I created the following layout:
<div class="title" id="m1">
<div class="chkbx">something</div>
<div class="name">
Dummy #1
</div>
</div>
// .. the div above repeats several times
I'm using the folowing CSS:
div.title { border: 1px black solid; }
div.chkbx {
clear:both;
float:left;
padding:2px;
text-align:right;
width:5%;
}
div.name {
float:left;
width: 50%;
}
and would expect a border around all of class=title, but see only some strange lines at the top. Please let me know what I do wrong.
Many many thanks!
You are probably floating the content. Set overflow: hidden on the container.
http://complexspiral.com/publications/containing-floats/ explains why you get this behaviour
http://www.ejeliot.com/blog/59 lists various ways to avoid it, most of which are better than those described above, and including the overflow approach.
Try adding one more element in .title with clear: both; style.
Your .title elemnt contains only floated elements, and floated elements don't stretch their parent elements, so .title element is rendered as if it were empty.
Here you wrong cause of you missed clear side of DIVs. If you use div with float:left/right, for start new line you must use clear:both with div.
-- JUST ADD ONE DIV WITH CLEAR:BOTH;
<div class="title" id="m1">
<div class="chkbx">something</div>
<div class="name">
Dummy #1
</div>
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
</div>
Related
I was wondering if someone could explain to me why this is happening. Sorry I am new to CSS/HTML. I am working on creating and HTML layout for a basic page, currently I have three Divs. I want one container on the left (id= leftside) with 50% width and another on the right (id=rightside) with 50% width and the third container (id=narrow) below both of them at 100% width.
So currently my third div gets hidden underneath the first two unless I add the property 'top: 50%;' to that div. Can someone please explain why this is happening? I thought that since the space is already taken by my other two divs that I would not have to use the 'top' property in order for the third div to display. Why is it being hidden by the other divs?
Here is my HTML code:
<body>
<div id="leftside"></div>
<div id="rightside"> </div>
<div id="narrow"></div>
</body>
Here is my CSS code:
#leftside{
width: 50%;
height: 50%;
background-color: blue;
float:left;
}
#rightside{
width: 50%;
height: 50%;
background-color: red;
float:right;
}
#narrow{
width:100%;
height:20%;
background-color:black;
}
Whenever you do use the float for the element then don't forget to clear them.
For easier I always use overflow:hidden; to the parent div:
<div class="parent">
<div id="leftside"></div>
<div id="rightside"> </div>
<div id="narrow"></div>
</div>
.parent{overflow:hidden;}
So now, you know the key reason of hiding?
Because the first two divs have set floats so they are taken out from the "normal" flow, while the last remains the same and isn't affected by the previous two.
To be affected you can either set float also to the last element, or clear the float.
#narrow {
width:100%;
height:20%;
background-color:black;
clear: both;
}
See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/float#Clearing_floats for more info.
I always create a spacer div and use it whenever I need to clear any previous floats or coding. This is specially useful when I have a ton of divs within a parent div.
.spacer {
clear:both;
border:none;
width:100%;
}
*other divs above*
<div class="spacer"> </div>
*other divs below*
So, I have a problem, I can't seem to find a solution. I know that this is something ridiculously easy, but I'm still a noob...
Whenever I use command float:left, these 2 .con-icon and #con-info runs across to next div called #test (the one in color dark red). But I need them to stay within #contain borders.
Here's the code: http://jsfiddle.net/3eoj06b3/.
<section id="contain">
<h1>Contain</h1>
<div id="con-info">
<div class="con-icon">
<h2>1</h2>
<h2>1</h2>
<h2>1</h2>
</div>
<p>2</p>
<p>2</p>
<p>2</p>
</div>
<div id="test"></div>
</section>
CSS is in the link
What am I doing wrong?
Add this to your CSS:
#con-info:after {
content: " ";
display: block;
clear: both;
}
Just add overflow:auto; line to your #con-info class. http://jsfiddle.net/garsdubh/. This will make your parent element aware of its floated children heights.
Use overflow: hidden on #con-info. Since you have declared height: auto for #con-info you need to hide the overflow as well to have automatic height.
DEMO
#con-info {
overflow: hidden; /* This is added to your Fiddle */
position:relative;
border:2px solid #C60;
width:40%;
height:auto;
margin-left:10%;
}
I want to position a paragraph to the right of an <iframe> of a Google map.
I do not know how to show my code, so here is a screenshot of what I want:
Just use the float style. Put your google map iframe in a div class, and the paragraph in another div class, then apply the following CSS styles to those div classes(don't forget to clear the blocks after float effect, to not make the blocks trouble below them):
css
.google_map{
width:55%;
margin-right:2%;
float: left;
}
.google_map iframe{
width:100%;
}
.paragraph {
width:42%;
float: left;
}
.clearfix{
clear:both
}
html
<div class="google_map">
<iframe></iframe>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p></p>
</div>
<div class="clearfix"></div>
You have two options, either float:left or display:inline-block.
Both methods have their caveats. It seems that display:inline-block is more common nowadays, as it avoids some of the issues of floating.
Read this article http://designshack.net/articles/css/whats-the-deal-with-display-inline-block/ or this one http://www.vanseodesign.com/css/inline-blocks/ for a more in detail discussion.
