How can I horizontally center a <div> within another <div> using CSS?
<div id="outer">
<div id="inner">Foo foo</div>
</div>
With flexbox it is very easy to style the div horizontally and vertically centered.
#inner {
border: 0.05em solid black;
}
#outer {
border: 0.05em solid red;
width:100%;
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
}
<div id="outer">
<div id="inner">Foo foo</div>
</div>
To align the div vertically centered, use the property align-items: center.
Other Solutions
You can apply this CSS to the inner <div>:
#inner {
width: 50%;
margin: 0 auto;
}
Of course, you don't have to set the width to 50%. Any width less than the containing <div> will work. The margin: 0 auto is what does the actual centering.
If you are targeting Internet Explorer 8 (and later), it might be better to have this instead:
#inner {
display: table;
margin: 0 auto;
}
It will make the inner element center horizontally and it works without setting a specific width.
Working example here:
#inner {
display: table;
margin: 0 auto;
border: 1px solid black;
}
#outer {
border: 1px solid red;
width:100%
}
<div id="outer">
<div id="inner">Foo foo</div>
</div>
If you don't want to set a fixed width on the inner div you could do something like this:
#outer {
width: 100%;
text-align: center;
}
#inner {
display: inline-block;
}
<div id="outer">
<div id="inner">Foo foo</div>
</div>
That makes the inner div into an inline element that can be centered with text-align.
The best approaches are with CSS3.
The old box model (deprecated)
display: box and its properties box-pack, box-align, box-orient, box-direction etc. have been replaced by flexbox. While they may still work, they are not recommended to be used in production.
#outer {
width: 100%;
/* Firefox */
display: -moz-box;
-moz-box-pack: center;
-moz-box-align: center;
/* Safari and Chrome */
display: -webkit-box;
-webkit-box-pack: center;
-webkit-box-align: center;
/* W3C */
display: box;
box-pack: center;
box-align: center;
}
#inner {
width: 50%;
}
<div id="outer">
<div id="inner">Foo foo</div>
</div>
According to your usability you may also use the box-orient, box-flex, box-direction properties.
The modern box model with Flexbox
#outer {
display: flex;
flex-direction: row;
flex-wrap: wrap;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
}
Read more about centering the child elements
CSS Box Model Module Level 3
Box model (CSS2)
box-align on MDN
And this explains why the box model is the best approach:
Why is the W3C box model considered better?
#centered {
position: absolute;
left: 50%;
margin-left: -100px;
}
<div id="outer" style="width:200px">
<div id="centered">Foo foo</div>
</div>
Make sure the parent element is positioned, i.e., relative, fixed, absolute, or sticky.
If you don't know the width of your div, you can use transform:translateX(-50%); instead of the negative margin.
With CSS calc(), the code can get even simpler:
.centered {
width: 200px;
position: absolute;
left: calc(50% - 100px);
}
The principle is still the same; put the item in the middle and compensate for the width.
I've created this example to show how to vertically and horizontally align.
The code is basically this:
#outer {
position: relative;
}
and...
#inner {
margin: auto;
position: absolute;
left:0;
right: 0;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
}
And it will stay in the center even when you resize your screen.
Some posters have mentioned the CSS 3 way to center using display:box.
This syntax is outdated and shouldn't be used anymore. [See also this post].
So just for completeness here is the latest way to center in CSS 3 using the Flexible Box Layout Module.
So if you have simple markup like:
<div class="box">
<div class="item1">A</div>
<div class="item2">B</div>
<div class="item3">C</div>
</div>
...and you want to center your items within the box, here's what you need on the parent element (.box):
.box {
display: flex;
flex-wrap: wrap; /* Optional. only if you want the items to wrap */
justify-content: center; /* For horizontal alignment */
align-items: center; /* For vertical alignment */
}
.box {
display: flex;
flex-wrap: wrap;
/* Optional. only if you want the items to wrap */
justify-content: center;
/* For horizontal alignment */
align-items: center;
/* For vertical alignment */
}
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
html,
body {
height: 100%;
}
.box {
height: 200px;
display: flex;
flex-wrap: wrap;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
border: 2px solid tomato;
}
.box div {
margin: 0 10px;
width: 100px;
}
.item1 {
height: 50px;
background: pink;
}
.item2 {
background: brown;
height: 100px;
}
.item3 {
height: 150px;
background: orange;
}
<div class="box">
<div class="item1">A</div>
<div class="item2">B</div>
<div class="item3">C</div>
</div>
If you need to support older browsers which use older syntax for flexbox here's a good place to look.
