I am using a fixed width layout for a website (1000px), with the layout being centered in the screen by auto margins. However, I find that on some pages on the website, the layout is positioned slightly different than other pages for some reason. This is surprising to me, because I use Django and serve the same base template and stylesheet to each page, so I would expect them to look the same.
For example, take a look at http://crh.vkuzo.com/. If you load the "home" and "suggest" pages, the layout stays exactly the same. However, if you load the "about" page, you can see the layout move slightly to the left.
What is causing this slight movement, and how can I get rid of it?
P.S. here is the relevant CSS for the container div (at least what I think is relevant):
#wholepage {
width:1000px;
clear:left;
margin-top:10px;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
margin-bottom:10px;
}
It is the browser's scroll bar. See: How to prevent scrollbar from repositioning web page?
Add this style:
body {
...
overflow-y: scroll;
}
For centered pages, you want the scroll-bar to be always visible (even when it's not needed). That way the page won't shift horizontally depending on whether the scroll-bar is visible or not.
The scroll bar is adjusting the layout. When the scroll bar appears on the browser window, it minimizes the width by a certain amount of pixels (the width of the scroll bar itself).
Related
When I open "inspect element" in right side of page it begins to small down, and whole style is out...
How can I stop it? Make it to become scrollable?
I tried adding to css:
html{
overflow: scroll;
}
But it didn't work...
You got any ideas?
You'll typically get a scroll bar when elements are fixed in size. Meaning they have a fixed width. Set your elements to a pixel value instead of percentages. Stackoverflow for example stays in place when i open the chrome inspector.
Note that this is very counter intuitive to that of responsive design. Your site should change size, and adapt to that of the screen.
I have been building my site on Bootstrap for the first time and I'm having a problem that I can't find a solution of this. When I add some content and if its large and big enough to add a scroll bar in browser, whole page content moves towards left.
In simple words, If there is scrollbar, page content is moving to left like 17px and if not, it works okay. I don't want to add a perm scrollbar here like
overflow-y: scroll;
and if I add
width: 100vw;
It works fine and contents stays at its position even with scrollbar but if there is a vertical scroll bar, horizontal scroll appears too for no reason.
You have couple of solutions:
You can show your scroll permanently and style it accordingly to be a part of your page:
html {
overflow-y: scroll;
}
You can add:
padding-right: 40px;
as 40px is what I have heard is the max scroll size that you can get.
Create a parent div that will have all of your contents, then create a child that is slightly smaller, make it the way that changing parent size will not make child size to change.
You can create JS function that will detect if the scroll is displaying on the page, and it would change the margin settings.
You can use media queries to tackle the problem.
I have centered a div on a page for a group project and while the div itself is centered, the websites contents are centered with the scroll bar in mind. What I mean by this is that the web page contents are centered so that the width of the screen is measured without the scroll bars width. So if the monitor was originally 100px wide, it gets read as 100-(scroll bar width) px wide. Unfortunately, this has caused my fixed position div to be a scroll bars width off center from the rest of the site and it looks pretty funky. Any way to fix that? Can't use jquery, can potentially use a little bit of JS.
Here's the link to my site so you can see what I'm talking about. http://51713941.nhd.weebly.com/index.html
Lets see some code.
This can normally be sorted out with css. Margin:auto
You should use the box model concept in css to style and place the content on the site
Again, the question seems rather vague.
When making a site that doesn't require scrolling, the content is centred. I have placed all page content within a div : #Pagecontent, which has its margins set to auto so that the width of the screen does not matter - the content is always in the centre.
However, when the page requires scrolling because of the length of the content, all of the content on the page shifts slightly. How can I prevent this, as I find it annoying.
Hope this is an okay question. Cheers!
you can show the overflow all time by css overflow:scroll so the page wont move on the scroll bar
The HTML with overflow: scroll will force the page to always show the scrollbar whether it needs it or not.
html{
overflow:scroll;//for both vertical and horizontal
/* overflow-y: scroll; // for only horizontal
overflow-x: scroll; // for only vertical */
}
But there is no way you can prevent scroll bars appearing on any normal site because it is 100% dependent on the visitors screen resolution and/or preference for a maximised window or not.
The only way to prevent scroll bars shifting your page contents is to disable them via javascript, which may make some of your page unreachable by some visitors
Good read: How to prevent scrollbar from repositioning web page?
So I'm aware that this is a confusing question. Basically, I've got two divs at the top of the page that include navigation and a search bar.
I have a full container
#containPage
width:1000px;
margin:0 auto;
}
for the page that is fixed width. This doesn't end until the end, I think, and there are two smaller containers for a layout, both float right and left.
When I resize the page in a browser, the layout at the top moves and changes the positioning, which I don't want to happen.
Any ideas?
here is the link: it's being even screwier right now and has the navigation links way to the right, so maybe someone could help with that too.
http://www.sophisticatedmoose.com/nerdery/
Resizing horizontally in Chrome and Firefox for Mac. If you scroll to the right, I'm supposed to have a nav bar underneath the search page with home, about, news, and contact. Last I checked- and I'm clearing the cache - it was waaay off on the left along with the footer.
Working on an image. I need reputation 10 to put one in. I've got it though.
You have this odd construct in your CSS:
#containPage { /*page I am in you*/
width:223%;
margin:0 auto;
}
The margin setting is fine and sensible but the width is rather, um, strange. The #containPage element is, essentially, the entire page so it is naturally as wide as the browser window, then the 223% is applied and the page itself becomes more than twice as wide as the browser window. Then, all the block elements that are immediate children of #containPage will be over twice as wide as the window unless you specify or imply a width in some other way.
In particular, the #NavRRT element will be too wide and the menu inside #NavRRT will float to the right all the way out of the window and you'll have to scroll horizontally to see it. Similar positioning strangeness happens with #footer.
Start by getting rid of the width:223% on #containPage. The page looks fine in Safari and Chrome if I turn off just that single piece of CSS.
UPDATE: You might want to add another <div> inside #containPage, then add max-width, min-width, and margin: 0 auto to that to keep the main content centered and reasonably sized. Everything that is currently inside #containPage would go inside this new <div>. If you go with this approach then you probably won't need any CSS at all on #containPage, it would just need to be around to help center the "real" page.
You have to remove the margin-left from your nav LIs (it's inherited from li) and remove their widths.
#nav li { margin-left: 0; width: auto !important; }