I am making a site in HTML, and I am putting a heading on top of an object. When I shrink the window enough, the object and the text interfere
Is there any way I can have the text just stay in one spot without it wrapping to the browser window if there is no space left in the browser?
I have tried using fixed as a position property in CSS, but the same thing happened.
If you set an explicit width on the containing object (perhaps a <div> tag) it will not resize with the window. When the window becomes too small, it will not wrap around like you mentioned but force a scroll bar to appear.
I'm not sure what you mean by ending lines. If you're talking about wrapping, have you considered a fixed size DIV with overflow:hidden as a CSS rule?
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So, I'm working on coding my first site. It's a lot of googling for hours, then putting down the code, but I'm struggling through it, and enjoying it. However, I have a problem I've been unable to solve.
I am trying to get a div that fills the whole page by default, but that also expands when text goes past the "100%" height. I've tried using the two seperate divs to accomplish it, and it's worked. However, I am trying to use a semi-transparent div, meaning I can't stack two on top of each other, or else part of it (the "height:100%") becomes solid, while the other part (the div that expands to fit the text) is still semitransparent. Is there any way to make a div fill the remainder of the page from the point it starts? So that that way it could fill from the bottom of the 100% height to the rest of where the text fits? I would just space it using a margin-top characteristic, but the pages need to be elastic and be able to grow with the content. Sorry if this doesn't make sense.. It's hard for me to explain it without examples and being able to point. Haha.
I believe the CSS property you would want to use in this instance is min-height. If you give an element a min-height, even if the content is smaller than the min-height, it will render at that value. If the content is larger than the min-height, then it will expand to fit the size of the content.
Is there a way to make an element not contribute to parent overflow, but keep it visible? Let me clarify
There is a watermark-like logo to be applied to a page in the manner below. It is supposed to be positioned partly outside the main content (dashed blue line)
I'm not aware of the option to set an element background in such a manner that it would persist as the browser window is resized horizontally, so I've just added a <div> with the logo as its background and position:absolute with the necessary offset relative to main content container.
Previously, the page would not get a horizontal scrollbar as long as the browser was wider than W1. Now, with an additional "watermark" element added outside of the main content box, the scrollbar would appear whenever the browser is narrower than W2
Is there something obvious I'm missing? A background setting, or possibly a neat margin workaround/
Update:
I've added a rough jsfiddle to illustrate the issue
Unfortunately, just because you nested the "watermark" div and positioned it absolutely doesn't make it outside of the document. If you put it outside of the document, the page will scroll (as you see).
To me, the first solution I think of is to move the watermark outside of the "content" div and apply the watermark to its parent container. I'm guessing you haven't done that because you need it to be relative to the "content" div, but it's something to try.
Also, the reason it scrolls is because the document has been overflow. The quick fix, yet not recommended, is to use "overflow-x: hidden;" on the parent container of the "content" div.
It's harder to give you a solution since you've stripped the rest of your HTML, and some "fixes" may not be as applicable if your structure is complicated in certain ways.
Remember that the width of your elements is greater than the actual "width" it includes padding & margins, if you have padding on your div reduce the "width" by the equivalent amount.
does that make sense? if you post the actual css & html it might be easier to give you a more detailed answer
additionally could you not assign the image as the background of the actual body element and set it to centered?
I've had a play with the code and come up with a possible solution for you.
set
body{overflow-x:hidden;}
then add
#media all and (max-width: 400px)
{
body{overflow-x:auto; }
}
as soon as your screen is smaller than 400px (the width of the div) your overflow:hidden will be overridden and you'll be given you scroll bars.
at this point you may also want to reduce the width of your watermark.
I'm working on a jquery slider, except instead of using a fixed-width container, I'm using the whole browser window. I've got jQuery set up to fix the margins to make sure it's centered correctly (although I just made them 500 pixels in the demo to keep it simple), but the problem is when I try to add more divs, it puts them on a second line instead of putting them beyond the edge of the browser. Here is my code: http://jsfiddle.net/JsPZT/
Eventually, I'll change the overflow so that they are hidden when they are beyond the edge of the browser, but for now, I just want to know that they are on the same line and not being pushed onto the second.
So my question is what should I change in the CSS to make sure the divs are always on the same line, even if it means pushing them beyond the edge of the window?
To get divs to stay on the same line when they are off of the screen, you have several options. Here's what I can think of off the top of my head.
Make the parent container always large enough to hold the divs you want to float. Theoretically, they shouldn't jump down to the next line that way, but I haven't tried it myself.
Another option is to use a combination of display:table and display:table-cell on the parent and children divs respectively. You just have to make sure you are supporting the browsers you want to support.
My last idea is to set each div with position:absolute. Then, just adjust the left attribute to 100% * x to place the div off the screen to the left or right. Depending on what you are trying to do, when they are off the viewable area you could just leave them at left:-100% or 100%. The same should work for the top attribute if you want the div to be off the screen above or below the viewable area.
Try white-space: nowrap;
If that doesn't work, you will probably need an inner div with a width that's the sum of all contained divs.
You need to add a width to your #track CSS. That is your wrapper, and without a width on that, the items will just overflow and drop to the next line. You'll probably have to add another div to set the overflow and get everything positioned correctly.
What I want to do is have a way to horizontally scroll through the icons on the top bar. No matter how I try to implement overflow I cannot get it to work. Here is a link to the page. Link no longer exists.
Note: that the scrollbar shall not cover the background image at all. It should be immediately below.
You need to set the width of that header div to be wider (width:2000px;). If you want a dynamic width (you dont know how many boxes will be in there) then you'll have to calculate the width with javascript (or serverside code like PHP).
Giving the .browser div a width of 2000px does the trick... then adjust the height of your divs to be tall enough to show the whole icon and name.
Let me know if that makes sense...
Here is my site, first of all.
You'll notice that underneath the divider bar in the middle of the page, there are three columns, one with a form, one with text, one with links.
Now, resize the window to slightly smaller, and the right div will drop down to the next line.
Is there anyway to just not display that? So, the divs will adjust (I have a liquid layout) up to the point where they won't fit, then, instead of wrapping the div down to the next line, it just won't be displayed?
You can also achieve that with CSS only.
Just assign the following CSS attributes to #row4:
#row4 {
min-width:1202px; /* the exact value depends on the sum of the width of your 3 column boxes */
overflow:hidden;
}
This differs slightly from your intended solution, since the right box will stay partly visible when sizing down the window and will not immediately disappear completely.
Please be aware that min-width won't work in IE6. However, there are several ways to emulate the min-width property, if you need to support old IEs:
http://www.thecssninja.com/xhtml/ie6-min-width-solutions
You can give them a wrapper div with a min-width set and force it to use a horizontal scrollbar if it gets too small. The nice thing about a wrapper div is you can give it a max-width as well and keep things from getting wonky on super huge monitors.
I'm not a fan of horizontal scrollbars, but it beats completely removing content.
Ok here is what you should do
Wrap all three floated division on a parent div, something like this
<div id="parent">
<div class="form">......</div>
<div class="text">......</div>
<div class="links">.....</div>
</div>
Now to solve your problem give a fixed height to the parent div like
#parent { height:400px;clear:both; }
You would have to use Javascript to get the width of the viewport, then change the display property of the div that is wrapping to display:none so that it doesn't show up when the browser width is too small.