I have a question about a problem, of which I originally thought, that it would be fairly simple to solve. But apparently it is not - at least not with only CSS.
This is the basic situation:
<div id="wrapper" style="height:90%;width:410px;background:#aaaaaa;">
<div id="top" style="margin:5px;width:400px;background:#ffffff;">
</div>
<div id="content" style="margin:5px;width:400px;background:#ffffff;">
</div>
</div>
I have a wrapper div that fills up 90% of the screen height and two inner divs. The first div "top" contains some varying elements. The second div "content" should fill out the remaining space of the wrapper div.
So far, I haven't found a way to set the div "content" to fill up the remaining space - even if I would know the exact height of the div "top" as I only know the relative height of the wrapper div.
Thus, I would be happy to learn of a method to either the div "content" to fill up the remaining space or how to mix relative and absolute sizes (i.e. height:100%-100px).
There is currently no cross-browser solution to achieve what you're trying with div elements and CSS. You can however get the behavior you want with the tried and true method of using a table instead.
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
#wrapper {
height:90%;width:410px;background:#aaaaaa;border-spacing:5px;
}
#wrapper td {
padding:0;vertical-align:top;
}
#top {
background:#ffffff;
}
#content {
height:100%;background:#ffffff;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table id="wrapper" role="presentation">
<tr>
<td id="top">Top</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td id="content">Content</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
EDIT:
It appears I stirred a nest of hornets with my answer. There seems to be a near-religious following of people who say using tables for layout is bad. In many cases that is absolutely true, however there are situations where a table will do what CSS cannot. This is one of those situations, where a CSS alternative is on the horizon, but most browsers do not support it yet. It is up to the site designer to decide whether he wants to have a layout with cross-browser functionality now, or use a pure CSS layout with its limitations that may become easier to maintain in the future.
Your HTML code is really wrong:
don't use comma's after attributes
don't use inline CSS, put all CSS in a stylesheet and load the stylesheet in your HTML page
CSS syntax is: propertie: value; example: width: 10px; not: width=10px
To use 100% - 100px you can use CSS3 calc, but this feature has less browser support. You can use JS to make a sort of calc function.
There is no cross-browser way to get the content div to fill all available space with CSS, but it is fairly easy to make things look as if it did:
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
#wrapper {
width:400px;height:90%;border-style:none solid;border-color:#aaaaaa;border-width:5px;background:#ffffff;
}
#top {
border-bottom: 5px solid #aaaaaa;
}
#content {
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="top">
Top
</div>
<div id="content">
Content
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
This should be sufficient for most situations, unless you want to use something like an onmouseover handler on the content.
Related
I am in the process of making my own website, and I am making it out of pure HTML. I encountered in the making of the page, as I will describe below.
Here's my code for reference :-
<head>
<style>
img {
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
</style>
<style>
.sideDiv {
border: 1px outset black;
background-color: white;
text-align: center;
width: 120;
height: 400;
}
</style>
<style>
.mainDiv {
border: 1px outset black;
background-color: white;
text-align: left;
width: 400;
height: 300;
}
</style>
<img src="AyushLogo.png" alt="logo" height="9.2%" width="9.2%" style="float:left">
<br>
<a><button>About Me</button></a>
<a><button>Games</button></a>
<a><button>My Blog</button></a> <br><br>
<hr>
</head>
<body>
<div class="sideDiv">
</div>
<div class="mainDiv">
<p>Hi,<br>My name is Ayush Bhatt.<br><br>I love to code and remake old games. You can view some of my games by clicking on the 'Games' button on the top bar.</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
The output looks like this :-
I wanted the tag with the "mainDiv" properties to appear at the side of the one with the "sideDiv" properties, but it just doesn't want to.
PS : I want to use only HTML as long as possible
An important thing about <div> tags is that they are known as "block-level" elements, which in particular means that they always start on a new line and take up the full width available, regardless. With this in mind,
writing
<div class="sideDiv"></div>
<div class="mainDiv">
...
</div>
should result in a div with class sideDiv and width as defined in the class, and then a new div with class mainDiv started on a new line, as block-level elements do by default, though note that this is simultaneously also because the div with class sideDiv takes up the remaining width on the page as a block-level element (though its content width is as described in the class, it being a block-level element is a bit like it "reserving" the rest of the width even though its content only uses the amount defined), so the next element (block level or inline) can only start on at least the next line.
If you want to circumvent this behavior, there are many ways to do it. One is by using an external tool like bootstrap, as pointed out by another answer, but my favorite is to simply use flex box. This can be done for your code in this way
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row;">
<div class="sideDiv"></div>
<div class="mainDiv">
...
</div>
</div>
A method that directly overwrites the block-level property would be to set the style display: inline-block; for both divs, to prevent either from starting on a new line or taking up the whole available width by default. (Just one isn't enough, if you only set it on the first one, the second still starts on a new line by default, and if you only set it for the second one, the first still takes up all available width by default). However, this causes the element to be treated completely as an inline element besides the fact that block-level height and width can be applied, and can be strange/difficult to maneuver as a result. It is often easier to just use a flex box. Code for this would be
<div class="sideDiv" style="display: inline-block;"></div>
<div class="mainDiv" style="display: inline-block;">
...
