I'm having an issue where a div is not butting up to the very top of the page. I tried to solve this by adding
position:absolute;
top:0px;
which put it at the top like I wanted but it also went to the left of the page. I want it to be centered in the page which works if I use auto left and right margins without position:absolute.
Is there any way to have auto margins AND position it at the very top of the page?
I think you have to set left and right (or maybe only left) to 50%
left:50%;
right:50%;
Not an answer to your question, but this sounds like a hacky solution. Don't use position: absolute to solve spacing issues - it has too many other consequences, some of which we can't even see that become apparent on smaller resolutions and such.
Better use Firebug or a similar tool to find out what is causing the space, and fix the reason. It's annoying, but really worth the time.
If you really need to do this, one solution might be to put the position: absolute on a div that spans across the whole screen (width: 100%) and put the real div in there - presumably with the correct margins. (I can't build a test case right now so I can't guarantee 100% that this will work.)
position: absolute takes elements out of the normal flow calculations, so I'm not sure whether or not you can have auto-margins.
Either way, it's generally a bad idea for something like that. My advice is to look into why it's not butting up against the top of the page with normal positioning instead.
I never get that problem because the first thing I do in all of my stylesheets is reset all margins and padding to zero and then redefine them explicitly.
In your case, this might be enough:
html, body {
margin-top: 0;
padding-top: 0;
}
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I'm having a frustrating time with HTML and CSS.
Basically, I'm trying to make a website with a layout like
Problem is, the div on the left has a massive margin, which displaces the canvas and makes happen.
I've tried all kinds of solutions of which here are some, with the problems they caused:
Setting the div's display to inline block. This made the div dissapear entirely for some reason, and made it's contents appear to the right of the canvas. (At least it moved the canvas up). I have to point out that the contents weren't actually visible. Ctrl+Shift+I said they were there`.
Changing the div to an inline component (span). Made no difference.
I tried margin: 0px;. This didn't change it at all. margin-left and margin-right to auto just centred the div and didn't move the canvas.
I tried setting manual width/height values for the div. No difference.
There are some solutions that I think are likely to work, but I am reluctant to try them.
I could make a table and add the elements into it, but I heard this is bad practice and would like to avoid it.
I could maually set the positions, but I fear that they might change across devices and resolutions.
I'm at a bit of a loss what to do. I am a beginner at HTML and layouting in general, so please excuse me if it's something really obvious I'm missing.
Thanks for any help.
It's not really "shrinking" you're after. But since I don't know what you're calling your divs and canvas, I'll give you the general solution.
-> https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_float.asp
So basically try adding this:
div, canvas {
float: left;
}
Assuming your div and canvas is a <div></div> and <canvas></canvas>, and that you haven't added a position: fixed; or position: absolute; to any of them.
Hy there. I'm macking an HTML/CSS tutorial and I'm facing some problems with positioning and those stuff. I got 3 stacked elements at my header and want them to be at the very center.
So I try something like this:
.container {
margin: 0 auto;
width: 940px;
}
at my CSS code, and add this class to those elements. It is recognizing the comands, since it moved a bit. But not the way I expected:
It remanied at the left, just a few more steps to the right. Funny part is: if I put something like
.container {
margin: auto 50% auto 50%;
width: 940px;
}
it's behavior is:
it GETS centered, but extends the screen lenght and put a scrolling bar. Why? Shoudln't both those options center my elements? What can I do to achieve my goal? I would appreciate an answer so much, since I get a lot of difficulties when trying to understand this part.
In your first example, the element is centered fine - it's just still 940 pixels wide, nearly the entire browser, thus not really far from the left edge. If you want to center its contained elements as well, just add text-align:center to it.
To see better what's happening, consider temporarily adding a background:red to the element and a lot will be clearer. It makes learning CSS tons easier to actually see the 'boxes' of the box model doing their job.
In your second example you appear to be confusing the order of values of the margin declaration. You're actually giving it a left and right margin of 50%, putting its left edge indeed right in the center. The 940 pixels width then make it stretch off to the right, still 940px wide, causing the scrollbar.
.container { text-align:center }
Give it a shot.
This would be straight forward to solve if you added your html as well.
When I made my HTNL page, it looked perfect, but all of a sudden, I've been getting this huge white space on the bottom of my page. you can see it at http://thomaswd.com/pearinc2. How do I get rid of this?! My stylesheet's at http://thomaswd.com/pearinc2/style.css
If you look at the HTML element with the class back-iphone4s you'll notice it's positioned relatively using CSS.
If you remove the position: relative portion from the CSS rules for .back-iphone4s you'll notice it appears where your white space is.
Using position: relative like this is always horrible, white space appears where the element would have been if it wasn't positioned relatively.
What I would recommend is adding position: relative to the div with devices as its class, then use position: absolute; on .back-iphone4s and set it's position using that method. This way the back-iphone4s element is positioned relatively to it's parent, not relatively to where it would be in the normal document flow.
There are are a number of other ways you could solve this too, at I glance I would be very tempted to just turn those two iphones into one image, less HTML, less CSS and less images to download, but it appears you may have inteneded them to be seperate for a purpose, so maybe that's not a viable solution.