If you don't want to set a fixed width and don't want the extra margin, add display: inline-block to your element.
You can use:
#element {
display: table;
margin: 0 auto;
}
Centering a div of unknown height and width
Horizontally and vertically. It works with reasonably modern browsers (Firefox, Safari/WebKit, Chrome, Internet & Explorer & 10, Opera, etc.)
.content {
position: absolute;
left: 50%;
top: 50%;
transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
}
<div class="content">This works with any content</div>
Tinker with it further on Codepen or on JSBin.
Set the width and set margin-left and margin-right to auto. That's for horizontal only, though. If you want both ways, you'd just do it both ways. Don't be afraid to experiment; it's not like you'll break anything.
It cannot be centered if you don't give it a width. Otherwise, it will take, by default, the whole horizontal space.
CSS 3's box-align property
#outer {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
display: box;
box-orient: horizontal;
box-pack: center;
box-align: center;
}
The way I usually do it is using absolute position:
#inner{
left: 0;
right: 0;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
position: absolute;
}
The outer div doesn't need any extra properties for this to work.
I recently had to center a "hidden" div (i.e., display:none;) that had a tabled form within it that needed to be centered on the page. I wrote the following jQuery code to display the hidden div and then update the CSS content to the automatic generated width of the table and change the margin to center it. (The display toggle is triggered by clicking on a link, but this code wasn't necessary to display.)
NOTE: I'm sharing this code, because Google brought me to this Stack Overflow solution and everything would have worked except that hidden elements don't have any width and can't be resized/centered until after they are displayed.
$(function(){
$('#inner').show().width($('#innerTable').width()).css('margin','0 auto');
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="inner" style="display:none;">
<form action="">
<table id="innerTable">
<tr><td>Name:</td><td><input type="text"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Email:</td><td><input type="text"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Email:</td><td><input type="submit"></td></tr>
</table>
</form>
</div>
For Firefox and Chrome:
<div style="width:100%;">
<div style="width: 50%; margin: 0px auto;">Text</div>
</div>
For Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome:
<div style="width:100%; text-align:center;">
<div style="width: 50%; margin: 0px auto; text-align:left;">Text</div>
</div>
The text-align: property is optional for modern browsers, but it is necessary in Internet Explorer Quirks Mode for legacy browsers support.
Use:
#outerDiv {
width: 500px;
}
#innerDiv {
width: 200px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
<div id="outerDiv">
<div id="innerDiv">Inner Content</div>
</div>
Another solution for this without having to set a width for one of the elements is using the CSS 3 transform attribute.
#outer {
position: relative;
}
#inner {
position: absolute;
left: 50%;
transform: translateX(-50%);
}
The trick is that translateX(-50%) sets the #inner element 50 percent to the left of its own width. You can use the same trick for vertical alignment.
Here's a Fiddle showing horizontal and vertical alignment.
More information is on Mozilla Developer Network.
Chris Coyier who wrote an excellent post on 'Centering in the Unknown' on his blog. It's a roundup of multiple solutions. I posted one that isn't posted in this question. It has more browser support than the Flexbox solution, and you're not using display: table; which could break other things.
/* This parent can be any width and height */
.outer {
text-align: center;
}
/* The ghost, nudged to maintain perfect centering */
.outer:before {
content: '.';
display: inline-block;
height: 100%;
vertical-align: middle;
width: 0;
overflow: hidden;
}
/* The element to be centered, can
also be of any width and height */
.inner {
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
width: 300px;
}
I recently found an approach:
#outer {
position: absolute;
left: 50%;
}
#inner {
position: relative;
left: -50%;
}
Both elements must be the same width to function correctly.
