Currently I'm working on a project that needs me to have 2 div's side by side. This isn't such of a problem, except I want the parent div to auto resize properly when one of the subdivs becomes larger.. here comes the problem..
When one is larger than the other it pushes the other to the bottom of the parent div.. my question is; how am I able to fix this?
To see my problem in action: http://jsfiddle.net/zygnz/508/
Thanks!
Just updated your Fiddle with the solution:
http://jsfiddle.net/zuul/zygnz/511/
CSS
.right, .left {
float: left;
}
.clear {
clear: both;
}
.container div {
display: block;
}
HTML
<div id="container">
.
.
.
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>
hey try adding this to your css on the "div.left":
float: left;
Related
I have a chat widget that I am adding some styling to. However I am having difficulty making the "user" chat bubbles align to the right of the screen.
When I use float right, with float left(for the other side) the divs no longer position correctly, in that they seem to just go to the right of the relative divs.
I would like it to also be able to append div's that will cause the overflow-y to create a scroll bar. Which without the float is already working as expected.
Below is the current version in a jsbin.
http://jsbin.com/utulay/1/edit
TLDR; trying to get the .chat-bubble-user divs to align to right of screen without float.
if you don't want use floats, just try with inline-block, like so:
#chatWindow {
text-align: right;
}
.chat-bubble-user {
display: inline-block;
text-align: left;
}
JsBin (tested on Fx20): http://jsbin.com/awimev/2/edit
You can use float:right on the user messages and put a clearfix div after each one:
http://jsbin.com/utulay/2/edit
<div class="chat-bubble-user">
<div class="chat-bubble-glare-user"></div>
<p>I have a question about kittens?</p>
<div class="chat-bubble-arrow-border-user"></div>
<div class="chat-bubble-arrow-user"></div>
</div>
<div class="clearfix"></div>
CSS
.clearfix:after {
clear: both;
content: ".";
display: block;
height: 0;
visibility: hidden;
}
.clearfix {
display: inline-block;
}
.clearfix {
display: block;
}
it has been a problem for sometime until.
You only have to use
text-align:right;
display-inline:block;
all in the parent member;
Let's say I have a navbar that has 5 elements nicely floated to the left. I then add an element that I want to be on the far right, but I want a little bit of a margin between the element floated to the far right and the edge of the actual document. If I just do float:right;, the element is smashed to the end of the document. If I try to mess with position-right or margin-right, nothing happens. How do I get the element away from the edge?
A couple options, first use a wrapper to to control the two divs seperation:
HTML:
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="left">Left Div</div>
<div id="right">Right Div</div>
</div>
CSS:
#left {
float: left;
}
#right {
float: right;
}
#wrapper {
width: 500px;
margin: auto;
padding: auto;
overflow: auto;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/wDjFV/
Another option is to do float: left on BOTH <div>s and seperate with margins there:
HTML:
<div id="left">Left Div</div>
<div id="right">Right Div</div>
CSS:
#left {
float: left;
}
#right {
float: left;
margin-left: 200px;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/wDjFV/3/
Update:
Just a thought on the second option that you may not know, you'll want to to do clear:both on a CSS rule for any <div>s that are bellow the ones you are floating to get the normal stacking behavior.
padding-right may be what you are looking for, not position-right. Either way, margin-right should be working to pull the box away from the edge of the page. padding-right will keep the box on the edge of the page, but move the containing content further away from the edge.
I'm trying to create a very simple 2 column layout with floating div's in html. The problem is that the following div, foot is always being rendered to the right of the right div. I know I should be using a clear statement somewhere, but I'm not sure which is the proper spot.
Also, as you can see in left I've explicitly specified the height of left. Is there a way to set force right to be of the same height without specifying it again?
<div id="main">
<div id="left" style="float: left; width: 150px; background: #DDDDDD; height: 500px;">
left column
</div>
<div id="right" style="float: left; background: #EEEEEE;">
right column
</div>
</div>
<div id="foot">
footer
</div>
Use clear:both on the foot div.
For your second question, you can set the main div to have a particular height, and then set the height of left and right to 100%.
Your CSS should look like this:
#foot{
clear: both;
}
#left, #right{
float: left; // remove this definiton from tag
height: 500px; // remove this definition from tag
}
Hope this help
Is this what you want?
#foot{display: block; clear: both;}
The foot div should be cleared.
#foot { clear: left /* or both */; }
As for the equal heights challenge, I recommend you use the faux-column technique by Roger Johansson.
Bear in mind that the main column must have more content than the secondary one. If that's the case, it removes the 500px height constraint and is flexible to whatever you might want.
create a empty div and put it at the end of right div just above the end of main div and give it class name of clrbth ..
in css you may add this property to the class
.clrbth {
clear:both;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
I'm wondering what the best way to go about doing this is...
I have 3 divs:
a div#container with width=100%; that holds 2 inner divs
a div#inner_left with width changing dynamically, but no wider than 200px (will hold a product image)
an div#inner_right where the width should fill the rest of the space in the container (will contain text to describe the product shown)
#container {
width:100%
}
#inner_left {
display:inline-block:
max-width:200px;
}
#inner_right {
display:inline-block;
width:100%;
}
The problem is that the div#inner_right creates a line break and fills the entire width. How can I make them align next to each other, with the right div accounting for the width taken by the left div (which changes dynamically?). I've gotten this to work other ways, but I'm looking for a clean solution...
