I have an element in a div, which has a background image. Below the div I have another div with another background image. Now the problem is that if the last element contained in the first div has margin-bottom applied there will be a gap between the 2 divs like this:
Screenshot http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/5603/littlesnapperh.png
Notice the gray gap caused by the margin-bottom property of the h2 element contained within the first div. I know this can be solved if I switch margin-bottom to padding-bottom but what if I need margin-bottom?
How to fix this?
This is a feature known as collapsing margins. See: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/box.html#collapsing-margins
The easiest way around (aside of replacing the margin with padding as you suggest) is to add a small (1px) invisible border or padding to the outer element.
Probably something to do with overflow:hidden or one of the elements not clearing properly. If add overflow:hidden to the first div it might fix it.
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Here is a very simply jsFiddle to demonstrate my problem: http://jsfiddle.net/ryandlf/mSmUv/4/
When an element has a top padding or margin and it sits on the first line within a div, the div does not respect that padding or margin and push the element down. In most cases this isn't an issue, but for example, if I have a button that has a top border and padding the top of the border will be cut off because the div is not taking into consideration the padding value.
Is there a workaround for this other than just blindly setting margins or padding on every container div element and hoping I have added enough to account for any internal element that might be affected?
your link with class button is not a block element, it is inline element. Change this default behaviour by adding dispaly: block to it and it will work as expected. Proof available on jsfiddle.
So to sum up, the problem is not with the div - it is the problem with css - inline elements ignore margin and padding because they cannot 'reserve space'.
UPDATE: To answer your comment, here is the solution you might be looking for
The button element is inline. To get the desired behavior you can set display:inline-block.
Check here
Try to add following to the parent div:
overflow: hidden
I hope it helps!
I created this quick jsfiddle project to help you help me.
Why does margin-top for #container push the entire body downwards from html when I expect it to push #container from #containerWrapper ?
The idea is to have all the content inside container which would be placed with a margin right under the menu.
This is caused by margin-collapse which happens to two adjacent margins. The inner margin will collapse into the outer one and behaves like the one on the outer container block.
If you want to only apply margin on #containerWrapper, you could either use padding-top or put a border between #containerWrapper and its outer block container.
For that Purpose ,You may use padding-top
I've a container div which has another div inside it. When I apply a margin to the inner div it appears to a margin-top to the container div (although it doesn't give a left margin)
http://belfastswimmingteacher.com/mockup.html
What's the craic?
You can either float the halfLeft div, or add padding-top to #content.
This is known as margin collapsing, and whilst may produce this unwanted behaviour, is in fact intended and correct.
I have a div that is float: right and it is inside a parent div. There are p elements inside that same parent div also, and the text wraps around the float: right div properly.
However, if I set the p elements to have a border, or do a <hr />, the border does not stop where the text stops, but extends behind the float: right div.
Here is a beautiful mspaint depiction of the situation:
Note that the green part of the black horizontal line is behind the floating div.
How do I get the border or <hr /> or whatever to be only as wide as the text, and not go behind the div?
I know this problem was posted some time ago, but I had the same problem today and found another solution:
http://jsfiddle.net/MvX62/
I use border-bottom instead of the <hr /> tag and had to add an overflow: hidden;. Look at the fiddle, i think this is more useful then the accepted solution, because you can also add a margin to the horizontal line and there is the same gap, as the text has.
Also you don't need to define z values and don't need any hacks or workarounds.
I've had this problem before, and I wasn't sure if it was solvable.
In your case, however, you could wrap the green box with another element and swap margin with padding and set its background to #fff to cover the offending line.
Check out the fiddle...
http://jsfiddle.net/UnsungHero97/8BwGB/3/
What I did here was give the floated element a z-index CSS property, which will put it "above" the non floated element (which has a smaller valued z-index) and the <hr /> will not go above the floated element.
In regards to getting it as wide as the text, in my example it is as wide as the text, but I'm not sure if that holds across browsers (I'm on Chrome). Let me know if it doesn't.
I hope this helps.
Hristo
p.s. excellent mspaint skillz :)
You would have to set the width of the paragraphs to the width of the container minus the width of the floating element, or you could give them a margin on the same side of the float equal to the float's width.
Div cannot wrap around another div. Wrapping is text-only property. You can simulate wrapping by setting the margin-right for the master div to the width of the div you want it to wrap, but text wil not flow under the inset div.
Some values of the overflow property can cause this behavior. Specifically, overflow: visible which is often set by popular CSS resets/normalization.
When I remove the display:block from a p inside a div, it ignores the top-margin or it's own hight or something like that. It snuggles up right next to the element above it. Does anyone know why?
The div is floated, the element above is not.
Inline elements simply don't take vertical margins or height into account. Block elements do.
Edit:
In response to comments, it looks like there are two issues at play here.
You have two elements with id='generals'. Change this to class='generals'.
Add overflow: hidden to your generals style. All of the elements inside it are floated, and so don't apply to the height of the element. Adding overflow: hidden changes how the element is displayed, clearing all the floats inside it.