Make a div to be over multiple div - html

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Basically what i need to to is to put a div centered on the page, the same height, but 800 px width. The div needs to be with no background.
I've tried with "z-index" but didn't have any luck.
Can someone help?

I tried on your website this :
element.style {
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
width: 800px;
}
and it helps.
Good Luck !

If you just want to center a div, you could do like this:
#myDiv {
width: 800px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
But I'm not sure whether you want this div to cover some of the ones you have at the top. In that case, you could use position: relative; and then adjust the top property.

Some code would be useful, but I think you should use:
position: absolute;
To center div with absolute position use:
left: 50%;
margin-left: -400px; //this is because your div's width is 800px

It can also be written as follows:
#yourdiv{
margin: 0px auto;
width:800px;
}
Good luck!

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Pictures in a div

So I want to write some css so I can make a preset div size that I can put the pictures in. Even if the picture is bigger than the div i would like to make it show only what the div can show you. So kinda like cropping it or something. I want to make a little thumbnail that you can click on and see the whole picture. I have no idea where to start. Please help. Thanks!
you can do something like:
div {
width: 300px;
height: 300px;
overflow: hidden;
}
the width and height will prevent the div from automatically re sizing, and overflow: hidden will hide (or crop) everything that excedes the div's boundries
this JSFiddle will show you how the JS, and CSS are really simple...
http://jsfiddle.net/ProgrammerKid/bh2dz8Lq/
(make sure that you look at the css... it is awfully simple)
#divId{
width: xpx;
height: xpx;
}
#imgId{
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
}
#imgId:hover{
width: 100%;
}
The image will shrink to the size of the div when you hover over it.
.yourDivClass {
height: #px;
width: #px;
}
.yourDivClass img {
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
This will create your fixed size div, and then center your image inside the div, with only the size of your div being visible of the image.

Div margins issue for a draggable div

I have a div which has its CSS initially defined as:
.mydiv {
position: absolute;
top: 60px;
left: 60px;
right: 60px;
bottom: 60px;
background-color: cyan;
overflow: hidden;
}
That is with equal distance from screen borders and I wanted to make it draggable via jQuery. This wouldn't work because of the right and bottom CSS directives.
So my next idea was to use this CSS definition:
.mydiv {
position: absolute;
width: 90%;
height: 90%;
margin-left: 5%;
margin-top: 5%;
background-color: cyan;
overflow: hidden;
}
Which according to my understanding would create a div with a width and height equal to 90% of the screen width/height and additionally the margin directives (5% on each side) would position it in the center of the screen.
This solution doesn't seem to work for 100%.
It works horizontally, the div is centered horizontally BUT vertically the space in the bottom is less than the space on top. Which is not what I want it to be.
I know I could use calc() to solve it in a different way but I want to avoid it due to browser compatibility (IE8).
I was wondering what I'm doing wrong?
i'm kind of stupid today.
i removed the margins and used:
top: 5%;
left: 5%;
and it solved my problem.

