Long inputs in my site overflow out of the div and the allowed width.
I read that it's because the browser will only insert line breaks if there are spaces.
Since my site is all about user-input, that could mess up with things.
I wanted to know if there's a way to still limit the width even if the input has no spaces in it.
I recomend you to use overflow:auto instead, to your div. It may give you better result.
Make your div scrollable so all overflowing content doesn't break the layout but scrolls instead.
<div style="overflow:scroll;">...</div>
Yea, word wrap breaks lines on word boundaries. If you don't have word boundaries, then that's going to be an issue.
So don't rely on word-wrap, but make your containers scrollable with overflow: scroll and friends in CSS.
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Currently, when I add a line or two of text, everything that comes below the text within the div overlaps with the div below. I believe this is a positioning issue. What do I have to do so that I can add new content w/o worrying about divs overlapping?
It sounds like the item you are adding content to either has a height or max-height value set to it in CSS. If you remove those, it will allow the div to expand instead of running out.
Be careful though, as this might make other elements go wonky which will also need to be adjusted.
Use Samanime's answer, and to make navigation easier, set overflow=y: scroll or auto, so as long as contents overlaps the height you defined, the scrollbar will make possible to go around inside div. Like this:
<div style="max-height: 300px; overflow-y: auto;"> yourstuff </div>
Don't know how to explain this. Let's see the picture
See! Some text is showing divided. I used overflow hidden property. I've cut off the whole string into 200 letters. And then positioned it inside a div. This is dynamic. Problem occurs when someone put extra or newlines in the paragraph. Then this happens. Can anyone please tell me how to stop this? These half sentences should not occur in that div as visible. Is there any system or property to stop this?
use white-space: nowrap; for your div to show the text in one line.this way, it'll hide the extra text that comes in your div of fixed width as you have hidden the overflow
check this for ref :
http://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/w/whitespace/
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/white-space
http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_text_white-space.asp
First of all you need to remove any fixed height for the divs, probably replacing it for a min-height.
Second, you should set the property overflow:none, to avoid rendering to cut the contents of the div, and instead of that expand it to the required size.
you can even try overflow: scroll. By this no matter how much content you have, u can always scroll.
.....which makes sense.
However, is there a way to limit the amount of space that a paragraph for example takes up? Right now, if someone resizes the page, the text wraps and the elements overlap each other, and I understand that it is just working as designed.
I was able to get a no-wrap successful set up using a table as a whole page layout, but that just caused other issues.
How can I get it so that the text doesnt move without using the no-wrap option. Should I put the p tag in it's own div? or span?
I'm sorry, this may be simple, but I cannot find a good answer. If I wrap, they overlap. If I no-wrap, it...well...no-wraps, but all I am looking for is for it to stay within the parameters of the page, and not resize when the page resizes. Ideas? Feel free to shake your head - just looking for some relief from the confusion haha
I'm not sure if i fully understand the question, but you could try selecting the surrounding div and applying the following css.
selector{
display:inline-block;
width: 100px;
}
Set the width to the size you want, before the wrap
I have a div that is of fixed width, 300px. I have user inputed text that needs to go into the div. The issue is, is that people are putting the word "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" into the div. This causes the text to exceed the width of the div. What I would like is for the text to wrap even if there is no spaces in the words. Is there a way to do this with css? I tried the css white-space property but it was not working.
If anyone has a solution or a point in the the right direction would be wonderful.
Try this:
word-wrap:break-word;
There is no way to do this properly, with the current state of the art. Line breaking rules are complex and vary by language.
Using word-wrap:break-word or some of its va
riants arbitrarily breaks a string of characte
rs and almost certainly breaks the rules of th
e language and confuses people.
Is there a way to target html elements that I don't want to affect the width of the page?
In other words, those elements wouldn't trigger the horizontal scrollbar, if they were to leave the browser box.
You could use the CSS overflow: hidden to keep them from affecting your layout.
You can use overflow:hidden on the elements you don't want the scrollbar on.
You can also use overflow-x:hidden or overflow-y:hidden Reference
Checking other sites structures, the solution seems to be pretty simple:
Wrapping everything in a relative positioned container(with overflow:hidden) lets the container grow with the contents of the page, while not letting the elements show out of it's borders.
Example:
http://jsfiddle.net/LnNQJ/1/