Is there any way I can force a floated div to shrink instead of going to a new line?
I know I can set implicit widths on the divs but it's on a menu which might have variable amounts of items in it. I'm trying to do this while keeping the site's layout fluid if possible.
#left {
float: left;
border: 1px solid #000;
}
#right {
float: right;
border: 1px solid #000;
}
<div id="left">
<p>This div represents the logo</p>
</div>
<div id="right">
<p>When the window's width is reduced and these divs touch I want this div to shrink instead of falling to the next line.
</p>
</div>
Basically, I want #right to begin shrinking when the browser window is shrunk rather than having it drop a line first, then shrink when the window is further resized.
Have you tried experimenting with giving these two divs relative (such as a percentage) widths?
When you float without explicitly declaring a width, either fixed or relative, the dimensions will default to 'auto'. Auto will force the div to be the width of it's content. When the browser shrinks, the content will still force these boxes to that width, until it is forced to collapse by touching another element.
Using auto widths is not the best way to achieve fluidity in your layout. You'll need to specify some kind of relative dimension somewhere, otherwise this problem will be entirely unavoidable.
There are lots of resources out there which can help you achieve a more fluid layout (a lot of articles on www.alistapart.com discuss this in quite some depth).
CSS's display property, set it to inline and the div will behave like a span.
Related
I'm implementing kind of a toolbar in a responsive design. The toolbar sections are implemented as floating DIVs which go side by side with a nice gap between them. However, on lower width devices the DIVs are getting stacked vertically as there is less and less space. That's of course a good thing, but there is one little problem: they are stacking on each other without a vertical gap, or with twice as big vertical gap then it should be (wether I use padding on the container bar or margin on each toolbar section DIV). Neither of this two look too great.
The DIVs can have dynamic width, I don't know exactly on which container width they will get stacked, so I can't use some kind of width breakpoints and media queryies.
How could I style the DIVs taking the possible vertical stacking into account, so that in case of vertical stacking, there would be correct gap between them?
I only need to support modern browsers (newer Chrome, newer Firefox, IE9+).
If you can't target them with a media query (because you are uncertain when they will stack) then you have no choice but to add a top margin (or padding, depending on your needs) to them both. This will keep them in line with each other when they aren't stacked (as they will both have the same top margin/padding) and it will give a vertical space between them when they collapse.
You can even add a negative top margin to the containing element so that your top margin on your floating divs won't have any visible effect until they collapse.
.container {
margin-top: -20px;
}
.box {
border: 1px solid #000;
width: 250px;
margin-top: 20px;
float: left;
height: 100px;
}
<div class="container">
<div class="box">
</div>
<div class="box">
</div>
</div>
I have two divs. One that is floated left and one floated right. The one of the left has a width set to 18% and a min-width of 217px. I want to have the div on the right take up the remaining space, while also being able to resize to fit the window.
The problem I am having is that I can set the right div's width to 82% and to float right, which works until I make the window side too small, in which case the min-width of the left div kicks in and it stops shrinking. The right div doesn't have enough space to fit, so it is pushed down.
Here's some sample code.
HTML
<div id="div1">
stuff inside of it
</div>
<div id="div2">
stuff inside of it
</div>
CSS
#div1
{
float: left;
width: 18%;
height: 100vh;
min-width: 130px;
box-shadow: 0px .3em .2em #000;
z-index: 2;
}
#div2
{
width: 82%;
float: right;
z-index: 1;
}
So this is where I'm stuck, how should I approach fixing div2? I've tried using a table instead of divs, but a border appeared around the cells that I couldn't change and it removed my box-shadow, so I would prefer a solution without it.
Your thinking of using tables is somewhat on the right track, as table elements do actually have many properties that make them capable of such a thing, but as people are pointing out in the comments, it's no longer a valid approach to use table elements for the purposes of layout for non-tabular data.
This is why CSS implemented a set of style rules built to reflect those unique properties. You can set a container around two elements with the style display: table;, and then give it's children the style display: table-cell;
Setting the width for the right side div to 100% will ensure it always fills as much space as is available to it.
