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?
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I'm trying to vertically align some text in a div by setting the line height equal to the div height. This works just fine when there's just text in the div, and also when there's a small image in the div. But for some reason, when there's an image beyond a certain size in the div, it starts pushing the text downward. Check out this fiddle I made to demonstrate it.
In the fiddle are 4 divs that all have height: 40px and line-height:40px. The only difference is the the 2nd, 3rd & 4th divs also have images of size small, medium and large:
.small{height:20px;}
.medium{height:30px;}
.large{height:40px;}
So why are the third fourth images messing up the vertical alignment?
You need to add vertical-align: middle to your img tag, because it's not inline element, its inline-block element.
See updated Fiddle
Note that your vertical alignment method will not work when your text will be more than 1 row. Use for alignments flexbox, there are really good things :)
There a small space below every image. By default, an image is rendered inline (actually it's inline-block), like a letter. It sits on the same line that other letters sit on. There is space below that line for the descenders you find on letters like j, p and q.
You can adjust the vertical-align of the image to position it elsewhere. In this case vertical-align: middle; would be fine.
This answer describes the issue in details: Mystery white space underneath image tag
Vertical align is one of those things they never got quite right - try googling some articles around it.
My instant reaction here is to try vertical-align:middle on each of your images - but no guarantees - I've always had to experiment and you may get varying results from different browsers.
The only all-browser answer I've found is to create a 2-column table (maybe within the div box, but not necessarily) and put text in one cell (text is automatically vertically centred in table cells) then put the matching image in the next cell (which will automatically expand to the height of the image).
Aren't tables brilliant? (some people don't think so...)
Im making a responsive site with dynamic content. I have a row of divs that will wrap at smaller screen widths. As some of the divs have more content and are taller than others, when a div wraps it doenst always go all the way to the left of the screen.
http://codepen.io/anon/pen/Ljmkb
I need a solution that works for different screen widths and for when the content makes the divs different heights, in other works I cant just set clear left on the 4th div.
Change float:left on your div elements to display:inline-block; in laymans terms this will place them on the same line if there is space, or start a new line and place the overflowed element at the start of it if not.
By then placing the elements in a vertical-align:top environment, they will maintain their top alignment.
Demo Fiddle
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
I am facing a problem: I have a div tag and images of 100px width each on both sides of the div. Now I want to add a number of div tags stacked over each other in the middle of it and they have to be fluid (using % width) and relative to support multiple resolutions. How can I do it?
JSFiddle Code
The only way to do that with the center being position: relative is by knowing the height of the center divs and adjusting margin-bottom of the div immediately above. Look at http://jsfiddle.net/XMkDt/10/ (this is only a single line, not very useful), and http://jsfiddle.net/XMkDt/26/ (this is equal height divs, but could be adapted to accommodate different heights; note: on my FF win7 the border's align correctly but the text is tweaked by a pixel and I'm not sure why--but for your purposes, it would work).
Note: you would want to make sure z-index: 1 was set to the div that you are actually showing at the time (as you make your opacity change), to lift it above the other divs.
Something like this? You'll need a hell of a lot of empty spaces though to make them fill the width...
EDIT:
New fiddle with fluid width: http://jsfiddle.net/BXW8y/1/
Basically I want to layout a toolbar with some icons on the left and right and a variable sized text field in the middle. I want the text field to take up the remaining space in the middle. The side sections widths are not known ahead of time, they are determined by the number of visible buttons on each side.
The problem is similar to http://www.alistapart.com/d/holygrail/example_4.html except he side column widths can not be hardcoded.
Is it possible to do this purely in CSS?
It sounds like you need display:table-cell
http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_class_display.asp
Container can be display:table-row and the children can be display:table-cell. I believe that should work for you.
To answer my own question, if you're using a browser that supports the flexible box layout model, setting the left and right DIVs to "-webkit-box-flex: 0;" and the center DIV to "-webkit-box-flex: 1;" does exactly what I want. The container should have "display: -webkit-box;"