At the top of my page I have a div that spans the page, and inside that I want the login form to appear on the right side of the browser window. If I do this:
<div>
(masthead stuff)
<div id="topLogin" style="position: absolute; right: 4px; top: 4px">
(login form goes here)
</div>
</div>
That works, but the height of the parent div is not computed to include the size of the login form. I see a javascript/JQuery solution here, but before I do that is there a better practice for getting this done?
You can float it to the right.
You can use:
<div id="topLogin" style="float: right;">
(login form goes here)
</div>
Edit:
In your case use a style sheet as recommended for re-usability across your site:
<style>
#topLogin { float: right; }
</style>
<div id="topLogin">
(login form goes here)
</div>
You can use float:right; and you can use padding / margin to work with your spacing.
Related
maybe this is a stupid question but I have a doubt about CSS clear propery use.
I have this template: http://onofri.org/example/WebTemplate/
Why if I delete (you can try with firebug) the propery clear: both from the #footcontainer div I obtain that this div is placed at the top (it seems almost below the header and below the two columns)
My idea is this thing happens because the two columns #content and #sidebar are floated to the left and without setting clear: both on the #footcontainer div the browser try to put also this div on the right of the #content* div but have no space and put at the top.
Is this a right intuition or am I missing something?
Tnx
Andrea
This is happening because everytime you float an element, its container loses its auto height.
If you want to prevent that from happening, there are somethings you can do:
Set a given height to the container
Ex:
<div class="my-container" style="height: 100px">
<div style="float: left;">
Some very interesting text right here.
</div>
<div style="float: left;">
Don't read this and you'll be doomed.
</div>
</div>
Be aware that if you have set a given height, the div won't resize as the content becomes higher than the container.
Append a div with style="clear: both" right after the floated elements
Ex:
<div class="my-container">
<div style="float: left;">
Some very interesting text right here.
</div>
<div style="float: left;">
Don't read this and you'll be doomed.
</div>
<div style="clear:both"></div>
</div>
Yeah, it works. But only noobs do it like that. It's not elegant and pollutes your code.
Set overflow: hidden to the parent container
<div class="my-container" style="overflow: hidden">
<div style="float: left;">
Some very interesting text right here.
</div>
<div style="float: left;">
Don't read this and you'll be doomed.
</div>
</div>
This one is great, but you are in danger if you have someting positioned absolutely and have to move it outside the parent div, for example. You'll have an unpleasant surprise.
Use the ClearFix Hack.
This is the way I do it: easy to implement and works like a charm. Check this link out: http://www.positioniseverything.net/easyclearing.html;
If you mind about not having valid CSS (like me), you can target IE browsers with a different stylesheet and conditional comments, for example.
Further resources about the subject:
Quirks Mode Site: CSS Clearing
http://www.quirksmode.org/css/clearing.html
Chris Coyier's ClearFix Tutorial
http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/clear-fix/
I see you code
your code is too complicated according to me but any way you can used to this css than your problem is solve
Used to this css
#c{position:relative;}
#c:after {
position: absolute;
content: "";
left: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: -42px;
background: url('http://onofri.org/example/WebTemplate/images/footerRight.jpg') no-repeat -3px 0px;
height: 43px;
}
#footerRight{display:none;}
You have no height set on your container. If you change the height of container to the height of its' contents, which in this case is 596 px then when you take away the clear both property on the footer it won't move one iota.
I think it's because if you float an object, the parent object doesn't resize accordingly.
For example, if you had:
<div class="1px-border">
<div class="float">
<h3>TEST</h3>
</div>
</div>
The border would be completely flat, and not resize to the header. You could fix it by having overflow: auto in the container div.
That said, I could be massively wrong.
Basically what I have is an HTML page with a "main content" block, if you will. All main content for that page goes in the div I have for it. What I want is to have a column with more stuff to the right of it, but whatever I try to do it always ends up going either below it or in some random place. Here is the code for my page, if anyone could help guide me through it that would be awesome.
HTML: http://pastebin.com/Hh2TNGdj
CSS: http://pastebin.com/ZCEJkFmH
Thanks.
You were probably close... putting in your new div straight after #pagecontent, and floating it right, then floating the #pagecontent div left, will allow them to sit side by side.
Note that the next content (footer, for instance) will need to be cleared properly so it won't overlap your floated divs.
I would switch to using HTML5 tags, personally. If I were to do something like this, I would go with code along this line (untested):
<div id="wrapper"> #wrap both sections in a container
<section id="left">Left Section</section>
<section id="right">Right Section</section>
</div>
For the CSS, you can do something like this:
#wrapper {
width: 1000px;
height: auto;
}
#left {
width: 500px;
height: auto;
float: left;
}
#right {
width: 500px;
height: auto;
float: left;
}
Some important things to remember. If you add padding, subtract that from the width (if padding is on both left and right, subtract padding x2). On your footer, put clear: both.
Hope this helps you out.
Here's a fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/n6D7U/
new div #aside,
both columns are floating with fixed width (700+20+240 pixels here),
last CSS rule is there because parent has only floating children and thus no more content in the flow to push down the background...
I think this should work:
<div style="padding:20px;">
<div id="pagecontent">
<span class="main-content-font">
The title of this page goes in the gray box above. This is the homepage, you can put <u>anything</u> here (the main content of your website
which has some neat features and explains what your site is about should go here)!<br />
<br>
Content, content, and more content!<br />
<br>
Try to make it fill up as much space as possible, making the page longer. Don't fill it with useless junk, just anything
you can think of that will benefit the page.
