I have an element with a 70% width, and it is floating beside another element with 30% width. However, when I add 25px of padding, the element expands and breaks the format.
Is there any way to make padding increase the contents' distance from the element's edge, as opposed to making the element bigger?
.seventy {
float: left;
width: 70%;
background-color: lightsalmon;
}
.thirty {
float: left;
width: 30%;
background-color: lightgreen;
}
.padded {
padding: 25px; /* Forces box onto next line */
}
<div>Works:</div>
<div class="seventy">70% wide</div>
<div class="thirty">30% wide</div>
<br><br>
<div>Broken:</div>
<div class="seventy">70% wide</div>
<div class="thirty padded">30% wide, padded</div>
When you use the border-box model, the padding is included in the box size. See here for details.
.seventy {
float: left;
width: 70%;
background-color: lightsalmon;
}
.thirty {
box-sizing: border-box;
padding: 25px;
float: left;
width: 30%;
background-color: lightgreen;
}
<div class="seventy">70% wide</div>
<div class="thirty">30% wide</div>
I would create another element of the same type (may I guess it's a div?) inside the element and set that one to have a padding/margin of 25px.
For example:
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="width30">
</div>
<div id="width70">
<div id="padding25">
Acctual content here.
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Related
My setup is this:
.cprp_data {
width: 100%;
overflow: hidden;
}
.cprp_title {
width: 80%;
float: left;
}
.gelijkeniscore {
float: right;
}
.cprp_percentage {
float: right;
}
.cprp_excerpt {
width: 80%;
float: left;
}
.cprp-custom-container {
float: right;
}
<div class="cprp_data">
<div class="cprp_title">TITLE</div>
<div class="gelijkeniscore">SOME CONTENT</div>
<div class="cprp_percentage">SOME CONTENT</div>
<div class="cprp_excerpt">SOME CONTENT</div>
<div class="cprp-custom-container">SOME CONTENT IN SEVERAL DIVS
</div>
</div>
cprp_data should function as the wrapper, and this is how i want the other divs inside it to to align:
<cprp_title> <gelijkeniscore>
<cprp_excerpt> <cprp_percentage>
<cprp-custom-container>
To be clear, divs cprp_excerpt and cprp_title should align left on top of each other using a width of 80%, and the other 3 divs are supposed to align right also on top of each other using the remaining 20%, looking kinda like a sidebar.
I can't get it to work. Been trying for hours using several CSS setups. The above CSS is as close as i have gotten so far. But somehow the cprp_excerpt div keeps taking up 100% of the width pushing the cprp-custom-container way down. Any help would be much appreciated!
shift the cprp_percentage div after the cprp_excerpt div
As inferred from the problem statement:
all the internal divs are now stacked upon each other in the desired hierarchy
left container occupies 80% screen width
right container occupies 20% screen width
The container wrapper remains intact, i have just introduced two sub-wrappers to distinguish contents of left and right side of screen
Hope this code helps!
.cprp_data {
width: 100%;
overflow: hidden;
/* display flex to control the scenario */
display: flex;
}
/*.cprp_title {
width: 80%;
float: left;
}
.gelijkeniscore {
float: right;
}
.cprp_percentage {
float: right;
}
.cprp_excerpt {
width: 80%;
float: left;
}
.cprp-custom-container {
float: right;
}
*/
/* as the left section should be 80% in width */
.left{
width: 80%;
border: 1px solid #000000;
}
/* as the right section should be 20% */
.right{
width: 20%;
border: 1px solid #000000;
}
<div class="cprp_data">
<div class="left">
<div class="cprp_title">TITLE</div>
<div class="cprp_excerpt">SOME CONTENT</div>
</div>
<div class="right">
<div class="gelijkeniscore">SOME CONTENT</div>
<div class="cprp_percentage">SOME CONTENT</div>
<div class="cprp-custom-container">SOME CONTENT IN SEVERAL DIVS
</div>
</div>
</div>
First of all, please look at this code.
I learned that this was a common way to realize liquid layout.
But I can not understand some of this code.
