I am trying to create a webpage with two div sections displayed next to each other horizontally. In one of them I want to append content that will change over time. I noticed that if I use css display:inline-block to align the two div sections and then I use append() to insert a paragraph in the first section, the second one is pushed down to align with the paragraph block. I know I can fix this problem by using float:left instead, but I still don't understand why inline-block behaves that way. I wonder if there is a way to make inline-block work in case I really need to use that instead of float. Here is JsFiddle: Link
<div id="left">left</div>
<div id="right">right</div>
#left, #right{
background-color:#ff0;
width: 100px;height: 100px;
display:inline-block;}
<script>
$("#left").append("<p>Paragraph</p>");
</script>
when using display: inline-block you have to add vertical-align: top if you want the elements to display at the top:
JSFIDDLE
The reason being inline-block elements are set to baseline by default
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I'm creating an HTML/CSS application, and I'm a bit stuck.
Let's say that I have 2 elements positioned next to eachother display: inline-block
Every element has again a couple of elements which are placed next to eachother.
See the following illustration that tries to explain it:
So, the image below describes 3 different levels of elements:
Level 1: Red - Outer element
Level 2: Yellow - Wrapper element
Level 3: Green - Content
In HTML, this could be constructed writting like the following:
<ul id="holder">
<li>
<div>
<div class="col">Col 1</div>
<div class="col">Col 2</div>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="col">Col 1</div>
<div class="col">Col 2</div>
</li>
</ul>
The UL represents the red element, the LI represents the yellow elements and the DIV elements represents the green elements.
Now, let's say that our red element has a fixed width and I place the overflow on hidden. This means that when I resize the page, the elements on the right dissapear when they don't fit the page.
But here the problem arizes, when I do resize the window, and the window becomes too small to render everything, immediately, the latest LI element is not visible on the screen anymore.
Is there any CSS way to make sure that no the LI element are hidden but the DIV elements inside the LI? When both DIV elements are hidden, off course the LI element can be hidden aswell since it's empty?
If there's no CSS way to do this, anyone minds putting me in the right direction by using JavaScript or something else?
Here's a jsFiddle to explain it a bit more.
Kind regards
The li disappears from view because it's in display: inline-block.
As soon as the window isn't wide enough, it moves below the first li.
You can see this happen if you release the #holder's height (height:auto).
The solution is to add white-space : nowrap to force the li to stay in one line.
Updated fiddle :
https://jsfiddle.net/zLqfe4z8/4/
It's not a problem of your elements hiding because there's not enough width, it's because they're wrapping because there's not enough width (and then being hidden by the overflow: hidden).
You can see this happening if you remove the height constraint on your wrapper:
#holder { overflow: hidden; border: 1px solid red; }
The fix is simple, stop it from wrapping using white-space: nowrap:
#holder { white-space:nowrap; overflow: hidden; border: 1px solid red; height: 52px; }
In my website, in asp.net 4 / vb, I have a situation where I need to include a class, "noprint", in my footer, as defined in print.css. But I already have a span class, so I wrapped div tags around it. And my tr's and td's all have classes in them already.
Basically, I have this in my footer:
Knowledge Base | Contact USS | Copyright © USS Vision Inc. 2012 | 888-888-8888
And the only thing I want printed out is the phone number.
I use
<div class="noprint">whatever I want omitted when printing</div>
And that works fine. But when viewing the webpage, I don't want the 888-888-8888 to appear below everything else, so I can't use div tags, I suppose. The noprint works great, but is there any way I can use the noprint in my footer without putting the phone number below the rest of the footer due to the div tags? Thanks for any help anybody can offer!
Update: My print.css stylesheet looks like this:
#media screen
{
/* whatever styles you have for display */
}
#media print
{
.noprint { display: none; }
}
So I don't know how to make the div tags display: inline, but I will search around and try to figure it out!
gd1 is absolutely right about span/div and display inline/block, but on a side note I'd add that what you're trying to achieve is often done with a list (as it really is a list of links in your footer)
<ul class="footer">
<li class="no-print">KnowledgeBase</li>
...
