I have two relatively positioned areas on my page, the content and the header.
The content has a higher z-index than the header - this is a requirement for the structure of the page.
I've simplified the HTML and CSS to illustrate what I'm trying to do here:
http://cb3.securetree.com/example.html
This presents an issue with dropdown menus that exist in the header because they display underneath the content region even though their z-index is higher.
On the example page, notice how the dropdown menu goes beneath the content region.
Appreciate any assistance in solving this issue.
Relatively positioned elements will display on top of things that are not relatively positioned. You should avoid having to use relative positioning where it's not necessary. If you use floats and margins etc to move things around on the page, you shouldn't have any z-index issues.
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I am attempting to hold my footer div at the bottom of the site to avoid blank space underneath it on shorter pages. When I set the position of the footer to be absolute, the responsive menu button seems to take its position relative to the footer and no longer to the header. When I change it back from absolute it works normally. It is almost as if it is associating itself with the footer menu rather than the header menu, but I can see no good reason why this would happen. Also, when I am logged in to WordPress, the top menu bar (on the front end) gets pushed down in just the same way. However, this doesn't happen until the viewport hits 600px (I have no media queries at 600px). The responsive menu already appears at a viewport width of 767px.
This is a WordPress website in progress here.
I am using a custom theme and this responsive menu
Does anyone have any idea what might be going on there? Thanks.
You would need to move the #click-menu div & the #responsive-menu div outside of the footer element in order to fix this.
Here's a similar issue w/ some great answers: Absolute positioning inside absolute position
Working on a new design using bootstrap3 and trying to stretch the page so that even if there's not enough content to fill the page, the footer section would stay to the bottom.
The reason why I'm using position absolute, is because there's a link from the billing software that's being added within the content, I don't want to remove the link but position it a bit to the bottom in the footer section, in the center bottom, thus since I can't control where this will appear(do know where appears, just can't control), using position absolute on the specific element helps me here.
Now, that's not issue, just saying why I need to use position absolute and why I made the divs like this:
wrapper
>>wrapper_content
>>wrapper_footer
fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/raicabogdan/jsk1b7ua/4/
the footer section is properly set to the bottom, however for some reason, the wrapper_content does not go 100% height automatically on load or on window resize. Also if you resize to mobile view, content will go down few table rows.
The content goes under the footer section.
What am I doing wrong here? Left a fiddle of the html page along with some css that I felt were needed above.
Hope there's someone that could get me out of this.
Cheers.
Try this link. I have used this method to get the footer to stay at the bottom of the window.
http://ryanfait.com/sticky-footer/
I need to have a page with a responsive layout that has the following elements (see picture):
Legend:
"folds" for the menu means that it just becomes a small button, which unfolds the menu again on click);
When the left menu folds, the content and canvas div need to slide to the left side of the page. When it unfolds, they get pushed to the right again;
The bottom menu 2 is folded by default (you can only see a button). If you click it, then the small menu opens (above the other elements);
The content div is scrollable;
The elements both in content and canvas should be selectable;
Right now I have the following code:
<div id="background">
<div id="menu></div>
<div id="content"></div>
<div id="canvas"></div>
<div>
The position of background is "relative", the menu and canvas are set as "fixed".
The problem right now is that something (background div) is covering all the other elements, so I can't select the elements inside the content div and the canvas div.
I tried setting z-index correctly (lowest for the background, highest for the canvas) – didn't work.
I don't understand what the problem is.
Can somebody help me, please? Maybe you can just tell me from scratch how I should arrange those elements in CSS, so that I get the arrangement I need?
Thank you!
It seems that you have forgotten to set the position attribute for the content div? z-index only works on elements with fixed, absolute or relative position. (the default is static position, so the z-index is not working)
No idea why the other elements are covered. Maybe posting the css as well would help.
I have designed a simple website. The only thing left is to make a small box on the left. But I want to be always visible even when I scroll down. It's use will be something like a small ad. ![floating box][1]
Can you post an example or two? what css is needed for this? (if it's needed)
unfortunately I can't post any images because of I am a new user (I am not allowed to.. and this kinda frustrating)
But I will post an image as soon as possible.
You should apply position: fixed to this box.
Fixed Positioning
An element with fixed position is positioned relative to the browser
window.
It will not move even if the window is scrolled.
Here's a sample: http://www.w3schools.com/css/tryit.asp?filename=trycss_position_fixed
You can read more about CSS positioning here: http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_positioning.asp
Here's a jsFiddle that I baked for your that shows how you can get this working: http://jsfiddle.net/leniel/8ub7s/2/
You can see that even when you scroll, the title is still visible and if you hover it, the ad box will show. Just adapt the CSS to your needs as you want it floated to the left. :)
I'm trying to add a sidebar to my page. The main body container on the page has a box-shadow, so I want the sidebar to appear as though it's coming out from underneath the container so the shadow will be on top of it. I made my sidebar div a direct child of the body container (which has position: relative), and set it's position to absolute, then positioned it using the top and right position values. I got it in the right place, then applied a negative z-index so that it would be under the body. The problem is, this is making any links that I put in the sidebar unclickable in all but IE9. I don't know how else I can accomplish this without knocking out the links. Any ideas?
I would post a link to a page showing an example, but I'm actively making changes to it, so by the time you clicked it you probably wouldn't see what I'm going for. I'll try to explain better.
The body container is 720px wide and has an auto margin so that it appears centered in the page. It is positioned relative.
The sidebar is a direct child (the first child) of the body container. It has a fixed width, position absolute, padding, etc. and has a top and right position applied, along with a z-index of -100.
Here's a link:
http://reachchallenges.infectionist.com
You can remove the negative z-index and give an inner shadow to the sidebar that is the same as the outer shadow of the .body element.
You´d have to try it to see how it affects the border of the sidebar.
I don't fully understand what effect is desired but maybe this barebones fiddle can give some hints as for how to approach problems of such kind.
jsfiddle
The way to get links to work is to toggle z-index back to a positive number. Your CSS will look like:
.z-index1{
z-index: 1 !important;
}
and your JS should be:
$("#div-on-top").click(function(){
$("#div-on-bottom").toggleClass("margin");
$("#div-on-bottom").toggleClass("z-index1");
});
Clicking on #div-on-top will move it out of the way revealing #div-on-bottom and it will also bring #div-on-bottom to the top, making links clickable.
I also applied shadow to the #div-on-top and it looked ok (to me; see jsfiddle).