For example, see this link and the snippet below:
div#outer {
height: 120px;
background-color: red;
}
div#inner {
width: 50%;
height: 100%;
background-color: green;
margin: 0 auto;
text-align: center; /* For text alignment to center horizontally. */
line-height: 120px; /* For text alignment to center vertically. */
}
<div id="outer" style="width:100%;">
<div id="inner">Foo foo</div>
</div>
If you have a lot of children under a parent, so your CSS content must be like this example on fiddle.
The HTML content look likes this:
<div id="outer" style="width:100%;">
<div class="inner"> Foo Text </div>
<div class="inner"> Foo Text </div>
<div class="inner"> Foo Text </div>
<div class="inner"> </div>
<div class="inner"> </div>
<div class="inner"> </div>
<div class="inner"> </div>
<div class="inner"> </div>
<div class="inner"> Foo Text </div>
</div>
Then see this example on fiddle.
Centering only horizontally
In my experience, the best way to center a box horizontally is to apply the following properties:
The container:
should have text-align: center;
The content box:
should have display: inline-block;
Demo:
.container {
width: 100%;
height: 120px;
background: #CCC;
text-align: center;
}
.centered-content {
display: inline-block;
background: #FFF;
padding: 20px;
border: 1px solid #000;
}
<div class="container">
<div class="centered-content">
Center this!
</div>
</div>
See also this Fiddle!
Centering both horizontally & vertically
In my experience, the best way to center a box both vertically and horizontally is to use an additional container and apply the following properties:
The outer container:
should have display: table;
The inner container:
should have display: table-cell;
should have vertical-align: middle;
should have text-align: center;
The content box:
should have display: inline-block;
Demo:
.outer-container {
display: table;
width: 100%;
height: 120px;
background: #CCC;
}
.inner-container {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
text-align: center;
}
.centered-content {
display: inline-block;
background: #FFF;
padding: 20px;
border: 1px solid #000;
}
<div class="outer-container">
<div class="inner-container">
<div class="centered-content">
Center this!
</div>
</div>
</div>
See also this Fiddle!
Flexbox
display: flex behaves like a block element and lays out its content according to the flexbox model. It works with justify-content: center.
Please note: Flexbox is compatible all browsers exept Internet Explorer. See display: flex not working on Internet Explorer for a complete and up to date list of browsers compatibility.
#inner {
display: inline-block;
}
#outer {
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
}
<div id="outer">
<div id="inner">Foo foo</div>
</div>
Text-align: center
Applying text-align: center the inline contents are centered within the line box. However since the inner div has by default width: 100% you have to set a specific width or use one of the following:
display: block
display: inline
display: inline-block
#inner {
display: inline-block;
}
#outer {
text-align: center;
}
<div id="outer">
<div id="inner">Foo foo</div>
</div>
Margin: 0 auto
Using margin: 0 auto is another option and it is more suitable for older browsers compatibility. It works together with display: table.
#inner {
display: table;
margin: 0 auto;
}
<div id="outer">
<div id="inner">Foo foo</div>
</div>
Transform
transform: translate lets you modify the coordinate space of the CSS visual formatting model. Using it, elements can be translated, rotated, scaled, and skewed. To center horizontally it require position: absolute and left: 50%.
#inner {
position: absolute;
left: 50%;
transform: translate(-50%, 0%);
}
<div id="outer">
<div id="inner">Foo foo</div>
</div>
<center> (Deprecated)
The tag <center> is the HTML alternative to text-align: center. It works on older browsers and most of the new ones but it is not considered a good practice since this feature is obsolete and has been removed from the Web standards.
#inner {
display: inline-block;
}
<div id="outer">
<center>
<div id="inner">Foo foo</div>
</center>
</div>
This method also works just fine:
div.container {
display: flex;
justify-content: center; /* For horizontal alignment */
align-items: center; /* For vertical alignment */
}
For the inner <div>, the only condition is that its height and width must not be larger than the ones of its container.
