I'm creating a list of search results, using an unordered list, each <li> is made up of 3 sections (floats):
http://jsfiddle.net/danmofo/fYMrL/4/
My problem is that everytime the text inside <p> exceeds the width of the the column, the floats cascade down the page, breaking the layout.
It's been a long day so probably a minor error somewhere, but I cannot see it.
Things I've tried doing when the text cascades:
Making all elements inline
Defining specific widths
Any help is appreciated, especially link to an article/some information about it, thanks.
Give your floated elements widths, or the floats won't work predictably.
Something like
div.left-side{
float: left;
width:40%;
}
div.right-side{
float:right;
width:20%;
}
I think the problem is the div under the p. It is a block element that wants to take up a whole line. Set the style to "display: inline" for this div.
Related
I'm a bit afraid of using floats as I didn't yet understand clearing the floats and all the hacks that are on the internet in regard to that activity so I've used display:inline-block to place two divs in inline fashion. Their container has a
width:auto;
max-width:900px;
and each of the divs has
display:inline-block;
width: 450px;
Now no matter what I do the second div always breaks to another line right below the first div.
Here's the code : http://codepen.io/anon/pen/xgtFd
I have already modified the width of the two divs like for example
width:440px;
but it didn't help. Still the second div is slightly 'off place'. That's weird cause I was making a website and using pretty much the same approach for my header like in this project. Please help me determine the problem.
I would be glad for any help.
The widths are too wide.
Bump the nav down to about 446px, and they come back in line.
Why 444px instead of 450px? Two reasons:
Your border is taking 2px.
There is whitespace between the <div> tags in your markup, which is reflected in the rendering. If you would like it to be able to make it 450px, put the closing div tag and the next opening div tag immediately adjacent, like so: </div><div id="nav">
If you want to be able to keep the border, and set the width to 450px, then you should check out box-sizing, and utilize box-sizing: border-box;.
Edit:
To address your vertical alignment issues, you need to apply vertical-align: top; to the div elements (the nav and logo divs).
And, the ul isn't centered because when you apply display:block to it, it fills the full width. So you could either make the contents of the div centered with text-align: center on the ul, or you could make the ul display: inline-block.
Since I am having trouble with Firefox about positioning a block element by nature (header) to be inline by using display:run-in; i'm asking you for your help ! been searching for quite some time now and I cant find which CSS method could be used instead of just applying display:run-in; to the element, which is supported in all the major browsers. It is crucial that i position the element this way.
Anyone knows a method how to do this ?
If you'd like to display your element as a block element, but would position it inline, then
display: inline-block;
will do the trick for you.
The MDN still lists run-in as an experimental value, so we shouldn't be too surprised if it doesn't fully function in Firefox at this time.
As for options, there are at least two you could use: display: inline and display: inline-block.
Inline might suffice if you don't need the properties of a block element on your header. Inline-block keeps it as a block element, so you can still do nice things like give it width, height, margin and so on.
View them on JSFiddle.
Alright i found a solution ! :) Using display:inline; in a combination with float:left; will make a block element by nature use space only as much as he needs, not full 100% of its parent element.
There is just one problem with this tecnhique if you are using bigger font for lets say a heading and want to add a paragraph right after it (on the same line). If the headings font-size is a bit bigger, heading could take 2 or even more lines of space in height where paragraphs text should be,and you will have a small gap between header and another row of paragraph under it. The solution is to add display:block; and margin-top:Xpx; to the paragraph element to align it as needed.
Any css tricks for getting text of any size to appear on the baseline for children inside one element that has float:left and another that has float:right?
Check out the jsfiddle link below to see what I'm talking about. Notice how the word "One" has a larger font so it bumps all of it's siblings in the float:left down, but it does not influence the spans in the float:right div.
http://jsfiddle.net/QeRhU/
I'd like for them all to appear on the same baseline. I'm hoping for a solution that still uses float:left; float:right; because I still want the liquid behavior that it gives when a user scales the page.