.container {
overflow: hidden;
}
main {
float: left;
width: 100%;
margin-right: -340px;
background: red;
}
.main-inner {
margin-right: 340px;
background: blue;
}
.sidebar {
float: right;
width: 340px;
background: green;
}
<div class="container">
<main>
<div class="main-inner">
<p class="main-title">Main</p>
</div>
</main>
<aside class="sidebar">
<div class="sidebar-inner">
sidebar
</div>
</aside>
</div>
Question 1
I understand that the negative margin has the effect of moving an element in the specified direction. However, when you run this code, the main element does not seem to be moving at all. Why is this?
Question 2
Since we set the width of the main element to 100%, I understand that the aside element hits the main element and that the main element and aside element can not be side by side.
So, I think that we prepare a horizontal width that can apply the aside element by applying negative margin, but the background color of the main element is applied in the same way as when the horizontal width is 100%. Why is the background color of the main element not (100% - aside width)? How is this series of rendering done?
Question 3
Which document on W3.org describes these actions? I tried looking, but I could not find any detailed information on them.
thank you.
Let's start by adding the properties one by one and see what is happening.
Intially we have this code with no margin applied and only float elements:
.container {
overflow: hidden;
background:yellow;
}
main {
float: left;
width: 100%;
background: red;
}
.main-inner {
background: blue;
}
.sidebar {
float: right;
width: 340px;
background: green;
}
<div class="container">
<main>
<div class="main-inner">
<p class="main-title">Main</p>
</div>
</main>
<aside class="sidebar">
<div class="sidebar-inner">
sidebar
</div>
</aside>
</div>
It's clear that you made the red element to be width:100% floating on the left and the green one to float on the right with a fixed width. You may also notice that p element is having a default margin that's why the blue is not totally covering the red.
Now if you add negative margin-right you will not move the element or decrease the width but you will pull the content from the right in order to overlap the element. Here is a basic illustration:
.box {
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
background: red;
float: left;
}
<div class="box" style="margin-right:-100px;height:220px">
</div>
<div class="box" style="background:blue;">
</div>
As you can see the blue box is overlapping the red one by exactly 100px because we applied -100px to the margin-right of the red box. Same logic will happen in your case, you applied a negative margin equal to the size of the sidebar so you created the need space to move the sidebar at the same level of the main element.
.container {
overflow: hidden;
background:yellow;
}
main {
float: left;
width: 100%;
background: red;
margin-right:-340px;
}
.main-inner {
background: blue;
}
.sidebar {
float: right;
width: 340px;
background: green;
}
<div class="container">
<main>
<div class="main-inner">
<p class="main-title">Main</p>
</div>
</main>
<aside class="sidebar">
<div class="sidebar-inner">
sidebar
</div>
</aside>
</div>
So the main element is still 100% width BUT the sidebar is overlapping it due to negative margin.
Now the last step is to add the margin inside the main and in this case it will reduce the width of the inner element to make the total (width + margin) always equal to the width of parent element (containing block)
.container {
overflow: hidden;
background:yellow;
}
main {
float: left;
width: 100%;
background: red;
margin-right:-340px;
}
.main-inner {
background: blue;
margin-right:340px;
}
.sidebar {
float: right;
width: 340px;
background: green;
}
<div class="container">
<main>
<div class="main-inner">
<p class="main-title">Main</p>
</div>
</main>
<aside class="sidebar">
<div class="sidebar-inner">
sidebar
</div>
</aside>
</div>
Here is another illustration of margin with block element non floated:
.container {
border: 2px solid;
max-width: 50vw;
margin: auto;
}
.first {
height: 100px;
background: red;
margin: 0 -50px;
}
.second {
height: 100px;
background: blue;
margin: 0 50px;
}
<div class="container">
<div class="first">
</div>
<div class="second">
</div>
</div>
In this case the width is increasing/decrasing due to margin because the logic is always: width + margin = width of containing block.
With elements like float and inline block the logic is the same but we won't have width changes because the width is defined either by the content or explicitly.
.container {
border: 2px solid;
display:inline-block;
}
.first {
float:left;
height: 100px;
background: red;
margin-right:-50px;
}
.second {
display:inline-block;
width:200px;
height: 120px;
background: blue;
margin-top:20px;
margin-right:-100px;
}
<div class="container">
<div class="first">
some text here
</div>
<div class="second">
</div>
</div>
Here the float element has a width defined by the content, the inline-block has a width equal to 200px. The negative margin is creating the overlap and the size of the parent element (the containing block) is equal to width + margins.
