In its simplest form, the problem is as follows. I have two divs (Ldiv and Rdiv) filling up my screen. Widths are 60% and 40% respectively, and heights vary according to the amount of content. Ldiv floats left and Rdiv floats right. The problem is that, as I narrow the window and push Rdiv against Ldiv, I seem to lose the right margin of Rdiv unless I make its width 35-39% instead of 40%. I have tried wrapping both inside an enclosing div container but this hasn't worked any better.
Can this be fixed by making one of the divs (say, Ldiv) a fixed width (in which case the layout is not entirely liquid, but that wouldn't matter too much)? I've read a number of posts here which say this is the way to go, but I can't see why it should. Many others say that with only 2 divs they should both float, but is there a non-floating alternative?
Thanks
Its not possible to give a real answer without seeing your code, BUT i guess to still have margins and paddings in your divs and/or your body element. So, in consequence the 40/60% dont add up to 100%. You can "remove" this with
body, #Ldiv, #Rdiv {
padding:0;
margin:0;
}
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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
So, I have this code
http://pastebin.com/W3ggtgZB as css, and the body looks like this:
http://pastebin.com/2tkmhnfW
What I am trying to do is create a div with two children divs, one of which has a fixed width, and the other one I want to fill the rest of the blank space. I'm eventually going to want a div going across the top of this side div, too, but, that comes later. My issue is, the child div sub1 expands to be 100% of its parent width, which is an issue, because then it overlaps out of the parent div and keeps going. I tried things like floating left, using block and inline, I tried setting the width to auto (which makes it disappear for some reason) - but nothing seems to really work. It looks okay, at first, but when you zoom in, sub1 kinda follows its own rules. Can someone help me fix it so that sub1 will just fill in the rest of the space left in the main div?
Here is the answer:
http://dabblet.com/gist/6069015
Only need to specify the side column's floating and the rest will take place as you want, adapting the screen size as well.
Hope it helps!
I have a dojox chart (chartDiv) that gets created within another container div (panelContainer).
Even though I have the width and height of the chartDiv set to be 90%, it either introduces scroll bars into the chartDiv, or if I dtart altering the padding and margin settigns for the ChartDiv, it will spill outside of the parent container.
I know this is going to be a basic issue, but I have been playing with lots of different CSS settings but nothing seems to solve keeping the chartDiv within the confines of the panelContainer (taking up 95% of the space)
This fiddle might help you spot where I have gone wrong.
When you make a chart (or a dojox.gfx canvas) without width/height, it will try its best to determine its dimensions from the container you put it in. It can get confused though!
In your fiddle's case, #chart has a known width, because it's a block element and inherits its width from panelBG which is 100% of panelContainer's width.
The #chart div doesn't really have a height though, since a block element is 0px tall until you put something in it (or add some style to it). As a consequence, (I think) the chart simply assumes a height of some proportion to the width.
In your CSS, I see you have a #chartDiv rule with width and height 90%. I'm guessing you intended that to be #chart. That wouldn't actually have resolved the problem entirely though!
Assuming you changed that, the chart would now use 90%x90% as width/height, but if you try it, you'll see that the labels/axis are still positioned incorrectly.
Because you've floated the title container to the left, the chart container starts on the same "line" and tries to have its content "float" around the title container. This skews the axis labels out of place (green), while the actual chart (svg/canvas, pink) drops down below the title container.
To fix this, tell the chart container to stay clear of floats on both sides:
#chart {
width: 90%;
height: 90%;
clear: both;
}
It isn't really necessary to float anything though, and setting the height to 90% isn't always ideal. I made a suggestion in an updated fiddle: http://fiddle.jshell.net/froden/WsrHs/4/ .
The differences are just that the title container is a div spanning across the top, while the chart container is absolutely positioned so that it fills whatever space is left underneath. You can then just set width/height on panelContainer.
Absolutely positioned elements are taken out of the normal flow. This is why some of the elements are expanding beyond their containers. I have a feeling your floats are involved in that, too, but the fiddle is a little too complicated and a simpler version needs to be made.
I'm fairly new to HTML5 and I don't understand the purpose of different elements very well. I'm trying to use section as wrapper and I'm having a problem of the section not spanning all the way across.
Can you please go to the following web address:
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I want the section to span all the way across the page to cover full width. But when I give it a 100% with, it simply disregards the width taken up by nav and floats down. Is there a way to make the section span across the remaining space in the screen?
Thanks very much
You appear to have floated it left. Getting rid of the float: left rule in section#Maincontainer should fix it.
If i understood correctly what you want to span across is the menu section .. now percentage width is always relative to its container .. so if the container`s width was 900px then the elements inside if had a 100% width will have 900px
i have used this css code and it worked fine
section#maincontainer {
width: " put the value here";
}
now usually if you dont specify a width, the elements takes all the space available, but in your case you have specified a float which forces the element in a specific area, removing float will work fine
I'm trying to make a box with rounded corners where the height and width of the div depends on the content, so it's automatically adjust to it...
You can see the example here: http://pastehtml.com/view/1duizyf.html
The problem is that i can't get the "test_mid_left" (black background) and "test_mid_right" (turquoise background) to inherit the height from the "test_mid_center" (green background). I have tried height: 100% and auto, but none of thoose work. So how do I get them to inherit the height from the content?
(The reason why I have used "min-height: xx" in the left and right content on the example is just to show which boxes I am talking about)
As already mentioned this can't be done with floats, they can't inherit heights, they're unaware of their siblings so for example the side two floats don't know the height of the centre content, so they can't inherit from anything.
Usually inherited height has to come from either an element which has an explicit height or if height: 100%; has been passed down through the display tree to it.. The only thing I'm aware of that passes on height which hasn't come from top of the "tree" is an absolutely positioned element - so you could for example absolutely position all the top right bottom left sides and corners (you know the height and width of the corners anyway) And as you seem to know the widths (of left/right borders) and heights of top/bottom) borders, and the widths of the top/bottom centers, are easy at 100% - the only thing that needs calculating is the height of the right/left sides if the content grows -
This you can do, even without using all four positioning co-ordinates which IE6 /7 doesn't support
I've put up an example based on what you gave, it does rely on a fixed width (your frame), but I think it could work with a flexible width too? the uses of this could be cool for those fancy image borders we can't get support for until multiple background images or image borders become fully available.. who knows, I was playing, so just sticking it out there!
proof of concept example is here
The Problem
When an element is floated, its parent no longer contains it because the float is removed from the flow. The floated element is out of the natural flow, so all block elements will render as if the floated element is not even there, so a parent container will not fully expand to hold the floated child element.
Take a look at the following article to get a better idea of how the CSS Float property works:
The Mystery Of The CSS Float Property
A Potential Solution
Now, I think the following article resembles what you're trying to do. Take a look at it and see if you can solve your problem.
Equal Height Columns with Cross-Browser CSS
I hope this helps.
The negative margin trick:
http://pastehtml.com/view/1dujbt3.html
Not elegant, I suppose, but it works in some cases.
You need to take out a float: left; property... because when you use float the parent div do not grub the height of it's children... If you want the parent dive to get the children height you need to give to the parent div a css property overflow:hidden;
But to solve your problem you can use display: table-cell; instead of float... it will automatically scale the div height to its parent height...
Most of the times, the Previous parent has a heigt manually set, so you can use that value as reference, no other dirty tricks will be needed, and if the number is not the same for any reason maybe a comment can be added with the original number so in case you need to change it, by searching at the all the values, this one can be adjusted or even changed, in the time someone resolve this one for us.