I floated 3 images in divs in the middle of a long section of text. I want to float them so the site keeps it's 'liquid' design, adapting to any width browser window. But if text starts wrapping to the left of them on wide Windows, it looks bad. I'd like them to float, but still be able to clear text around them so they look like a block element. How can I do that?
I thought maybe of sticking in a 100% width div right after the image divs, that's 1px high, and filled with a 1px image that's just the background color. Will that work?
http://www.briligg.com/frailty.html
The images in question are the ones at the beginning of the 'the cause of addiction is stress' section. Line 134 to 146, references the internal style sheet.
Put a clear: left on your section of text following the images.
That appears to be your div with class text though I don't know if you would want to universally apply the clear to all the divs with that class.
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I have a responsive design that mostly works. Images are in their own DIV, and that div is floated left or right. Captions for the images are in the div, so they stay with the image. By default image div width is set to 30%
If I put sufficient text between successive divs I get a pleasing display, with the text wrapping around the image.
If the images are too close, however they stack, and I end up with 2 images floating next to each other, and a tiny column of text.
The use of "clear" eliminates the text too.
Is there a way to float a div so that:
Text flows around it.
A second image does not stack adjacent to it even if there is nominally room for it.
In essence I want to float an image, but ensure that it is flush to the left margin, and not be on top of something else.
At this point my process is to try each page at multiple effective widths, and add more text/move the div as needed. This is fairly time consuming. I expect with a bit of time I will find out that I need X words between DIVS,
In some cases, I will stack multiple images within a single DIV. This works well for related images.
Example of a page with the issue about 3/4 of the way down the page.:
http://sherwoods-forests.com/Trees/Leaf_Trees/Poplars/Columnar_Poplars.html
CSS file for the site:
http://sherwoods-forests.com/2col.css
Put the floated image DIVs into the text container, not as a sibling to the text container. That way the text should float around it and won't be affected by a clear in one of the image DIVs.
If that doesn't work, you'll have to post your code - this general answer is all I can give you without the actual code...
I'm trying to vertically align some text in a div by setting the line height equal to the div height. This works just fine when there's just text in the div, and also when there's a small image in the div. But for some reason, when there's an image beyond a certain size in the div, it starts pushing the text downward. Check out this fiddle I made to demonstrate it.
In the fiddle are 4 divs that all have height: 40px and line-height:40px. The only difference is the the 2nd, 3rd & 4th divs also have images of size small, medium and large:
.small{height:20px;}
.medium{height:30px;}
.large{height:40px;}
So why are the third fourth images messing up the vertical alignment?
You need to add vertical-align: middle to your img tag, because it's not inline element, its inline-block element.
See updated Fiddle
Note that your vertical alignment method will not work when your text will be more than 1 row. Use for alignments flexbox, there are really good things :)
There a small space below every image. By default, an image is rendered inline (actually it's inline-block), like a letter. It sits on the same line that other letters sit on. There is space below that line for the descenders you find on letters like j, p and q.
You can adjust the vertical-align of the image to position it elsewhere. In this case vertical-align: middle; would be fine.
This answer describes the issue in details: Mystery white space underneath image tag
Vertical align is one of those things they never got quite right - try googling some articles around it.
My instant reaction here is to try vertical-align:middle on each of your images - but no guarantees - I've always had to experiment and you may get varying results from different browsers.
The only all-browser answer I've found is to create a 2-column table (maybe within the div box, but not necessarily) and put text in one cell (text is automatically vertically centred in table cells) then put the matching image in the next cell (which will automatically expand to the height of the image).
Aren't tables brilliant? (some people don't think so...)
I'm looking for a HTML/CSS solution to a problem we've encountered on a site we're building.
I am happy to implement a JavaScript based solution if I need to, but I'd prefer it was handled natively.
We have content managed text which needs to sit inside a designated area but wrap if it exceeds the available width.
Behind the text is a background colour with opacity.
When the text is short, due to the float, the container collapses to the width of the text.
