I'd like to have a line that starts right after my text on the same line, I've tried with the following simple code
<html><body>My Text<hr/></body></html>
It seems that <hr> is not an option because it is always on a new line and I'd like the line to start at the right of my text.
Any help ?
The <hr> has default styling that puts it on a new line. However that default styling can be over-ridden, in the same way as it can for any other element. <hr> is in essence nothing more than an empty <div> with a default border setting.
To demonstrate this, try the following:
<div>Blah blah<hr style='display:inline-block; width:100px;' />dfgdfg</div>
There are a number of ways to override the styling of <hr> to acheive your aim.
You could try using display:inline-block; along with a width setting, as I have above. The down-side of this approach is that it requires you to know the width you want, though there are ways around this - width:100%;, and the whole line in a container <div> that has overflow:hidden; might do the trick, for example:
<div style='overflow:hidden; white-space:nowrap;'>Blah blah<hr style='display:inline-block; width:100%;' /></div>
Another option would be to use float:left;. You'd need to apply this to all the elements in the line, and I dislike this option as I find that float tends to cause more problems than it solves. But try it and see if it works for you.
There are various other combinations of styles you can try - give it a go and see what works.
Using FlexBox Property this can be achieved easily.
.mytextdiv{
display:flex;
flex-direction:row;
align-items: center;
}
.mytexttitle{
flex-grow:0;
}
.divider{
flex-grow:1;
height: 1px;
background-color: #9f9f9f;
}
<div class="mytextdiv">
<div class="mytexttitle">
My Text
</div>
<div class="divider"></div>
</div>
Try this:
<html><body>My Text<hr style="float: right; width: 80%"/></body></html>
The inline CSS float: right will keep it on the same line as the text.
You'll need to adjust the width if you want it to fill the rest of the line.
Using inline or float, as far as I tested it doesn't work properly even if this was my first thought. Looking further I used the following css
hr {
bottom: 17px;
position: relative;
z-index: 1;
}
div {
background:white;
position: relative;
width: 100px;
z-index: 10;
}
html
<div>My Text</div><hr/>
Demo http://jsfiddle.net/mFEWk/
What I did, is to add position relative in both elements (to give me the advantage of z-index use). Also from the moment I had position:relative for hr I moved it from the bottom:17px. This move it above the div that contains the text. Applying z-index values and adding background:white for the div puts the text above the the line. Of course don't forget to use a width for the text, otherwise will take the whole width of the parent element.
<div style="float: left">Some text</div>
<hr style="clear: none; position: relative; top: 0.5em;">
Exactly what you want.
Try this. It works
<p style="float:left;">
Hello Text
<hr style="float:left; width: 80%"/>
</p>
You can also use this to draw a line between texts like
Hello -------------------------- Hello
The OP never specified the purpose of the line, but I wanted to share what I ended up doing when I was making an html template where the user needed a line to write on after the document was printed.
Because the hr tag defaults to its own line and defaults to being centered in the line, I decided to use a div and style it instead.
HTML
This is my text.<div class='fillLine'></div>
CSS
.fillLine {
display:inline-block;
width: 200px;
border-bottom: 1px solid black;
}
JSFiddle Demo
Style Div for Line After Text
Hope that helps anyone who had the same goal as me.
hr {
width: {so it fits on the same line as the p tag};
}
p {
float: left;
width: {enough to accomodate the hr};
}
That sort of make sense?
<p>My text</p>
<hr />
Here's one potential approach, but it has some assumptions/requirements. Your question should be edited to give more specific information about what you're building.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Blah</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
background-color : white;
font-family : Arial;
font-size : 16px;
}
.wrap {
background: transparent url(px.png) repeat-x 0px 85%;
/* Different fonts or text sizes may require tweaking of that offset.
px.png is a one-pixel(though can be thicker if needed) image in whatever color you want the line */
}
.inner {
background-color : white;
/* Should match the background of whatever it's sitting over.
Obviously this requires a solid background. */
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="wrap"><span class="inner">Here is some text</span></div>
</body>
</html>
I used the following technique:
Give the container div a background-image with a horizontal line.
