I'm using this 'version' of sticky footer: http://ryanfait.com/sticky-footer/
Here's where I'm trying to get this to work: http://www.ewsprojects.com/~lyons
I want it to stop at the end of the left column, but for whatever reason, I can't get it to stop before anything other than the header. Is there any way to make it stop after the left bar in the manner that is demonstrated in the first link?
Here's the CSS:
* {
margin: 0;
}
#container{
min-height: 100%;
height: auto !important;
height: 100%;
margin: 0 auto -40px;
}
#footer, .push{
height:40px;
width: 100%;
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #565656, #303030);
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#565656), to(#303030));
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#565656', endColorstr='#303030');
}
If you need me to provide any additional info, please let me know.
I'm assuming you want it to go no higher than the left column, but want it to stick to the bottom of the page if the page becomes taller?
If that is the case then the reason the footer is allowed to go higher than the left column is because the left column is absolutely positioned. Because of this your container div has nothing forcing it to be a certain minimum height and so it becomes shorter than the left column when they browser window is smaller.
Try this:
Add overflow: hidden; to your #container div
Add margin: 0 0 50px; to your #left_bar div
Make sure #container has margin: 0 0 -40px; (Sorry I told you to remove that before)
Remove the position, left and top rules from your #left_bar div
Remove the position rule from your #account_links div
To be honest I'm not sure why you needed to absolute position a lot of this layout.
Edit:
I edited the list above because I missed some things.
Related
I'm trying to get spacing before and after my background colour to my header. I can get the left side spacing by using:
header {
background-color: #888888;
position: relative;
left: 60px;
top: 3px;
}
But, when I want to add spacing to the right by adding right: 60px, It just ignores it and the colour reaches the right of the page.
Any help is appreciated.
What's about using margin instead of position: relative + top/right/left?
header {
background-color: #888888;
margin: 3px 60px 0;
}
<header>Header</header>
JSFiddle
About left/right from MDN:
When both the right CSS property and the left CSS property are defined, the position of the element is overspecified. In that case, the left value has precedence when the container is left-to-right (that is that the right computed value is set to -left), and the right value has precedence when the container is right-to-left (that is that the left computed value is set to -right).
It seems you need to set:
header{
background-color: #888888;
position: relative;
width: calc(100vw - 120px);
margin: 3px 60px 0 60px;
}
width: calc(100vw - 120px); is calculated width that equal 100% of viewport width minus 120px. after that you just need to set equal margins (60px) on the left and right sides
You seems to misunderstand the function of left or right. It does not just give you left or right space but moves / positions the entire element(header) to the left or right. It goes in hand with the property position: relative.
In your case you are just positioning the header to right first by 60px and then positioning it back towards left by 60px which brings it back exactly to the same position, hence no gap seen. This is not the right approach.
Instead just use margin to give you the space required like so:
header{
... left, right not needed ...
margin: 0 60px 0 60px;
...
}
The code I'm working on is in http://jsfiddle.net/truxx/v8jnyn9h/
I would like to make everything that is in the header tag fixed (that it does not move when i scroll the site).
I found out that a code like:
div#header{
position:fixed;
}
does that, but it sends the header to the left, and I want it centered.
If I type
div#header{
margin:auto;
position:fixed;
}
the margin doesn't work at all... how should I correct this?
(I would also like to add a bar in the right of the page, that does not move either while i scroll down. Made an experiment, but something similar happened. The elements of that div box did get a fixed position, but they moved to the left, so i'm guessing it's the same problem).
Your header (which isn't in your fiddle or your question) will need a width, and top:0;
div#header {
position: fixed;
top: 0px;
margin: auto;
width:100%; /*or whatever width you want */
}
This should work for the css:
div#header {
position: fixed;
top: 0px;
margin: auto;
//AND A WIDTH PROPERTY (in pixels, percent, or em) LIKE:
margin: 100%;
}
You need to fix it to the top, as well as margin: auto to center. I couldn't find the header element in your code in the link provided, but if you code the rest correctly, that should work.
I want to place a div fixed on the left and near I want to place other div.