</div>
However, note that <p> is also a block-level element, so directly substituting in your original code in the mainDiv div would still cause it to skip a line before displaying. Again, it is usually easier, more modern, and better looking to just use a flex box.
Edit: Added the detail about block-level elements taking up all available width, and fixed the incorrect initial method that changed the display property to overwrite the block-level property by setting display: inline;. This can work, but it will ignore the heights and widths of the <div>s.
try using bootstrap , it deals with layout perfectly , here is an example :
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-6">
this is the left section
</div>
<div class="col-md-6">
this is the right section
</div>
</div>
</div>
for more details check :
https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.0/layout/grid/
NOTE : you will need to include bootstrap and jQuery libs , check for online tutorial to start using bootstrap
I'm trying to write some CSS that might take the page title (defined by a h1 element's content) and stick that content into every element with the class "DocTitle". I'm limited to using CSS and HTML.
Suggestions?
<head>
<style>
.DocTitle {
content: element(runningheader);
.pagetitle h1 {
position: running(runningheader);
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="DocTitle"></div>
<h1 class="pagetitle">This is the page title</h1>
<span class="DocTitle">This should be replaced</span>
</body>
Based on research, I would have thought this might have worked, but I think it only works if you use page at-rules, and I don't think I can apply content to a class in an at-rule. I'm not 100% on that though, because I'm not really sure what I can and cannot do in an at-rule. For reference, this is for use in generating print media.
I have the following HTML structure:
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="some-id"></div>
"this is some texxt"
<div id="some-id-2"></div>
</div>
How can I remove the text with CSS?
Can't think of a very good way to do so, but
#wrapper {
font-size:0;
}
Would work.
Notice, that if the other two divs have text anywhere inside them, you will need to redefine new font-size for them, since it will be overwritten.
Not sure if this will work on every browser, but you should give it a shot.
#wrapper {
text-indent: 100%;
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
}
It is accessible, and has much better performance than changing the font size.
More here - Replacing the -9999 font
Its not sexy - but it works - and I am assuming that you want the two divs, but not the text in the middle. If you can only affect the content with CSS (and not javascript / jquery) - then you could try the following. Force the background of the second div to be white and move it up by 1em using position relative / top -1em. That way it will cover over the offending text.
As I said - not sexy and I do NOT recommend using this - far better to find a way of actually modifying the content of the #wrapper div.
#some-id-2{
background:white;
display:block;
position:relative;
top:-1em}
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="some-id">text content 1</div>
"this is some texxt"
<div id="some-id-2">text content 2</div>
</div>
I recommended you to use jQuery code to remove the text definitely from the client side, because may be you will have some issues with some browsers.
If you decide to use jQuery you can place the following code in your page:
$(document).ready(function(){
var divContent = $("#wrapper").find("div");
$("#wrapper").html(divContent);
});
if the wrapper div can contain more HTML tags for example:
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="some-id">aaaa</div>
"this is some texxt"
<div id="some-id-2">bbbb</div>
<p>Hello world</p>
</div>
You can combine HTML tags in the find jQuery function by separate them by comma:
$(document).ready(function(){
var divContent = $("#wrapper").find("div,p");
$("#wrapper").html(divContent);
});
This is more save and clean
I am new to web-designing styles and css. I read that usage of tables for layout is a bad practice. Hence I tried to create this layout using <br\> , div and float.
Problem :
Once, <br\> is applied, I can't render the upper part, (similar to once \n is printed in console, we cant go to the upper line).
So, could any one provide an alternative way of designing the page, without using <table> and <br> tags.
Looks like a perfect example usage of a grid system.
Without using a grid system, you can just use float: left for each of the div and it should be OK.
Here is simple example for doing so,
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html lang="en-US">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>StackOverFlow</title>
<style type="text/css">
.content{
width:150px;
height:100px;
border:1px solid blue;
}
.content .text{
display:block;
border:1px solid red;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="content">
<div class="text">
text here
</div>
<div class="text">
another text here
</div>
<div class="text">
yet another text here
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Code Explanation
What i did is wrap text div inside content parent div and assign fixed width and height to parent div.
Now for child div i just used display:block and see the result. You do not need to use <br/> display:block; will do it for you.
Now what is the meaning of display:block; so it just tell browser to allow that particular DOM to take whole width of the parent div.
By adding css to DIV's you can get some great layouts (i.e the three column style you're looking for here) , try this aticle to get you started:
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/css/article.php/3642151/CSS-Layouts-Without-Tables.htm
Unfortunaly this site we're developing has to be IE6 compatible. It contains a horizontal block style menu, but there's still one more problem with IE6.
I have the following code:
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
a {
display: block;
width: 0px;
background-color: red;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
This is a anchor tag
</body>
</html>
Because of the spaces, it wraps every word on a new line. What do I need to do if I want it on a single line only?
Thanks!
Add this css on the a element:
white-space: nowrap
Have you tried popping your anchor into a span or div?
Well, don't set its width to 0 would be the cross-browser proper approach.
Use float: left instead, if you want the anchor to be displayed in block mode but not allocate 100% width.
When you use floats like that, you also need to make sure you clear them, to make them occupy space in their container:
<div>
<a ... />
<a ... />
<div style="clear: both;"></div>
</div>