Put an element (like <h3>) in the container div (I have it on the right so float: right; )
Use the following css:
.line-container {
width: 550px;
height: 40px;
margin-top: 10px;
background-image: url("/images/horizontal_line.png");
}
.line-container h3 {
padding-left: 10px;
float: right;
background-color: white;
}
Below code did the job for me
HTML File:
----------
<p class="section-header">Details</p><hr>
CSS File:
----------
.section-header{
float: left;
font-weight: bold
}
hr{
float: left;
width: 80%;
}
INLINE:
-------
<p style="float: left;font-weight: bold">Details</p><hr style="float: left;width: 80%;">
Related
I have a HTML document with inline CSS that my professor asked to have the CSS within the head tag and have the same rending from the original HTML with inline CSS. I think I'm done but somehow the <hr> within the HTML with inline CSS looks thicker than the other one.
I already tried adding a height: declaration property but it renders even thicker than I want.
Original HTML: http://jsfiddle.net/2k66T/
Modified HTML: http://jsfiddle.net/dd63m/
Edit: Here are the instructions from the professor;
Write a CSS document in order to define the style of the following web
page (I refer this to as "Original HTML") in a right way. Add and erase in the original
page everything you think that is necessary. Use the on-line validator
of the World Wide Web Consortium to be sure that your work fulfills
the standards.
Real question is... why are you using HR?
Let's render a border on the div wrapping your logo image.
Have a fiddle! - http://jsfiddle.net/dd63m/11/
Updated fiddle - http://jsfiddle.net/8VTd8/3/
I have given the div wrapping your logo an ID of logo. I removed the br break tags, we can apply margins in the CSS. The font tag is no longer used.
HTML
<h1>MyTSC</h1>
<div id="logo">
<img src="./img/TSCLogo.jpg" alt="TSC">
</div>
<h2>My courses for Fal 2013</h2>
<ul>
<li>COSC 4330 Computer Graphics</li>
<li>IMED 1416 Wed Design I</li>
<li>ITNW 2413 Networking Hardware</li>
</ul>
The logo div is currently 300px wide, change to what you want. Note: margin: 0 auto; essentially this is centering your div. margin-bottom is applied to create those extra spaces. The border is applied to your logo div giving a consistent line across browsers.
CSS
body{
background-color: grey;
color: white;
}
h1{
text-align: right;
margin-bottom: 30px;
}
div{
text-align: center
}
ul{
font-style: italic;
}
#logo { width: 300px; margin: 0 auto; border-bottom: solid 1px #FFF; }
#logo img { margin-bottom: 30px;}
add background: white; in your css not color:white
like this
hr{
width: 50%;
height: 3px;
background: white;
}
They all have the same height, the one with the default color(no color specified) has a gradient effect so it looks a little thin.
Code for the Test fiddle
<hr width="50%" color="black">
<br />
<br />
<hr>
<br />
<br />
<hr id="test">
Js Fiddle
I have a use case whereby I want to draw rectangles in CSS. I need them to look like this:
I've managed to get the smaller and taller boxes drawn but can't work out how to draw those that drop below the line. Here's a fiddle
Heres' my HTML:
<div class="word">
<p class="letter taller"></p>
<p class="letter"></p>
<p class="letter"></p>
<p class="letter hanging"></p>
<p class="letter"></p>
<p class="letter taller"></p>
<p class="letter"></p>
</div>
Here's my CSS so far:
p {
display: inline-block;
}
.letter {
padding 1.618em;
border-width: 1px;
border-style: solid;
width: 2em;
height: 2em;
}
.taller {
height: 4em;
}
.hanging {
/* not sure what to implement here */
}
Using margins may affect other elements, especially if you plan on including other content on your page. (See this) I'd recommend using position: relative combined with top: 2em. What that does is it pushes the element down 2em, relative to the original position of the element.
.hanging {
height: 4em;
position: relative;
top: 2em;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/WtuyL/6/
(On an unrelated note... here's a little bonus if you want to fully imitate the image and remove whitespace. You'll net to set a manual size to all <p> elements though.)
The simplest way is to use a negative margin-bottom to achieve this (you don't need to use positioning):
CSS:
.hanging {
margin-bottom: -16px;
height:4em;
}
JSFiddle
Note: also comment the whitespace between display:inline-block elements to remove it.
Reference - see this to see more hacks how to remove the whitespace between display:inline-block elements.
Try this.
