I have what seems like a simple problem, but i have yet to find a solution. I have a series of divs which may vary in height, thought they will generally be the same width. I would like a fluid layout that basically ends up generating a variable number of columns as the page is resized. Perfect for float left. The problem is that when the divs are different heights, there ends up being a lot of white space vertically between the elements.
Clearly, the simple solution is to write some javascript to do all of this for me. But i would hate to have to resort to that if there's a css solution.
Here is a simple example:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
<title>Simple Float Example</title>
<style type="text/css">
.dv { border: solid 1px red; float: left; width: 300px; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<div style="height: 40px;" class="dv"></div>
<div style="height: 20px;" class="dv"></div>
<div style="height: 60px;" class="dv"></div>
<div style="height: 20px;" class="dv"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
You'll see that when the page is very narrow, everything looks as you would expect. All of the divs stack up. If you expand the page to full size, yet again - everything looks fine. But when there are 2 or 3 columns, look how much extra space there is. I'd post an image, but my reputation does not yet permit me to do so.
Anyway, i experimented with various display and position settings, and i couldn't get it to really do what i want.
Any suggestions? Thanks!
-RP
Are you after this type of look?
http://desandro.com/resources/jquery-masonry/
If so, no, there is no easy way to handle that with pure CSS. You need a bit of JS as well.
There is no particularly good way to generically handle this with CSS.
Read this previous answer I wrote that goes over the various options, and shows that they don't work:
CSS Floating Divs At Variable Heights
You're stuck with JavaScript. Fortunately, the JavaScript you need has already been written in the form of a jQuery plugin:
jQuery Masonry
I've suggested the same thing before:
Position floated elements directly under each other
css alignment question
Related
The HTML scheme is following:
<div class="items">
<div class="item">...</div>
<div class="item">...</div>
<div class="item">...</div>
...
</div>
.item CSS style:
float: left;
And the result:
But the white boxes are not aligned right one after another one -- where could be the issue? I;ve tried also using display: inline-block; instead of float: left;, but the result was basically the same.
Thank you
You can use CSS 3 column-width and column-gap like this..
http://www.bootply.com/118335
I run into the exact same problem and I found this one that worked for me.
https://github.com/kudago/waterfall
It depends only on js no css, though I'm still using bootstrap for other styling. I also use jquery.infinitescroll.js to dynamically load items and after the items are appended, waterfall will do its magic and put everything in place.
The only glitch I found is sometimes items could overlap a bit vertically, as soon as you keep scrolling down they are put correctly. I'm not sure why this is happening, a bit annoying but till I find something better.
Hope this helps.
I wanted to make a site with the grid system. ( I have made one already, so I know/knew how it works )
This is my custum grid: http://grids.heroku.com/grid.css?column_width=100&column_amount=8&gutter_width=15
And now comes the problem: When I try to put prefix_1 as a class nothing happen it just stays in the same place. And I have one prefix_1 grid_3 and one grid_4. so it is 1+3+4=8. My grid is 8 columns wide so it has to fit together easily, but it doesn't.
http://jsfiddle.net/gekkeabt/5LA82/
<div class="container_8">
<span id="download" class="prefix_1 grid_3"><b>Download</b> Leasy CMS</span>
<span id="download" class="grid_4"><b>Download</b> Macha Webserver</span>
<span id="about" class="prefix_2 grid_4 suffix_2"><b>About</b> Me</span>
</div>
I checked my code 100 times. But I can't find where it went wrong.
Maybe someone can help me out?
Thanks!
EDIT:
I solved the prefix and suffix problem by defining the class in another div outside of the span.
So it looks like:
<div class="prefix_1 grid_3"><span id="download">The content....</span></div>
Try removing the
padding:10px 50px 10px 50px;
line from your #download,#about CSS declaration (or at least the horizontal padding of 2 x 50px).
It's that extra padding that makes the elements wider than one row.