... phew, hope that makes sense, let me know if now.
I just had a quick look at your style, what I saw is technically very ugly.
You set all main elements with position:absolute and made them independent from context and content-flow. And because they are absolute, you have to give them a height - and that causes in things like that ugly white-space.
I would say you have the wrong concept of styling / structuring the page.
Try to use "position:absolute" very rare!
Give a height to the .devices class:
.devices {height: 520px;}
I'm trying to build a site that works best at fairly high resolutions, but also slides as far left as possible when the resolution gets lower.
I'm not even sure what code to copy in here, so the link is:
projects.thomasrandolph.info
What I need is for the left side of #page to stop sliding left at the right side of #logo plus a few pixels. It's 13.25em from the left of the page.
I've set the left margin of #page to 13.25em, which looks correct, but at higher resolutions, the page looks strange because it's not centered. I want to retain the centering but also stop it sliding at a certain point.
So I want the left side to go no farther left than this:
I would VASTLY prefer If I could do this with pure CSS on the two elements I've noted here, but I can add HTML as necessary.
I've been struggling for a long time with how to even ASK this question, so please ask me questions, or edit this question to improve the clarity of the question.
Update:
Here are images of how it currently looks at two resolutions:
1920
1280
Here's an image of how it should look at resolutions below approximately 1540:
Any resolution higher than ~1540 would slide smoothly to the right, as it currently does.
What I wound up doing was adding a wrapper around #page. It's not what I would want in a perfect world, but I would want min-margin in a perfect world (or at least margin: min())!
On the wrapper, I applied margin: 0 13.25em; where the 13.25em was where I wanted #page to stop sliding left. The equal margins on both sides leave #page centered without a 13.25em shift to the right. Because I used margins instead of padding, the right side can overflow the browser without causing the horizontal scrollbar to appear.
It seems to be a good fix. I had originally been looking for something more "clever" without adding HTML, but this was simple enough and seems effective enough that it appears to be well worth the extra markup.
If you don't use a border for the element you can use it to define a "min-margin".
.center
{
margin: 0px auto;
border: transparent solid 30px;
}
P.S. I know this is an old question, but the OP also commented this month.
Give exact width and height to class center. then set position to absolute: lets say we wanna set width:400px; and height:300px; try following piece of code for center
.center
{
postion:absolute;
width:400px;
height:300px;
top:50%;
left:50%;
margin-top:-200px;
margin-left:-150px;
}
I have been trying for 2 hours to get my footer to stay at the bottom.
I have been trying "Matthew James Taylors" technique, but no luck.
Anyone see what I am missing or doing wrong?
Here is a Live Example : http://glustik.com/essex/index.html
Any help would be GREAT!
I would attached the CSS Code with the { } but it always breaks for me.
I feel like the CSS to fix this will still be problematic, I would be tempted to rewrite the whole thing: HTML markup and CSS, otherwise I suspect there will be more trouble down the road.
Here are some things that are most likely giving you trouble:
Duplicate id values (as mentioned)
Unnecessary absolute positioning
Hard-coded height values on several divs
Unnecessary use of "clearfix" divs
Overuse of negative margins to compensate for padding on other elements (always problematic)
Minor but relevant: use of classes like floatRight, just as bad as using inline styles.
I think in general, instead of trying to control the positioning and height of everything - just let the normal content flow dictate it. Naturally, the last element in your markup (footer) should be on the bottom without all these over-thought restrictions.
Best of luck!
EDIT: Apparently I've come off as unhelpful, so I felt I should add a direct response: For a quick fix, to simply get the footer on the bottom:
Remove the height and bottom padding from #mainBody
(tested in FF4 and IE8). There will still be some padding issues within the footer, but that can be resolved in a number of ways depending on how you'd like to approach it. Once again, good luck with your project.
You have the footer positioned absolutely in #container, which is positioned relatively. therefore, its being positioned at the bottom of #container.
try moving it out of #container, or remove the relative positioning from #container
Because all of the content inside your main container (#mainBody) is floated, the container's only way to determine it's height is via the "height" property, which is set to 100px;. The footer is correctly rendering right below the 100 pixel height of the main container.
You have three options:
you can either properly clear your main container so that its height is dynamic based on its content using a clearfix like this
or you can set the height of the main container to something larger. I changed it to 700px and the footer rendered well below the main body.
or you can remove the height altogether, which will probably be the best solution in the long-run. Thanks to #Gaby aka G. Petrioli for pointing this out.
I've been doing this a long time and have never heard of this method. That doesn't make it bad, but the currently accepted version in my circles comes from Ryan Fait (http://ryanfait.com/resources/footer-stick-to-bottom-of-page/)
If you load this up in Chrome and disable the position:relative from the container it does properly glue the footer to the bottom of the page. That signals a problem to me, because it's contrary to what the tutorial says. Regardless, it accomplishes your goal.
You should take at least a look at Compass. It makes CSS so much easier. For your particular question, take a look at:
http://compass-style.org/reference/compass/layout/sticky_footer/
Make the following changes and it rendered fine in Chrome for me:
remove bottom:0; from #footer
change padding-bottom:167px; in #mainBody to the desired location (I used 455px and it looked pretty good)