</span>
<span class="whatever">
some things
</span>
</div>
</div>
I haven't tried it, but making main-content-font a span will not add a newline, so the whatever span will be placed to its right.
I'm making a website and trying to create a login box. I have a website with two boxes of content, and I want to add a third "login box".
However, I can't seem to do this, because it appears above (when I have the current width of the container) or above (when I increase the width of the container to accommodate for the increase of space because of the box).
Also, margins don't seem to be affecting the newly created box either.
Here is what I want it to look like: http://i.stack.imgur.com/Kmm1g.jpg
And here is the current website: http://www.winterlb.com/
So my question is, what is the easiest way to accomplish this? Thanks.
You can put your login box and your nav box in the same div. Float this div and the main content div like so:
HTML:
<div id="navBar">
<div id="loginBox">
...
</div>
<div id="navBox">
...
</div>
</div>
<div id="mainContent">
...
</div>
CSS:
div#navBar {
float: left;
width: 200px;
}
div#mainContent {
float: left;
width: 600px;
}
Add the 'third box' inside your 'sidebar' and add another div to wrap your original sidebar content.
Style the approriate login div and navigation div. Float them left if needed.
Here's a sample html of what the structure should look like http://pastebin.com/3hLmGzRZ
You will never accomplish this properly without a doctype. You are in quirks mode. Add this to your first line and then see where we are:
<!DOCTYPE html>
I always seems to get this simple HTML stuff wrong. I am currently trying to add side by side divs in the middle of a page on this test page I made:
http://www.comehike.com/hiking_dev.php
The code I added was something like this:
<div style="width: 460px; float: left; ">
<strong>Test hello</strong>
</div>
<div style="width: 300px; float: right; ">
<strong>Test hello 2</strong>
</div>
I added <strong> tags so you can spot it on the page better.
But do you see there is text that appears there that reads like this "When considering the injury risk of any" - but that text is in the <p> tag below. Why is it appearing there?
Is it better practice to wrap my 2 divs that I am trying to align, within another div?
After your two floating divs, add another empty div...
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
This will cause the two floating divs to push all subsequent content below them. As you have it now, there is 200 pixels of empty space after the first div allowing the other content to simply wrap around it.
Increasing the width of the floating divs may not be desirable for your layout so clear:both; is most typical for this situation.
Surround those two divs in a parent div with overflow set to hidden.
<div style="overflow:hidden;">
<div style="width: 460px; float: left; ">
<strong>Test hello</strong>
</div>
<div style="width: 300px; float: right; ">
<strong>Test hello 2</strong>
</div>
</div>
An alternative (as others have pointed out) is to use a third element:
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
It's debatable as to which is better. Usually, either is just fine. Here's a post about the topic:
Floated Child Elements: overflow:hidden or clear:both?
You'll either need to add a div below your two divs with clear:both; as others have suggested, or you could add clear:both; to the following <p> element.
Because you have an entire page width of 960px. You're combined div widths are 760px (400+300). If you add 200px to the second div you should be fine.
Edit: Because of padding, you can increase either of the divs by 150px and be fine.
I'm helpless, tried my best understanding CSS but it's just not for me.
I would like to make a really simple MasterPage:
at the top a div of full width and height 40px (1)
at the bottom also a div of full width and height 40px (2)
in the middle:
on the left: a div of width 200 px (3)
on the right side of the left div: a div with contentPlaceHolder (4)
What I would like to get is: if i make some site that uses my master page and place a panel in the contentPlaceHolder that has width 800px, I would like my site to adjust to it - top, middle and bottom divs to have their width of 1000px (200 + 800). I also wouldn't like (and I have a huge problem with that) the (4) to move down if I resize (shrink) the browser window - I would like all the divs to be blocked.
This is my master page html:
<div>
<div class="header">
</div>
<div>
<div class="links">
</div>
<div class="content">
</div>
</div>
<div class="footer">
</div>
</div>
What kind of CSS do I have to write to make this finally work?
Not sure if you have checked into this or not, but we use the YUI-Grids CSS Framework for our layouts. It keeps us from having to spend a lot of time on CSS, which we are not great at being developers.
There is even a grid builder which will let you graphically layout a page, and then copy and paste the required HTML to make it happen :)
To prevent floated divs from being "squeezed" out of the alignment you want, you usually use either width or min-width.
For example, in this code the div containing the links and content will never be smaller than 1000 pixels. If the screen is smaller than 1000 pixels, a scrollbar is displayed.
<div style="min-width: 1000px">
<div class="links"></div>
<div class="content"></div>
</div>
You could also use width instead of min-width:
<div style="width: 1000px">
<div class="links"></div>
<div class="content"></div>
</div>
The difference between the two is simple: if you specify min-width, the div CAN grow to be larger if it needs to. If you specify width, the div will be exactly the size you specified.
Be aware that min-width is not supported by IE6.
Here's a quick stab at specific CSS/Markup for this problem.
Markup:
<!-- Header, etc. -->
<div class="contentView">
<div class="links">
</div>
<div class="content">
</div>
</div>
<!-- Footer, etc. -->
CSS:
.contentView {
/* Causes absolutely positioned children to be positioned relative to this object */
position: relative;
}
.links {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 200px;
}
.content {
padding-left: 200px;
}
You might want your footer to be "sticky." Check here for information on that: http://ryanfait.com/resources/footer-stick-to-bottom-of-page/
How appropriate this is depends on precisely what the design calls for. This makes the links section more of a floating box on the left than a column for example.
This ends up looking like this (.content is green, .links is red):