Basically its a 2 column setup, with a dynamic width content column, and a static width menu column.
The content column is going to contain pre-tags (with code), and I need overflow:auto on the pre-tag inside the table to work.
So far I've had little luck. The nature of the pre tag forces a certain size on the table cell, which in turn refuses to be any smaller than the width of the pre tag.
Can anyone help out?
Ps. I've placed a second pre-tag on the page, which works as intended, but thats probably because it's not inside a table.
Add white-space: pre-wrap; to the element. max-width:100% may help too.
I found an acceptable solution.
The solution is a negative right margin for the pre (code) element.
Basically, a negative right margin will force the pre to shrink if it needs to.
I made margin-right -800px, and the width 97%.
I noticed that the width, paddings and borders need tweaking if to look good at all resolutions, but the solution works.
A simple solution that was hard to dream up.
[EDIT]
There was a link to an example, but it has been taken down.
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I want to create a button/link that is centered in the content area of a webpage. Because it's a button, and not just a link, I'm adding some padding and background colour to it.
The link is centered horizontally, but the padding seems to expand outside the line-height of the parent element, causing it to overlap with previous/next elements. See: http://fths.convoke.info/what-can-i-do/
I tried creating a fiddle, but wasn't seeing the same issue: http://jsfiddle.net/convoke/g9wu6ws9/
So what am I missing? Conversely, is there a better way to center a link like this? I don't like using margin: auto because it requires you specify the width. Ideally the width would be dynamic, so if the text on the button was longer or shorter, it would remain centered.
In this case, the answer I needed came from user #CBroe in the comments of my original question. He suggested using display:inline-block and that worked like a charm.
Still unsure as to why I was getting different results on the fiddle vs the actual website...
See link: bit.ly/Mh9PGJ
When I make my browser window smaller, eventually 'Commercial Management' is too big for its slider box and gets shifted about. The best solution I believe is to simply increase the overall height of the entire entity (including every slider) so that the text has more space. But for this to work I'm guessing you would need some kind of min-height property there.
My problem is that I've tried min-height on practically everything there and I end up with odd-looking results, like the content expands but the green sliders do not, etc.
Any solution at all to this problem would be amazing. Thank you!
possible solution can be
adding your h2 class to those attributes
white-space: nowrap;
text-overflow:ellipsis;
it is not the correct way but at least if you dont have enough space, you can simple finish the word with ...[3 Dots]
See My Fiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/5BEsZ/
I've discovered something very strange that I haven't seen documented anywhere else... Was wondering if you all had a solution.
You'll notice the negative margin hits a limit at around -212% for image elements. Is there a reason for this? Can you think of a work around?
Why I Need This (what I've tried):
I'm making a fluid layout and I want to display a rating system. I have a sprite sheet of stars (similar to the one in the fiddle) that I want to reuse at various sizes.
Because the size changes I can't use a background image. So I decided to use an image inside a container with a variable width and overflow:hidden. The sprite sheet adjusts to the width of the container and the container's viewable content is determined by a padding-top:20%. This is so it can be fluid with its width (since every star is a box, the total height is 20% the width).
Then I try and position the star image inside the container with margin-top. I tried using position:relative and a top:-X%, but because the container technically has no height this was causing issue on mobile phones (-100% of 0 is 0, etc).
So I assumed negative margin would work, but then discovered this strange issue!
NOTE: Because it affects only the last row I can make it work in my situation by using a padding-bottom instead of top (thereby bumping every star row up 1), but this isn't an adequate solution for me because it just ignores the problem. What if I wanted quarter stars?
I've updated your fiddle. img tags are "inline" elements by default, which impacts the way margin is calculated relative to the containing element. By forcing the image element to be rendered like a block (display: block), you're able to achieve the results you were expecting. A div element is a block by default.
As a side note, you'll want to avoid using inline styles (a different sort of "inline"!) wherever possible. Typically your styles would be included in a stylesheet instead of in a style attribute directly on the element. I included the fix (display: block) in the attribute to match the code style of your html.
I don't know why, but if you float the image the problem goes away.
<img src="http://www.whitepages.com/common/images/sprite_stars.gif?1343868502" id="stars" style="width:100%; float: left;" />
So, the answer to fix your problem: http://jsfiddle.net/5BEsZ/2/
If anyone could explain why this happens?
I have no control over the html in this project, so I need a css only solution unfortunately. The html is horrible, and it this wouldn't even be a problem if I could edit it. I have made a fiddle of where I am at at the moment.
I have a fixed width div, with a fixed width table inside it. They are the same width (500px in example) The table has an unset number of rows, generated in asp. I have floated the rows left so they appear in line (I know this is awful, but it was all I could do without editing the html) Each td is 100px. The heights and background colours added in the css are just to make it a bit clearer, they can be changed to whatever.
What I want to achieve is to get the td to start at the right hand side instead of the left. I have tried floating right instead of left, but this makes the links appear in reverse order which is undesirable.
The only solution I can come up with is to change the table width in css and float it to the right, which would be fine if the number of rows was a constant, but there could be some added to it or removed, which would leave it looking incorrect again.
fiddle link
I think you were correct with your thought to change the table width in css and float it to the right. I think I get what you want if I set the table width to 0px (it will expand to contain the tr's) in CSS, and float the table to the right.
Edit: nevermind. I was using Chrome and it worked there, but not in IE
Edit2: width:auto seems to make it work in IE, Chrome, and Firefox
I you have fixed width tds in your table, they should add up to 500px. In this case they add up to 400px. So you have to prepend one tr with auto width to your table.
Update: Hmm, this does not work since you have floating trs instead of tds
I use example 3 given in this page:
http://simple-navigation-demo.andischacke.com/
and I have a problem because when I open the main page (for example)
http://simple-navigation-demo.andischacke.com/
I get an empty div on the left instead of the content div filling the whole area.
On the other hand when I open a page from the menu (for example)
http://simple-navigation-demo.andischacke.com/books
Everything is just fine.
Can someone propose a solution? How can I completely remove the div in CSS if it does not contain anything?
There are lots of solutions; it depends on where you want your logic to be. A pure CSS solution might be tricky; it might be easier to do this sort of thing in JS.
That said, try changing #sub_navigation's width property to be a max-width instead. This way, it can still be set to float:left, but when there's no ul element inside it, it can collapse.
You might need to modify the width of your content div after that, but hopefully this gets you on the right track.