When the text is long, and a wrap occurs, the container hangs out at the maximum width, even though the text inside has wrapped underneath, so there's a small section of background colour on the right side (which isn't big enough for the wrapped word)
I want the container to collapse to the edge of the previous word so it doesn't "look like" there is space for the wrapped word, when it is very close.
HTML
<div>
<p>Crack the Shutters Open Wide for Parkside Paradise</p>
</div>
CSS
body div {
background-color: #AAFF3B;
max-width:80%;
padding:20px;
display:inline-block;
float:left;
}
body p {
display:inline-block;
background-color: #FFAA3B;
position: relative;
float:left;
white-space:pre-line;
clear:left;
}
Here is a JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/nmuot8bm/3/
If you look at the 3rd example, you can see a small amount of padding on the right hand side of the orange box, where the word porttitor has wrapped underneath to a new line but the orange container still sits at the maximum width, despite the float.
If line breaks are introduced by the content editors (e.g. between vestibulum and porttitor as per example 4) then the container collapses correctly.
What I think is happening is the container grows before the text wraps and the browser doesn't recompute the width after wrapping?
Here's a picture of my test case shown in the JSFiddle:
Here is a picture of the fault on the staging site (before separated out to a JSFiddle):
You can see that the text has wrapped, but the container has not collapsed, leaving a big gap of background colour.
n.b. We can emulate this by doing text-align:justify but then the spacing between the words is not consistent with the rest of the text on the site.
edit: I see that this question may be a duplicate. I swear I did research before I posted!
max-width adjusts to fit text?
CSS Width / Max-Width on Line Wrap?
Wrapping text forces containing element to max-width
Shrink DIV to text that's wrapped to its max-width?
I think that the general consensus/conclusion is that it is not possible without bleeding edge CSS and I should use a JavaScript solution.
I have added a few more examples to my JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/nmuot8bm/6/
including the JavaScript solution from here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/33246364/647728
Not possible with CSS...that's the way the inline box model works
JS example/solution can be found on the JSFiddle
If the problem is floated elements collapsing the parent container, there are many solutions; the easiest among them being adding overflow: hidden or display: table to the parent (the thing collapsing). Also be aware that inline-block and floated elements are essentially redundant.
Simple question: I need an image to appear in the middle of a paragraph of text, however, the image is slightly larger than the height of each line of the font, so it pushes open a horizontal "gap" in the text to make room for itself. To fix this, I could:
1) Shrink the image, so that it is not larger than the font.
2) Use Position:Absolute
But I don't want to shrink it any further, it is small enough already to "technically fit" between each line of text, except that it would need to use up a few pixels of the white area above and below the line of text it is in.
And I can't use position:absolute, because then the image's position would be in the top left corner of the window, instead of in the paragraph where I want it.
I thought perhaps I could put a dummy "placeholder" image of size 1 pixels into the paragraph. Then, use Position:Absolute on my real image, and continually set my real image to be at the same location where the dummy image is. I haven't researched to see if that is possible, but it seems a bit excessive for such a simple thing. Is there an easier way?
EDIT: I found that adding: margin:-20px; to the image's style works!!!
margin:-20px;
JSFiddle example: http://jsfiddle.net/j7tLX/3/
Images are block level elements if you want them to appear inline with the paragraphs. Do this.
img {
display: inline;
}
You can use vertical-align: top
http://jsfiddle.net/j7tLX/4/
See http://css-tricks.com/what-is-vertical-align/
black is the browser window in the image bellow.
I want to accomplish the image in the right
I have a div which is centered (blue) and has a fixed width
I have a div which is inside (red)
I want the red div to span from one side of the screen to the other while still aligning all else in the center.
How should I do this?
Should I break it in 3 divs(first fixed and centered, the second to span all width, the third like the first)
Here's an example of how to do it if you want the red div on top. If it's behind the blue, then put it first in the markup and you don't need the third div: http://jsfiddle.net/mGnpr/2/
Well, you answered your own question. I suggest you break it in 3 divs. Seeing how HTML elements function, it's pretty hard to 3-dimensionally stack them ( and making it look good :).
Write two classes in your CSS file: one with the fixed width and second with the "100%" width. Use the first class for top and bottom divs, the latter class for the middle div.