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/
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I am getting horizontal scroll on my HTML website layout all of a sudden and I cannot figure out how or why. Any tips?
This happens when an element's width is greater than the viewport width. This could be caused by text flowing outside of a container or another incorrectly sized element.
Good Fix
Use the inspector and start deleting elements one by one, eventually you'll delete an element that will remove the horizontal scroll. Note that you can CTRL-Z to undelete an element in the inspector. Once you've found the offending element you can inspect/adjust it's styles to fix the overflow.
Cheat Fix
Add overflow-x: hidden; styling to your body element.
This is not advisable though as it's not fixing the overflowing element, instead it's hiding the part that overflows.
I'm using css sticky footer from http://www.cssstickyfooter.com/
Why do we need: #main{overflow:auto;} and #footer{position: relative;}?
Seems like it works without it (I'm not talking about Opera and IE fixes).
overflow:auto; will simply add the scroll bar if the page is longer than what can be displayed based on your screen height. I've used it before and believe it ensures your footer stays visible at the bottom of the page when you scroll.
Have you tried it on a page that is longer than the screen can display to see how it behaves?
Quote from cssstickyfooter.com:
No Need for Clearfix Hack!
Many CSS designers will be familiar with the Clearfix Hack. It solved
a lot of problems with floating elements. A previous version of this
Sticky Footer solution used it. Instead, a more modern and easier to
code solution is the overflow statement. We apply it to the main
to help get the footer to stick in Chrome. It also solves issues that
come up when using a 2-column layout where you float your content to
one side and your sidebar to the other. The floating content elements
inside the main can cause the footer to become un-stuck in some
browsers.
You might not need it but if needed overflow:auto makes an element act as a container that expands itself to contain it's floating elements (if any exists).
If you use firebug you can see what I mean by using it with overflow and click on the container element#main. It will stretch over the containing elements.
Without it the container element stays as small as possible and doesn't "contain" the other elements.
Read more here:
http://www.quirksmode.org/css/clearing.html
I got the following issue:
I'm trying to display a few <div.content> with content in it. Limited in size to a <div.holder> as parent with overflow set, so that you can scroll down to see all <div.content>. The <div.content> are overlapping the <div.holder> for styling purpose. And everything is wrapped in a <div.container>.
But the <div.content> won't display over the <div.holder> element with z-index or anything. It's rendered inside the <div.holder> element, without scrollbar it's rendered outside, like i want.
How can i get the Scrollbar and that the <div.content> will overlap its parent <div.holder>?
Here's the Fiddle for the issue. Thank you.
EDIT:
Trying to accomplish this:
For this styling purpose:
Is this even possible? I'm not bound to just use HTML&CSS, just need that thing start working.
Z-index will only work on elements with position. So its not doing anything to .foo
http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_pos_z-index.asp
Here is my site, first of all.
You'll notice that underneath the divider bar in the middle of the page, there are three columns, one with a form, one with text, one with links.
Now, resize the window to slightly smaller, and the right div will drop down to the next line.
Is there anyway to just not display that? So, the divs will adjust (I have a liquid layout) up to the point where they won't fit, then, instead of wrapping the div down to the next line, it just won't be displayed?
You can also achieve that with CSS only.
Just assign the following CSS attributes to #row4:
#row4 {
min-width:1202px; /* the exact value depends on the sum of the width of your 3 column boxes */
overflow:hidden;
}
This differs slightly from your intended solution, since the right box will stay partly visible when sizing down the window and will not immediately disappear completely.
Please be aware that min-width won't work in IE6. However, there are several ways to emulate the min-width property, if you need to support old IEs:
http://www.thecssninja.com/xhtml/ie6-min-width-solutions
You can give them a wrapper div with a min-width set and force it to use a horizontal scrollbar if it gets too small. The nice thing about a wrapper div is you can give it a max-width as well and keep things from getting wonky on super huge monitors.
I'm not a fan of horizontal scrollbars, but it beats completely removing content.
Ok here is what you should do
Wrap all three floated division on a parent div, something like this
<div id="parent">
<div class="form">......</div>
<div class="text">......</div>
<div class="links">.....</div>
</div>
Now to solve your problem give a fixed height to the parent div like
#parent { height:400px;clear:both; }
You would have to use Javascript to get the width of the viewport, then change the display property of the div that is wrapping to display:none so that it doesn't show up when the browser width is too small.
I am making a Web page with a slideshow, using the same technique used on http://zine.pocoo.org/. The person I'm making the site for wants the slideshow to be centered. However, some of the photos are portrait layout and some are landscape. (This was not my choice.) I need a position: absolute to get the li's containing the items in the right place, so centering them does not work. (At least, not by normal methods.)
So, I thought that it might work to insert a 124-pixel "spacer" before the image on the portrait pictures. I tried it with a <span style="width: 124px;"> </span>, but it only inserts a single space, not the full 124 pixels. The slideshow fades in and out OK, though, so I think that it would work if I could get the proper spacing.
My question is this: does anyone know a way to have 124px of space inline in HTML (preferably without using images), or another way to center the pictures in the li items?
This is way old, but I guess it's still worth answering. The reason your span isn't expanding is because it's still an inline element. set display:inline-block to get it to behave more like a block element
I think you need to add margin-left instead of padding-left, because the margin is outside an element, and the padding is inside.
Try to avoid putting large spacers on elements and especially on multiple elements. The only way to add a spacer on your element would be relative positioning or an inline-block element (use carefully.)
Your best bet for the slideshow is to have a relative positioned <ul>. Since the <ul> is relative positioned you can set the <li>s to be position:absolute; within the <ul>. At this point you can set the <li>s to width:100%; and text-align:center; so that anything inside is positioned in the horizontal center (vertical centering in CSS2 is tricky.) Check out http://jquery.malsup.com/cycle/ which outputs inline styling by default but is still really nice.