The easiest way:
#outer {
width: 100%;
text-align: center;
}
#inner {
margin: auto;
width: 200px;
}
<div id="outer">
<div id="inner">Blabla</div>
</div>
Flex have more than 97% browser support coverage and might be the best way to solve these kind of problems within few lines:
#outer {
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
}
If width of the content is unknown you can use the following method. Suppose we have these two elements:
.outer -- full width
.inner -- no width set (but a max-width could be specified)
Suppose the computed width of the elements are 1000 pixels and 300 pixels respectively. Proceed as follows:
Wrap .inner inside .center-helper
Make .center-helper an inline block; it becomes the same size as .inner making it 300 pixels wide.
Push .center-helper 50% right relative to its parent; this places its left at 500 pixels wrt. outer.
Push .inner 50% left relative to its parent; this places its left at -150 pixels wrt. center helper which means its left is at 500 - 150 = 350 pixels wrt. outer.
Set overflow on .outer to hidden to prevent horizontal scrollbar.
Demo:
body {
font: medium sans-serif;
}
.outer {
overflow: hidden;
background-color: papayawhip;
}
.center-helper {
display: inline-block;
position: relative;
left: 50%;
background-color: burlywood;
}
.inner {
display: inline-block;
position: relative;
left: -50%;
background-color: wheat;
}
<div class="outer">
<div class="center-helper">
<div class="inner">
<h1>A div with no defined width</h1>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.<br>
Duis condimentum sem non turpis consectetur blandit.<br>
Donec dictum risus id orci ornare tempor.<br>
Proin pharetra augue a lorem elementum molestie.<br>
Nunc nec justo sit amet nisi tempor viverra sit amet a ipsum.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
You can do something like this
#container {
display: table;
width: <width of your container>;
height: <height of your container>;
}
#inner {
width: <width of your center div>;
display: table-cell;
margin: 0 auto;
text-align: center;
vertical-align: middle;
}
This will also align the #inner vertically. If you don't want to, remove the display and vertical-align properties;
Here is what you want in the shortest way.
JSFIDDLE
#outer {
margin - top: 100 px;
height: 500 px; /* you can set whatever you want */
border: 1 px solid# ccc;
}
#inner {
border: 1 px solid# f00;
position: relative;
top: 50 % ;
transform: translateY(-50 % );
}
You can use display: flex for your outer div and to horizontally center you have to add justify-content: center
#outer{
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
}
or you can visit w3schools - CSS flex Property for more ideas.
Well, I managed to find a solution that maybe will fit all situations, but uses JavaScript:
Here's the structure:
<div class="container">
<div class="content">Your content goes here!</div>
<div class="content">Your content goes here!</div>
<div class="content">Your content goes here!</div>
</div>
And here's the JavaScript snippet:
$(document).ready(function() {
$('.container .content').each( function() {
container = $(this).closest('.container');
content = $(this);
containerHeight = container.height();
contentHeight = content.height();
margin = (containerHeight - contentHeight) / 2;
content.css('margin-top', margin);
})
});
If you want to use it in a responsive approach, you can add the following:
$(window).resize(function() {
$('.container .content').each( function() {
container = $(this).closest('.container');
content = $(this);
containerHeight = container.height();
contentHeight = content.height();
margin = (containerHeight - contentHeight) / 2;
content.css('margin-top', margin);
})
});
One option existed that I found:
Everybody says to use:
margin: auto 0;
But there is another option. Set this property for the parent div. It
works perfectly anytime:
text-align: center;
And see, child go center.
And finally CSS for you:
#outer{
text-align: center;
display: block; /* Or inline-block - base on your need */
}
#inner
{
position: relative;
margin: 0 auto; /* It is good to be */
}
This question is related to one that i have already created transition-in-div . I didnot get answer for my next issue there so i decided to create new question.
I have four boxes and i want the transition effect in all four boxes.
What i want is whenever i click on any box, the width of that box must increase from its side to the left and right to fit the full width. Right now it only fills some portion of width.