<li>888-888-888</li>
<ul>
with a css like
.footer li {
list-style-type: none;
display: inline;
padding: 0 10px;
border-right: 1px solid black;
}
.footer li:last-child {
border-right: none;
}
hope that helps
Use <span>.
However you can make a div "inline" using the style display: inline, but in this case you just need a <span>.
use css
<div style="display:inline" class="noprint">whatever I want omitted when printing </div>
If not use the inline counterpart span, as a answer already said. But remember inline display donot have block properties like height, top-margin, bottom-margin.
If you still want to use an extra div, I recommend using display:inline, but if you just want the whole footer to have both classes you can do that as well.
You can add multiple classes like this:
<span class='footer lower noprint'></span>
In CSS this would look like:
.footer.lower.noprint{ display:none; }
Alternatively, the 'noprint' class will also work without specifying all three classes.
Here's an example: http://jsfiddle.net/yKRyp/
well set the specific width and height of the div using CSS and apply float
<div style='float:left; border:1px solid blue; width:100px; height:100px'>
div 1
</div>
<div style='float:left; border:1px solid red; width:100px; height:100px'>
div 2
</div><div style='float:left; border:1px solid orange; width:100px; height:100px'>
div 3
</div>
a live example here
http://jsfiddle.net/AGWGs/
div is a block-type element, it is usually used as to group and contain block-type elements.
Using CSS, you can change the display type of any element, however.
In a quick example:
display:inline Makes an element to show inline, they can be put side by side. span element is an inline element. This cannot use block-type-only css rules such as: margin, padding, width, height ...
display:block Makes an element to be displayed as a block. Unless inherited values or given CSS rules, they will take a line long, blocked. They can take block-type CSS rules. And they can be stacked side-by-side using float. However, unless the line is cleared(clear: left, clear:right or clear:both), following elements after the floated element will overflow the previous container.
display:inline-block Makes an element have block features, with inline displaying. This is pretty similiar to using float and making block-type elements shown in-line. However this rule is IE8+ support only, so I would encourage you to use floating to keep the maximum compatibility.
P.S: There are hacks that can be used to have display:inline-block feature used on IE5.5+.
I am making a horizontal content slider, and need to put an arbitrary number of equally-sized elements in a row inside the slider div, so i can shift the slider div back and forth and display one element at a time on the page. These elements could be anything: divs, imgs, whatever.
Currently I am floating all the elements, and in order to prevent them from dropping onto the next row, using javascript to sum up the widths of all the elements on page load and manually fix the width of the slider in order to fit all of them.
Naturally I do not want to do this. I have looked at the CSS Flexible Box Model and it seems it would do what i need, but it does not appear very often outside of the W3C specification and i'm not sure how well supported it is. Does anyone have any experience using it? Apart from that, is there any other non-javascript way of lining up a bunch of divs side by side and having the parent expand laterally to fit?
Flexbox isn't really standardised or widely-supported enough to use yet. It's supported in newer browsers including IE10, but it's likely to be a long time before that's your baseline.
There are some ways to work around it. For example you can use white-space: nowrap to make inline children not fall down to the next line, in combination with float: left to make the parent shrink-wrap its width around the children. Then if you want the children to be stackable blocks you could use tables or inline blocks:
#slider { white-space: nowrap; float: left; border: dotted blue 1px;}
#slider .box { display: inline-block; width: 100px; border: dotted red 1px; }
<div id="slider">
<span class="box">foo</span
><span class="box">bar</span
><span class="box">bof</span
><span class="box">zot</span
>...
</div>
(Using <span> is needed for inline-block in IE7, and the odd > placement is to prevent unwanted whitespace between the boxes.)
As you may have seen, every browser may render things differently, but if you apply the style display:inline; to the elements in the slider, and width:auto; to the container element, they should not wrap.
I have three divs with display: inline-block. In every div i have div with display: none when im trying to show hiding div with $('#div-id').show(1000) nearest divs 'jump around'
What should i change? I do like to see div under div just draw and the left or right div doesn't change his place.
For example two divs with my problem there (hide div shows up onchange in the textbox)
http://jsfiddle.net/WZCJu/13/
I added this CSS:
#amount-div, #specific-div {
width: 300px;
vertical-align: top
}
Version without the width, you may like it better:
http://jsfiddle.net/WZCJu/15/
Try using css's visibility property instead since it retains the element's position in the flow.