Imagine a twitter webpage, I want to fixed the left panel (where you write yout tweets) and near I want to place the panel where you read tweets.
Now I have the following code:
<div id="container">
<div id=fixed-menu>
</div>
<div id="content">
</div>
</div>
#fixed-menu {
position:fixed;
background: #fff;
padding: 10px;
top:60px;
left: 10px;
width:300px;
max-width: 300px;
}
#content {
background: #fff;
padding-top: 10px;
}
In this way, the div with id="content" appear on left so, the fixed-menu doesn't appear, because it is under content div.
If I use margin-left in #content the error is solved, but I don't want use that, any other solution?
Thanks.
One of the first things to note is that by putting a position Fixed on div#fixed-menu breaks it out of the normal document flow. What this means is that the other block/inline level elements do not know about it. Also by making it fixed, you make it fixed relative to the window. If you want it "fixed" within the container and not to a certain point on the screen I would go with position:absolute and then a position:relative on it's parent container.
Either way, the problem you're experiencing where div#content doesn't respect the position of the fixed element, is due to the fact that the fixed element is no longer part of the normal document flow. Adding a z-index to div#fixed-menu should bring it above the content. However, you will see overlapping and will have to account of the offset of div#content with either margin on div#content or padding on the parent container.
If you look at this fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/f38aj/
css:
#container {
position: relative;
height: 700px;
padding: 0 0 0 320px;
}
#fixed-menu {
position: fixed;
background: red;
padding: 10px;
top:8px;
left: 8px;
width: 300px;
max-width: 300px;
}
#content {
background: blue;
padding-top: 10px;
}
If you notice we create padding in the container, where we end up overlaying the div#container object.
we have a fixed container on the left while the right side content will scroll with the page. If you can come up with a non fixed solution it might be better, as there are phone browsers like older versions of iOS that will take anything that is position fixed and replace it with position absolute.
A side note, working with fixed/absolute positioning is useful especially in some crazy cases, but it does require a little more due diligence on your/your teams parts to maintain. If you start getting into z-indexes you might want to look at a library like less or sass just to create global css variables, which will make it easier to manage what can turn into an almost unmanageable experience.
hope that helps.
I've been presented with the following layout:
where:
A = header, width: 100%
B = page content, max-width: 960px; margin: 0 auto
C = footer, width: 100%
The problem I've got is with the H1. The design has a background to the H1 which comes in from the very far left of the screen and stretches all the way across to line up with the right hand side of the content below. If the browser window is less than 960px then obviously it just appears as a solid bar stretching across the whole screen.
I'm genuinely at a loss for how to even start this. I thought about some kind of negative left margin + padding left but without knowing a fixed size it's hard to rely on percentages to accurately line up the elements.
The closest I think I've come to a solution is to have a massive background image which is centred on the H1, or maybe on a container surrounding the H1. Not ideal as it's just a solid colour so to use an image goes against my moral judgement.
Any ideas? Here's the structure of the page:
<header>
<h1>This is my title</h1>
</header>
<article></article>
<footer></footer>
CSS
header,
footer {
width: 100%;
min-height: 100px;
background: #eee;
overflow: hidden;
}
article {
margin: 0 auto;
max-width: 500px;
height: 100px;
background: #ddd;
}
h1 {
margin: 30px auto;
width: 500px;
background: #bbb;
}
There are several ways you could try and do this.
A jQuery solution would provide the most accurate result, but it's abit heavy for this kind of problem, and I personally don't like using Javascript for something that's a CSS problem.
You could do some kind of trick with a background image, you might have to depending on your actual design, but as far as a single background colour, I'd probably solve the problem with an element positioned behind the header with a negative margin-top, and a set width of 50% (That way it should always remain hidden behind your header). All you'll need to do is match up its height and margin-top to blend it in with the header.
.header-botch {
background: #bbb;
height:37px;
width:50%;
margin-top:-67px;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/duFnR/1/
If for some reason you hate the idea of using a negative margin, you could position: absolute the element instead
http://jsfiddle.net/duFnR/2/
Why not use jQuery and calculate H1.width = (B offset left) + B.outerWidth() ?