For the references:
8 Box model
9 Visual formatting model
10 Visual formatting model details
The above explanation is very simplifed. Refer to the specification links for a full and details explanation.
The odd placement from <main> comes from a browser css-rule
p {
display: block;
-webkit-margin-before: 1em;
-webkit-margin-after: 1em;
-webkit-margin-start: 0px;
-webkit-margin-end: 0px;
}
You can reset it using a css reset like normalize.css.
However, I recommend using display: flex. Some wonderful resources.
.container {
display: flex;
}
main {
width: 75%;
}
aside {
width: 25%;
}
I have in div two divs with floats (left and right). In right div there are paragraphs. All that two divs have inline-block display. If paragraphs in right div too long, then right div jump over the left, and set to display block.
I'm want to paraghraps do new line if it too long.
Code:
.left {
margin: 30px;
float: left;
display: inline-block;
}
.right {
float: left;
margin-top: 30px;
}
.right p {
margin: 10px;
font-weight: 900;
}
<div class="box_container">
<div class="left">
<img src="{url}">
</div>
<div class="right">
<p>p1</p>
<p>p2</p>
<p>p3</p>
<p>p4</p>
<p>p5</p>
</div>
</div>
When text in paragraph too long:
.left {
margin: 30px;
float: left;
display: inline-block;
}
.right {
float: left;
margin-top: 30px;
}
.right p {
margin: 10px;
font-weight: 900;
}
.left img {
border: 5px solid white;
}
<div class="box_container">
<div class="left">
<img src="http://monitorgame.com/m/games/001.jpg">
</div>
<div class="right">
<p>p1</p>
<p>p2</p>
<p>p3</p>
<p>p4</p>
<p>p5 text text text text text text lalalalalalalalalalalallalalallalalalala</p>
</div>
</div>
You should allocate space for them. I like using floats in these instances, so for example you could add float:left width: 50% to each one, something like that.
.left {
margin: 30px;
float: left;
width: 50%;
}
.right {
float: left;
width: 50%
margin-top: 30px;
}
You already had the float, you just needed to specify the width. They could be static too not % if you want, but if the static sizes don't fit in the screen they will break like your example.
see working here : https://jsfiddle.net/3LtLuxbc/3/
Just a note on the fiddle - I changed your img size to with 100% and removed the border so it would scale , you can change that to suit your design.
Add a width to the right div. This will force the text to wrap. Without a specified width, div will increase in size until reaching max size of wrapper div or page
i have a legend for a graph that sometimes is scrollable and sometimes isn't.
Unfortunately when the scrollbar shows up, it pushes all of the elements over to the left a bit. So they don't line up with a total (outside the scrollable area)
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/3sKVR/
A simple answer would be to just set a fixed width, but unfortunately, it has to be responsive.
Also, i can't use custom scrollbars to maintain consistency with the rest of the site and also bring down page-load times.
Any help would be greatly appreciated (with internet points!)
Cut down version of code:
HTML:
<div id="legend_cont">
<div id="legend_list">
<div id="legend">
<div class="legend_row">
<div class="legend_cell">
<div class="legend_colour" style="background-color:#ffb100"></div>
</div>
<div class="legend_cell">Merch G</div>
<div class="legend_cell legend_value">$1423.24</div>
</div>
<div class="legend_row">
<div class="legend_cell">
<div class="legend_colour" style="background-color:#ed5929"></div>
</div>
<div class="legend_cell">Merch L</div>
<div class="legend_cell legend_value">$1351.07</div>
</div>
<div class="legend_row">
<div class="legend_cell">
<div class="legend_colour" style="background-color:#3f9c35"></div>
</div>
<div class="legend_cell">Merch N</div>
<div class="legend_cell legend_value">$1194.90</div>
</div>
<div class="legend_row">
<div class="legend_cell">
<div class="legend_colour" style="background-color:#009bbb"></div>
</div>
<div class="legend_cell">Merch T</div>
<div class="legend_cell legend_value">$1188.14</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="legend_total">Total:<span id="legend_total_value">$0.00</span>
</div>
</div>
CSS:
#legend_cont {
height: 100%;
border-left: 2px solid #ADADAD;
width: 40%;
float: right;
}
#legend_list {
height: 169px;
overflow: auto;
margin: 20px 4% 20px 7%;
}
#legend {
display: table;
width: 90%;
}
.legend_row {
display: table-row;
}
.legend_cell {
display: table-cell;
padding: 5px;
vertical-align: middle;
}
.legend_colour {
width: 10px;
height: 20px;
background-color: #c1c1c1;
border-radius: 3px;
}
.legend_value {
text-align: right;
}
#legend_total {
height: 50px;
line-height: 50px;
width: 88%;
border-top: 1px solid;
margin-left: 8%;
}
#legend_total_value {
float: right;
padding-right: 5px;
}
1) Make sure there is always a scroll bar
CSS
#legend_cont {
overflow-y: scroll;
}
2) Use js to grab the variable width of the scrollbar (example here)
3) Set the padding-right in #legend_total_value equal to that variable in jquery.