My Code is
<html>
<head>
<title>Transition</title>
<style type="text/css">
.container {
display: flex;
justify-content: space-between;
}
.box {
width:20%;
height: 200px;
transition: transform .5s;
transform-origin: 0 0;
}
#first {
background-color: red;
}
#second {
background-color: green;
transform-origin: 25% 75%;
}
#third {
background-color: aqua;
transform-origin: center center;
}
#fourth {
background-color: blue;
transform-origin: 100% 0;
}
.scale {
transform: scaleX(4);
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<div id="first" class="box"></div>
<div id="second" class="box"></div>
<div id="third" class="box"></div>
<div id="fourth" class="box"></div>
</div>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
var containerWidth = $(".container").width();
$(".box").click(function() {
var id = $(this).attr("id");
$(this).addClass('scale');
});
});
</script>
Jsfiddle
There's a small mathematical error, you are scaling each div to 4x when their size is 20% so their new size is now 80% instead of the full 100% width.
Please consider the following fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/m157u2yw/7/
For previewing purposes I've made it so if you click on an expanded box it resets back so you can quickly play with it.
I'm using width instead of scale as it will be useful in case these squares actually have some content inside (scaling would distort it).
I'm also adding another class .scale-down to the not-clicked divs to make sure they also animate out leaving the full space to the expanded one.
Just tweak around your CSS a lil bit:
Since your .box width is 20%, your scaleX() is 5,
Then just go ahead and fix your Transform-origins so it covers out correctly:
https://jsfiddle.net/m157u2yw/8/
.box {
width:20%;
height: 200px;
transition: transform .5s;
transform-origin: 0 0;
}
#first {
background-color: red;
}
#second {
background-color: green;
transform-origin: 33.33%;
}
#third {
background-color: aqua;
transform-origin: 66.66%;
}
#fourth {
background-color: blue;
transform-origin: 100%;
}
.scale {
transform: scaleX(5);
}
Why not put the boxes in containers and animate the width, something like this:
https://jsfiddle.net/pt1vk0c1/
<div class="container">
<div id="first" class="box-container">
<div class="box"> </div>
</div>
<div id="second" class="box-container">
<div class="box"> </div>
</div>
<div id="third" class="box-container">
<div class="box"> </div>
</div>
<div id="fourth" class="box-container">
<div class="box"> </div>
</div>
</div>
.container {
display: flex;
justify-content: space-between;
}
.box-container {
width:25%;
height: 200px;
}
.box {
width:80%;
height: 200px;
transition: width .5s;
transform-origin: 0 0;
}
#first .box {
background-color: red;
}
#second .box {
background-color: green;
transform-origin: 25% 75%;
}
#third .box {
background-color: aqua;
transform-origin: center center;
}
#fourth .box {
background-color: blue;
transform-origin: 100% 0;
}
.scale {
width:100%;
}
Here's a solution that will work regardless of the number of boxes or their width. Better to avoid any magic numbers if possible.
Transition width instead of transform. You won't need any transform origins and it will work with any number of boxes regardless of the box size.
To make the width of the other boxes 0. You can add a class to the container.
Than use
.container.open .box:not(.scale) {
width: 0;
}
to set the width of any box without the class .scale to 0
http://codepen.io/flurrd/pen/xqmwLN
CSS
.container {
display: flex;
justify-content: space-between;
}
.box {
width: 20%;
height: 200px;
transition: width .5s;
background-color: tomato;
}
.box:nth-child(odd) {
background-color: aquamarine;
}
.scale {
width: 100%;
}
.container.open .box:not(.scale) {
width: 0;
}
JS
var containerWidth = $(".container").width();
$(".box").click(function() {
var id = $(this).attr("id");
$(this).toggleClass('scale');
$(".container").toggleClass('open')
});
So I have 2 divs children of a display block parent. I would like to make div #2 (green) be on top of div #1 (red). With "on top" I'm not talking about z-index, I'm talking about literally being on top of the other. And then I was wondering if there could be a way to make div #2 slideDown()
As far as I tested, jQuery slideDown() or slideUp() works differently.
In the demo I made, when I run
$('.item-1').slideUp();
The item 2 is sliding up instead of item 1, why is that? I'm getting confused.
Any hints would be appreciated,
Thanks in advance.
window.slide = function() {
$('.item-1').slideUp();
}
.items-container {
height: 400px;
width: 240px;
background-color: #c3c3c3;
display: block;
/* overflow: hidden; */
}
.item {
height: 100%;
width: 240px;
position: relative;
font-size: 30px;
text-align: center;
vertical-alignment: middle;
}
.item-1 {
background-color: red;
}
.item-2 {
float: left;
position: relative;
background-color: green;
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<button onclick="slide()">
Click me!