A solution which doesn't involve images appears to be wrapping the H1 in something and applying a background gradient to that element, see the fiddle. I've made the H1 background green to make it more obvious which background colour is which.
Pros:
Ability to manage the colour in CSS
The height is variable based on the height of the H1 allowing for multi-lines if necessary
Cons:
The width must be set no greater than that of the H1, otherwise on very thin windows it will appear out the other side. Also it has the weird behaviour of disappearing completely once the specified width has been reached (not a problem when smaller because you won't see it disappear).
On very large windows, the width will not be enough and a gap will appear on the left of the H1.
Code
<div class="h1Wrapper">
<h1>This is my title</h1>
</div>
CSS
.h1Wrapper {
/*background: #bbb;*/
background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(left, #BBBBBB 300px, #FFFFFF 300px);
background-position: center;
}
h1 {
margin: 30px auto;
width: 500px;
background: lime;
}
I know this has been discussed here many times, but none of the answers I found here, seem to address my problem.
I have this variable (in height) layout, and wnat the footer to always stick to the bottom.
I have used the min-height: 100%; to the container div, and got it somehow to always be in the bottom. trouble is, it's sinking too low to the bottom.
I've put an example here:
http://jsbin.com/erono3
As you can see, my footer is at the bottom, but will go too far in the bottom, and even though there's space on the page to display it, it's creating a scroll bar.
Also, I'd like the main container to to be shown as big as the content is (i.e. closing the square), but right now, it looks like the container is going all the way to the bottom, and my footer is covering it.
What am I doing wrong there?
Thanks in advance
You should take a look at the link by Ben Lee again :). I have used that in your layout to achieve the effect you want. See it here: http://jsbin.com/erono3/2
The important thing is for the footer to be part of the container. The container has a min-height of 100%. So it occupies the whole screen always. The header is normal what ever it is inside.
Then you should have an inner container element (important), where your main content resides. In the link above, it has the id #body. This would have a padding-bottom (to give space to the footer.
The footer is absolutely positioned with a bottom:0px meaning it is always going to be at the bottom of the container (the container has to be position:relative).
EDIT (in response to the comment)
To make your footer span the entire page, but keep everything else centered, just do this:
remove the width off of the #containter, #container spans the whole page. Provide a width to the #body element in the link above and center it, using margin: 0px auto. You get the effect you wanted.
New link: http://jsbin.com/erono3/5
Here's a simplified version of this, which is worth reading for the explanation. See if you can adapt yours to fit.
CSS:
html, body, div {
margin: 0;
border: 0;
padding: 0;
}
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
#wrap {
position: relative;
height: auto !important;
height: 100%;
min-height: 100%;
}
#footer {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0px;
width: 100%;
background-color: #aaa;
}
and HTML:
<div id="wrap">
<div id="content">Stuff goes here.</div>
<div id="footer">FOOTER</div>
</div>
The problem is you have a min-height of 100% on your container div. That means that the container will be 100% the height of its parent, which is the body tag which has a height of 100%. So if your viewport is 600px, then your body will be 600px, then your container will be 100% of that which is 600px, and then it will stick the footer after the container div which is why it goes below the veiwport.
So one thing you can do is just absolutely position your footer inside the body. Do this by changing your position to be absolute, and bottom:0px. It will float at the bottom.
You might want to put it in your container as well depending on what style you are going for and position it absolute in that and at the bottom.
Your problem is not that the footer is too low, but by making the body 100% it pushes the footer below the bottom of the page.
Consider putting the footer div inside the container div and getting rid of the margin-top: -5.5em and position: relative and it will work just fine.
http://ryanfait.com/sticky-footer/
* {
margin: 0;
}
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
.wrapper {
min-height: 100%;
height: auto !important;
height: 100%;
margin: 0 auto -142px; /* the bottom margin is the negative value of the footer's height */
}
.footer, .push {
height: 142px; /* .push must be the same height as .footer */
}
/*
Sticky Footer by Ryan Fait
http://ryanfait.com/
*/
This is particularly for anyone using ASP.NET master pages but also in general, if your content is also wrapped in a <form> element you will need to change
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
to
html, body, form {
height: 100%;
}