I've got a fixed-width div with two buttons in it. If the labels of the buttons are too long, they wrap – one button stays on the first line, and the next button follows underneath it instead of adjacent to it.
How can I force the div to expand so that both buttons are on one line?
Try white-space: nowrap;
Documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/CSS/white-space
A combination of both float: left; white-space: nowrap; worked for me.
Each of them independently didn't accomplish the desired result.
I don't know the reasoning behind this, but I set my parent container to display:flex and the child containers to display:inline-block and they stayed inline despite the combined width of the children exceeding the parent.
Didn't need to toy with max-width, max-height, white-space, or anything else.
Hope that helps someone.
If you don't care about a minimum width for the div and really just don't want the div to expand across the whole container, you can float it left -- floated divs by default expand to support their contents, like so:
<form>
<div style="float: left; background-color: blue">
<input type="button" name="blah" value="lots and lots of characters"/>
<input type="button" name="blah2" value="some characters"/>
</div>
</form>
If your div has a fixed-width it shouldn't expand, because you've fixed its width. However, modern browsers support a min-width CSS property.
You can emulate the min-width property in old IE browsers by using CSS expressions or by using auto width and having a spacer object in the container. This solution isn't elegant but may do the trick:
<div id="container" style="float: left">
<div id="spacer" style="height: 1px; width: 300px"></div>
<button>Button 1 text</button>
<button>Button 2 text</button>
</div>
Forcing the buttons stay in the same line will make them go beyond the fixed width of the div they are in. If you are okay with that then you can make another div inside the div you already have. The new div in turn will hold the buttons and have the fixed width of however much space the two buttons need to stay in one line.
Here is an example:
<div id="parentDiv" style="width: [less-than-what-buttons-need]px;">
<div id="holdsButtons" style="width: [>=-than-buttons-need]px;">
<button id="button1">1</button>
<button id="button2">2</button>
</div>
</div>
You may want to consider overflow property for the chunk of the content outside of the parentDiv border.
Good luck!
Related
I have several buttons contained within divs that I would like to place on the same line. Two of the buttons are only displayed if a certain value is greater than 0. I added display:inline-block in a div container thinking that would place all of the enclosed divs on the same line but it didn't. I also need the buttons to float right (hence the style="float:right in the container div. I've also tried placing display=inline on each of the buttons which didn't work. Here is my HTML:
<div style="display:inline-block" style="float: right;">
<div *ngIf="menu.itemNumber > 0">
<button pButton type="button" label="Download" icon="fa-wrench" iconPos="left" (click)="Download();"></button>
<button pButton type="button" label="Upload" icon="fa-wrench" iconPos="left" (click)="Upload()"></button>
</div>
<button pButton type="button" style="float: right;" label="Delete" icon="fa-wrench" iconPos="left" (click)="Delete()"></button>
</div>
Why aren't the buttons showing up on the same line?
Its because you have a div inside which is block by default. Apply display:inline-block to all elements inside parent button div
Stack Snippet
.main>* {
display: inline-block;
}
<div class="main">
<div>
<button></button>
<button></button>
</div>
<button></button>
</div>
Your inner div (<div *ngIf="menu.itemNumber > 0">) is still a block level element. You need to give it display: inline-block, for it to be inline with the following button.
Also, do not duplicate the style property on your wrapper div. Combine the styles in one string: style="display:inline-block; float: right;" (this is assuming you still want the outer div to be inline-block - it may not need to be).