</button>
<div class="items-container">
<div class="item item-1">
1
</div>
<div class="item item-2">
2
</div>
</div>
jQuery's slideUp() and slideDown() methods animate the height of the matched elements, not position as you seemed to want: http://api.jquery.com/slideUp/.
What you seem to want is to translate the div it so that it moves on top of the first one.
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css3_2dtransforms.asp
window.slideUp = function() {
$('.item-2').addClass('slideUp');
}
window.slideDown = function() {
$('.item-2').removeClass('slideUp');
}
.items-container {
height: 100px;
width: 240px;
background-color: #c3c3c3;
display: block;
/* overflow: hidden; */
}
.item {
height: 100%;
width: 240px;
position: relative;
font-size: 30px;
text-align: center;
vertical-alignment: middle;
}
.item-1 {
background-color: red;
}
.item-2 {
position: relative;
transition: transform linear 1s;
background-color: green;
}
.slideUp
{
transform: translate(0,-100%);
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<button onclick="slideUp()">
SlideUp!
</button>
<button onclick="slideDown()">
SlideDown!
</button>
<div class="items-container">
<div class="item item-1">
1
</div>
<div class="item item-2">
2
</div>
</div>
.slideUp() works by changing the height of the element. As that element gets shorter, following elements will move up the page.
As seen in the documentation:
The .slideUp() method animates the height of the matched elements. This causes lower parts of the page to slide up, appearing to conceal the items.
In your fiddle, item1 slides up as expected and as defined by the doc :
Description: Hide the matched elements with a sliding motion.
So your div slides up and disappears, and item2 doesn't "move", just fills the space in the DOM after item1 has been hidden.
I have a single container div with two child div's. The container div is 100% width. The child div's are left floated. The left div's width is not set because it's contents must decide it's width. The right div's width must be 100% minus the width of the left div.
HTML:
<div class="container">
<div class="message-name"><p>User :</p></div>
<div class="message-msg"><p>Some message</p></div>
</div>
<div class="container">
<div class="message-name"><p>User : </p></div>
<div class="message-msg"><p>Some really long message that breaks to new line because it is too long to stay on this line. mmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmm</p></div>
</div>
CSS:
*{margin:0;pading:0;}
.container{
width:100%;
min-height: 20px;
overflow: auto;
}
.message-name{
height: 20px;
text-align: left;
float: left;
border: 1px solid red;
}
.message-msg{
border: 1px solid red;
min-height: 20px;
float: left;
}
This is my attempt at using JQuery to dynamically set the width of the right div when it is added to the page dynamically:
$(document).ready( function(){
var nameWidth = $(".message-name").last().width();
alert(nameWidth);
$(".message-msg").last().css("width","100%").width($(".message-msg").last() - nameWidth);
});
But it doesn't change anything.
How can I get the width of the left div and then subtract that from the width of the right div to ensure the right div does not break to a new line?
Here is a JSFiddle of my attempt.
Use flexbox, it's support is wide enough for most reasonable purposes.
No scripting required, much more FLEXible!
* {
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
.container {
width:100%;
min-height: 20px;
overflow: auto;
display: flex;
flex-direction: row;
}
.message-name {
height: 20px;
text-align: left;
border: 1px solid red;
flex-shrink: 0;
}
.message-msg {
border: 1px solid red;
min-height: 20px;
flex-grow: 1;
flex-shrink: 1;
}
<div class="container">
<div class="message-name"><p>User :</p></div>
<div class="message-msg"><p>Some message</p></div>
</div>
<div class="container">
<div class="message-name"><p>User : </p></div>
<div class="message-msg"><p>Some really long message that breaks to new line because it is too long to stay on this line. mmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmm</p></div>
</div>
Also on JSFiddle
A more efficient way to use flexbox is to just declare the .message-msg block to be flex: https://jsfiddle.net/84vocLbk/. It'll be situated horizontally next to the .message-name and stretch the available width.
