I'm doing some work for http://digitaleditor.com/ and I've run into something a tad confusing.
The web page has a horizontal scroll bar at the bottom, but I've been unable to figure out why. Using Google Chrome's developer's tools I've found that there are only 3 items on the entire page that exceed 960 pixels wide. The first two are html and body, the second is #hpages, however the second is only 970 pixels wide (html and body are each 1263 pixels wide). Furthermore there's a very obvious CSS rule stretching #hpages to 970 pixels:
#hpages ul { width:970px; float:right; }
I can find no such rule stretching the html or body elements. I tried running the following script to see if there were any elements I was simply overlooking that might be stretching the page:
javascript:widest=null;$("body *").each(function(){if(widest==null)widest=this;else if($(this).width()>$(widest).width())widest=this;});alert(widest.id);
This returned #hpages, meaning that no item is over 970 pixels wide in the body (even though the body is stretched to 1263 pixels).
There are no CSS rules affecting the width of the body element or the width of the html element.
I'm honestly just at a loss as to what is stretching the page, and I don't know how to figure out. At this point my last resort is systematically removing items from the page until it's resolved. I was wondering if anyone knew a better option.
It's the width on the iframe in .wrapper>#page>#content>#sidebar.rightSidebar.left>center>div>#fb-root>div>div>iframe#f1c73bf2defcb8
It has an inline style of width: 575px; which is overflowing. Either fix the width or add overflow: hidden; to this div <div style="position: absolute; top: -10000px; height: 0px; width: 0px;">
In the page you have a link to:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://digitaleditor.com/wp-content/themes/couponpress/template_couponpress/styles.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
In that page there is:
/* ===================== _HEADER STYLES ======================== */
#hpages ul { width:970px; float:right; }
#hpages ul li { float: right; padding-right: 10px; margin-right: 10px; border-right: 1px solid #333; }
Not sure, but maybe having the margin-right on the li may be causing them to overflow. You may want to overwrite this style with CSS on your page. Not sure if you have access to do so, but that may be an option.
Remove position:relative; from .wrapper
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Honestly believing I must be the first to encounter this problem after
searching the web for quite a bit, I decided to present this issue to
you.
The issue
The issue I am facing resembles a "blank space" that lives at the bottom of my page. It's only visible on mobile and I haven't been able to replicate the issue on desktop, however going into developer modus on chrome and visiting my website, I can see the problem.
When using the developer mode in chrome and checking all the elements, it becomes apparent that the "blank space" is nothing. It holds no information and it doesn't seem tied to any element.
However, after some digging it was found it the "blank space" only pops up after giving width to an element. And not just a width, but a width that exceeds the view-port.
Something else that caught my attention is that the height of this "blank space" is the same as the view-port height.
What am I trying to accomplish
You might wonder why I am setting a width exceeding the view-port, my reasoning for this is because I am trying to build a mobile(only) website that uses horizontal scrolling as a way to paginate between different content.
My goal is to accomplish this solely using css3 and html, no jQuery, no JavaScript and preferably not any ready-made plugins.
So far the "horizontal scroll" gives me the desired effect apart from the massive amount of white space it gives on the bottom of my page. I'd like to invest my time into trying to "fix" it rather than replacing it.
Recreating the issue
The easiest way to re-create my issue is to start off with a blank html file and give it the following elements:
<div id="wrapper"> ... </div>
And inside the wrapper put:
<div class="content"></div>
<div class="content"></div>
Then in your css file put the following styles:
body {
margin: 0; padding: 0;
}
#wrapper {
width: 200vw;
height: 100vh;
}
.content {
float: left;
width: 100vw;
height: 100vh;
}
And don't forget to include a meta tag in the <head></head> for the view-port:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
For a live example, please check my JSFiddle.
Edit:
Adding some screenshots of my chrome developer tool to visualize the issue.
See here the actual website content, as you can see all is like intended.
The width is 200vw and height is 100vw.
See here the issue captured as a "blank space" like described in the OP.
Notice that the blank space stretched to twice the height of the height: 100vh as set in the css styling. Width stretched as far as the content, width: 200vw.
Chrome developer tools screen-size in device modus (CTRL - SHIFT - M) is 360x640 (width x height).
