I hope I can explain this.
I have an image which is "stuck" to the right hand side of the browser window, so when the browser window changes size it remains stuck to the right. The style I use is:
style="position :absolute; top :4px; right :4px"
I also have a minimum body width of 1024px:
body
{
min-width: 1024px;
}
This all works great until the window is resized less that 1024, then the image is still stuck to the right hand side of the window. But I would like it to stick to the right hand side of the total page area. If you see what I mean.
Thanks,
AJ
the css position attribute calculates based on a positioned parent. If your image does not have any parents which are positioned, then the absolute will be relative to the screen. You should be able to fix this by putting position:relative; in your css for the body or by wrapping everything in a div of the correct size with position:relative;
You may succeed with using a position: relative in a div containing your image, with some code like this :
<div style="position:relative; min-width: 1024px">
<div style="position: absolute; top: 10px; right: 4px; width: 20px; height: 20px; background-color: red"></div>
<div style="width: 1024px; margin: auto 0px; height: 400px; background-color: #AAA"> </div>
</div>
Example here: http://jsfiddle.net/7jafS/
Related
I have seen the layout similar to the image below used on some sites before and I really like the design but don't exactly know how to implement the overlapping image (Profile Image). I am using bootstrap if that helps. Any ideas?
Thanks!
I can see three ways to do this generally.
position: absolute
You could give the image or the image's wrapper the attribute of position:absolute and giving its container (in your example the green box) position:relative. Then you would apply top: -100px or whatever and a left attribute of left: 100px or whatever. This gives the effect of the image being out of flow, aligned to the left and offset by 100px, and 100px offset from the top of the green container. The disadvantage of this approach would be that any body content in your green container could appear under the image.
position: relative
This is the same approach as the first one with the exception of how the image flows in the document. Instead of giving the image position:absolute, you would give it position:relative. Relative works differently from absolute. instead of being x and y coordinates of the parent container, it's just shifted by however much you give as a value for top and left. So in this case, you would apply top:-100px and just leave the other directional values as default. this would shift your element by that amount but also leave its original spot in the document flow. As such you end up with a gap below the image that other content will flow around.
negative margin
I honestly would prefer this method in your case. In this method, you can give the image a negative margin (e.g. margin-top:-100px). This will offset the image, collapse the area below the image, and it will still retain some of its flow in the document. This means that the content of the green container will flow around the image but only around the part that is still inside the container. It won't have a ghost area that content flows around like with relative positioning, but it also doesn't entirely take the image out of flow like absolute positioning. One thing to keep in mind, however, is that if you try to use overflow of any kind other than the initial value, it will cause undesirable effects to your image.
Demo
Here's a quick little demo demonstrating all three methods in a simple use case: http://jsfiddle.net/jmarikle/2w4wqfxs/1
The profile image can be set with position: absolute; top: 20px; left: 20px, or something like that to keep in from taking up space in the flow of the page.
make the html element that holds the header image "position:relative". Then put the header image and the profile image in that element. then make the profile image "position:absolute" and utilize "top: XXpx" depending on how far you want it from the top of the header element. Same for "left".
see fiddle here
<div class="header">
<img src="" alt="my image" class="floatdown">
this is my header, image could go here too
</div>
<div class="body">
this is my body content
</div>
.header {
position: relative;
width: 100%;
height: 150px;
border: 2px solid #000;
text-align: right;
}
.body {
position: relative;
width: 100%;
border: 2px solid #000;
height: 500px;
text-align: right;
}
img {
width: 90px;
height: 90px;
border: 2px solid #ddd;
}
.floatdown {
position: absolute;
top: 100px;
left: 20px;
}
You can use the float property on your profile image to take it out of the "flow" of the document, and play with the margins to place it properly.
CSS :
#profile-image{
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
float: left;
margin: 100px;
}
The marginis used to push it down and place it properly.
You can see an example of this in a Fiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/y706d77a/
I wouldn't recommand using position: absolute as you can get very strange results with different resolutions. I would only use that as a last resort.
This can be done many ways.
Anytime you see something like that on the web you can just use your inspector or firebug and see how they are doing it to get some ideas.
It wouldn't hurt to do some research on the web about CSS positioning.
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_positioning.asp
Another great site.
http://css-tricks.com/
I just finished it.
Here is a codepen link:
http://codepen.io/anon/pen/zxYrxE
HTML:
<div class="main-container">
<div class="header">
<p>This is the header div</p>
</div>
<div class="profile">
<p>Profile</p>
</div>
<div class="content">
<p>Some dummy content div</p>
</div>
</div>
CSS is to big to be pasted here, so just open the link.
