I have this situation:
I made 2 div's, both should be at the exact same spot. By JavaScript, I can activate one if I want and hide the other. That's how I did it:
<div style="height:100px"></div>
<div style="position:relative; top:-100px;height:100px"></div>
This works pretty well. But I noticed that the place where you would expect the second div (without the top:-100px) is used by blank space.
What is the most elegant way to get rid of that space again? I don't want that my webusers think they can scroll down more but there is just white space left.
Thanks for your tips! I hope my description is clear enough, it's not that easy to describe. ;)
they are not in the same spot, relative divs always leave the spot they moved from occupied by blank space. you need to use 'position:absolute' or negative margins. You can still position them in the flow if you need by wrapping them both in the same relative div.
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This is my project: http://linguall.com/
We bought a template and edited it. I deleted some of the page that is not needed for us. However, as you scroll the bottom of the page you can spot the the huge blank space.
I could not found any reason for that.
You are using relative positioning on some of your elements. The problem with this is that the element still takes up space where it originally was and you will struggle to get rid of that.
I'd investigate replacing your usage of relative positioning for large blocks of content that you don't want to take up space on your page - try absolute positioning or using a grid layout.
This is a very basic html-css query that I often encounter. Most times, I find the solution some way or the other, but am interested to know the reason of this unexpected behavior(as per me) of UI.
Please have a look at this fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/2yaRU/
<div > //float left
Sometext <span> text<.span>//float:right
<div>
the right floated text moves to the next line though there is a lot of width available in my line. Ideally as per me, the text should appear side by side with float:left as left side, and float:right at right side within the div.
This cant be a complex issue, so is there something very common I do not get here?
Put the floated item first. The floats are nested inside of each-other, so they won't affect each-other. Floating an element automatically changes it display:block;
I think there's a couple things going on. Since the wrap is float:left, it switches to a block formatting context. It looks like the issue is that the whitespace that comes after the text (just before the nested float) is considered to be trailing since there is nothing is in the flow after it. So the width of the parent does not take into account the space, even though it does take up space when the layout is rendered as you can see in the html.
Removing the trailing space brings the X back onto the same line as the text.
http://jsfiddle.net/2yaRU/8/
If you want a space after the text, you should add a non-breaking space ( ) to the html instead.
http://jsfiddle.net/2yaRU/9/
The title says pretty much everything. I have a wrapper div with two divs floated side by side in it. The contents and its length in both divs varies. The problem is, that I need the wrapper div to stretch only with the right div. The left div should have scrollbar, if its length exceeds the length of the right div.
One person in IRC already claimed it's impossible to do, but I refuse to believe him. CSS3 and/or HTML5 are completely acceptable since the whole site is wrote with them already.
Thanks in advance, if someone knows an answer.
Here is a fiddle I made which should accomplish what you're asking for:
http://jsfiddle.net/zftXu/1/
Just keep in mind that since the size of the right div is dynamic, if its contents become too large (off the screen), the right div will move to a row below it. If you wish to prevent this, then put an overflow and max width on the wrapper, like this:
http://jsfiddle.net/zftXu/3/
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.
I built a quick jQuery image slider today, but there's one problem. The images, which are inside divs, have a gap between them, offsetting them.
I've isolated the problem here: http://jsfiddle.net/UgzsH/
float: left; gets rid of that gap, but apparently because of the elements they are in, they stack vertically.
Unfortunately from this computer I can only test in Firefox. Thanks for any help.
Test case uses http://placekitten.com/.
Floating is how you get rid of the gap, but the last floated element is dropping down because the container is too small. The reason you get the gap is because elements that are display: inline with each other preserve the whitespace you get from the markup itself - if you remove the whitespace (meaning line-breaks) you'll notice the gaps go away. This makes your markup uglier, or course, hence why you use float instead. Make your containing div wider and they'll fit.
It's because in your HTML you have spaces between the divs and such. Try putting all the images and divs in one line of your HTML without spaces between the tags. No spaces!
Hope this helps and good luck!
EDIT: Here's the updated code. It looks a bit messy, but there are no spaces any more!