JS
$('#legend_total_value').css('padding-right', wScroll);
Try applying padding-right to compensate for the size of scrollbar when it's not there and position the total accordingly.
#legend_list {
height: 169px;
overflow: auto;
margin: 20px 4% 20px 7%;
padding-right:15px;
}
Demo
I'm reworking a layout currently using tables for a two-column design, and ran into some problems.
<div id="frame">
<div id="leftcol">
<div id="1">blah</div>
</div>
<div id="leftcol">
<div id="2">blah</div>
<div id="3">blah</div>
</div>
</div>
#leftCol
{
margin-right: 10px;
width: 49%;
float: left;
}
#rightCol
{
width: 49%;
float: left;
}
Originally I had a two-columned table with width=100% - this worked perfectly in Firefox, but in IE the table overflowed the #frame div container. I removed this table and added two floated divs, but I still have issues getting the columns to be equal.
All of my content resides inside the div #frame, which has height constraints as well as padding and a margin (I use this to leave a "gutter" around the edge of the page).
I need the two floated DIV columns to be the same width, and sit next to each other with a 10px (ish) gutter in between. I tried making both width: 50%, but this fails because the container they are in (#frame) is smaller width-wise then the whole body of the page. (If I get rid of the gutter padding, it works in FF but still not in IE.
Making each column width: 49% works, but looks ugly as the size changes between browsers and the right column does not line up with the edge of the #frame container.
I tried doing this before but ultimately went back to tables 9since it seemed to be working), but now that I see it's incompatible with IE I've been working for hours to find a cross-browser css solution. Any ideas?
Setting each column to 50% should work, if you make sure they don't have any margins or paddings.
If they need padding, put in an extra wrapper div, that can have as much padding/margins as neccesary.
For the gutter in between, you could give these wrapper divs a border on left/right side to make it look like a space in between the columns.
Posting a full code example (on jsbin.com for example) would also help us understand your problem more easily. :)
I think you might benefit from a css framework like 960gs or blueprint css it allows absolute grid placement and is cross browser compatible out of the box.
http://www.blueprintcss.org/
http://960.gs/
If you know the width of the frame, you can do this
#frame {
background-color: green;
width: 500px;
overflow: auto;
}
#leftCol
{
width: 245px;
float: left;
background-color: red;
}
#rightCol
{
width: 245px;
float: right;
background-color: blue;
}
<div id="frame">
<div id="leftCol">
<div id="1">blah</div>
</div>
<div id="rightCol">
<div id="2">blah</div>
<div id="3">blah</div>
</div>
</div>
Otherwise, an add an extra div, and do this
<div id="frame">
<div id="leftCol">
<div id="hack">
<div id="1">blah</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="rightCol">
<div id="2">blah</div>
<div id="3">blah</div>
</div>
</div>
#frame {
background-color: green;
width: 500px;
overflow: auto;
}
#leftCol
{
width: 50%;
float: left;
}
#hack {
margin-right: 10px;
background-color: red;
}
#rightCol
{
width: 50%;
float: right;
background-color: blue;
}
Ok here you go. This is how it can be achieved.
CSS
#leftCol, #rightCol{
width: 48%;
float: left;
background: red;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
#leftCol{
margin-right: 1%;
}
#rightCol{
margin-left: 1%;
}
HTML
<div id="frame">
<div id="leftcol">
<div id="1">blah</div>
</div>
<div id="rightCol">
<div id="2">blah</div>
<div id="3">blah</div>
</div>
</div>
If you need here is the vendor prefix for box-sizing.
-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
-webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
Note that you have typo in your HTML wher both div are called #leftCol. There is no#rightCol.