.hanging {
height:4em;
margin-bottom:-1em;
}
I'm going to die. This is happening to me the second time this week, however I have not idea how i fixed it the first time.
I'm completely helpless and angry. First off, w3c validator says no errors. My SASS Framework for CSS says no errors and I just don't have errors.
this is all I have, the entire page is styled successfully...
<body>
<div id="doc">
<header>
<div class="inner">
<div id="branding">
<a class="logo" href="#">Jihaa</a>
</div>
...and suddenly... i can't select the .logo inside of #branding ARRRRGGGG.
#branding .logo {
width: 200px;
height: 70px;
background: red;
}
this should do the job right, but no.
Neither does this header #branding .inner .logo {or any other possible combination.
Why? I'm completely helpless. No inspecting tool in all my browsers selects the appropriate css. It just doesn't relate to it!
.logo is an a which is an inline element and won't accept width and height.
Add display:inline-block; to the style and it should work.
#branding .logo {
width: 200px;
height: 70px;
background: red;
display:inline-block;
}
EDIT
To address #jackJoe's comment below.
In case you need to support IE6 or 7, you can add the following at the bottom of the rule:
zoom:1;
*display: inline;
_height: 12px; //or whatever you need
I don't think you can set a width or height for an anchor because it is an inline element.
Use the {display:inline-block;} that Jason Gennaro mentioned above.
in this case, if you would like to style the a with those properties, you need to specify its display to block
#branding .logo {
width: 200px;
height: 70px;
background: red;
display: block;
}
Make sure you don't use the same ids anywhere else in the page.
Also try taking the logo class out of a tag and put it in a div.
What makes you think you cannot select it? If its because your height and width are being ignored in your .logo class, that would be because you need to display:block .logo in order for your to respect them.
How do you make a vertical line using HTML?
Put a <div> around the markup where you want the line to appear to next, and use CSS to style it:
.verticalLine {
border-left: thick solid #ff0000;
}
<div class="verticalLine">
some other content
</div>
You can use the horizontal rule tag to create vertical lines.
<hr width="1" size="500" style="0 auto" />
By using minimal width and large size, horizontal rule becomes a vertical one.
You can use an empty <div> that is styled exactly like you want the line to appear:
HTML:
<div class="vertical-line"></div>
With exact height (overriding style in-line):
div.vertical-line{
width: 1px; /* Line width */
background-color: black; /* Line color */
height: 100%; /* Override in-line if you want specific height. */
float: left; /* Causes the line to float to left of content.
You can instead use position:absolute or display:inline-block
if this fits better with your design */
}
<div class="vertical-line" style="height: 45px;"></div>
Style the border if you want 3D look:
div.vertical-line{
width: 0px; /* Use only border style */
height: 100%;
float: left;
border: 1px inset; /* This is default border style for <hr> tag */
}
<div class="vertical-line" style="height: 45px;"></div>
You can of course also experiment with advanced combinations:
div.vertical-line{
width: 1px;
background-color: silver;
height: 100%;
float: left;
border: 2px ridge silver ;
border-radius: 2px;
}
<div class="vertical-line" style="height: 45px;"></div>
You can also make a vertical line using HTML horizontal line <hr />
html, body{height: 100%;}
hr.vertical {
width: 0px;
height: 100%;
/* or height in PX */
}
<hr class="vertical" />
There is no vertical equivalent to the <hr> element. However, one approach you may want to try is to use a simple border to the left or right of whatever you are separating:
#your_col {
border-left: 1px solid black;
}
<div id="your_col">
Your content here
</div>
HTML5 custom elements (or pure CSS)
1. javascript
Register your element.
var vr = document.registerElement('v-r'); // vertical rule please, yes!
*The - is mandatory in all custom elements.
2. css
v-r {
height: 100%;
width: 1px;
border-left: 1px solid gray;
/*display: inline-block;*/
/*margin: 0 auto;*/
}
*You might need to fiddle a bit with display:inline-block|inline because inline won't expand to containing element's height. Use the margin to center the line within a container.
3. instantiate
js: document.body.appendChild(new vr());
or
HTML: <v-r></v-r>
*Unfortunately you can't create custom self-closing tags.
usage
<h1>THIS<v-r></v-r>WORKS</h1>
example: http://html5.qry.me/vertical-rule
Don't want to mess with javascript?
