.
To solve overflow issue I used,
html {
overflow:hidden !important;
}
But it does not seems promising to me,
I want something like this ,
footer top border should be aligned with red lines
Fiddle
You are using position: absolute; so you need to use left: 0; for the .google-footer-bar
Demo
.google-footer-bar {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
left: 0; /* Add this here */
height: 35px;
width: 100%;
border-top: 1px solid #ebebeb;
overflow: hidden;
}
Also, it will be better if you wrap up the elements, say a maximum 1000px in width and than use margin: auto; to center them, having no wrapper element will just spoil your layout. As far as 100% width element goes, you can use width: 100%; for the container and then nest 1000px; of another child element with margin: auto;, this way your layout will be stable.
You might want to start by removing width and min-width and also height and min-height.
I have a <div id="wrapper"></div> with
#wrapper {
height: 300px;
margin: 10px;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 400px;
}
When I resize the viewport so that horizontal scrollbars appear, the right margin disappears; I can only scroll as far right at the element's content, but I want the margin to be present on all sides. It also happens to the left margin if right: 0; is applied, and to the bottom margin if the viewport is made shorter. Giving wrapper a position: static; (default) makes no difference.
Why is this happening? It doesn't follow normal margin collapse rules. How can I get my margin back? I've tried giving the body padding/margin.. nada.
jsFiddle
Background Info
The default width of the body element is the html width which is also the window width (or iframe width in such a case). The default behavior of a block level element is that the scroll only accounts for the actual element (hence, it doesn't care about the right margin if there is nothing more to display on the right). This causes your right margin issue. (By the way, according to this article, the scroll bars are actually appearing on the html element, not the body.)
For Position: Absolute
By having #wrapper with position: absolute, the body element ends up with zero height. This causes your bottom margin issue in this case.
A solution is to account for the margins like so (see fiddle):
body {
min-height: 320px;
min-width: 420px;
}
This assigns a minimum dimension to the body equal to the width + margins and height + margins of the absolute element.
Now, I'm not sure what you expect to happen if you have right: 0 set, as forcing a left margin to "remain" just ends up causing, in my opinion, a premature scroll bar to activate. See this fiddle.
Regarding Position: Static
The default block level behavior can be changed by forcing a shrink-wrap like behavior on the body element using (see fiddle):
body { display: inline-block; }
Note: that body { float: left; } did not give me the same shrink-wrap behavior (see fiddle).
The inline-block element will account for the margin of its inner elements to determine its own width, which then allows the right margin to work.
The reason the display: inline-block; solution does not work on the #wrapper being position: absolute is because it makes the body have a zero width and height, since the absolute positioning takes that element out of flow and there is nothing left inside body to give it dimension.
The above was currently only tested on IE9.
I'm afraid there's only one simple and quick solution, and that is to create a new div inside the wrapper div.
http://jsfiddle.net/QHKmN/2/
CSS
#wrapper {
background: black;
height: 300px;
margin: 10px;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 400px;
}
#inwrapper {
background: green;
height: 290px;
margin: 5px auto;
position: relative;
width: 390px;
}
HTML:
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="inwrapper">
</div>
</div>
And there's your margin.
I am trying to create a bottom aligned, fluid width sticky footer that contains three links that are the same height as the container, which also have fluid widths.
I have created a top aligned version of this footer, where the links are not the full height of their container. It breaks if I set the bottom of the container to zero. I have put the code for this here:
http://jsfiddle.net/bHJR3/1/
How can I modify what I have so the bottom edge of the container is flush with the bottom of the window, and the links are the same height as the container?
I know how to do this through jquery but I am trying to avoid js if at all possible.
Thanks for any help.
EDIT:
Here's a jquery solution I came up with in case of no answers if anybody wants to see it. http://jsfiddle.net/bHJR3/2/
The reason it broke when you set bottom: 0 on #footer is because everything inside #footer had position: absolute. Absolutely positioned elements do not take up any space in the document flow and will not cause their parent elements to expand to contain them. Setting a height on #footer solves this. Setting height: 100% on the a tags will cause them to size relative to their parent element. You can keep div.content, but you would also have to set height: 100% on it.
Add the following CSS to #footer:
bottom: 0;
height: 90px;
Add the following CSS to A:
height: 100%;
line-height: 90px; /* matches the height from #footer to vertically center the link text */
Remove div.content. It doesn't seem necessary here.
Edit
You can center the footer by adding/changing the following CSS on #footer:
width: 640px;
left: 50%; /* positions left edge of #footer to center of page */
margin-left: -320px; /* pulls footer to the left (width / 2) * -1 */
Edit
You can use max-width and a media query to alter the styling of the footer if the window width is < 640px:
#footer {
position: fixed;
width: 100%;
max-width: 640px;
height: 114px;
bottom:0;
left: 50%;
margin-left: -320px;
}
#media only screen and (max-width: 640px) {
#footer {
margin-left: auto;
left: 0;
}
}