This is what I am trying to do :
HTML
<div class="container">
<div id="one" class="child">One</div>
<div id="two" class="child">Two</div>
<div id="three" class="child">Three</div>
<div id="four" class="child">Four</div>
</div>
CSS
<style type="text/css">
.container{
height:40px;
width:500px;
}
.class{
float:left;
/*...*/
}
</style>
The child divs should fill the container div how big or small it has its width. They can get big according to the container automatically.
|<---One----><---Two---><-Three-><--Four-->|
How can I do it with css?
Thanks in advance.
I've set up a test site to make sure this works:
First, you'll need to keep float to "left" to keep everything on the same row. Next, set width to "25%", to space out the elements. Finally, set text-align to "center" to center the elements, as in your diagram. Remember, if you change the number of elements, you'll need to modify the "25%" to a value that evenly spaces out the elements. (Use 100 / numElements).
.child {
float: left;
width: 25%;
text-align: center;
}
Does anyone know a way to do this without using width percentages, so that it will auto-spread the elements if they are removed or added?
You can set the .child width to 25%, like this:
.child { width 25%; }
You can test it out/play with it here.
Total width is 500 so each child div should be 125px wide. You got the right idea using the float:left;
The solutions that have been given to you are correct. Just be careful if you have margins/borders/paddings in the inner divs, because in that case the 25% would break the layout (margin, borders and paddings are not included in the percentage).
Related
I'd like a table created with DIV, this table has 2 fixed columns (that it's ok) but the both columns must have all the time the same height.
The code can be find here : Code on Fiddle
The code :
<style type="text/css">
#container
{
position:relative;
width:100%;
margin:0 auto;
}
#header {
background-color:#5a7fa9;
}
#center {
overflow:hidden;
width:100%;
}
#left {
float:left;
width:200px;
background-color:Gray;
}
#content {
margin-left:200px;
background-color:#a9bbd1;
}
#footer {
background-color:#95adc9;
}
</style>
<div id="container">
<div id="header">header</div>
<div id="center">
<div id="left">left</div>
<div id="content">content<br/><br/></div>
</div>
<div id="footer">footer</div>
</div>
ther is an example
http://jsfiddle.net/amkrtchyan/dLeWA/9/
Hi i would like to explain the answer given by Howdy_McGee ..
Add min-height: 100px to #center
Add height: 100% to #left
Add height: 100% to content
he explained the above change which is completely correct.
Seeing your code in jiddle you havent wrote height anywhere in your css style. Therefore all your containers will take height:auto as per the content into it.
you have a div with id='center' this div should have some min-height:100px; and both the inner container should have height:100% by this your elements inside the center div will take height of their parent.
I had preferred you to give the min-height:100px because incase you are putting in dynamic content inside your inner boxes height should increase automatically, therefore if you do not have any content into your div height will stick to 100px.
Hope my explanation makes sense because i am in a bit hurry to type.
You can use this dirty hack (only adding this css):
#center > div {
margin-bottom: -2000px;
padding-bottom: 2000px;
}
Also see your updated example.
=== UPDATE ===
I'll try to explain it:
The padding-bottom uses the background-color. It has to be a heigh value (the minimum different height between the lowest and heighest column). So each column in the center-div add the background-color at the bottom. The negative margin-bottom sets the height back to it's real height. (The entire content is also be visible, even if the minimum height isn't large enough.)
Instead of defining a fixed width of a div, I want to specify a minimum width (if the content is very less), and a maximum width (if the content is more, hide the extra content).
For example, my html is:
<div class="container">
<div class="test">x</div>
</div>
CSS:
.container{
padding:10px;
border:1px solid red;
width:200px;
text-align:center;
}
.test{
border:1px solid green;
}
As you can see, the container has the fixed width of 200px. I want to place the test div in the center of container. Since there is only a single letter in the test class, so I want that the test class should be minimum 50px, but maximum 100px.
I've tried min-width and max-width, but couldn't make it work. Here is the jsfiddle link.
Thanks for any help.
The issue is that <div> are block level elements which do not auto-resize to fit their content. What you can do is, make your div behave like table-cell which do have resizing ability and set min-width and max-width to it.
.test {
min-width: 200px;
max-width:1000px;
display: table-cell;
word-wrap: break-word;
word-break: break-all;
}
Here you go!
By using the margin:0 auto; you can get it centralised :) (Just remove it if you dont want it centered)
http://jsfiddle.net/SnhhK/4/
Using min and max-width on the ,test element worked for me.
http://jsfiddle.net/Kyle_Sevenoaks/SnhhK/1/
I have two <div> elements, one next to the other. Both have the CSS attribute display: inline-block;. Now the second <div> element has a fixed width of 100 px, whereas the first <div> element doesn't have a fixed width: it depends on the size of the window.
