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>
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I am working/designing the front-end (working on the layout html+css, later will use php, mvc pattern) of a website. The website has a header, body, side menu and a footer The layout is ready.
There are a few forms which are unusually long/huge since all fields are necessary and I could not make them any shorter. The form opens in a new page.
Not to scare the user away I am planning to downsize the header on the form template (the design change will only apply to the form templates) and get rid of the footer completely.
I tried looking a few places but did not find how to go it done. In short, I want the site to have all block i.e. header, body, footer but when it comes to the form I would want to downsize the header and remove the footer to make the form look sleeker.
Is there a way to do this?
Note: I post no code because I have no problem with the code but the concept.
You can use display: none for the footerelement in CSS rules that only apply to this page (for example in a style tag in the head of that page).
Concerning the header, it depends how it is built, if it has a logo, background image, text, menu, whatever. In general you could reduce the height, make the logo smaller, hide parts of the text in there etc.
You can also done this thing using angularjs
ng-include
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.6.4/angular.min.js"></script>
<body >
<div ng-include="'header.html'">
</div>
<div ng-include="'footer.html'">
</div>
</body>
</html>
Make sure the body of the page has a class, for example .no-footer .small-header or .form-page. and then in your CSS stylesheet, use something like this :
body.no-footer #footer{
display:none;
}
body.small-header #header{
height:50px;
/* or whatever you want to apply to make the header smaller */
}
This is a relatively small project that I've been working on however it's driving me insane...
I'm trying to port my original website (which was done completely in Dreamweaver, HTML) to a Visual Studio 2013 ASP.NET project where I can add databases, login's etc. for an assignment I have.
The main problem I have is the fact that my CSS code does not want to do what I tell it to do in terms of the layout.
I've tried completely remaking the website entirely step by step, making sure each aspect works correctly before moving on to the next.
This is what my original website looks like:
http://i.stack.imgur.com/sxfeg.png
(Original HTML + CSS) https://gist.github.com/anonymous/7ed94218f9374d41918e
Now, I used a template a long time back in order to get this design and I've experimented to see which CSS code affects the layout and found that the tag main_container (line 13 of the HTML gist) controls the white background of the website.
So if I remove the tag, this will happen: http://i.stack.imgur.com/BFNLE.png
^ This is important in my problem.
When porting over my website, I copied across all the code correctly and adapted it to ASP. (See Gist: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/9c09befeb8950f4c1416)
However, in doing so, I encountered a problem where the CSS code for the main_container was not being used correctly.
#main_container{
width:977px;
background:url(center_bg_repeat.gif) repeat-y center;
The image was not being repeated on the y axis like on the original website and here's the result: http://i.stack.imgur.com/E4TZU.png
Have I got the syntax wrong? Or what is wrong with my code?
I've placed all the images in the same folder as the CSS file for
convenience.
Is this a problem with Visual Studio 2013 or am I doing something
fundamentally wrong?
Is there perhaps another way to port this same design without
causing so many problems?
I'm not entirely clear on what you want to achieve but if it is the same layout as your original site, then it is better to replicate the html and css exactly first to get it working then look at restructuring or refactoring the code. For example, check that all element sizing is the same so that content displays as you expect.
There are a couple of key differences between your original and new code that could affect the behaviour in the new version of your site. In your original css you don't have a repeat style for center_bg_repeat.gif. Also, it looks like #main_container isn't referenced in your original code.
Repeating a background image won't cause content to repeat across the page. You are already including your content in your new html so you just need to use positioning (e.g. floats vs relative/absolute positioning) to get the tiles to layout in the way you want (see code snippet for an example).
html, body, .container
{
height: 100%;
min-height: 100%;
}
.tile {
float: left;
width: 20%;
height: 30%;
margin: 10px;
padding: 20px;
background-color: #ccc;
}
<div class="container">
<div class="tile">first</div>
<div class="tile">third</div>
<div class="tile">second</div>
<div class="tile">fourth</div>
<div class="tile">last</div>
</div>
In your case, if you want #main_container to scale to fit the content then set its style to min-height: 100%;
so i have a question...