I also learned that sometimes, depending on the size of the content inside your buttons, or sibling elements, they might not be in the same baseline, meaning some will be higher than others, even if they are side by side. The way to fix baseline issues is to use a special kind of overflow (Like hidden or auto) on the sibling elements
EXAMPLE:
div sibling-elements{
overflow: hidden;
}
When I shrink the browser + button separated between checkbox event though both div have inline-block
Please see the mini version of the code:
<div style="display: inline-block;">
<a class="plus" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#data" href="#">
<i class="fa fa-plus-circle"></i><span></span>
</a>
</div>
<div class="checkbox name" style="font-size: 17px; display: inline-block; margin-left: 5px;">
<label>
<input name="unique_id" value="" type="checkbox">
<div id="unique_id">name - address <span class="label label-info">display</span>
</div>
</label>
</div>
But I just want + button and check box will place together when re sizing like this image( without re size )
When using inline-block on your elements they wrap with the parent width. So if you have a parent DIV to your structure juste add white-space: nowrap; to it. It will prevent the children with ìnline-block`to wrap (go under).
EDIT : You could also simplify your HTML structure, you have a lot of elements for a simple thing.
Set the width to both Div or add "float:left" to both div with some width to second div.
white-space: nowrap;
will force the content to stay on one line
Does it fit nicely if you made one of the divs a little shorter?
Reason because even with inline-block, two divs with a width of 50% might not actually fit in one row. There's a little space in between them. Not sure where it comes from; someone here should be able to provide the exact reason why.
But for me personally, what I'll do is wrap the two divs and give that parent div style="font-size:0;". Only caveat with this is that you must explicitly set the font sizes of the children div.
See JSFiddle
maybe this is a stupid question but I have a doubt about CSS clear propery use.
I have this template: http://onofri.org/example/WebTemplate/
Why if I delete (you can try with firebug) the propery clear: both from the #footcontainer div I obtain that this div is placed at the top (it seems almost below the header and below the two columns)
My idea is this thing happens because the two columns #content and #sidebar are floated to the left and without setting clear: both on the #footcontainer div the browser try to put also this div on the right of the #content* div but have no space and put at the top.
Is this a right intuition or am I missing something?
Tnx
Andrea
This is happening because everytime you float an element, its container loses its auto height.
If you want to prevent that from happening, there are somethings you can do:
Set a given height to the container
Ex:
<div class="my-container" style="height: 100px">
<div style="float: left;">
Some very interesting text right here.
</div>
<div style="float: left;">
Don't read this and you'll be doomed.
</div>
</div>
Be aware that if you have set a given height, the div won't resize as the content becomes higher than the container.
Append a div with style="clear: both" right after the floated elements
Ex:
<div class="my-container">
<div style="float: left;">
Some very interesting text right here.
</div>
<div style="float: left;">
Don't read this and you'll be doomed.
</div>
<div style="clear:both"></div>
</div>
Yeah, it works. But only noobs do it like that. It's not elegant and pollutes your code.
Set overflow: hidden to the parent container
<div class="my-container" style="overflow: hidden">
<div style="float: left;">
Some very interesting text right here.
</div>
<div style="float: left;">
Don't read this and you'll be doomed.
</div>
</div>
This one is great, but you are in danger if you have someting positioned absolutely and have to move it outside the parent div, for example. You'll have an unpleasant surprise.
Use the ClearFix Hack.
This is the way I do it: easy to implement and works like a charm. Check this link out: http://www.positioniseverything.net/easyclearing.html;
If you mind about not having valid CSS (like me), you can target IE browsers with a different stylesheet and conditional comments, for example.
Further resources about the subject:
Quirks Mode Site: CSS Clearing
http://www.quirksmode.org/css/clearing.html
Chris Coyier's ClearFix Tutorial
http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/clear-fix/
I see you code
your code is too complicated according to me but any way you can used to this css than your problem is solve
Used to this css
#c{position:relative;}
#c:after {
position: absolute;
content: "";
left: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: -42px;
background: url('http://onofri.org/example/WebTemplate/images/footerRight.jpg') no-repeat -3px 0px;
height: 43px;
}
#footerRight{display:none;}
You have no height set on your container. If you change the height of container to the height of its' contents, which in this case is 596 px then when you take away the clear both property on the footer it won't move one iota.
I think it's because if you float an object, the parent object doesn't resize accordingly.
For example, if you had:
<div class="1px-border">
<div class="float">
<h3>TEST</h3>
</div>
</div>
The border would be completely flat, and not resize to the header. You could fix it by having overflow: auto in the container div.