The issue is when there is a width > 100vw so a horizontal scroll bar appear and take a height from the page height so a new vertical scroll bar appear and affect the height of the page
Here is the issue
So the solution is to give body a width of 100% then overflow-x:hidden
and then it become
Edit
and here a new screenshot with device dev tools enabled
body{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
display: block;
width: 100%;
overflow-x: hidden;
}
#wrapper {
width: 200vw;
height: 100vh;
}
.content {
float: left;
width: 100vw;
height: 100vh;
background-color:#eee;
}
<div id="wrapper">
<div class="content"></div>
<div class="content"></div>
</div>
and updated FIDDLE
Have you tried:
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
height:100vh;
overflow-y:none;
}
Your code works great when I tried it out:
http://codepen.io/staypuftman/pen/qZZxRG. Toggle the background elements and you'll see it works just as you want.
The only difference is that I used normalize.css behind the code. Perhaps this gets a code gremlin you might have missed. Normalize is a great way to get rid of some HTML oddities and it's very light weight.
I'm fairly new to CSS responsive coding. I've used a premade boostrap template and modified it. Its working fine. The only issue is when this website is viewed on Firefox responsive design tool at different size a mysterious white space appears after the footer.
Check the screenshot below for the mysterious white space being shown when i try to view the webpage on Firefox responsive design tool at: 768x1024 . How do we remove or hide this extra space ? I have tried; overflow:hidden; but its not working. Check this Website Link for the online version of the page
Please check the image screenshot.
That space is due to the site not being 'long or tall enough' for that specific device. You can fix it by instead of using height:auto on your .wrapper element, use height:100vh.
.wrapper {
min-height: 100%;
height: 100vh !important;
margin: 0px auto -155px;
border: 1px solid #F00;
}
100vh will get the vertical height of the specific viewport that it is being used on so it will always take up the screen.
Here is a little more on Vertical Viewport Heights
Hope this helps!
It is your footer element which is at the bottom of the page.
.footer, .push {
height: 155px;
}
Also, your fix is a greasy on and won't work always:
.wrapper {
margin: 0 auto -155px;
}
At cjshayward.com/index_new.html, there is a wrapper div around the body's content, about 1000 pixels wide, and it works as intended for the top 100 or so pixels in Chrome and Firefox. Next down the page is a jQuery UI set of tabs, containing a fixed-width accordion and something close to jQuery.load()ed plain old, simple HTML.
However, on the "Browse the Library" tab (but not "About the Author"), which is presently open and which contains the fixed-width accordion, below 100 or 150px down, the area under the tabs appears to have the same width as the window; it has the correct left margin, and horizontally scrolls an apparently equal distance to the right. Furthermore, the body background tile does not display; the whole width is white, as was specified for the wrapper div's interior.
How can I get the "Browse the Library" tab to display as intended (like the "About the Author" tab does)?
Thanks,
You're absolutely positioning way too much and that's ruining the flow of things. I'll go through a list of edits you can do to make this work.
/*
#accordion and #details will be floated, so we'll need to
clear #tabs. Add this property.
*/
#tabs {
overflow: hidden;
}
/*
Remove the absolute positioning from #accordion, along
with the top and left properties and do this instead.
*/
#accordion {
float: left;
width: 400px; /* This already exists */
margin: 0 10px 0 0;
}
/*
Remove the absolute positioning from #details, along
with the top and left properties and do this instead.
*/
#details {
float: left;
width: 580px;
}
This will get you a lot closer. You should also try to avoid using height on these elements. Let the content dictate the height.
Here is what i ended up with making those edits: http://i.imgur.com/niizuoR.png
Okay lets make a step by step solution (watch for the edits).
Background
Your background is set in the body. So the body needs to be extended to fill the whole page.
I would recommend this way but there are others.
body,html{
height:100%;
}
Normally the body would fit its contents but with position:absolute this mechanism doesnt work anymore.
Also remove background: #fff css (normalize.css) from the html.
html {
background: #fff;
color: #000;
font-size: 100%;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;
-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;
}
Also your background scrolls with your content. Set background-atachment: fixed to change this.
Wrapper
Same counts dor your wrapper which holds the white background.
Set its height to 100% too.
div#main {
height: 100%;
}
The reason why your content is bigger than your wrapper is that
<div id="details" style="width: 713px; height: 0px;">
this div holding the content has a fixed size set. Removing that size make it fit the wrapper.
The width seems to be set per javascript in the load event, so I cant help you with that. Provide your .js code and may i can help you with that too.