Any help for a CSS noob is much appreciated!
I haven't really seen a good solution in the answers here. So I'll share mine.
Best way to do this is by using the table-cell option in CSS. One important thing to add is a 'min-width' to the element that has a pixel width.
Example:
<div id="left">
Left
</div>
<div id="right">
right
</div>
CSS:
#left {
display: table-cell;
min-width: 160px;
}
#right {
display: table-cell;
width: 100%;
vertical-align: top;
}
Have a look at "liquid layouts" it can describe what you're talking about.
You're probably looking for this one.
In your example, try setting your display to inline. However, you won't technically be able to use block level elements in it, so have a look at the links I posted above. :)
The problem with setting the width to 100% if you're using floats is that it is considered 100% of the container, so it won't work either since the 100% includes the left div's width.
Edit: Here is the example of the other answer, I've edited it to include the html/css from the example site above for simplicity's sake.
I'll also include it below:
HTML
<div id="contentwrapper">
<div id="contentcolumn">
<div class="innertube"><b>Content Column: <em>Fluid</em></b></div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="leftcolumn">
<div class="innertube"><b>Left Column: <em>200px</em></b></div>
</div>
CSS
#contentwrapper{
float: left;
width: 100%;
}
#contentcolumn{
margin-left: 200px; /*Set left margin to LeftColumnWidth*/
}
#leftcolumn{
float: left;
width: 200px; /*Width of left column*/
margin-left: -100%;
background: #C8FC98;
}
This can be accomplished using Flex-Box, which has been introduced with CSS3 and according to Can I use is cross-browser.
.container {
display: flex;
}
.left {
width: 100px; /* or leave it undefined */
}
.right {
flex-grow: 1;
}
/* some styling */
.container {height: 90vh}
.left {background: gray}
.right {background: red}
<div class="container">
<div class="left">100px</div>
<div class="right">Rest</div>
</div>
So even though I wanted to do this with CSS only, I ended up just using tables...
Use floating:
#container{
width:100%
}
#inner_left{
float:left;
max-width:200px;
}
#inner_right{
float:left;
width:100%;
}
Edit: have a read a this, it's a nice little guide : quirksmode
you need to provide position:absolute style property to both your div's
This is based on #w00 's answer. +1 friend.
My situation was when I wanted to show a couple of icons next to a label. I use the fluid class for that which is where the nowrap comes in. This is so the icons appear on the same line.
.sidebyside-left-fixed, .sidebyside-right-fixed
{
display: table-cell;
width: 100%;
}
.sidebyside-left-fluid , .sidebyside-right-fluid
{
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: top;
white-space: nowrap;
}
Here is an easy method to achieve this, and this is something that's quite frequently needed. It's also tested to works with all browsers, including the very old ones (let me know if it doesn't on any).
Link to a sample: https://jsfiddle.net/collinsethans/jdgduw6a/
Here's the HTML part:
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="left">
Left Box
</div>
<div class="right">
Right Box
</div>
</div>
And the corresponding SCSS:
.wrapper {
position: relative;
}
$left_width: 200px;
.left {
position: absolute;
left: 0px;
width: $left_width;
}
.right {
margin-left: $left_width;
}
If you are not using any CSS preprocessors, then replace the $left_width with your value (200px here).
Credit: This is based on http://htmldog.com/examples/pagelayout2/.
There are several other useful ones there.
I want to put two <div>s next to each other. The right <div> is about 200px; and the left <div> must fill up the rest of the screen width? How can I do this?
You can use flexbox to lay out your items:
#parent {
display: flex;
}
#narrow {
width: 200px;
background: lightblue;
/* Just so it's visible */
}
#wide {
flex: 1;
/* Grow to rest of container */
background: lightgreen;
/* Just so it's visible */
}
<div id="parent">
<div id="wide">Wide (rest of width)</div>
<div id="narrow">Narrow (200px)</div>
</div>
This is basically just scraping the surface of flexbox. Flexbox can do pretty amazing things.
For older browser support, you can use CSS float and a width properties to solve it.
#narrow {
float: right;
width: 200px;
background: lightblue;
}
#wide {
float: left;
width: calc(100% - 200px);
background: lightgreen;
}
<div id="parent">
<div id="wide">Wide (rest of width)</div>
<div id="narrow">Narrow (200px)</div>
</div>
I don't know if this is still a current issue or not but I just encountered the same problem and used the CSS display: inline-block; tag.
Wrapping these in a div so that they can be positioned appropriately.
<div>
<div style="display: inline-block;">Content1</div>
<div style="display: inline-block;">Content2</div>
</div>
Note that the use of the inline style attribute was only used for the succinctness of this example of course these used be moved to an external CSS file.
Unfortunately, this is not a trivial thing to solve for the general case. The easiest thing would be to add a css-style property "float: right;" to your 200px div, however, this would also cause your "main"-div to actually be full width and any text in there would float around the edge of the 200px-div, which often looks weird, depending on the content (pretty much in all cases except if it's a floating image).