Simply apply this CSS class to your designated element.
css
.vr {
height: 100%;
width: 1px;
border-left: 1px solid gray;
/*display: inline-block;*/
/*margin: 0 auto;*/
}
*See notes above.
One other option is to use a 1-pixel image, and set the height - this option would allow you to float it to where you need to be.
Not the most elegant solution though.
You can draw a vertical line by simply using height / width with any html element.
#verticle-line {
width: 1px;
min-height: 400px;
background: red;
}
<div id="verticle-line"></div>
There is a <hr> tag for horizontal line. It can be used with CSS to make horizontal line also:
.divider{
margin-left: 5px;
margin-right: 5px;
height: 100px;
width: 1px;
background-color: red;
}
<hr class="divider">
The width property determines the thickness of the line. The height property determines the length of the line. The background-color property determines the color of the line.
There isn't any tag to create a vertical line in HTML.
Method: You load a line image. Then you set its style like "height: 100px ; width: 2px"
Method: You can use <td> tags <td style="border-left: 1px solid red; padding: 5px;"> X </td>
To create a vertical line centered inside a div I think you can use this code.
The 'container' may well be 100% width, I guess.
div.container {
width: 400px;
}
div.vertical-line {
border-left: 1px solid #808080;
height: 350px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
width: 1px;
}
<div class="container">
<div class="vertical-line"> </div>
</div>
Rotate a <hr> 90 degrees:
<hr style="width:100px; transform:rotate(90deg);">
You can use hr (horizontal line) tag and than rotate it 90 degree with css below
hr {
transform:rotate(90deg);
-o-transform:rotate(90deg);
-moz-transform:rotate(90deg);
-webkit-transform:rotate(90deg);
}
http://jsfiddle.net/haykaghabekyan/0c969bm6/1/
One more approach is possible : Using SVG.
eg :
<svg height="210" width="500">
<line x1="0" y1="0" x2="0" y2="100" style="stroke:rgb(255,0,0);stroke-width:2" />
Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.
</svg>
Pros :
You can have line of any length and orientation.
You can specify the width, color easily
Cons :
SVG are now supported on most modern browsers. But some old browsers (like IE 8 and older) don't support it.
I used a combination of the "hr" code suggested, and here's what my code looks like:
<hr style="width:0.5px; height:500px; position: absolute; left: 315px;"/>
I simply changed the value of the "left" pixel value to position it. (I used the vertical line to line-up content on my webpage, and then I removed it.)
Vertical line right to the div
<div style="width:50%">
<div style="border-right:1px solid;">
<ul>
<li>
Empty div didn't shows line
</li>
<li>
Vertical line length depends on the content in the div
</li>
<li>
Here I am using inline style. You can replace it by external style or internal style.
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
Vertical line left to the div
<div style="width:50%">
<div style="border-left:1px solid;">
<ul>
<li>
Empty div didn't shows line
</li>
<li>
Vertical line length depends on the content in the div
</li>
<li>
Here I am using inline style. You can replace it by external style or internal style.
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
Why not use |, which is the html special character for |
If your goal is to put vertical lines in a container to separate side-by-side child elements (column elements), you could consider styling the container like this:
.container > *:not(:first-child) {
border-left: solid gray 2px;
}
This adds a left border to all child elements starting from the 2nd child. In other words, you get vertical borders between adjacent children.
> is a child selector. It matches any child of the element(s) specified on the left.
* is a universal selector. It matches an element of any type.
:not(:first-child) means it's not the first child of its parent.
Browser support: > * :first-child and :not()
I think this is better than a simple .child-except-first {border-left: ...} rule, because it makes more sense to have the vertical lines come from the container's rules, not the different child elements' rules.
Whether this is better than using a makeshift vertical rule element (by styling a horizontal rule, etc.) will depend on your use case, but this is an alternative at least.
To add a vertical line you need to style an hr.
Now when you make a vertical line it will appear in the middle of the page:
<hr style="width:0.5px;height:500px;"/>
Now to put it where you want you can use this code:
<hr style="width:0.5px;height:500px;margin-left:-500px;margin-right:500px;"/>
This will position it to the left, you can inverse it to position it to the right.
