CSS auto-fit container between float:left & float:right divs - containers

I'm looking for a way for CSS(3) to be able auto adjust the width of a center container div between a float:left div and float:right div.
The center div also needs the ability to have a min-width set, similar to google+ -> home where the center content is auto fitted between the left navigation buttons and the right chat pane. Then when the screen width shrinks past a certain point (detected with javascript) the chat pane minimizes to save space.
Here is an active mock-up to make work: http://jsfiddle.net/9vrby/
Also, here is the css code I'm using now:
#left{ float:left; width:200px; height:400px; border:1px solid #000; }
#center{ float:left; width:auto; height:400px; border:1px solid red; }
#right{ float:right; width:100px; height:400px; border:1px solid blue; }
Please let me know if you need more information, and thanks in advance for the help.

On #center, drop float: left and add overflow: hidden. Also, #center needs to be moved to last in the HTML.
http://jsfiddle.net/thirtydot/9vrby/14/
This works in all modern browsers and even IE7.

One trick is not to use floats but display:table-cell.
http://jsfiddle.net/9vrby/8/
HTML:
<div id='left'></div>
<div id='center'></div>
<div id='right'></div>
CSS:
#left{ display:table-cell; min-width:200px; height:400px; border:1px solid #000; }
#center{ display:table-cell; min-width:200px; width:100%; height:400px; border:1px solid red; }
#right{ display:table-cell; min-width:100px; height:400px; border:1px solid blue; }
Beware though, this method doesn't work in IE7 (and below, but who still supports that crap right?). But perhaps you can take a look at CSS3Pie which enables you to use CSS(3) for browsers that officially don't support it, like IE7. So perhaps display:table-cell will work aswell.

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floating 3 divs in a not logic order

I have some trouble with my website.
I have a contact from which is based on 4 divs posisioned like this:
div 1 is the place where you can fill out your information
div 2 is the textarea for your message and a send button
div 3 is contact information
and div 4 are social media icons.
this all works great. on mobile they're are scaled beneath eachother and it works like a charm.
But now my designer want to add a format for landscape posioned mobiles (which I agree with him is nesacery because the contact page is way to long if you keep all the divs beneath eachother. so what he came up with is:
so div 1 and 2 beneath eachother with all the fill out fields. and on the right the information en social media icons.
but here starts my problem. because floating items will go beneath eachother in order. this means that div2 will stay beside div 2 and div 3 will be beneath div 1 like this (the arrow incades which 2 I want to swap:
is there any way to change this by just using css? the solution I came up with is writing a a new code posisioned in the good way for this problem and make it display none until the right landscape mode is registerd.. but this would be a bit of a heavy solution for such a problem in my opinion. so anyway has a better idea:
here a fiddle:http://jsfiddle.net/skunheal/p6Yy6/
#container{
height:200px;
width:400px;
background:#212121;
}
#id1{
height:90px;
width:190px;
background:#fff;
float: left;
}
#id2{
height:90px;
width:190px;
background:#fff;
float: left;
}
#id3{
height:90px;
width:190px;
background:#fff;
float: left;
}
#id4{
height:90px;
width:190px;
background:#fff;
float: left;
}
this is my css right now. in the jsfiddle is the position of every box displayed. aldo it doesnt matter if the boxes on the right are swapped.
Hope anyone can help me out!
If I understand corectly the "responsive" behavior you are looking for , you ca wrap the two first divs together and the two last ones together. and float the wraps to the left. Then using a percent width and max-width/min-width you can achieve the desired behaviour.
See this FIDDLE (I modified the width of #container in your fiddle so it is responsive)
HTML :
<div id="container">
<div id="left_wrap">
<div id="id1">left above</div>
<div id="id2">left under</div>
</div>
<div id="right_wrap">
<div id="id3">right above</div>
<div id="id4">right under</div>
</div>
</div>
CSS (modified)
#left_wrap,#right_wrap{
width:50%;
max-width:380px;
min-width:190px;
float:left;
}
#container {
height:100%;
width:100%;
background:#212121;
}
#id1,#id2,#id3,#id4 {
height:90px;
width:190px;
background:#fff;
float: left;
}
Now, if you change the width of the fiddle window, you will see that if the window width is over 760px the divs all align normaly. If the window is between 760px and 380px you get the disired behaviour. If th window is under 190px the divs all stand on to of each other.
Since you are working with fixed height/width on these, you should be able to use absolute positioning instead of floats.
#container{
height:200px;
width:400px;
background:#212121;
position:relative;
}
#id1{
height:90px;
width:190px;
background:#fff;
position:absolute;
top:0;
left:0;
}
#id2{
height:90px;
width:190px;
background:#fff;
position:absolute;
bottom:0;
left:0;
}
#id3{
height:90px;
width:190px;
background:#fff;
position:absolute;
top:0;
right:0;
}
#id4{
height:90px;
width:190px;
background:#fff;
position:absolute;
bottom:0;
right:0;
}

how to force a div to display next to another element

I have a page with a vertical drop down menu, and i need to create a photo gallery next to it, however, the gallery is displaying below the menu instead. I've tried adjusting the dimensions to make room for it, but nothing is working.
#gallery {
position:absolute;
float:left;
display:block;
width:500px;
}
.square {
width:150px;
height:150px;
float:left;
position:relative;
background-color:#dbdbdb;
}
.square2 {
width:149px;
height:149px;
float:left;
position:relative;
border: 1px solid;
border-color:#dbdbdb;
}
There are multiple ways of achieving this:
Apply the style display:inline-block; to the DIVs in question
Specify float:left; and a width: on the DIVs that should be next to each other
(For either method) make sure the container is wide enough to fit both of them next to each other