EDIT:
As suggested by Dom, the wrapping problem could of course be solved with a margin. Silly me.
The method suggested by #roe and #MohitNanda work, but if the right div is set as float:right;, then it must come first in the HTML source. This breaks the left-to-right read order, which could be confusing if the page is displayed with styles turned off. If that's the case, it might be better to use a wrapper div and absolute positioning:
<div id="wrap" style="position:relative;">
<div id="left" style="margin-right:201px;border:1px solid red;">left</div>
<div id="right" style="position:absolute;width:200px;right:0;top:0;border:1px solid blue;">right</div>
</div>
Demonstrated:
left
right
Edit: Hmm, interesting. The preview window shows the correctly formatted divs, but the rendered post item does not. Sorry then, you'll have to try it for yourself.
I ran into this problem today. Based on the solutions above, this worked for me:
<div style="width:100%;">
<div style="float:left;">Content left div</div>
<div style="float:right;">Content right div</div>
</div>
Simply make the parent div span the full width and float the divs contained within.
UPDATE
If you need to place elements in a row, you can use Flex Layout. Here you have another Flex tutorial. It's a great CSS tool and even though it is not 100% compatible, each day its support is getting better. This works as simple as:
HTML
<div class="container">
<div class="contentA"></div>
<div class="contentB"></div>
</div>
CSS
.container {
display: flex;
width: 100%;
height: 200px;
}
.contentA {
flex: 1;
}
.contentB {
flex: 3;
}
And what you get here is a container with a total size of 4 units, that share the space with its children in a relation of 1/4 and 3/4.
I have done an example in CodePen that solves your problem. I hope it helps.
http://codepen.io/timbergus/pen/aOoQLR?editors=110
VERY OLD
Maybe this is just a nonsense, but have you tried with a table? It not use directly CSS for positioning the divs, but it works fine.
You can create a 1x2 table and put your divs inside, and then formatting the table with CSS to put them as you want:
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<div></div>
</td>
<td>
<div></div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Note
If you want to avoid using the table, as said before, you can use float: left; and float: right;and in the following element, don't forget to add a clear: left;, clear: right; or clear: both; in order to have the position cleaned.
div1 {
float: right;
}
div2 {
float: left;
}
This will work OK as long as you set clear: both for the element that separates this two column block.
I ran into the same problem and Mohits version works. If you want to keep your left-right order in the html, just try this. In my case, the left div is adjusting the size, the right div stays at width 260px.
HTML
<div class="box">
<div class="left">Hello</div>
<div class="right">World</div>
</div>
CSS
.box {
height: 200px;
padding-right: 260px;
}
.box .left {
float: left;
height: 200px;
width: 100%;
}
.box .right {
height: 200px;
width: 260px;
margin-right: -260px;
}
The trick is to use a right padding on the main box but use that space again by placing the right box again with margin-right.
I use a mixture of float and overflow-x:hidden. Minimal code, always works.
https://jsfiddle.net/9934sc4d/4/ - PLUS you don't need to clear your float!
.left-half{
width:200px;
float:left;
}
.right-half{
overflow-x:hidden;
}
As everyone has pointed out, you'll do this by setting a float:right; on the RHS content and a negative margin on the LHS.
However.. if you don't use a float: left; on the LHS (as Mohit does) then you'll get a stepping effect because the LHS div is still going to consume the margin'd space in layout.
However.. the LHS float will shrink-wrap the content, so you'll need to insert a defined width childnode if that's not acceptable, at which point you may as well have defined the width on the parent.
However.. as David points out you can change the read-order of the markup to avoid the LHS float requirement, but that's has readability and possibly accessibility issues.
However.. this problem can be solved with floats given some additional markup
(caveat: I don't approve of the .clearing div at that example, see here for details)
All things considered, I think most of us wish there was a non-greedy width:remaining in CSS3...
This won't be the answer for everyone, since it is not supported in IE7-, but you could use it and then use an alternate answer for IE7-. It is display: table, display: table-row and display: table-cell. Note that this is not using tables for layout, but styling divs so that things line up nicely with out all the hassle from above. Mine is an html5 app, so it works great.
This article shows an example: http://www.sitepoint.com/table-based-layout-is-the-next-big-thing/
Here is what your stylesheet will look like:
.container {
display: table;
width:100%;
}
.left-column {
display: table-cell;
}
.right-column {
display: table-cell;
width: 200px;
}
To paraphrase one of my websites that does something similar:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<style TYPE="text/css"><!--
.section {
_float: right;
margin-right: 210px;
_margin-right: 10px;
_width: expression( (document.body.clientWidth - 250) + "px");
}
.navbar {
margin: 10px 0;
float: right;
width: 200px;
padding: 9pt 0;
}
--></style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="navbar">
This will take up the right hand side
</div>
<div class="section">
This will fill go to the left of the "navbar" div
</div>
</body>
</html>
just use a z-index and everything will sit nice. make sure to have positions marked as fixed or absolute. then nothing will move around like with a float tag.