Aligning div to center and its content to the left

I'd like to have a div that is centered on the document. The div should take all the space it can to display the content and the content itself should be aligned to the left.
What I want to create is image gallery with rows and columns that are center and when you add a new thumb it will be aligned to the left.
Code:
<div id="out">
<div id="inside">
<img src="http://www.babybedding.com/fabric/solid-royal-blue-fabric.jpg"/>
<img src="http://www.babybedding.com/fabric/solid-royal-blue-fabric.jpg"/>
<img src="http://www.babybedding.com/fabric/solid-royal-blue-fabric.jpg"/>
<img src="http://www.babybedding.com/fabric/solid-royal-blue-fabric.jpg"/>
<img src="http://www.babybedding.com/fabric/solid-royal-blue-fabric.jpg"/>
</div>
</div>
and the CSS:
img {
height: 110px;
width: 110px;
margin: 5px;
}
#out {
width: 100%;
}
#inside {
display: inline-block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
text-align: left;
background: #e2e2f2;
}
Live version here: http://jsfiddle.net/anPF2/10/
As you will notice, on right side of "#inside" there is space that I want to remove, so this block will be displayed until the last square and all of it will be centered aligned.
EDIT:
Please view this photo: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qy6trnmdks73hy5/css.jpg
It explains better what I'm trying to get.
EDIT 2:
I've uloaded another photo to show how it should adjust on lower resolution screens. notice the margins on the left and right. This is what I'm trying to get (unsuccessfully so far :\ )
https://www.dropbox.com/s/22zp0otfnp3buke/css2.jpg
EDIT 3 / ANSWER
well, thank you everybody for trying solve my problem. I solved this problem using JS, with a function that listens to a screen resize event. The functions checks the size of the right margin and add padding to the left so all the content is centered. I didn't find a solution using CSS. If you have one, I'd very much like to know it.
Thanks eveyone!
Specify a width for #inside to center it. I used width: 120px. Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/anPF2/7/
Additionally, CSS should be used for the height and width of images, not attributes such as height="300". The fiddle reflects this change.
use of display:inline-block takes extra margins. To remove those set font-size:0px to the #out container. See the demo
This is what you want to achieve? demo
img {
height: 110px;
width: 110px;
margin: 5px;
display: inline-block;
}
#out {
width: 100%;
margin: 0 auto;
position: relative;
border: 1px solid red;
}
#inside {
position: relative;
background: #e2e2f2;
}
You shouldn't use Pixels when laying out your css, it makes it very rigid and causes possible problems for people with high resolution screens and low resolution screens. Its best to declare it as a % or em (% is still probably slightly better when working with widths, but em for height is perfect)
First, the "outer" div must be declared to be smaller than what it is inside. For instance if "outer" is inside body:
#outer{
width: 100%;
}
#inside{
width: 80%;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
#inside img{
height: 110px;
width: 110px;
margin-left: 1%;
margin-right: 1%;
margin-top: 0.5em;
float: left;
}
Okay so, since "inside" is 80% of "outer"'s width, the margin-left:auto, margin-right: auto together make the "inside" div center within the "outer".
Setting the float property to left moves all the imgs of inside to always try to move left while it can.
EDIT: I fixed this after looking at your picture you provided.
I haven't tested this but I believe it should work, let me know if you are having more problems.
To make the boxes not go the entire width of the page, try setting the width less than 100% on #out and add margin:auto; to center it.
#out {
width: 90%;
margin:auto;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/anPF2/36/

Vertically centering a div

thiv.net/mobile needs to work on mobile, and it does, however when I turn my ipod to vertical, it changes drastically, my problem is i need the whole lot, textbox, button and image to be centered vertically, or change on rotate. I think centering the div vertically is the best option, so what css would i use?
Currently i have tried:
.center
{
position:absolute
top:40%;
bottom:40%;
height:20%;
}
But that doesn't work, so maybe it should only be centered after rotating?
Any ideas?
Try following CSS :
.center {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
position: absolute;
top:0;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
margin: auto;
}
you can also follow the link of stack-overflow : Best way to center a <div> on a page vertically and horizontally?
If you know the height:
div.centered{
height: 100px;
top: 50%;
margin-top: -50px;
}
Optional: position: absolute | relative | fixed depending on what you want to achieve
the margin-top should always be 0 - half of the height of your div to center.

Can't center this absolute element

I'm currently changing a PSD design to a HTML site. I've come into an issue however. I am unable to center a certain element. I've tried all the usual tricks.
http://lowhop.net/
See here the main blue header is out of line (not centered). I tried
#slider{
position:absolute;
left:0;
right:0;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
Before, however it didn't work reliably. (Appeared only to work on my screen resolution/browser).
Thanks
You need to explicitly define a width on the element when using margin: 0 auto to center.
Block elements take up the full available viewport width unless you explicitly give them a width.
Since you explicitly set the width of the slider DIV, you can use another trick to center it:
#slider
{
z-index: 2;
background-image: url(../img/sliderbg_09_09.png);
position: absolute;
display: block;
width: 982px;
height: 251px;
left: 50%;
margin-left: -491px; /** half DIV width */
}
I'd probably steer away from having this as a position absolute DIV, doesn't look like it needs it but that's a quick and dirty centering :)
Hope that helps
If you must use absolute positioning, you can use something like my answer here.
Basically, you declare an explicit width for your element, then give it
left: 50%;
margin-left: -[your width/2];
like user showdev mentioned :
Does it need to be positioned absolutely? Does it even need to be centered? It looks like you've positioned div#navBar simply by adding margin-left: 85px. It seems that you could use that same method for div#slider.
you have
#navBar {
background-image: url("../img/navbg_07.png");
display: block;
height: 38px;
margin-left: 85px; /* attention on this */
margin-top: 31px;
position: relative;
width: 879px;
z-index: 1;
}
and this
#slider {
background-image: url("../img/sliderbg_09_09.png");
display: block;
height: 251px;
position: absolute;
width: 982px;
z-index: 2;
}
so, try 'margin-left: 85px;' your #slider.