CSS:
.message-msg {
border: 1px solid red;
min-height: 20px;
display: flex;
}
Please try this
$(".message-msg").last().width($(".message-msg").last().width() - nameWidth);
Border 2px for each div is present. If you want to place it to the left then try this
$(".message-msg").last().width($(".message-msg").last().width()-2 - nameWidth-2);
DEMO without removing border
DEMO after removing the border
Add this
$(".message-msg").last().css("width","100%").width($(".message-msg").last().width() - nameWidth);
In thaat line you're setting the width to 100% then changing that width to 100% minus the variable nameWidth You have to get width of last div to do calculations
You can achieve this with CSS.
fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/zof15z6c/7/
This works by setting the overflow of the second div to hidden or auto. if your content is just a text I suggest setting it to hidden since the text would just wrap around.
Changes to the css
.message-msg{
border: 1px solid red;
min-height: 20px;
overflow:hidden;
}
Advantages:
Works on most browsers (tested in IE7)
The browser takes care of window resizes
Cleaner code
Disadvantages
Overflow should either be hidden or auto. This will not be an issue for you since you just have text.
I have this html structure.
<div id="parent">
<div class="child">
<h1>title</h1>
<p>content</p>
</div>
<div class="child">
<h1>title</h1>
<p>content</p>
</div>
<div class="child">
<h1>title</h1>
<p>content</p>
</div>
</div>
and a css for those elements.
#parent{
padding: 0px 8px;
overflow: auto;
max-width: 100%;
max-height: 100%;
}
.child{
width: 300px;
display: block;
}
.child:first-child{
float: left;
}
.child:last-child{
float: right;
}
.child:nth-child(2){
/* what is the style here to make it center? */
}
as you can see from above codes, the objective is to make those child elements align correctly in a neat and clean way so the first child element is floated left, the last child element is floated right and the second child element should be exactly on between those left and right child elements so what im trying to achieve is a three box that align on a equal patern inside a parent div. So far I tried margin: 0 auto; on the middle child element but unfortunately does not work so currently Im looking for a precise solution to achieve my desired output.
Just float it:
#parent{
padding: 0px 8px;
overflow: auto;
max-height: 100%;
float:left;
width:900px;
}
.child{
width: 300px;
display: block;
float:right;
}
here's a fiddle
Float your second div to the left and apply a margin left if needed. If you are trying to create a responsive template, simply use % instead of pixels. I hope that makes sense.
.child:first-child, .child:nth-child(2) {
float:left;
}
.child:nth-child(2) {
/* what is the style here to make it center? */
margin-left: what ever pixels or %;
}
.child:last-child {
float:right;
}
JSFIDDLE (Responsive):
http://jsfiddle.net/83Gg2/
You don't need to float the elements one to other, what you need, is to use display: inline-block property on them, is an hacky but an cleaner approach:
#parent{
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
max-width: 100%;
max-height: 100%;
overflow: hidden;
}
.child{
width: 33%; // Since there are 3 childs.
display: inline-block;
}
The trick and hack here is that you need to comment the space between the child elements in your HTML code, since the property display:inline-block only align elements that have not space between them, so your html code should look like this:
<div id="parent">
<div class="child">
<h1>title</h1>
<p>content</p>
</div><!--
--><div class="child">
<h1>title</h1>
<p>content</p>
</div><!--
--><div class="child">
<h1>title</h1>
<p>content</p>
</div>
</div>
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This is the link to the JsFiddle Check it out
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Flexbox makes this trivial:
#parent {
display: flex;
}
.child {
flex: 1;
}
Add prefixes and older syntax as necessary, conforming to http://caniuse.com/#search=flexbox
I whipped up an example for you: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/tribL
Ok, since you tag jquery also, here is the JQ way.
If you dont want to set fix width to #parent and you want a fix width to .child, use this. Also works in cross browsers and old browsers.
DEMO http://jsfiddle.net/yeyene/VW9mw/
$(document).ready(function(){
moveCenter();
$(window).resize(function() {
moveCenter();
});
});
function moveCenter(){
var mar = ($('#parent').width()-$('.child').width()*3)/2;
$('.child').eq(1).css({
'margin-left': mar+'px',
'margin-right':mar+'px'
});
}