But, since table cells can't break to a new row when the content exceeds the width of the table, it will automatically adjust to fit. So when another div (the left one) has a specific min-width, the div on the right is given less space in order to keep the cells contained.
Here's an example using your code:
http://jsfiddle.net/Q5rjL/
CSS table display properties give you all the benefits of these unique elements, but without the semantic issues. They are great for complex layouts where other style display types fall short.
You can also contain floats with overflow:hidden:
#div2{
overflow:hidden;
z-index: 1;
}
The DIV will fill up the remaining space (http://jsfiddle.net/MAjwt/)
I need some help with positioning divs. The HTML structure is as follows:
<div class="container">
<div class="item">
<div class="left">
lorem lorem
</div>
<div class="right">
<p>right</p>
<p class="bottom">bottom</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
And I have the following CSS:
.container {
float: left;
padding: 15px;
width: 600px;
}
.item {
float: left;
padding: 15px;
width: 570px;
}
.left {
float: left;
padding: 40px 20px;
margin-right: 10px;
}
.right {
position: relative;
float: left;
}
.bottom {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
}
The width and height of the left div is dynamic.
What I want to achieve is:
Make the height of the right div equal to height of the left div.
Make the width of the right div fill the rest of the div with class item.
The paragraph with class bottom should be at the bottom of the right div.
Here is a simple image that represents my goal:
And a link to a JSFiddle demo.
Getting the correct position and width of .bottom appears to be the biggest hurdle for a cross-browser, CSS solution.
Options
1. Floats
As #joeellis demonstrated, the flexible widths can be achieved by floating only the left column, and applying overflow:hidden to the right column.
The position of .bottom cannot be achieved in any browser. There's no CSS solution for floated columns with equal, variable height. An absolutely positioned .bottom element must be inside the right column div, so that 100% width would give it the correct size. But since the right column won't necessarily be as tall as the left column, positioning .bottom with bottom:0 won't necessarily place it at the bottom of the container.
2. HTML tables and CSS tables
The flexible widths can be achieved by giving the left cell a width of 1px and not specifying a width for the right cell. Both cells will grow to fit the content. Any extra space will be added to the right cell alone.
If .bottom is inside the right table cell, the position can't be achieved in Firefox. Relative position has no effect in a table cell in Firefox; absolute position and 100% width would not be relative to the right table cell.
If .bottom is treated as a separate table cell in the right column, the correct heights of the right and bottom table cells cannot be achieved in any browser other than Firefox. Table cells aren't flexible in height the same way they are in width (except in Firefox).
3. CSS3 flexbox and CSS3 grids
Flexbox and grids are the promising layout tools of the near future. But flexbox isn't supported by IE9 or earlier, and grids aren't supported by any browser other than IE10. Haven't tested if either can achieve this layout, but browser support may prevent them from being an option at present.
Summary
Floats don't offer a solution for any browser.
HTML tables and CSS tables don't offer a cross-browser solution.
Flexbox doesn't offer a potential solution for IE9 or earlier (and may or may not offer a solution to other browsers).
Grids only offer a potential solution to IE10 (and may or may not offer a solution there).
Conclusion
There doesn't appear to be an adequate CSS solution at present, one that would work in enough relevant browsers, with the possible exception of flexbox (if support for IE9 and earlier isn't required).
jQuery
Here's a couple modified demos that use jQuery to force the columns to have the same height. The CSS and jQuery for both demos is the same. The HTML only differs by how much content is in the left and right column. Both demos tested fine in all browsers. The same basic approach could be used for plain JavaScript.
Taller content on the left
Taller content on the right
To keep things simple, I moved the internal padding for the left and right div to a child element (.content).
Sibling elements of same height and staying on the same row can be achieved by displaying them as table-cell and parent as display: table.