That said, I could be massively wrong.
I have a page where I want an element to align right at the same time I have elements which may be wide and cause a horisontal scrollbar. For instance:
<body>
<div style="float:right">Stay right</div>
<div style="white-space:nowrap; clear:both; font-size:2em">
Wide child element which determines the width of the page.
</div>
</body>
This works fine if the wide element fits within the browser window. But if the browser window is too small so that a horisontal scrollbar appears the "stay right" element will align with the window and not the page:
If I move the scrollbar the "stay right" element moves and doesn't really align to anything.
If a add a table around the whole page it does what I wan't:
<body>
<table width="100%"><tr><td>
<div style="float:right">Stay right</div>
<div style="white-space:nowrap; clear:both; font-size:2em">
Wide child element which determines the width of the page.
</div>
</td></tr></table>
</body>
The "stay right" element will align with the right side of the wide child element regardless of browser window size.
Edit: The table based solution above will align right to largest of the width of the wide child element or the window width. Effectively this gives the page a "minimum width" which is determined by the contents of the page (ie. the wide child element). This is what I want - which isn't clear from the original text, sorry.
I am wondering if there is a better way than wrapping the entire page in a table.
That is a very interesting problem. It actually happens because the computed width on div matches the window size (and body size) instead of the width of the text. The floating text looks to it's container for a width/height when rendering (and because that computed value is actually size of the window, the float stops at the edge of the window).
This does not really occur often because most sites use something like grid960/foundation/etc and a min/max width are provided (you probably figured out that setting a width will fix your problem).
I don't know of a really good solution for dynamically sized text (with only css)... The only thing I can think of without using a table would be to use a clearfix. It is really used/created for element with floating children (in order to give them a correct width/height.. floating elements do not normally effect the containers dimensions) but it also will work in this case.
<body>
<div class="clearfix">
<div style="float:right">Stay right</div>
<div style="white-space:nowrap; clear:both; font-size:2em">
Wide child element which determines the width of the page.
</div>
</div>
</body>
EDIT: I lied, I came up with a second (better) way but it does require a more modern browser. It is to use a wrapper with a display: inline-block OR display: table. It really is just a sub-set of the clearfix but will work if you can get away with being IE8+ based.
<body>
<div style="display:inline-block">
<div style="float:right">Stay right</div>
<div style="white-space:nowrap; clear:both; font-size:2em">
Wide child element which determines the width of the page.
</div>
</div>
</body>
NEVER wrap an entire page in a table. It messes up your HTML since about the year 2000.
I think you want a fixed position for your div, it lines up the element with the window instead of the page:
.myDivThatFloatsRight {
position: fixed;
top: 10px;
right: 10px;
}
I was wondering How To make a Form and Div have a max width of child elements. Eg in this example both the form and the outerDiv stretch the full width of the page. I would like the form and outerDiv to have a width of 200px.
This becomes a problem when I have this page in an iframe, because the width of the page is larger than the iframe I get a horizontal scroll bar.
<body>
<form name="myForm" method="post" action="#" >
<div id="outerDiv" >
<div style="width: 200px">
Both the form and outer div stretch 100%. I am wondering how I
would get them to wrap tightly around the inner div.
</div>
</div>
</form>
</body>
Thanks for your time and help.
To make a block display like an inline element you can use
display: inline-block;
I believe the "proper" way is to make them inline elements:
style="display: inline;"
divs are block elements and fill their container,
spans are inline elements and shrink to fit their contents.
You can either use spans as containers or just add the above style to your divs.
Good luck!
To prevent scrollbars for #outerDiv you could set a max-width and overflow properties:
#outerDiv {
max-width: 300px;
overflow: hidden;
}
In this way, you assure no scroll bars, and I'm assuming the width of the iframe is never wider than 300 pixels. Also be sure to set frameborder="0" on the iframe and check the margins on the body of the included html.