Try this, it's not the clean solution, but rather a workaround that could get the job done if you don't find a cleaner css solution.
I have a problem with a <div> not sizing up the content (which is two <p> elements). The content is floated.
I have one <p> tag floated to the left
I have one <p> tag floated to
the right
I have one empty <div> tag below with style="clear:both"
Still, the <div> that contains the whole thing is 3 lines tall - not just 1 as it is supposed to be. What am I missing to make it work?
I prepared a fiddle and it works well - it must be an error in your code. Show us some pieces of it.
Example
Be sure to have no paddings/margins/height/lineheight affect your divs and ps (=reset browserdefaults!). Also the parent div needs to be wide enough to hold both p. Also, if you have non-floated content, the order matters.
I believe <p> elements have a default margin, try setting margin to 0px, and that may remove the the spacing.
First, float both <p> tags to the left.
Then, make sure that the <div> has a large enough width to accomodate both of the <p> tags.
You should be able to get them in one line after that.
http://jsfiddle.net/myJ3W/1/
Just to show you why float right might not be a good idea (it really depends on what you're trying to do.. Dialog boxes?)
If you use float: right;, your formatting breaks after the paragraph gets too long:
http://jsfiddle.net/myJ3W/3/
Whereas if you use float: left; for both put them into containers, you can be sure that they will stick within their boxes:
http://jsfiddle.net/myJ3W/4/
Again, really depends on what you're trying to achieve here.
Is there enough space in the outer most <div> so that each <p> is a single line? If not, one will break down below the other. In addition, your clear both <div> will have full line height as well. Here is the style I apply to a class called cb that I apply in those situations...
.cb
{
clear:both !important;
float:none !important;
height:1px;
line-height:0;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
I have a bunch of float: left elements and some are SLIGHTLY bigger than others. I want the newline to break and have the images float all the way to the left instead of getting stuck on a bigger element.
Here is the page I'm talking about : link
If they are all the same size if works beautifully : link
Thanks! (I'd rather not get into javascript or server side scripting if I don't have to)
Well, if you really need to use float declarations, you have two options:
Use clear: left on the leftmost items - the con is that you'll have a fixed number of columns
Make the items equal in height - either by script or by hard-coding the height in the CSS
Both of these are limiting, because they work around how floats work. However, you may consider using display: inline-block instead of float, which will achieve the similar layout. You can then adjust their alignment using vertical-align.
I fixed it by removing float:left, and adding display:inline-block instead. Haven't used it for images, but should work fine, there, too.
Use display:inline-block
You may also find vertical-align: top or vertical-align:middle useful.
This is what I did. Seems to work in forcing a new line, but I'm not an html/css guru by any measure.
<p> </p>
You can wrap them in a div and give the div a set width (the width of the widest image + margin maybe?) and then float the divs. Then, set the images to the center of their containing divs. Your margins between images won't be consistent for the differently sized images but it'll lay out much more nicely on the page.
This is an old post and the links are no longer valid but because it came up early in a search I was doing I thought I should comment to help others understand the problem better.
By using float you are asking the browser to arrange your controls automatically. It responds by wrapping when the controls don't fit the width for their specified float arrangement. float:left, float:right or clear:left,clear:right,clear:both.
So if you want to force a bunch of float:left items to float uniformly into one left column then you need to make the browser decide to wrap/unwrap them at the same width. Because you don't want to do any scripting you can wrap all of the controls you want to float together in a single div. You would want to add a new wrapping div with a class like:
.LeftImages{
float:left;
}
html
<div class="LeftImages">
<img...>
<img...>
</div>
This div will automatically adjust to the width of the largest image and all the images will be floated left with the div all the time (no wrapping).
If you still want them to wrap you can give the div a width like width:30% and each of the images the float:left; style. Rather than adjust to the largest image it will vary in size and allow the contained images to wrap.
Add to .icons div {width:160px; height:130px;} will work out very nicely
Hope it will help