Working fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/SgubR/2/ (which also display the overflow: hidden along a floating element technique for creating a column. The latter needs a clearfix)
Table-cell in CSS uses any HTML element you want (section, div, span, li, whatever), its semantics is unrelated to table, tr and td elements used for table layout (except that the visual result is the same, that's what we want).
display: table is set on a parent
display: table-row may be used on an element in-between but if it works without it, fine
display: table-cell is set on each child
a width is set on none, some or all these "cells". Browser will adapt both to content and widths set in order to calculate their widths (and total width of parent, obviously)
table-layout: fixed will tell browsers to switch to the other table layout algorithm where they don't care about the quantity of content, only to widths set by CSS
vertical-align: top will be needed in most cases (but you may set other values, great for complex layouts)
margins aren't applied on "cells", only padding. Margins only apply on table itself. Though you still can separate "cells" with border-collapse: separate and/or border-spacing: 4px 6px
Compatibility: IE8+
Fallback for IE6/7 if needed is exactly the same as for inline-block
Longer explanations in previous answers: here and there with also the good old method of faux-columns (your design must be thought with this technique in mind)
Just add an oveflow to the right column and don't float it.
.right {
position: relative;
overflow: hidden;
}
This will make right to fill the rest of the width.
Something like this might work:
http://jsfiddle.net/PCvy9/2/
The main key of what you're looking for lines in the:
.right {
overflow: hidden;
background-color: #C82927;
}
This is due to something called the "block formatting context." Great reasoning and tutorial as to why here: http://colinaarts.com/articles/the-magic-of-overflow-hidden/#making-room-for-floats
However, their heights are not completely linked; in this example, your left side block's height would still need to be manually set (as it's a floated container)
I'm working with an HTML site which has a design that is fixed on a certain width, centered with auto as left and right margins. I'm working on an interactive script that sometimes creates a large table as output that will not fit into this width, it might be wider.
To illustrate:
<html>
<body>
<div style="margin: 10px auto; width: 300px; border: 1px blue solid;">
<div style="margin: 10px auto; width: 400px; border: 1px red solid;">
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
(http://jsfiddle.net/ALPXn/)
My question is, how can I align the inner, red div in the center, no matter if it sticks out to both sides of the blue div, without giving it an explicit negative left margin, because I don't know the final width?
I think you can do this using jquery. You can change the css dynamically, after page has been loaded you can change css.
Code will look similar to this.
var x = $('outerDiv').width();
var y = $('innerDiv').width();
$('innerDiv').css('left',-(y-x)/2);
For that, you have to give divison id's as outerDiv and innerDiv.
The problem here is that you'd have to make the child element ignore the parent's width and position for this to work. It is possible with some javascript manipulation though. By changing the css position to absolute, and centering it relative to the screen, it will effectively ignore the parent, while still technically being contained by it.
Updated link using offsetWidth: http://jsfiddle.net/g6dGE/1/
I've started to write a design for my video streaming site.
http://www.xjerk.com/new.site/ [SFW]
The content area is horizontally fluid, and the white boxes in the content area are divs that are floated left. This means they all sit next to each other nicely, and flow onto a new line when there's no room left.
However, the content area often has a blank area on the right side, where there's not enough room for another white box. I would like to get rid of this; either by making the whole container div (#container_inner) shrink to remove this space, or failing that, make the blue bar above the white boxes contract (by making #content contract) so the the right edge is in line with the white boxes.
I've tried setting the left area (#content) to inline-block, but this doesn't work since the content inside is bigger than the div width (hence the overflow onto multiple lines).
Is there any way this can be achieved, or would a fixed width design be my best bet?
PS: I hope I've explained everything well enough.
Use media queries to set break points for the blue bars size.
Have you tried setting the video_box to a % of the width?
This should remove the white-space.. Remember to change the margin to percentage too, else width could start to exceed 100%+.
For exmaple:
.video_box {
margin:1%;
width:31%
min-width:100px;
height:370px;
border-radius: 10px;
-moz-border-radius: 10px;
border: 1px solid #d0d0d0;
background-color: #ffffff;
float: left;