Put the profile image in the header, make the position: absolute; and the image position: relative;, and give it a negative bottom value that's half the height of the image, and set left to position it horizontally to taste.
HTML
<header>
<img class="profile">
</header>
<div>Content</div>
CSS
header, div{
min-height: 110px;
background: darkgray;
}
header{
position: relative;
background: gray;
}
img{
position: absolute;
bottom: -50px;
left: 100px;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/dekqn84c/
I have a very teasing issue. I have a div positioned absolutely to a point. But when i resize the window, it is moved to other place and not pointed towards where i set it before. How can i resolve this problem?
Here is my HTML -
<div style="position:relative;">
<div id="intro_message">
content
</div>
</div>
And the CSS for "intro_message" div -
#intro_message
{
position: absolute;
left: 322px;
top: 0;
padding: 20px;
width: 505px;
}
You can clearly see even i used relative position to its parent it still doesn't work for me.
EDIT -
Here from 'clearly see..." means if i would have not tell that i used relative positioning then everyone here would suggest me to use it. Therefore i told you all in advance.
EDIT 2 -
#David - After reading you solution, i understood it, actually i had to do one little but crucial change in my css. Now, i have following css for my main container div -
margin: auto;
position: relative;
width: 505px;
and for the inner div #intro_message i have changed some values to position it fine -
#intro_message
{
position: absolute;
left: -137px;
top: -4px;
padding: 20px;
width: 505px;
}
Now it is placed nicely pointing towards a link where i wanted it to be. On resize it still well, but when i go on resizing it is moved again -
on full window by default -
on resize - issue arises again -
So how to solve it?
I assume that you do not actually want the div to be fixed to a coordinate point, because that is what absolute positioning relative to the window does: resizing the page will move everything but the div. So you must want it to be fixed relative to the document.
Though you mentioned you tried relative positioning and it didn't work for you, that is actually the answer to this problem. You used it incorrectly.
Let me explain:
Divs naturally fill the entire width of their parent containers, so placing your absolutely positioned element inside a plain div essentially did nothing. In order for it to matter, you need to have the parent container be in the right spot. I would assume that your parent container would probably be centered inside your page and be a fixed width.
To do this, you can create your div and assign a width and automatic margins to center it:
div[c]{
width: 400px;
margin: auto;
}
As you can see in the following fiddle, both the div positioned relative to the window and the div positioned relative to the yellow div end up in the same place because the div has the full width of the page, but the div positioned relative to the blue div is moved where it should be and will stay there if you resize the page.
JSFiddle
Just use this css:
<style type="text/css">
#intro_message
{
position: absolute;
left: 30%;
top: 0;
padding: 4%;
width: 505px;
}
</style>
In CSS
.contains{
position:relative;
margin:0 auto;
width:900px;//or whatever you want
}
Html:
<div class="contains">
<div id="intro_message">
you are not clearly define your problem so i assume that you have problem in left postion.
I think when you are resize the window inner div will be plot left will be change according to you.
There is no problem regarding to position but your logic was not cleared.
if you want left inner div perfectly than use "percentage" rather than "pixel"
example:
#intro_message
{
position: absolute;
left: 30%;
top: 0;
padding: 20px;
width: 505px;
}
I have the following code:
<div style="position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; background-color: #00FF00">
<div style="position: relative; left: 300px; top: 45px; height: 100%; width: 100%; background-color: #FF0000;"></div>
</div>
Screenshot:
Why does the div gets pushed outside of the viewing area and hence showing the scrollbars. If you check toward the top right corner, the black area is the extension when the red div moved.
How can I edit it so the red div has the top and the left position but doesn't extend beyond the page width and height?
To actually answer the "why" of the question:
The reason you're getting scroll bars is that the relative positioned div inside of the absolute is set to 100% width and height, but ALSO is displaced (in this case, by top and left)
It is therefor assuming 100% width/height of the parent container AND displacing it, causing it to be too large.
By adding overflow:hidden, you seemingly solve this issue, but any content past that will be clipped, not actually fitting inside the dimensions you have set.
Another way to do this would be something like...
top: 10%;
left: 10%;
width:90%;
height:90%;
You could just as easily substitute top and left for padding/margin of that direction.