In the Previous element after which you want to apply the vertical row , You can set CSS ...
border-right-width: thin;
border-right-color: black;
border-right-style: solid;
Simply use either of the UTF-8 Miscellaneous Symbols
|
|
That's all you need and its compatible with all browsers.
Thanks me later.
For an inline style I used this code:
<div style="border-left:1px black solid; position:absolute; left:50%; height:300px;" />
and that positioned it directly in the center.
I needed an inline vertical line, so I tricked a button into becoming a line.
<button type="button" class="v_line">l</button>
.v_line {
width: 0px;
padding: .5em .5px;
background-color: black;
margin: 0px; 4px;
}
I think it is a simple way not do to anything more You can change border left or right according to your need
.vertical-line{
border-left:1px solid #000
}
<span class="vertical-line"></span
You can also use the HTML symbol | which renders as '|'
To make the vertical line to center in the middle use:
position: absolute;
left: 50%;
Ok, I had a simple layout problem a week or two ago. Namely sections of a page needed a header:
+---------------------------------------------------------+
| Title Button |
+---------------------------------------------------------+
Pretty simple stuff. Thing is table hatred seems to have taken over in the Web world, which I was reminded of when I asked Why use definition lists (DL,DD,DT) tags for HTML forms instead of tables? Now the general topic of tables vs divs/CSS has previously been discussed, for example:
DIV vs Table; and
Tables instead of DIVs.
So this isn't intended to be a general discussion about CSS vs tables for layout. This is simply the solution to one problem. I tried various solutions to the above using CSS including:
Float right for the button or a div containing the button;
Position relative for the button; and
Position relative+absolute.
None of these solutions were satisfactory for different reasons. For example the relative positioning resulted in a z-index issue where my dropdown menu appeared under the content.
So I ended up going back to:
<style type="text/css">
.group-header { background-color: yellow; width: 100%; }
.group-header td { padding: 8px; }
.group-title { text-align: left; font-weight: bold; }
.group-buttons { text-align: right; }
</style>
<table class="group-header">
<tr>
<td class="group-title">Title</td>
<td class="group-buttons"><input type="button" name="Button"></td>
</tr>
</table>
And it works perfectly. It's simple, as backward compatibile as it gets (that'll work probably even on IE5) and it just works. No messing about with positioning or floats.
So can anyone do the equivalent without tables?
The requirements are:
Backwards compatible: to FF2 and IE6;
Reasonably consistent: across different browsers;
Vertically centered: the button and title are of different heights; and
Flexible: allow reasonably precise control over positioning (padding and/or margin) and styling.
On a side note, I came across a couple of interesting articles today:
Why CSS should not be used for layout; and
Tables vs CSS: CSS Trolls begone
EDIT: Let me elaborate on the float issue. This sort of works:
<html>
<head>
<title>Layout</title>
<style type="text/css">
.group-header, .group-content { width: 500px; margin: 0 auto; }
.group-header { border: 1px solid red; background: yellow; overflow: hidden; }
.group-content { border: 1px solid black; background: #DDD; }
.group-title { float: left; padding: 8px; }
.group-buttons { float: right; padding: 8px; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="group-header">
<div class="group-title">This is my title</div>
<div class="group-buttons"><input type="button" value="Collapse"></div>
</div>
<div class="group-content">
<p>And it works perfectly. It's simple, as backward compatibile as it gets (that'll work probably even on IE5) and it just works. No messing about with positioning or floats.</p>
<p>So can anyone do the equivalent without tables that is backwards compatible to at least FF2 and IE6?</p>
<p>On a side note, I came across a couple of interesting articles today:</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Thanks to Ant P for the overflow: hidden part (still don't get why though). Here's where the problem comes in. Say I want the title and button to be vertically centered. This is problematic because the elements are of different height. Compare this to:
<html>
<head>
<title>Layout</title>
<style type="text/css">
.group-header, .group-content { width: 500px; margin: 0 auto; }
.group-header { border: 1px solid red; background: yellow; overflow: hidden; }
.group-content { border: 1px solid black; background: #DDD; }
.group-header td { vertical-align: middle; }
.group-title { padding: 8px; }
.group-buttons { text-align: right; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table class="group-header">
<tr>
<td class="group-title">This is my title</td>
<td class="group-buttons"><input type="button" value="Collapse"></td>
</tr>
</table>
<div class="group-content">
<p>And it works perfectly. It's simple, as backward compatibile as it gets (that'll work probably even on IE5) and it just works. No messing about with positioning or floats.</p>
<p>So can anyone do the equivalent without tables that is backwards compatible to at least FF2 and IE6?</p>
<p>On a side note, I came across a couple of interesting articles today:</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
which works perfectly.