You can simply use a div to make a container and display: flex; to make the content appear side-by-side like this:
.splitscreen {
display: flex;
}
.splitscreen .left,
.splitscreen .right {
flex: 1;
}
<div class="splitscreen">
<div class="left">
Content
</div>
<div class="right">
Content
</div>
</div>
None of these solutions seem to work if you increase the amount of text so it is larger than the width of the parent container, the element to the right still gets moved below the one to the left instead of remaining next to it. To fix this, you can apply this style to the left element:
position: absolute;
width: 50px;
And apply this style to the right element:
margin-left: 50px;
Just make sure that the margin-left for the right element is greater than or equal to the width of the left element. No floating or other attributes are necessary. I would suggest wrapping these elements in a div with the style:
display: inline-block;
Applying this style may not be necessary depending on surrounding elements
Fiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/2b0bqqse/
You can see the text to the right is taller than the element to the left outlined in black. If you remove the absolute positioning and margin and instead use float as others have suggested, the text to the right will drop down below the element to the left
Fiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/qrx78u20/
For your iframe give an outer div with style display:inline-block, And for your paragraph div also give display:inline-block
HTML
<div class="side">
<iframe></iframe>
</div>
<div class="side">
<p></p>
</div>
CSS
.side {
display:inline-block;
}
Use either float or inline elements:
Example JSBIN
HTML:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset=utf-8 />
<title>JS Bin</title>
</head>
<body>
<div>float example</div>
<div><div style="float:left">Floating left content</div><div>Some content</div></div>
<div>inline block example</div>
<div><div style="display:inline-block">Some content</div><div style="display:inline-block">Next content</div></div>
</body>
</html>
Like this
.block {
display: inline-block;
vertical-align:top;
}
JSFiddle Demo
You can use float:left to align div in one line.
Fiddle
You can float the elements (the map wrapper, and the paragraph),
or use inline-block on both of them.
Wrap the iframe in a class, float that left.
The paragraph with then be forced up and to the right as long as there is room for it.
Then set your paragraph to display:inline-block, and add some left margin to tidy it up.
<div class="left">
<img src="http://lorempixel.com/300/300" /> <!--placeholder for iframe-->
</div>
<p>Lorem Paragraph Text</p>
.left { float: left; }
p { display: inline-block; margin-left: 30px; }
Here's a fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/4DACH/
Put the iframe inside the <p> and make the iframe CSS
float:left;
display:inline-block;
give your boxes the class foo (or whatever) and add the css
.foo{
float: left;
}
Alright so I have
<div id='1'></div>
<div id='2'></div>
<div id='3'></div>
Only one word will go into each div. I want the width of each div to be auto
and I want to word from #2 to be in the middle of the screen using text-align: center; with the word in #1 being displayed directly to the left of #2 and the #3 directly to the right of #2.
I have been trying different css for a while, but to no effect.
Hoping someone has a simple answer.
Simply float all the divs to the left. They will display in order.
<style>
.my-dvis {
float:left;
width:33.33%;
margin:0;
padding:0;
border:none;
}
</style>
<div class="my-divs"></div>
<div class="my-divs"></div>
<div class="my-divs"></div>
text-align: center only applies to inline elements.
jsfiddle
HTML
<div class="left">1</div>
<div class="middle">2</div>
<div class="right">3</div>
CSS
body { text-align: center; }
div { display: inline-block; }
Have you tried floating id=1 to the left and floating id=3 to the right?
I suggest you to use <span> tag instead of using div tag,because div have a property of taking width 100%.
Or else if you want to use div tag then use in the following manor
<div id='1'></div>
<div id='2'></div>
<div id='3'></div>
<style>
div{
float:left;
width:33.3%;
}
</style>
I'm having a doubt in the basics of the HTML rendering. I'm having the following HTML/CSS.
http://jsfiddle.net/cgZ4C/2/
<style type="text/css">
.outer
{
background-color:#DADADA;
width:400px;
border:1px solid silver;
margin:auto;
min-height:50px;
padding:10px;
}
.content
{
float:left;
width:196px;
min-height:20px;
background-color:#BABABA;
margin:2px;
}
</style>
<div class="outer">
<div class="content">
</div>
<div class="content">
</div>
<div class="content">
</div>
<div class="content">
</div>
<div class="content">
</div>
<div class="content">
</div>
<div class="content">
</div>
<div>
Why is the outer div not growing when the inner content grows? Even I tried adding some text inside .content divs. But still the .outer div is not growing?
You need to add overflow property to your outer div and assign proper value to it like
overflow:hidden
Find what is the most suitable for your need here
Here is the possible code change you need:
.outer
{
background-color:#DADADA;
width:400px;
border:1px solid silver;
margin:auto;
min-height:50px;
padding:10px;
overflow:hidden;
}
CLEAR YOUR FLOATS! Always :-)
Add overflow:auto; like in this code: http://jsfiddle.net/cgZ4C/3/
Many CSS frameworks these days use a class clearfix . That has become the de facto standard. Twitter bootstrap uses it as well. What we need to do is just add a class clearfix to the outer div and you'll be done :)
Although Clearing floats is the correct way to go, sometimes, there is another way you can do this:
float your outer div too!!!
.outer {
float: left;
}
This way, the outer will respect the floated children and expand, but you'll need to float the parent div of outer too, and so on, until there is a ancestor div which is cleared/<body> is encountered.
All floats are like bro's so go along with each other much better than non-floated non-cleared divs.
:)
Add attribute overflow: hidden to the .outer style.
It doesn't grow because all of your content within the parent is floated. When an element is floated, it is no longer taken into consideration by the parent when it calculates it's total size. Since every element is floated, as far as the parent is concerned there is no content, so it doesn't resize.
Your code looks like a table so, with display:table (source) the element will behave like a table element.
http://jsfiddle.net/eWwtp/
.outer
{
background-color:#DADADA;
width:400px;
border:1px solid silver;
margin:auto;
min-height:50px;
padding:10px;
display:table
}
Another solution, that avoid these issues:
But with overflow hidden, more issues can arise where items outside of that div are hidden, or cut off (usually with menus etc).
http://jsfiddle.net/4LqaK/
Add:
<div class="clear"></div>
.clear{clear:both}