CSS div to place image without interfering with other divs - html

I am creating a web site for my church. Because they know of no web programmer members, I am taking care of it with my meager skills. My problem is merely one of placement. I am trying to place an image in the top-left of the page, but, no matter what I do, it interferes with the other div elements on the page. This is my current CSS:
body {
background-color: #FFFFFF;
font-size:12px;
font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
div#wrapper {
width: 90%;
background-color:#ffffff;
margin-top: 50px;
margin-bottom: 50px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
padding: 0px;
border: thin solid blue;
}
div#image {
padding: 15px;
margin: 0px;
float: left;
}
div#header {
padding: 15px;
margin: 0px;
text-align: center;
}
div#nav {
width: 25%;
padding: 10px;
margin-top: 100px;
float: left;
}
div#main {
margin-left: 30%;
margin-top: 100px;
padding: 10px;
}
div#footer {
padding: 15px;
margin: 0px;
border-top: thin solid blue;
text-align: center;
}
No matter how I define the image div, it always pushes the main, navigation, and header divs out of alignment. If I just place the image in another div, it still makes things move.
Is there any way to have the page centered with 90% width and everything else in the wrapper div, and also have the image in the top-right corner? If it would require a different type of thing, can someone help me figure it out? Something that works only in one browser won't help, as I want it to work as seamlessly as possible for the most people.

You might be looking to use absolute positioning,
#image { position:absolute; top:0; left:0; }
However this will need to stay relative to your wrapper:
#wrapper { position:relative; }
Though I'm strictly guessing, provide more info and you'll get a more definitive solution.

Use z-index to put the image on a higher layer.
http://www.w3schools.com/Css/pr_pos_z-index.asp
This way nothing else gets moved.

If you don't want it to affect anything else on the page, can I just check that it's not a background image? If it's not, then have you tried making it a background image? That way it won't/can't affect the document flow and nothing will be moved because of it.
Though if you already have one background image it might complicate things a little.

Related

I am trying to get the text to appear on the right hand side of the image, and for the actual image box to be a lot slimmer that it currently is

This is the css I have atm but it is all going chaotic and this is how the section of the page looks:
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#firstborder{
border: #3063A5;
border-style: double;
font-size: 9.5px;
font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;
padding-left: 5px;
float: left;
margin: 0 20px 20px 0;
}
.linguistics_paragraph{
margin-left: 385px;
padding: 3px; margin-top: 5px;
top: 40px;
font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif;
margin-right: 3px;
margin: 0 0 10px 10px;
float: right;
}
]1]1
To make the image box slimmer I would suggest using the max-width property and setting it to your desired width so it never gets any bigger than that.
I can make a code snippet but as far as your text issue, are you trying to get the text within the bordered box? Also what is your desired outcome for the legend?
I'm gonna answer this question on a conceptual basis as you don't have your HTML provided
So as you said everything gets messy when you change the width of the browser therefore
we have to first work on making it responsive. So just go to your Html file and make a div wrapper or container that would hold both of your image and the paragraph tags
for example, something that would look like this:
<div class="container">
<img src="files/exampleimg.png" id="pic">
<p id="text">This is something</p>
</div>
Now in your CSS file remove the margin-left or margin-right you used to position the image and the paragraph tags and use flex or grid or anything similar to make it responsively positioned, I'm gonna go with flex so here it goes:
.container{
display:flex;
justify-content: space-between; /*putting img to left and paragraph to right*/
}
#pic {
padding-left: 50px; /*as per your requirement*/
}
#text {
padding-right: 50px; /*as per your requirement*/
}
and that's pretty much it for the responsive part, all we have to do now is make the image box slimmer, so for that do this:
#firstborder{
border: 1px solid #707070; /*this would make it slimmer but play with it to find out what suits best*/
}
you change the 1px to 4 px its gonna get thicker and you crank it down and it would get slimmer, there you go, now you have a responsive page and your image-box slimmed up.
and oh for your legend part add this to your HTML
<img src="files/legend.png" id="legend">
CSS:
.container{
display:flex;
justify-content: space-between;
position: relative; /*binding up the legend with container*/
}
#legend {
padding-left: 50px;
position: absolute; /*stiching the legend to that pic*/
top: 40px; /*as per your requirement*/
}