You can use CSS3's calc() function to set the second div's height and width to be the same as the first one's, minus the left and top offsets. This will also allow you to use position: absolute in your text, aligning it to the right:
<div style="position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; background-color: #00FF00">
<div style="position: relative; left: 300px; top: 45px; height: calc(100% - 45px); width: calc(100% - 300px); background-color: #FF0000;">
<span style="position: absolute; right: 0; top: 50%;">TESTING THIS OUT</span>
</div>
</div>
Check the working JSFiddle. I also added a CSS reset to get rid of the body margins that the browser might add. If you want to use this reset in your HTML file, create a <style> tag inside your <head> tag, with the code that is showing in the CSS section in the JSFiddle. If you don't want to use the entire reset, the only actually relevant part is body { margin: 0px; }, so you can also add style="margin: 0px;" to your body tag.
I added the famous "Fork me on Github" ribbon to one of my projects. The tag looks like this:
<a href="https://github.com/Nurdok/htmlify">
<img style="position: absolute; top: 0; right: 0; border: 0;"
src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/github/ribbons/forkme_right_red_aa0000.png"
alt="Fork me on GitHub">
</a>
It looks great, but some of the divs on my webpage have minimum length, so when the window is small, one has to horizontally scroll the screen. When that happens, I want the "Fork me on Github" link to stick to the top-right side of the page, not the window. This is how it looks right now:
Scrolled all the way to the left:
Scrolled all the way to the right:
It seems that the ribbon is placed on the top-right side of the initial window, and stays static.
What I want is for it to be out of sight in the first case and top-right in the second case (when I scroll to the right).
Edit: Thanks for the quick answers, people. However, most of the answers made the ribbon scroll horizontally and vertically with the page. What I want is for it to be fixed on the top-right side of the page (not the browser view), and only be seen if I scroll to where its position is.
You can do a little trick and put your image into a div which has minimal-width.
<div style="position:relative;min-width:960px">
<img src="..." style="position: absolute;right:0;top:0" />
</div>
and put that div at the beginning of <body> section.
position:relative makes that all children of that elements that have position:absolute are positioned absolute according to that div, not whole page. When viewport is bigger than min-width, the div is the same width as the viewport. When the viewport is smaller, the div will have the min-width and the image stays at the corner of the div.
Two alternatives
Sticking to the Viewport: To stick it to the viewport you should position your element "fixed" instead of "absolute"
<img style="position: fixed; top: 0; right: 0; border: 0;"
Sticking to a Container: And if you want it to be sticked to a container (so youn dont see it when you browse left) use absolute but do that container position:relative so its containing block is targeted
If you dont want to see the image when scrolling left then use a explicit width for this container I am talking about
Here is a JSFiddle example.
I used a squared div instead of an image. CSS code as follows:
#container {
width: 700px;
height: 700px;
background: #55ff90;
position: relative;
}
#image {
width: 70px;
height: 60px;
background: #ffff90;
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
right: 0px;
}
In case it's supposed to stick to the right top on horizontal scroll only, you can't accomplish this with basic CSS. Your requirement is stick to the right top for horizontal scroll but not vertical scroll. The first part of the requirement can be accomplished using position: fixed; though this breaks the second part.
How about always sticking to the right top of the website using a relative float: Fiddle
<div id='container'>
<div id='sticky'>x</div>
</div>
#sticky {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
background: red;
float: right;
}
#container {
width: 100%;
height: 200px;
background: blue;
}
You should use float:right, adjusting margin if you need, e.g.: margin-right: 5px. Cheers :)
If I understand what you want correctly, you'd like for the image to stick to the top corner of the window UNTIL the window gets to a certain size (horizontally) and then stick.
If so, here is a plausible solution:
body{
min-width:1000px; /* or whatever you need it to be */
}
#ribbon{
position:relative;
float:right;
}
DEMO FIDDLE
DEMO FULLSCREEN
You can also use a container div with min-width, your choice.
Change position: absolute; to position: fixed.
As side note, put the style on the a instead of the image and add some z-index to make sure it stays on top of everything else:
<a href="https://github.com/Nurdok/htmlify" style="position: fixed; top: 0; right: 0; border: 0; z-index: 999; display: block;">
<img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/github/ribbons/forkme_right_red_aa0000.png"
alt="Fork me on GitHub">
</a>
I have my markup like this (for argument's sake)
<div id="content"></div>
<div id="layout"></div>
<div id="layout2"></<div>
Then I use this CSS
#content {
width: 800px;
height: 600px;
margin: 0 auto;
} /* place this attached to the top of the page */
#sidebar,
#sidebar2 {
display: block;
width: 139px;
height: 100%;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
background: url(../images/layout/pretty.png) repeat-y;
}
#sidebar {
left: 50%;
margin-left: -700px;
} /* at this point, it appears to the left, and does not trigger scrolling when the window is resized.. it just slides off to the left */
#sidebar2 {
right: 50%;
margin-right: -700px;
} /* now, when you resize, the scrollbar appears as if the content stretches from #sidebar to #sidebar2 */
Is there a reliable way to do this? My only other option is to have a large background image, thats say 1200px wide with my repeating design on the left and right.. but this seems cumbersome if I could get this to work.
