I have used two div tags in my blog to wrap programming codes. The first one is used to set outline box with fixed width with the following CSS class:
.outlinebox {
width: 435px;
border-width: 1px; /* sets border width on all sides */
border-style: solid;
border-color: #666666;
padding: 5px
}
The second div is used as inner box to set nowrap for codes with the class:
.nowrappercodesinner {
width: auto;
padding: 5px;
overflow: auto;
white-space:nowrap;
}
I use those div tags for my codes in my blog. They work fine until I tried to add third div as inner area with a specific background colour. For example:
<div class="outlinebox">
<div class="nowrappercodesinner">
<div class style=""background-color:#cccccc;">
...
</div>
</div>
The problem is that the background colour does not extend to the right when I move the horizontal scroll bar to the right. I am not sure if there is any way that the inner background colour will fill no matter where the scroll bar is moved.
Here I have one example in my recent blog: Zip Files with PowerShell Script. You can see the problem in the third code block.
overflow: auto;
in the innermost div might help. At least it had the desired effect when I added the property in Firebug. I find it strange, still, because I thought auto is supposed to be the default setting.
EDIT: Default value for overflow seems to be visible.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but why do you need the third div? Couldn't you just put the background color on the second div? I tried this on your blog in webkit's inspector and it displayed just fine.
<div class="outlinebox">
<div class="nowrappercodesinner" style="background-color:#cccccc;"></div>
</div>
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I'm trying to make a copy of a website as my first CSS/HTML exercise.
I can't figure out how to make the menu list so it has its background filling the box (extending until the right border).
Picture of what I have now (right side of the picture, red lines show where the background should go) and what I want to get (left side).
My code.
I've tried so far to achieve it e.g. with 'width' and 'display' parameters, but e.g. display: block; remove the lines between text. I'm out of ideas.
display: block;
width: 100%;
margin-bottom: 2px;
to the #menu
spans are inline elements so they cannot have width or height. You should put a background-color to your li elements instead of your spans.
.menu{
background-color: grey; //Change it to your custom colour.
}
Also, you cannot have more than one element with the same ID. You have to put them as a class.
Updated JSFiddle.
I am currently working on this website: http://mdftanzania.com. I am using Wordpress and headway101. I want to have a full width green background color that applies to the begin part of the page: About Us and Services. I add a div class to the part of the page where the green background has to be. I tried to style the div class to a full width green background, this didn't work out and at the moment only a part is styled now (see the website: http://mdftanzania.com).
I understand that there is another solutions, that is creating a container or widget above the container for the content, where I place the first part of the page text in. The problem with this is that it is confusing for my client where to edit the text in the page. The simplicity of Wordpress goes basically away then. Because of that, I am looking for a solution with CSS styling, so the client is only dealing with the 's.
Does anybody has a solution for this?
Since you have predetermined a padding to the content block, it is obviously affecting all the child elements that are contained in it, including the div with green background, which means that you should either remove that padding and apply it only to specific elements, or apply this simple CSS workaround to your div:
{
margin: 0 -25px;
padding: 0 25px;
}
This makes it, in your words, "full width" and applies a padding to its content.
You have this rule set in your css:
.block-type-content {
padding-left: 25px;
padding-right: 25px;
padding-top: 120px;
}
So children of this container, even though they may have a width of 100%, have to obey this padding of their parent. That's why you don't get a full width green bar. You might try negative margin-left and right to expand your green bar:
.color {
margin: 0 -25px;
padding: 0 25px;
}
At least in Firefox/Mac, this solves your issue.
I've got the following HTML group.
<div id="item-groups">
<!-- Section to select product types -->
<div class="item-group-button">
<!-- Item Group Selection Button -->
<h3>Beverage</h3>
</div>
<div class="item-group-button">
<!-- Item Group Selection Button -->
<h3>Tobacco</h3>
</div>
</div>
I've designed the following CSS for the above elements..
#item-groups{
height: 75px;
}
.item-group-button{
width:130px;
height:40px;
float:left;
margin:17px 0px 0px 20px;
border-radius:10px;
background:#4e5154;
}
.item-group-button h3{
padding:0px;
margin:8px 0px 0px 29px;
color:white;
}
How Can I design the CSS so that the item-groups div can act as a frame. To explain a little bit, The item-group-butons are loaded from a DB and the amount of elements are dependent on the number of DB records. when the elements exceed a certain limit, the excess elements go out of order. How can I stop this? I went through a method where making other elements position absolute then the needed element can act as a frame. but in my case that is not possible.
I tried removing the width limit of the item-groups element but no use!
Update:
As you can see the first images displayes correctly but the second images shows that with more buttons, other elements go out of the order. How can I fix this. I want the buttons to stick to one line rather than going to the second line.
When using html frames, when there is more elements to show, there will be a scroll bar! How can I use that functionality in a Div.