Div height not adapting to parent

Still developing my html5/css3 mobile site, I have trouble adjusting the height of a div to its parent.
http://jsfiddle.net/1eg2cwLs/
The fiddle doesn't exactly look like this because I'm using webfonts (saved offline though as I'm not going to have internet connection on the target system). But the problem remains the same.
You might be seeing what the problem is right from the spot, if not: I would like the green and red bar (.itemclass) always have the same size as the content of its parent (.item).
Depending on font, its size (still playing around with it) and the overall height of each item, I have to precisely adjust the negative margin. Otherwise it looks like in the screenshot. The negative margin I just mentioned is in the CSS-class .itemclass: (marked with an arrow also in the fiddle)...
.itemclass {
height: 100px;
width: 50px;
background-color: #27ae60;
vertical-align: middle;
text-align: center;
color: white;
font-size: 2em;
margin-top: -27px; /* <=== */
display: inline-block;
}
This cannot be the solution. I tried a lot of stuff and I only got it "working" the way I mentioned.
Any better idea how to make it look clean without a hack?
As well, tips for other improvements regarding my html/css are well appreciated.
Sorry for appending the entire code into the fiddle. I don't know whether it was representative if I was going to remove stuff.
Best regards
I'd probably go this route:
.item {
position: relative;
...
}
.itemclass {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
...
}
.itemcontent {
margin-left: 50px;
...
}
Demo
Really big font demo
Consider a reasonable min-width for the body to prevent .tagline from overlapping, etc.
You can set .item's margin-top to 0, and instead adjust the margin-top of .vcenter:before. This way you're just adjusting the text and not the div.
Or you could drop the static height and width of .itemclass altogether. Now the .itemclass will scale.
http://jsfiddle.net/1eg2cwLs/5/
.item {
width: 100%;
height: auto;
background-color: #eeeeee;
border-bottom: 1px solid #cccccc;
overflow: hidden;
}
.itemclass {
height: 100%;
width: auto;
background-color: #27ae60;
vertical-align: middle;
text-align: center;
color: white;
font-size: 2em;
margin-top: 0;
display: inline-block;
}
As a fallback, you can set .item to not show overflow, and then adjust the line-height of :
.item {overflow:hidden}
overflow: hidden; is your best friend in this case! It hides any overflow content from view outside of .item
Add it into .item {} declaration.
http://jsfiddle.net/1eg2cwLs/1/

Use CSS to position elements within a DIV

I admit, I'm not that good at CSS. Must be my lack of design skills.
So I am trying to accomplish four small tasks.
Move the time box (i.e '01:04' and '12:13') so it floats to the right top edge of the image?
Move the description of the workout to display to the right of the image beneath the time box and the routineID?
Allow the bottom border of class 'routine' to always be right beneath the image just like it is to the top of the image.
keep class 'routine' the same size even if more text in description is added. I want every 'routine' to have the same width and height dimensions.
I have everything layed out here: http://jsfiddle.net/n2learning/xMsrN/
Sorry to be that annoying guy with four questions in one question. Any help is appreciated!
Here is an updated jsfiddle link: http://jsfiddle.net/n2learning/xMsrN/22/
Follow up questions and comments -
The 'workout description' is still jacked up. Trying to get this to display beneath the top row, which includes the 'time' and 'ID'. The top row will also (eventually) include small image symbols.
I just noticed that the image sizes are different. I tried modifying '.routineImage' to give it a width and height property, but doing that screwed things up. How/where do I standardize the size of each image? (the images are coming from youtube and other video sources)
<ul id="routinefilter">
<li class='routine' data-id="15">
<div class='routineImage'><img src=http://img.youtube.com/vi/UheCchftswc/2.jpg></div>
<div class="routineTimeID"> <!-- added wrapper to keep it a single row -->
<div class='routineID'>16</div>
<div class='routineTime'>01:04</div>
</div>
<div class='routineDesc'>Use lighter weights on a barbell due to higher counts</div>
</li>
</ul>
CSS
#routineframe {
height: 400px;
border: dashed;
font-family: Arial,helvetica,sans-serif;
cursor: pointer;
width: 60%;
overflow: auto;
}
#routinefilter {
list-style: none;
clear: both; /*keeps each <ul> seperate*/
}
.routine{
background: #F4F4F4;
color: #41383C;
font-size: 18px;
border:2px solid #666;
margin:5px;
padding:5px;
width: 95%;
overflow: hidden; /*allows this to contain the floats*/
}
.routine .routineImage{
position: relative;
float: left;
display: inline;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
.routine .routineTime{
position: relative;
top: 0;
float: left; /*this was floated the wrong way*/
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: 3px;
border: 1px solid #666;
background: white;
color: navy;
}
.routineTimeID { /*class added to keep the description from being in between the two elements*/
width:140px;
float: left;
}
.routine .routineID{
top: 0;
float: right;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
border: 1px solid #666;
background: white;
}
.routine .routineDesc{
top: 0;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
font-size: 16px;
}
I tried to notate all the changes I made and why. I think i got all of them...
For the last question, though, you can't do this with CSS. As I understand it, you want the text size to automatically shrink if more text is added? That will have to be done with JavaScript, solution here