My problem is that the first <div> element will spread over 100% vertically if the window is narrow. I would like to restrict its width to 100% minus 100px, so that both <div> elements can align one next to the other at all times.
I've looked at posts with similar questions, but none really dealt with the case of inline-block.
EDIT: Here is a jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/y3sXu/ I want the first <div> to provide some room for the second <div> on the same line.
There's no particular reason to use display: inline-block to do this.
Here's a clean implementation using floats instead: http://jsfiddle.net/y3sXu/14/
<div id="container">
<div id="DivB">b</div>
<div id="DivA">a</div>
</div>
#container {
overflow: hidden;
}
#DivA {
overflow: hidden;
}
#DivB {
float: right;
width: 100px;
}
This is an old question but has some weight in Google so I thought I'd update it with a new answer. A more modern way to accomplish this is to stick with display:inline-block; and use calc for the width of the variable element.
So long as you have one fixed width inline element width: 150px, you can offset the variable width element by the fixed width calc(100% - 150px).
Your code should look like this:
.fixed-width-element {
display: inline-block;
width: 150px;
}
.variable-width-element {
display: inline-block;
width: calc(100% - 150px);
}
I think I understand what you are asking for. http://jsfiddle.net/y3sXu/6/
I have gone for a traditional two column layout, as it seems like the best way to solve your problem.
float has been used to ensure that the right hand div always sits on the right, and margin-left to keep the left div away. overflow:hidden is used a cheap and cheerful clearfix.
best way I can figure doing it is with absolute positioning:
div#TextB{
position:absolute;
right:10px;
top:10px;
}
div#master{
margin-right:120px;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/Vnxr7/1
There is one very ugly solution:
Set the overflow of the outer div to hidden, take the div out of the dom using position:relative, setting the left to -100px and the width to 100%.
You have to play around with the display, position and left/top etc. or get back with some more details so one could know what you want to achieve.
what about this ?
div {
background:green;
margin-right:100px;
}
#TextB{
width:100px;
background:red;
float:right;
margin:0px;
}
Updated version
Just give the outer div a padding of 50px on both left and right side
EDIT
Place this where u want to put the gap:
<div width="100px" height="1em"> <div>
<style>
.header {
float:left;
width:50%;
border:1px solid black;
}
</style>
<div style="width:100%;">
<div class="header">Hello</div>
<div class="header">World</div>
</div>
I want the two inner divs to appear beside each other fitting perfectly inside the parent. This happens when there is no border set on them, but when I do set a border, the second div wraps and appears below. How do I avoid that?
The reason this happens is because 50% x 2 is already 100%. The 2 px borders make the width 100% + 4 px. To undo this, use negative margins of 1px on either sides.
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/rfSMX/1/
You may run into the 100% combined width issue in IE.
Essentially, what is happening is that your div's are sized 50% + 2 pixels (one for each border) wide. Because (50% + 2 pixels) * 2 is wider than your 100% container, it forces the floats to wrap.
Applying a -1 pixel margin to the left and right sides of your .header div's should do the trick.
Add an extra div inside the divs that need a border called header-inner.
<style>
.header {
float:left;
width:50%;
}
.header-inner {
padding: 10px;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
}
</style>
<div style="width:100%;">
<div class="header"><div class="header-inner">
Hello
</div></div>
<div class="header"><div class="header-inner">
World
</div></div>
</div>
This could work:
because you don't need to float the second div it should fill up any space that is left after the first div. This allows you to add a border and still have them flush side-by-side
This is what I'm trying to do:
Example http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/5761/cssautowidth.th.jpg
(Larger image.)
When the <nav> element is present in the design, I want it to look like the example below. Is it possible to do this while the #content div has got a percentage value set? I'm just curious to see whether this is possible without using two different styles for the #content (both with different width values.)
Just floating doesn't seem to do it.
The reason I want the #content to have a percentage value in the first example is because I have a background image in #body that creates the illusion of an outer glow.
Edit: I just removed the need for using the width percentage by using margins instead.
Check the example here: http://css.maxdesign.com.au/floatutorial/tutorial0816.htm
What you should do is to set float:right and width on your <nav> element, and leave #content without any float or width, just set margin. This way content will try to occupy all given space and wont 'fall' into navigation.
Then, if you hide <nav> element, content will automatically resize (but also you will need to remove padding from the right).
This is example code:
<style type="text/css">
#container { width:700px; margin:0 auto; border:1px solid #000; }
#nav { display:none; }
.double #nav { width:10%; float:right; display:block; }
#content { margin-right:10%; border-right:1px solid #000; }
</style>
<div id="container" class="double">
<div id="nav">nav content</div>
<div id="content">page content</div>
</div>
Now, if you removed class="double" from container element you will see content is correctly resized to take 90% of given space. If you want to take 100% - just add .double before #content in style.