It's a simple CSS trick that can be done bu using the following codes.
for the parent element :
#item-groups{
height: 80px;
width: inherit;
overflow-x: scroll; <-- Make the scrolling horizontal
white-space: nowrap; <-- Handle the white space in the element
}
for the child element :
.item-group-button{
width: 130px;
height: 40px;
margin: 17px 0px 0px 20px;
border-radius: 10px;
background: #4e5154;
display: inline-block; <-- this will display the excess elements in a line
}
removing the float from the child element is necessary.
Thank you guys for your effort!
To get the scroll bar, you would use overflow-x: scroll; on the container, which allows the elements within to expand beyond its bounds, and creates a scroll bar when that happens.
I would like to point out that for a menu this might not be the best option. The scroll bar just won't mesh with the design well. I see two alternatives:
Re size buttons if the container can not fit them. Basically, you would define the max-width: property, and give them a percentage width:, thus all the buttons will look normal until there is overflow. Obviously this could be a problem with labeling. You may need to do overflow-x: hidden; on the label text to make it look right. Or try. . .
Create your own scrolling. If you are comfortable with a little JavaScript, you can use overflow-x: hidden; and position: relative; on the container, then have a "slider" inside of it that holds the buttons, and has position: absolute;. Then, on either end of the container would be hover-buttons, that would trigger JS to adjust the position of the slider, thus scrolling. This will only work if JS is enabled, though you can simply fall back to the overflow-x: scroll; method in such a case. The advantage here is that everything looks nice and uniform.
I generally try to stray away from forcing scroll bars, as each OS/browser can render them very differently. Now you can style scroll bars, as CSS3 provides a number of pseudo-elements to deal with them. Unfortunately browser support is sketchy, and requires special browser specific codes, which means it really isn't a very good option.
On this site I have an auto-resizing BG but I wanted a fixed black bar at the bottom of the page.
The site looks fine when the browser is maximized but when you scale the window down and scroll down the black bar almost completely gone and it looks messed up. It is not positioning correctly.
I have tried a few things but can't figure out a solution to this. Does anybody have any ideas how I should go about this? (Maybe I am missing 1 little thing or maybe I need to start over from scratch, either way please help!)
Note: the auto size background is in the html tag and the black bottom bar is in its own separate div tag "#black_bottom"
http://graves-incorporated.com/test_sites/gm_2012/
Just remove height:100% from #black_bottom make the absolute:position div height auto.
You have everything wrapped incorrectly I believe. Why does your <div id="black_bottom> contain everything from your wrapper to your <div id="footer_wrap">?
Ok, so I think I see what you're going for now. If my understanding is correct, you want the gradient background to extend to about 70-73px above the bottom edge of your content box, where it meets the solid gray bar which extends to the bottom of the window, or just below that bottom circular G emblem, whichever is lower. I've accomplished this by removing the #black_bottom element entirely, setting a solid gray background color for the html element to match the color of your bottom bar graphic, and applied the circular gradient background to the body element. I've also removed the explicitly-defined height from #wrapper, and given it a negative margin-bottom to allow the black bar to underlap it. The styles I replaced are listed below. Hopefully this is closer to what you're after:
html {
background: #333;
}
body {
background: url(http://graves-incorporated.com/test_sites/gm_2012/images/bg.jpg) no-repeat center center fixed;
background-size: cover;
height: 100%;
}
#wrapper {
width: 960px;
margin: 0 auto -136px;
top: 20px;
position: relative;
}
I have a div which has style properties as "border-top, left, right, bottom" set.
But I do not want the border top to complete the box (which would be a rectangle). I want a small (About 2-3px) opening at the top right (on the length side of the box).
How can this be done?
I think there is a property in CSS called "border-top-width" but there is no "border-top-length".
Can it be done using CSS? Any other approaches are also welcome.
Thanks...
I don't think that's possible...The only way I can think of is to hack it with creating another element inside it (1px wide, 3px high), float it right, and then do margin-right: -1px...
<div style="border:1px solid black; background-color: white;">
<div id="borderHack"></div>
Your content here
</div>
And style the "hack" element like so:
#borderHack {
float: right;
margin-right: 1px;
background-color: white; /*This would have to be the same as the background*/
height: 3px;
width: 1px;
}
You will have to set border-top to none and then put another DIV into that container DIV. Then set the inner DIV's border-top and set it's width to be smaller than the container's.
I don't believe you can do this with CSS alone.
You could add an inner div that has the background color of the color you want at the opening. You would then position and size the inner element so that it appears to be a gap.
You can do that using what's explained in this link http://www.css3.info/preview/border-image/
Basically what you would do is draw a box without the top corners and assign it as border-image
Edit: But this is only available in CSS3 and not implemented by many browsers so for now the other answers give a practical solution.
You might as well try this (relative+absolute positioning) almost the same with float:
<div style="width:400px;height:300px;border-top:1px solid black; border-right:1px solid black;border-bottom:1px solid black;position:relative;">
some content here
<div style="width:2px;height:3px;position:absolute;right:0;background:gray;"></div>
</div>