As stated in the comments, your layout issues are based in your use of absolute positioning rather than flow layout:
I went through your site and quickly switch everything so it was positioned statically (width floats, not absolute values) and this cleared up the issue. There were some other issues as well. You probably need to look over how you are setting up your HTML from the top level on.
I would start out again and concentrate on using floats for your layout, rather than absolute positioning.
For a basic example on doing so, here is a super simply page: http://cdpn.io/kmCFy
please check out the codes first:
html:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>hello</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="menu">
HOME
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
css:
#container
{
width: 80%;
margin: auto;
height: 450px;
}
#menu
{
background-color: #1b9359;
height: 25%;
}
.button
{
text-decoration: none;
float: left;
font: bold 1.2em sans-serif;
line-height: 115px;
margin-left: 20px;
display: block;
text-align: center;
}
.button:hover
{
background-color: #2cd282;
}
so what i would like to acheive is that when i hover to the home button, the whole div changes color, and does not get distorted or mispositioned on zoom. one answer told me that i could use display: block, but that it does not work as you can see. however, i did manage to make it work with display: block when the menu pane is like a vertical column and not a horizontal one. could anyone pls explain why this happens, and how display property of css affects that element? and how to achieve the full highlight without zoom distortion?
If you use percentages as your height and/or width then it will be a percentage of the parent container.
If you want your page to behave well when using a zoom, ie. ctrl + mouse wheel up or down, size everything in your page using em. 1 em = 16px by default. Just get used to using em. Get a calculator out and start converting things. Trust me, it's worth it to have a page that zooms straight in in out without jumbling.
Your outermost container may use percentages as long as you're using an auto margin for the central contents this is an exception to using em, that way things will still be centered on all resolutions. When I say outermost container, I mean body...
Before I tell you how to make it work I'll answer the other questions:
"...I did manage to make it work with display: block when the menu
pane is like a vertical column and not a horizontal one. Could anyone
pls explain why this happens, and how display property of css affects
that element?"
Block elements stack on top of each other vertically. This means that in a vertical arrangement if the zoom level is changed, those elements are perfectly at home taking that extra space up to the right side. Now, if they are intended to be lined up horizontally, display block will not work because that is simply just not what it does. Display inline-block will stack them horizontally preserving heights and widths set for the container, and to my own dismay, adding tiny margins between elements unlike the use of float, which would be touching the previous element, but float is definitely not something I would recommend for a nav menu.
Let's say you have your first link, and it is display:block. It will start its own new horizontal line, assuming there is not a float:(side) item before it with extra space to fill. In that case, you would add clear:both(or :left/:right) to overcome this. Now let's say you want to add a second link to the right of the first one which is display:block. The second one could be display:inline-block, and it would be on the same level as the first one, but if you did this the other way around, the second one, which is display:block, would start on its own new line below.
Now, to make your button do what you want it to do:
I will assume for the purpose of giving you a good answer that screen width in pixels is 1280px. So 80% of that is 64em. That is (1280px * .80)/16px = 64em because 1em = 16px. As I mentioned before, we do this to make your site elastic when it zooms.
You've previously designated #container as height:450px; So let's convert that. 450px/16px = 28.125em (em values can go to three decimal places, but no more) This is good, so we have an exact conversion, and not a rounded value.
container is now finished and should be as such:
#container
{
width: 64em;
margin: auto;
height: 28.125em;
}
Next change height in #menu. You have it as height:25%. That is 25% of 450px/or/28.125em If we leave it at 25% it will mess up the zooming. So let's convert. 28.125em/4 = 7.03125em
This time we must round to 3 decimal places. So we get 7.031em.
menu is now finished and should be as such:
#menu
{
background-color: #1b9359;
height: 7.031em;
}
Next is your button class.
.button
{
text-decoration: none;
float: left;
font: bold 1.2em sans-serif;
line-height: 115px;
margin-left: 20px;
display: block;
text-align: center;
}
At this point I lose some of my own certainty about how CSS will react, but I will start with this. Do not use float:left and Display:anything together. In this case, use display:inline-block. Get rid of the float:left. I am not sure why you have a line-height set. I am guessing it is your way of attempting to set a height for your button because it is 2.5px larger than the height of #menu (line-height of .button = 115px, height of #menu = 112.5px which we have already converted to 7.031em). If that's what you're trying to do you're doing it wrong. get rid of line height, and make it the same height as its container so that it fills it. height:7.031em;
I'll assume if you're making a horizontal menu, that you aren't trying to make one button take up the entire width. If you do not give it a width, it will fill the whole row. I'll be bold and guess you probably want your button somewhere in the ballpark of twice as wide as it is high. Let's just go with 15em(240px). width:15em;
Last is margin-left... 20/16 = 1.25em. Cake.
