Display block not working as thought...? - html

I know this is a common question and I've already tried the searched methods. Here is the jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/ZfZK9/ and here's my problem
Basically, I've got a main div container. It has an image and some text. I need the image on one side, then the text on the other. I tried putting the img in a div, setting it's height to 100%, and floating it right, but as you can see in the jsfiddle once the text goes below the image it doesn't keep the column formation.
I'm not sure why the display: block and height: 100% aren't doing any good on the left column.
Thanks
Edit: I'm assuming height: 100% doesn't work because that gets rendered and then text gets added later. I'm still trying to find an elegant solution though, and general-purpose.
Another problem, is when I set both divs (of the image and of the text) to float: left, it just displays the image then the text under it

It can be done like this: http://jsfiddle.net/ZfZK9/34/
Just create two div's as columns around both sides, then set both those sides to a specific width, then play around with the padding and margin til you get what you want.
To keep your border around your content, I added a clearfix which will help contain the two floated columns....
http://jsfiddle.net/ZfZK9/34/
Had to edit a few things, took a bit to get it right, but now all should be working. Contains two floated divs, with a browser proof clearfix added to the mix. If you wanted the image, or the sidebar to appear as if it continues to the bottom, read about Faux Columns

You have some css in the html and some in the css so this is hard to follow. What I believe I see is a common mistake where you must consider when you set something to 100% you have to think, 100% of what? It's always the parent of that element. So what is the parent set to? If nothing, there's your problem.
Just remember that if the parent is also set to 100%, the same question will apply.
EDIT: I see the problem now. I misunderstood. What you want to do then is set the width of the right div, the one with the text. Float that right and it should solve the problem.

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Why won't this parent div respect the height (with padding) of its children?

I want to create a button/link that is centered in the content area of a webpage. Because it's a button, and not just a link, I'm adding some padding and background colour to it.
The link is centered horizontally, but the padding seems to expand outside the line-height of the parent element, causing it to overlap with previous/next elements. See: http://fths.convoke.info/what-can-i-do/
I tried creating a fiddle, but wasn't seeing the same issue: http://jsfiddle.net/convoke/g9wu6ws9/
So what am I missing? Conversely, is there a better way to center a link like this? I don't like using margin: auto because it requires you specify the width. Ideally the width would be dynamic, so if the text on the button was longer or shorter, it would remain centered.
In this case, the answer I needed came from user #CBroe in the comments of my original question. He suggested using display:inline-block and that worked like a charm.
Still unsure as to why I was getting different results on the fiddle vs the actual website...

Horizantal children divs- fixed width and percentage width- percentage width too wide

So, I have this code
http://pastebin.com/W3ggtgZB as css, and the body looks like this:
http://pastebin.com/2tkmhnfW
What I am trying to do is create a div with two children divs, one of which has a fixed width, and the other one I want to fill the rest of the blank space. I'm eventually going to want a div going across the top of this side div, too, but, that comes later. My issue is, the child div sub1 expands to be 100% of its parent width, which is an issue, because then it overlaps out of the parent div and keeps going. I tried things like floating left, using block and inline, I tried setting the width to auto (which makes it disappear for some reason) - but nothing seems to really work. It looks okay, at first, but when you zoom in, sub1 kinda follows its own rules. Can someone help me fix it so that sub1 will just fill in the rest of the space left in the main div?
Here is the answer:
http://dabblet.com/gist/6069015
Only need to specify the side column's floating and the rest will take place as you want, adapting the screen size as well.
Hope it helps!