Docs: http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_class_visibility.asp
Example:
<div id="herp" style="width: 100px; height: 40px; visibility: hidden;">plarp</div>
<div id="derp" style="width: 100px; height: 40px; visibility: visible;">slarp</div>
If you change the divs to use float: left; with a specified width you can avoid the "jump around".
See my updated example at: http://jsfiddle.net/WZCJu/12/
I changed the following:
<div id="amount-div" style="display:inline-block;">
...
<div id="specific-div" style="display:inline-block;">
To use floats with a specified width.
<div id="amount-div" style="float:left;width:220px;">
...
<div id="specific-div" style="float:left;width:220px;">
I also changed the <br> tag which preceeds the submit button so that it will clear the floated divs like so (though, there are better ways of handling that in my opinion):
<br style="clear:both">
display none removes the element completely from the document. there wont be any space reserved for it. so when u bring it back(show) it ll rearrange the nearby divs. so try using visibility:hidden which will retain the space but keep the div hidden..
Changing an HTML element from display: none to display: block or some other value will always cause it to change the flow of other elements around it in the tree. To prevent the DIVs from jumping around, you have a few options. Here are a couple simple ones:
First, you could "pad" the DIV in another DIV with a fixed size. For example:
<div style="width: 100%; height: 2em;">
<div id="js-amount" style="display: none">
<p>You will achieve this goal by:</p>
<p id="achieved-date"> <p>
<p id="weekly-limit-amount">Your weekly limit will be decreased by $100</p>
</div>
</div>
Secondly, you could use absolute positioning to remove your DIV from the flow of the document:
<div id="js-amount" style="display: none; position: absolute; top: 200px; left: 50px;">
<p>You will achieve this goal by:</p>
<p id="achieved-date"> <p>
<p id="weekly-limit-amount">Your weekly limit will be decreased by $100</p>
</div>
You must set a fixed size for your divs, so when the new one appears, it's constrained with the given side. I updated your JSFiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/WZCJu/16/
Have a look at how I constrain the size for your divs in the CSS. To improve layout, I took the liberty to add some styling to the submit button, so the HTML is a little bit modified too.
If you have any trouble understanding my solution, ask some questions.
When using display: none, the element does not render at all so it doesn't use any space on the rendered web page. I think you might want to use visibility:hidden to hide your element but still make the space usage calculation.
EDIT: It appears jQuery method works only on the display style so my answer is not applicable and indeed a fixed offset is necessary to avoid side effects in the page flow.
I have a container div element that has overflow:hidden on it. Unfortunately this property is required on it because of the way the site is made.
Inside this div it's all the site content, including some tooltips. These tooltips are displayed with jQuery when you mouse over a link or something.
The problem is that some of these tooltips will display partially hidden because of the overflow thing above, because they are positioned outside the container div...
Is there any way to be able to show a specific element from inside this container, even if it's out of its boundaries? Maybe a javascript solution?
the html looks like this:
<div style="overflow:hidden; position:relative;">
the main content
<div style="position:absolute;left:-100px;top:-50px;"> the tooltip thing </div>
</div>
try this:
<div style="position:relative;">
<div style="overflow:hidden; position: relative; width: {any}; height: {any};">the main content<div>
<div style="position:absolute;left:-100px;top:-50px;"> the tooltip thing </div>
</div>
just place your main content to another div inside the main div and give provided css to hide the content if overflowing...
CSS works like a box, and sometimes, you have elements "flowing out". Setting overflow: hidden on the main element hides contents that flow out of this box.
Consider the following:
HTML
<div class="box">This box has a height and a width. This means that if there is too much content to be displayed within the assigned height, there will be an overflow situation. If overflow is set to hidden then any overflow will not be visible.</div>
<p>This content is outside of the box.</p>
CSS
.box {
border: 1px solid #333333;
width: 200px;
height: 100px;
overflow: hidden;
}`
This outputs the following:
Note that the rest of the texts that overflow are hidden.
if overflow:hidden is to contain floats, then there are other ways that would allow tooltips to not be cut off. look foe clearfix:after