Here's how it looks without that line: http://jsfiddle.net/WHG4u/
Please add this css to your /css/custom.css to make the page stop jumping each time the slide changes
.avia-content-slider-active .slide-entry-wrap { height: 275px; }
So I have a simple page:
www.kensandbox.info/centerthis
This is a simple html/css page and I'm trying to add a paypal button.
The problem is that I can't figure out how to center the button? I've tried adding the following:
<div align="center"> form code here </div>
No dice. I've even tried adding the center tag before the form.
The site code (simple html and css file) can be downloaded here:
www.kensandbox.info/centerthis/centerthis.zip
My guess is that one of the other CSS elements is overriding my change.
What am I missing?
Thanks
there is a float:left in form input, form .btn inside mycss.css
Add float:none to that input if you want to override.
Without looking at your code I would say the best way to center a div is usually make sure it's displayed as a block element (should be by default) and that its width is specified; then finally apply margin: auto.
e.g.
<div class="container">
...
<div class="centered-element"> form code here </div>
...
</div>
where
container {
width: 200px;
}
centered-element {
width: 150px;
margin: auto;
display: block; /* to make sure it isn't being mucked up by your other css */
float: none; /* to make sure it isn't being mucked up by your other css */
}
Edit:
I say to do it this way because, like I now see someone has commented, <div align="center"> is deprecated and so is the <center> tag. To expand, this is because your HTML should only be used to create the structure and semantics of your web page, and CSS should be used for the presentational aspects of it. Keeping the two separate as best as you can will save you a lot of time in the long run.
Also it's best to design your CSS in a way where you shouldn't have to set display: block; on a div (because a div is already a block element) and your shouldn't have to unset a float by using float: none;. For more on a good way to do that, improve your workflow, save yourself some time, and generally be awesome, check into object-oriented CSS a.k.a. ooCSS
I found the answer and I want to thank the two individuals who took the time to answer.
The thing I didn't understand is how to look at a web page and see what CSS code was driving the formatting.
Some research lead me to a Chrome plug in named CSSViewer. Using this plugin and the information from the answer I was able to identify a float left css element that I simply had to change to a float center.
Thanks again for the help.
I have been asked to design a side scrolling site for Wordpress similar to this
site. Each post is positioned side by side on the page.
Im trying to work out if there is a line of PHP that i can add to page.php that will allow a normal vertical scrolling site to horizontal scroll ?? as far as I'm aware there is no jQuery used . . . . .
I've looked for countless amounts of Wordpress themes but can't seem to find the relevant piece of php for horizontal-scrolling. It seems to be quite a common layout for UK based illustrators/graphic designers. Does anyone have any ideas how to achieve this ??
thanks
https://css-tricks.com/how-to-create-a-horizontally-scrolling-site/
the DEMO...
https://css-tricks.com/examples/HorzScrolling/
Is quite good - although could be more intuitive with anchors & arrows
Use this theme:
http://thethemefoundry.com/shelf/
Otherwise you'll have to digg into CSS for that effect.
Give your body (or for instance a wrapper div) an explicit width, either via CSS (fixed, see below) or JavaScript (dynamic and for instance depending on the number of articles). Then float your articles left and give them an explicit width as well.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<style>
body { width: 8000px; }
.article { float: left; width: 800px; }
</style>
<body>
<div class="article">...</div>
...
<div class="article">...</div>
</body>
I've seen a lot of discussion and debate on this with solutions from pure CSS to pure HTML. They can get pretty complicated, nesting divs within divs, using some pretty intense looking CSS. I figured I'd ask though, because I need a straightforward solution to this problem, and it needs to not rely on CSS tables (i.e. {display:table;} because I'm using that to show/hide the entire div and solutions using that never seem to work nicely with my other code. So how should I do this?
I came up with a solution. I'm not sure it's the best or most compatible, but here it is:
<style type="text/css">
table.center {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
h1.center {
text-align: center;
}
</style>
<div id="hide-able">
<table class="center">
<tr><td><h1 class="center">I'm centered!</h1></td></tr>
</table>
</div>
If you have a better solution, please share!
you can have your outer div #wrapper{margin:0 auto;width:900px}
that gets it done nicely.
make sure to include doc-type for IE.