margin-bottom not working?

I am having trouble for some reason with getting the bottom of my page to have some padding. I have a content box that goes to the end of the page and hits the bottom and doesn't look the greatest. I want to give some space from the bottom of the page to fix this issue, but it seems that margin-bottom isn't working as I expect it to? I have included the following code which should be everything that affects the content box. I have tried removing the margin:0 in the html/body (even though I kind of need that), but that doesn't seem to work either? I feel like I am missing something really obvious.
html, body {
margin:0;
padding:0;
width:100%;
height:100%;
text-align:left;}
#content {
position: absolute;
left: 50%;
margin-left: -368px;
top: 104px;
padding-left: 35px;
padding-right: 35px;
padding-top: 15px;
padding-bottom: 15px;
background-color: white;
border: 1px solid black;
width: 664px;
margin-bottom: 20px;}
Any help would be greatly appreciated :) Thanks!
Live link - http://quintinmarcus.com/portfolio/
Since content has position: absolute, its after margins do nothing, nor should it stretch the inner height of the body so that the body's padding-bottom does anything.
If you want to centre your layout, modify your current style for #content to the following:
CSS:
#content {
width:664px;
margin:104 auto 20px auto;
padding: 15px 35px;
background-color: white;
border: 1px solid black;
}
This will also enable you to give the margin at the bottom you want.

how to center a footer div on a webpage

I want to center my web page footer and create a reasonable gab between it and the above content. Currently, the footer has a line and paragraph joined to the above content. I can push down the content but the line does not move. I am sure the property I am missing out in my css style sheet. Could someone help?
This is my html mark up:
<div id="footer">
<p>Copyright (c) 2010 mysite.com All rights reserved</p>
</div>
Which css property can I use to solve this problem? A sample would be appreciated. Thanks.
#footer{
display: table;
text-align: center;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
Center a div horizontally? Typically done by setting margin: 0 auto, or margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto.
And if you want a gap above it, give it a top margin.
Use margin:auto to centre blocks with CSS, and margin-top or padding-top to make a gap above it:
#footer {
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
margin-top:2em;
}
I've used 2em for the top margin; feel free to change that as you like, even to a fixed pixel size if you prefer. You can also use padding-top as well as or instead of margin-top, depending on exactly what you need to achieve, though the centering can only be done with margin left/right, not padding.
The above code can be condensed using the shorthand margin code, which lets you list them all in the same line of code:
#footer {
margin: 2px auto 0 auto;
}
(sequence is top, right, bottom, left)
hope that helps.
I solved it with this:
#footer {
width: 100%;
height: 28px;
border-top: 1px solid #E0E0E0;
position: absolute;
bottom: 0px;
left: 0px;
text-align: center;
}
You can center the text with the following CSS
#footer {
margin: 0 auto;
}
If you want more space on top add
margin-top: 2em;
after the previous margin line. Note that order matters, so if you have margin-top first it gets overwritten by margin rule.
More empty vertical spacing above the footer can also be made using
padding-top: 2em;
The difference between margin and padding can be read about W3C's CSS2 box model. The main point is that margin makes space above the div element's border as padding makes space inside the div. Which property to use depends from other page elements' properties.
I used this code for bottom copyright.
.footer-copyright {
padding-top:50px;
display: table;
text-align: center;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
#Panel01 {
vertical-align:bottom;
bottom: 0;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
width: 400px;
height: 100px;
}
Notes:
#Panel1 is the id for a DIV and the above code is CSS.
It is important that the DIV is large enough to contain the items
within it.
#footer{
text-align:center
}
.copyright {
margin: 10px auto 0 auto;
width: 100%;
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-size: 10px;
font-style: normal;
text-align: center;
color: #ccbd92;
border-top: 1px solid #ccbd92;
}