Perfect Width To Fit Div Exactly

I have boxes floated inside a div sort of like the SO Chat except i am making a box for my own website where users can make their own chat room, these boxes on the page represent chatrooms and i want to make a perfect width for them so they will fit exactly on the page without any excess space in the margins. the main div they are positioned in is 965px with a padding of 15px on the left and right side of it making a 935px width i reduced the width from 965px to 935px to keep a total width of 965px.
To get an idea of my scenario check out A Fiddle
As you can see there is some space left at the end right side of the div and i dont want that, i want the chat boxes to fit pixel perfectly the full width and remember to take into account that borders count as widths too. If someone could help me that would be great!
CSS Styles
body {
width:1000px;
}
#Body {
width:935px;
padding:15px;
height:500px;
background-color:#F1F1F1;
margin:0 auto;
}
.ChatRoom {
float:left;
width:223px;
height:200px;
border:1px solid #666;
cursor:pointer;
margin-right:8.75px;
background-color:#FFF;
}
.ChatTitle {
width:100%;
height:30px;
line-height:30px;
font-size:13px;
font-weight:bold;
text-align:center;
background-color:#C6D6D9;
border-bottom:2px solid #9C0;
}
You can accomplish this using box-sizing:border-box. What it does is includes the padding and border sizes from the width, as opposed to its normal behaviour of adding to it (which makes the <div> overflow to the next line). I've added a div.Inner here which will have the border and white background while the .ChatRoom is used to provide space using padding.
jsFiddle
HTML
<div class="ChatRoom">
<div class="Inner">
<div class="ChatTitle">My Chat Room</div>
</div>
</div>
CSS
.ChatRoom {
float:left;
width:25%;
height:200px;
padding:8px;
box-sizing:border-box;
}
.ChatRoom .Inner {
border:1px solid #666;
box-sizing:border-box;
background-color:#FFF;
cursor:pointer;
height:100%;
}
Without border-box
Turns out it's pretty easy without border-box too, utilising margin on .Inner.
jsFiddle
.ChatRoom {
float:left;
width:25%;
height:200px;
}
.ChatRoom .Inner {
border:1px solid #666;
margin:8px;
background-color:#FFF;
cursor:pointer;
height:100%;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/DyTT8/1/
The last div needs to have the margin reset if not it will add to the 15px of padding. I did this by giving it class="last and making the .ChatRoom div 225px; This will give you the proper spacing.
You could also put the divs in an unordered list and target the last div with li:last-child and remove the margin that way.

Pushing Divs down after .Slidetoggle is activated

I am trying to push down the boxes after the .slidetoggle panel is activated. But what happens is that it either goes over or under (depending on z-position) the positioned boxes. I want to it so that when the slidetoggle panel is activated, it will push down all of the boxes.
Here is the JSFIDDLE: http://jsfiddle.net/iqab/8QHdB/3/
And here is an example of the type of functionality I am talking about:
http://www.michaelnagy.at/
Replace the CSS with this. The modified lines are commented.
Other fixes applied (see comments in CSS).
.wrapper{
width:800px;
/*height:800px;*/ /*let wrapper auto resize itself based on contents height*/
border:solid thin #000;
position:relative;
margin:auto;
}
.wrapper .Boxes{
display:inline-block; /*fix for box overlap out of wrapper. replacement for "float:left" below*/
width:200px;
height:200px;
/*float:left;*/ /*fix for box overlap out of wrapper. replaced with "display:inline-block" above*/
border:solid thin #000;
margin:33px;
}
.wrapper .hbox{
width:734px;
height:400px;
border:solid thin #100;
/*position:absolute;*/ /*fix for panel overlap over boxes*/
top:33px;
margin:33px;
display:none;
background-color: #000;
}

No space between bottom of div and div it is within

I have a div within a div, and when viewing the web page in IE6, it does not display spacing between the bottom of div class="video-tour" and the bottom of div class="content-body"
Here is what it looks like in IE6: http://i42.tinypic.com/20zs7s7.png
Here is what it looks like displaying correctly in Safari: http://i44.tinypic.com/2h69de1.png
The css for .video-tour <-- there are multiple videos that are split up into different boxes as you'll see, they have a width of 31%
.video-tour {
float:left;
width:31%;
border:1px solid #fdbe2f;
background-color:#ffc;
text-align:center;
padding:3px;
overflow:auto;
margin:6px;
}
.video-tour img {
border:1px solid #fdbe2f;
padding:3px;
}
CSS for .content-body which .video-tour is within
.content-body {
padding:10px 15px;
font-size:.8em;
font-family:arial;
overflow:auto;
}
Any help as to why there is no spacing at the bottom in IE6 and spacing in other browsers would be helpful.
Try adding a div at the bottom after video-tour that has a style of clear: both.
I believe its because you need to clear the floats.
You could try place a
<div style="width: 100%; overflow: hidden;"><!-- floats go here --></div>
Around the entire content with video-tour's.