3 vertical background images appear as one image with content in center image. Center image "cuts off" and does not match footer image

jsfiddle link: http://jsfiddle.net/djDWF/84/
The problem is, the inner container (text-padding) margin/width for the text/images is affecting the center background image. The repeated image that touches the footer does not extend to full height, and cuts off so the center and footer images do not match up (it is kind of hard to tell, but if you add or remove text in my jfiddle example you can see the center image change where it meets the footer.).
This is for a school project, and though I did not need to actually do this type of image background, I got this far so might as well continue. I don't want to use javaScript if possible because that is not part of the course yet.
I tried removing the text wrapper and styling each p tag individually but the same effect occurs.
I also tried mathematical combinations using line-height and margins. If I set the line-height to equal the right and bottom margins, and the left margin to equal the height of the footer then the effect works, but because my footer image is so large this is not a workable solution.
Mathematically I tried to keep the same ratios with the footer height but this did not work either (or else I did this wrong. I tried dividing each by the same amount.)
Is there any way to do this using only CSS and and not having to resort to tables?
So in short the problem is: You can see a line showing up at the footer separation because the repeated centre background isn't fully showing it's last repeat as the container isn't big enough.
The solution: If it doesn't need to be variable and you know how much content you will be putting in you can just set a height: Live example - http://jsfiddle.net/djDWF/85.
div#background-center{
background:url(http://i.imgur.com/gsNFa.png) repeat-y;
float:left;
width:700px;
height: 1604px; /* add this */
}
Obviously, pick whatever height is right to fit your final text.
With your current images there is no way to do this automatically without using JavaScript.

Moving a fixed width table inside a fixed width div

I have no control over the html in this project, so I need a css only solution unfortunately. The html is horrible, and it this wouldn't even be a problem if I could edit it. I have made a fiddle of where I am at at the moment.
I have a fixed width div, with a fixed width table inside it. They are the same width (500px in example) The table has an unset number of rows, generated in asp. I have floated the rows left so they appear in line (I know this is awful, but it was all I could do without editing the html) Each td is 100px. The heights and background colours added in the css are just to make it a bit clearer, they can be changed to whatever.
What I want to achieve is to get the td to start at the right hand side instead of the left. I have tried floating right instead of left, but this makes the links appear in reverse order which is undesirable.
The only solution I can come up with is to change the table width in css and float it to the right, which would be fine if the number of rows was a constant, but there could be some added to it or removed, which would leave it looking incorrect again.
fiddle link
I think you were correct with your thought to change the table width in css and float it to the right. I think I get what you want if I set the table width to 0px (it will expand to contain the tr's) in CSS, and float the table to the right.
Edit: nevermind. I was using Chrome and it worked there, but not in IE
Edit2: width:auto seems to make it work in IE, Chrome, and Firefox
I you have fixed width tds in your table, they should add up to 500px. In this case they add up to 400px. So you have to prepend one tr with auto width to your table.
Update: Hmm, this does not work since you have floating trs instead of tds

Using percentage `width:100%` considering elements `float:left`

I have this and it got an HTML img#logo-image, on some occasions it will not be displayed, display:none.
The problem is that the entire div#menu-title should fit the width of the page.
I tried putting width:100%, but when the img#logo-imag" is displayed it breaks the line being below the img#logo-image.
The width:100% does not work with elements float:left
Just unfloat the menu-title div and remove the width.. it will automatically be 100% of the header then.. and if the image is present it will adjust the ul#menu list to make room for it, which is a natural behaviour
if you want the menu-list to really only take the available width (say for a background color or something then you can add overflow: hidden; to ul#menu - though I don't see a need for that in your example code
here's a simplified version of your Fiddle - hover on the header to make the image disappear and see the ul#menu adjust to suit
Example Fiddle
You have both logo-image and menu-title floating left. Since they arent really in separate divs, they are all part of the same div, they appear next to each other. On top of that, you set the menu-title to be 760, which isn't the width of the page. At least that what it looks like you did. Do not use width 100% because resizing the page will shrink that menu title.
You really just have to play around with the divs, but i would say that separating those two divs would make you be able to stack them on top or below each other.
And in using Chrome's inspect element feature, I don't see a display:none for the image's css. I don't know why that would do that.
I'm really not sure of what you are trying to accomplish since making the div#menu-title width: 100% doesn't leave any room for anything else on the same row.
Why not let them both be inline and let the widths be whatever they need to be?
Anyway, I have a guess at what you want. You want those two elements to behave as being in a table, inside a table row, and each in a table-cell so that the image takes a maximum width, and the div#menu-title taking all of the rest of the place. In that case put them in a table, or use display: table-cell for the image and the div and fiddle around with that.