Now we have:
.button
{
text-decoration: none;
font: bold 1.2em sans-serif;
height: 7.031em;
width:15em;
margin-left: 1.25em;
display: inline-block;
text-align: center;
}
Keep in mind that block elements, whether inline or not, have little built-in margins on top of the margin-left that you've added.
If you make these changes, your page should zoom beautifully and your link will fill out its container vertically, but be a specified width to keep it clean. Never use px or percentages if you want to avoid zoom slop. The body container is 100% by default, but it holds everything and therefore the things in the center seem to grow outward toward the edges and therefore do not show any visible effect from the body not being set based on em, and it also makes the page naturally friendly with a variety of screen resolutions.
I hope this helps.
Edit:
As I mentioned, I lost some of my certainty. The line:
font: bold 1.2em sans-serif;
Does something that makes the container be larger than 7.031em removing that line fixes the problem, but I do not know the remedy if you insist on a font size of 1.2em. I tried setting height to 6.831em instead of 7.031em and it did not do the trick.
A few more tips:
1) If you still feel that you need a margin, perhaps margin-right would better suit you so you don't have random slack space to the left.
2) The CSS I provided does not adjust for the vertical alignment of your link text; to fix it add line-height:7.031em; to the .button class. Note: this method only words with single lines of text!!!
I've got this problem, I've placed a div within a div, I've positioned the "title" to be height 50, and then "navbar" below it, so I've put height 100% though the thing is, its not staying within the div, its actually straying away from and out of the div and making a scrollbar appear.
I would love "site" to hog the walls and then all the other div fit in that div.
<div id="site">
<div id="title">TitleBar</div>
<div id="navbar">NavBar</div>
<div id="frame">FrameBar</div>
</div>
body{
margin: 0;
}
#site{
position:absolute;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
*border: 1px solid #333;
}
#title{
border: 1px solid #333;
height: 50;
}
#navbar{
border: 1px solid #c38a8a;
width: 200;
height: 100%;
}
I've found an image that shows something similar.
http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/4637/picture1zb1.png
that's because 100% height actually means "use the same height as the container".
But I didn't quite get all your requirements for this layout, if your navbar is a navigation bar, it should be designed in a way that allows scrollbars to appear when the content is too big.
But I think you're going for the wrong structure to accomplish this, is there any actual reason you want a wrapper div? I've created a fiddle on this, check if this is closer to what you wanted: http://jsfiddle.net/6g6HV/2/
This other one is yours, in case you wanna play with it: http://jsfiddle.net/yq8PS/3/
Edit: Adding the javascript solution to the answer http://jsfiddle.net/6g6HV/9
You can make divisions in HTML appear side by side to each other by adding a float property to the css.
#navbar{
border: 1px solid #c38a8a;
width: 200px;
height: 100%;
float: left;
}
Additionally, always add the 'px' unit after a size. Modern browsers assume you mean px, but older ones might not.
There isn't a good way to prevent the overlapping when you have a sidebar that is a set pixel width. To achieve the liquid width (or fluid width) style, you would have to add negative 200px margin on the left to the #frame (to counter sidebar). Then, add another divsion inside the #frame to do the styling for that portion. This is how I have achieved the look on my web site, and it's also the solution used in the previous default Drupal theme (Garland).
#frame{
margin-left: -200px;
}
IN this context, 100% for the Navbar doesn't mean the remaining height but 100% of the visible heigth of the parent; so if the parent has a height of 400px then Navbar will also have an height of 400px. If you add to this size the height of the title bar, you get a total value greater than the size of the parent; therefore the appearance of the scolling bar.
While there is usually no problem with the width to make it appears to fill the whole length of a screen, it's very difficult in HTML & CSS to do the same with the height as they have not been designed for this sort of thing; especially with an imbricated structure (div inside div).
Some people will use Javascript to get the size of the screen (browser) and compute the size of their objects accordingly but I don't know if you can do the same with a pure HTML/CSS solution; especially if you want to have your solution compatible accross many browsers.
For more info, take a look at http://www.tutwow.com/htmlcss/quick-tip-css-100-height/