There is nothing wrong with using the tools that are available to you to do the job quickly and correctly.
In this case a table worked perfectly.
I personally would have used a table for this.
I think nested tables should be avoided, things can get messy.
Just float left and right and set to clear both and you're done. No need for tables.
Edit: I know that I got a lot of upvotes for this, and I believed I was right. But there are cases where you simply need to have tables. You can try doing everything with CSS and it will work in modern browsers, but if you wish to support older ones... Not to repeat myself, here the related stack overflow thread and rant on my blog.
Edit2: Since older browsers are not that interesting anymore, I'm using Twitter bootstrap for new projects. It's great for most layout needs and does using CSS.
Float title left, float button right, and (here's the part I never knew until recently) - make the container of them both {overflow:hidden}.
That should avoid the z-index problem, anyway. If it doesn't work, and you really need the IE5 support, go ahead and use the table.
This is kind of a trick question: it looks terribly simple until you get to
Say I want the title and button to be vertically centered.
I want to state for the record that yes, vertical centring is difficult in CSS. When people post, and it seems endless on SO, "can you do X in CSS" the answer is almost always "yes" and their whinging seems unjustified. In this case, yes, that one particular thing is hard.
Someone should just edit the entire question down to "is vertical centring problematic in CSS?".
In pure CSS, a working answer will one day be to just use "display:table-cell". Unfortunately that doesn't work across current A-grade browsers, so for all that you might as well use a table if you just want to achieve the same result anyway. At least you'll be sure it works far enough into the past.
Honestly, just use a table if it's easier. It won't hurt.
If the semantics and accessibility of the table element really matter to you, there is a working draft for making your table non-semantic:
http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/#presentation
I think this requires a special DTD beyond XHTML 1.1, which would just stir up the whole text/html vs application/xml debate, so let's not go there.
So, on to your unresolved CSS problem...
To vertically align two elements on their center: it can be done a few different ways, with some obtuse CSS hackery.
If you can fit within the following constraints, then there is a relatively simple way:
The height of the two elements is fixed.
The height of the container is fixed.
The elements will be narrow enough not to overlap (or can be set to a fixed width).
Then you can use absolute positioning with negative margins:
.group-header { height: 50px; position: relative; }
.group-title, .group-buttons { position: absolute; top: 50%; }
# Assuming the height of .group-title is a known 34px
.group-title { left: 0; margin-top: -17px; }
# Assuming the height of .group-buttons is a known 38px
.group-buttons { right: 0; margin-top: -19px; }
But this is pointless in most situations... If you already know the height of the elements, then you can just use floats and add enough margin to position them as needed.
Here is another method which uses the text baseline to vertically align the two columns as inline blocks. The drawback here is that you need to set fixed widths for the columns to fill out the width from the left edge. Because we need to keep the elements locked to a text baseline, we can't just use float:right for the second column. (Instead, we have to make the first column wide enough to push it over.)
<html>
<head>
<title>Layout</title>
<style type="text/css">
.group-header, .group-content { width: 500px; margin: 0 auto; }
.group-header { border: 1px solid red; background: yellow; }
.valign { display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; }
.group-content { border: 1px solid black; background: #DDD; }
.group-title { padding: 8px; width: 384px; }
.group-buttons { padding: 8px; width: 84px; text-align: right; }
</style>
<!--[if lt IE 8]>
<style type="text/css">
.valign { display: inline; margin-top: -2px; padding-top: 1px; }
</style>
<![endif]-->
</head>
<body>
<div class="group-header">
<div class="valign">
<div class="group-title">This is my title.</div>
</div><!-- avoid whitespace between these! --><div class="valign">
<div class="group-buttons"><input type="button" value="Collapse"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="group-content">
<p>And it works perfectly, but mind the hacks.</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
The HTML: We add .valign wrappers around each column. (Give them a more "semantic" name if it makes you happier.) These need to be kept without whitespace in between or else text spaces will push them apart. (I know it sucks, but that's what you get for being "pure" with the markup and separating it from the presentation layer... Ha!)