Im making a website and i encountered a problem. I made my website in the resolution 1920*1080p and obviosly when i change to a different size all the elements get moved around. what i want to do is make it so no elements get moved everything is were i want it to be, and if your on your phone youd need to scroll not only down and up but left and right, i'll post my code.
http://pastebin.com/5vzrHq2b
Just set
body {
width:1920px;
height:1080px;
}
I also totally advise you against doing this, it makes websites extremely annoying. You should code the wesbsite to be manageable on all displays.
Put those elements into divisions. and when defining the division class make the position option "absolute".
you can define a division class as follows.
.division1{
position: absolute;
height: .......;
width: ........;
.
.
.
}
and use it as follows
<div class = division1>
//Everything that you want to make unmovabl1e
</div>
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 a two column layout, with a gray sidebar on the right. I need the sidebar's height to expand when the height of the left column is increased (due to content being dynamically expanded). I can make the sidebar fit a static page, but I cannot get it to increase in size with the rest of the page. Did some Googling, but couldn't find a work-around that worked for me.
Does anyone know how to do this?
This is a common problem when using DIVS for this type of layout.
If you google 'Faux column' you should get some answers.
eg. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fauxcolumns/
This may be slightly off but if you use jQuery on your site you can perform a quick calculation and resize all DIVs sharing a similar class to the maximum height:
$('.elements').height(Math.max($('#div1').height(), $('#div2').height()));
I have been haunted by this problem for a while and I wrote an article about this issue: Done with faux columns. Here is what I argued:
JavaScript based solution for this
problem is not worse than any other
solution. In fact if you are using
JavaScript, you may save a few hours
of frustration of trying to get things
working. People will warn you against
this by saying “What will happen if
the user turned off JavaScript?“.
Believe me, if the user has turned off
JavaScript, most of the web is broken
for him anyway. Your sidebar does not
matter to him.
As cballou mentioned, the simplest way to do this thing is to use JQuery code:
$(".sidebar").height(Math.max($(".content").height(),$(".sidebar").height()));
I changed the background-color to the same color as my sidebar, on that specific page, although I do have backgrounds for all my sections rather than one overall background. But that might not work for everyone.
In my stylesheet,
.sidec
{
background-color:#123456;
}
In my HTML page,
<body class="sidec">
content....
</body>
I recently saw a quite creative solution to this problem using the CSS properties position:absolute and border.
Definitely worth checking out to see if it works for you.
Link: http://woorkup.com/2009/10/11/really-simple-css-trick-for-equal-height-columns/
I'm not sure if this will help, as I'm a newbie. However, when struggling with getting my sidebar to show the whole content when I doubled it's size I did the following. I was changing my height and width with no response until I changed the class. My class was listed SB frame SB width. So when I changed my class to read SB height SB width it fit to my content instead of the original frame size. I also tried SB max sb width with worked too, but it took out my footer menu bar (meaning it wouldn't show it anymore). I went back to SB height SB width, and all is well. That's super duper elementary for all of you I'm sure, but just in case there is another newbie reading this that doesn't understand much about html code like myself... I hope this helps =)
Happy Holidays Everyone!
hugs, tara
I'm guessing you want to apply certain effect to your layout such that it will require both columns to resize together. If you want to dynamically change the values of the height of the columns, I doubt it will work simply with css unless you implement some javascript to control the style.
As Dal suggested, do look at the link on faux columns. As the name suggests, the solution isn't much about modifying the columns height. Instead, it gives the "illusion" that both columns appear to be of the same height when in reality they are not -- and is with the use of tiles of background image.
The idea is there isn't a need to complicate the mark-up. Simple structure with a touch of "illusion" with images is a common practice in web design.
Regards,
Jonah
With the poor attitude towards new members on here I expect to be barracked for this answer, here goes.
I got around this problem by creating a background image 960px wide 1px high with the two colors I needed for the columns in their respective widths (780px and 180px). I then used this as the background image for my container repeated on the y axis and made the content and the right sidebar background-color: transparent.
.container {
width: 960px;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
margin: 0 auto;
background-image: url(../images/bgs/conbg.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat-y;
}
.sidebar1 {
float: right;
width: 180px;
height:auto;
background-color:transparent;
padding-bottom: 10px;
}
.content {
padding: 10px 0;
width: 780px;
background-color:transparent;
float: right;
}
I am sure that this method has its limitations but it works perfectly on all my pages.
It is possible that I have not explained this very well, if so, be nice about it will you please. I will endevour to expand on my method(which is probably already common knowledge).