So my question is, is there a way to position 2 divs which won't affect the browser's interpretation of the width of the page (i.e. as you resize narrower, or smaller resolution, the divs are just hidden out of the viewport?)
Thanks!
EDIT
Thanks for the answers guys, but none are able to give me quite what I want. What's important is these divs that appear outside must be relative to the #content div. They need to appear to the left and right side, and butt up against #content. However, once the browser window is resized to not accommodate them, they should disappear under the viewport. I'd rather not use overflow-x: hidden as I'd like people with small resolutions/windows to be able to scroll left and right to see all the content.
It is possible, because I've done it.
The trick was using negative margins on absolutely positioned divs. For some reason the browser does not attempt to provide scrolling for objects pulled out of the page in this manner.
You can also use overflow:hidden. This will begin cropping your divs contents as the div itself shrinks (make sure the div uses a percentage or auto width so it will actually shrink).
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Cropped sides (no scrollbars)</title>
<style>
div.decor {
border: 3px solid red;
overflow: hidden;
position: absolute;
width: 48%;
height: 500px;
top: 2%;
}
div.content {
width: 60%;
height: 300px;
margin: 100px auto;
padding: 10px;
background-color: #DDF;
opacity: 0.7;
position: relative; /*hmmm.. without this content goes behind decor regardless of z-index... why?*/
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="decor" style="right:50%"><img src="images/teacher.jpg" width=400 style="position:absolute;right:0px;"></div>
<div class="decor" style="left:50%"><img src="images/teacher.jpg" width=400></div>
<div class="content">lorem ipsum</div>
</body>
</html>
Demo: http://test.dev.arc.net.au/cropped_sides.html
Key points:
overflow:hidden on absolutely
positioned decor divs
right:0 on content of left decor div
(forces cropping from left side)
unpositioned content goes behind the
decor regardless of z-index, but I
don't know why. Simple workaround is
to use position relative on your
content wrapper.
Very simple with absolute positioning. You can absolutely position the background and assign it a lower z-index than the main content. Example of just the right side - background color added for clarity:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Absolute Test</title>
<style type="text/css">
#content {
position: relative;
width: 800px;
height: 600px;
margin: 0 auto;
background-color: blue;
z-index: 100;
} /* place this attached to the top of the page */
#layout2 {
height: 100px;
width: 100px;
z-index: 1;
position: absolute;
right: 50px;
top: 100px;
background-color: yellow;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="content"></div>
<div id="layout"></div>
<div id="layout2"></<div>
</body>
</html>
Works with a picture as well:
#layout2 {
height: 600px;
width: 100px;
z-index: 1;
position: absolute;
right: 50px;
top: 0;
background: url(right-side.gif) repeat-y;
The absolute positioning removes it from the flow, so the browser won't add the width of your background to the window size. Since your content is a fixed width, this will even work with IE6.
You can use JavaScript to make the extra divs visible when the browser window is wide enough to handle both. There's no way that I know of to have the browser ignore the div for layout without actually making it hidden.
Yes you can do this but only on the left side of the screen.
If you have any content on the right (outside of the viewport) the browser will add horizontal scroll bars. The only exception to this is if you turn off the scroll bars but this cannot be done only horizontally across all browsers.
Back to the left side idea... Elements positioned off the left side of the viewport do not cause a horizontal scrollbar. You can have a fixed width layout that is centered on the screen (auto margins on either side) then from within this area you can absolutely position a new column in the left space. If the browser viewport is narrow you won't see it, if it's wide it will be completely visible and usable. The only problem is if it's half-way in the middle - your left column will be chopped off - this could look a bit messy!
Another alternative is to detect the width of the viewport with JavaScript and only show the column if there is room?
Alternately, you could place the two "floating" divs in a container div set to the max width, and set the "overflow" to "hidden".
That's the easiest way!
ie. Something to this effect:
<div id="wrap">
<div id="left></div>
<div id="center"></div>
<div id="right"></div>
</div>
css:
#wrap{
width:800px;
overflow:hidden;
}