The CSS: We use vertical-align:middle to line up the blocks to the text baseline of the group-header element. The different heights of each block will stay vertically centered and push out the height of their container. The widths of the elements need to be calculated to fit the width. Here, they are 400 and 100, minus their horizontal padding.
The IE fixes: Internet Explorer only displays inline-block for natively-inline elements (e.g. span, not div). But, if we give the div hasLayout and then display it inline, it will behave just like inline-block. The margin adjustment is to fix a 1px gap at the top (try adding background colors to the .group-title to see).
I would recommend not using a table in this instance, because that is not tabular data; it's purely presentational to have the button located at the far right. This is what I'd do to duplicate your table structure (change to a different H# to suit where you are in your site's hierarchy):
<style>
.group-header { background: yellow; zoom: 1; padding: 8px; }
.group-header:after { content: "."; display: block; height: 0; clear: both; visibility: hidden; }
/* set width appropriately to allow room for button */
.group-header h3 { float: left; width: 300px; }
/* set line-height or margins to align with h3 baseline or middle */
.group-header input { float: right; }
</style>
<div class="group-header">
<h3>This is my title</h3>
<input type="button" value="Collapse"/>
</div>
If you want true vertical alignment in the middle (ie, if the text wraps the button is still middle-aligned with respect to both lines of text), then you either need to do a table or work something with position: absolute and margins. You can add position: relative to your drop-down menu (or more likely its parent) in order to pull it into the same ordering level as the buttons, allowing you to bump it above them with z-index, if it comes to that.
Note that you don't need width: 100% on the div because it's a block-level element, and zoom: 1 makes the div behave like it has a clearfix in IE (other browsers pick up the actual clearfix). You also don't need all those extraneous classes if you're targeting things a bit more specifically, although you might need a wrapper div or span on the button to make positioning easier.
Do a double float in a div and use the clearfix. http://www.webtoolkit.info/css-clearfix.html Do you have any padding/margin restrictions?
<div class="clearfix">
<div style="float:left">Title</div>
<input type="button" value="Button" style="float:right" />
</div>
<div class="group-header">
<input type="button" name="Button" value="Button" style="float:right" />
<span>Title</span>
</div>
I've chose to use Flexbox, because it made things so much easier.
You basically need to go to the parent of the children you want to align and add display:box (prefixed of course). To make them sit in the sides, use justify-content. Space between is the right thing when you have elements which need to be aligned to the end, like in this case (see link)...
Then the vertical align issue. Because I made the parent of the two elements, you want to align a Flexbox. It's easy now to use align-items: center.
Then I added the styles you wanted before, removed the float from the title and button in the header and added a padding:
.group-header, .group-content {
width: 500px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
.group-header{
border: 1px solid red;
background: yellow;
overflow: hidden;
display: -webkit-box;
display: -moz-box;
display: box;
display: -webkit-flex;
display: -moz-flex;
display: -ms-flexbox;
display: flex;
-webkit-justify-content: space-between;
-moz-justify-content: space-between;
-ms-justify-content: space-between;
-o-justify-content: space-between;
justify-content: space-between;
webkit-align-items: center;
-moz-align-items: center;
-ms-align-items: center;
-o-align-items: center;
align-items: center;
padding: 8px 0;
}
.group-content{
border: 1px solid black;
background: #DDD;
}
.group-title {
padding-left: 8px;
}
.group-buttons {
padding-right: 8px
}
See Demo
I agree that one should really only use tables for tabular data, for the simple reason that tables don't show until they're finished loading (no matter how fast that is; it's slower that the CSS method). I do, however, feel that this is the simplest and most elegant solution:
<html>
<head>
<title>stack header</title>
<style type="text/css">
#stackheader {
background-color: #666;
color: #FFF;
width: 410px;
height: 50px;
}
#title {
color: #FFF;
float: left;
padding: 15px 0 0 15px;
}
#button {
color: #FFF;
float: right;
padding: 15px 15px 0 0;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="stackheader">
<div id="title">Title</div>
<div id="button">Button</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
The button function and any extra detail can be styled from this basic form. Apologies for the bad tags.