Centering Two Dynamic-Width Divs On The Same Line and - javascript

Okay I apologize if this is a repeat - but I couldn't find any working answers anywhere.
I want to have two divs (50% width each) side by side... so a left and a right - inside of a content div (see photo below).
I want them to have min-widths at 300px and once the page gets smaller than 600px (which is when both divs will reach their mins) I want to divs to wrap.. so one on top the other.
I've tried to do that here: fiddle but am having problems.
Here is EXACTLY what I want:

You're making things hard for yourself! This can be done quickly and easily with inline-blocks. Have a nice JSfiddle.
Lets explain the code:
.wrapper
{
text-align: center; /* specifies that the inline-blocks (which are treated
like text here) will be centered. */
font-size: 0; /* Explained later */
max-width: 1000px; /* Your desired max-width */
position: relative; /* These two lines center your wrapper in the page. */
margin: 0 auto;
}
Now for the inside 50% elements:
.left, .right{
display: inline-block; /* This will treat these divs like a text element.
This will work with the parent's "text-align: center" to center the element. */
min-width: 300px;
width: 50%;
font-size: 16px; /* Explained below */
vertical-align: text-top; /* Explained below */
}
You might be wondering why font-size is included. It is because with this method comes a little quirk - if a font size is kept at default, the div's will have an annoying gap between them that can not be eliminated with margin.
However, adding font-size: 0; to the parent element eliminates this gap. It's weird, and you then have to specify the font-size for your children elements, but it's well worth it for the ease of use.
But there's still a problem - the blue element is pushed down, and isn't flush on the top. This can be remedied with vertical-align: text-top; This will make sure all Div elements are aligned by the tops, so they lay in a more pleasant pattern. This is just another little quirk to remember when using inline-blocks. I know it seems like a lot of things to fix just for something this simple, but compared to your other options using inline-block is the cleanest and easiest way of going about this. (Though if you prefer, jshanley offers a very good alternative using float elements)
Also, because these children are now treated like text, they will automatically reposition themselves when the window gets too small! No media-queries needed. Yay.
Good luck.

Instead of using inline-block which causes some sizing quirks, you can use block elements, and float both .left and .right to the left, giving each a width of 50%.
Then to make them stack you need to do a little calculating. Since you specified that the wrapper is 80% of the page width, and the break point for the content is at 600px (each element 300px) the page's breakpoint would be at 750px since 80% of 750 is 600.
You can make a media query that will only apply styles when the page width is less than 750px and set .left and .right to width 100% to make them stack.
#media only screen and (max-width: 750px) {
.left, .right {
width: 100%;
}
}
It's very simple to implement, and gives a good result, here's the fiddle.

I think both #jshanley and #emn178's answers do the trick, but I want to point something out:
The display: inline-block; css property doesn't work with float: right nor float: left, since when you use the float property, it ALWAYS automatically set the display property to block.
Since you're doing this:
.right{
min-width:100px;
background-color:purple;
height:100%;
margin-left:50%;
display:inline-block;
}
The display: inline-block; property is doing nothing.

left and right could have same layout, so I add a class block.
To use float:left and width:50%, it should work.
http://jsfiddle.net/emn178/mzbku/7/
I add media query, it should be what you want.
But you need to calculate how to set the size.

Related

How to set 100 % height without having a vertical scrollbar?

Context
I have a navbar with a fixed height. I want the space underneath to fill the rest of the screen vertically. I also need to have a fixed height because I have a container inside the page that has a list that is scrollable but without scrolling the whole page overflow: hidden
The Problem
When I set a height on all parent elements of 100% I get a vertical scrollbar. I found some answers on SO about "margin collapse" but nothing that could solve my problem.
100vh also won't work without having a scrollbar.
Here is the css for setup the height (#__next is just a div where next.js renders the page):
html,
body,
#__next {
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
}
The navbar is just a fixed pixel height, and the space below has height: 100%
Here is a screenshot that shows the vertical scrollbar:
I can't find any problems on the chrome inspector.
This is how it should look (design file):
Do you know how to solve this? I need to have both containers from screen "SippetPanel" and "SnippetContent" to take the remaining height without adding a scrollbar. It should also work to have a inner scrollbar with overflow hidden (later on when there are many items in the list like from design file)
Be aware that percentual heights refer to the height of the parent.
You can use calc() to solve your issue:
#__next{
height: calc(100% - navbarpx);
...
}
calc()
For the padding issue you can look into border-box.
I usually just try different vh values, that means 90vh, 95.5vh etc. so it all sits perfectly. You can try to meddle with body position: absolute etc., but that would push everything into the navbar, so then you would need to fix it with additional margin-top.
So the best solution I see is to try different vh values for the height and find the sweet spot. You will need to do the same for different phone types as well with media queries, but it shoudn't really be hard.
One of the ways is to use flex-box, it allows you to explicitly say(take all available height.
.body {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
.navbar {
flex: 30px 0 0;
/* 30px height and do not grow or shint */
background: red;
}
.content {
flex-grow: 1;
/* take all available space */
background: blue;
}
.body, html, body {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
<div class="body">
<div class="navbar"></div>
<div class="content"></div>
</div>

Dynamically Update Width of Float Left Div

I've looked through a variety of other posts, and to no avail, I have yet to find the kind of solution I'm looking for. Many solutions involved people using CSS with methods like fixing the right and left (which wouldn't make it worth floating and a waste of brain power) or to word-wrap at a certain amount to the right (which also defeats the purpose of what I'm trying to do.
My problem exists like this:
I have 3 divs: wrapper, menu, and content. Wrapper is used to apply a background to 100% of the page, and create extra styling properties to be inherited by other CSS. Menu is for my menu script I coded in JQuery and it takes up 400px of space on the left hand of the screen and descends downwards at 100vh. I may change it to fixed, but it doesn't change the issue. Anyway, content is the rest of the page; let's say the other 80% of it. I have both menu and content floating left and it works just fine. However, until text wraps at the end of the screen, the div goes under (disappears in my case) the screen and no longer viewable.
My solution:
function simplyWidth(changed, menu1, wrapper){
var wrapperWidth = $(wrapper).width();
var menuWidth = $(menu1).width();
var newWidth = wrapperWidth - menuWidth;
$(changed).css("width", newWidth);
};
Does it work? Of course it works. The only problem is, it isn't dynamic at all! It resizes to the screen once, and you have to refresh the page just to get it to update again. Is there a way to take that JQuery/Javascript and make it so I can just update it every .1 of a second? Would that make the page lag? Or am I doing it wrong.
Also assume that my HTML is spot on, and it needs no corrections. The reason I won't disclose it is because there's too much there for me to post and to not confuse the living crap out of you people.
This is the basic layout of my page:
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="menu1"></div>
<div id="content"></div>
</div>
As for my wrapper CSS:
#wrapper {
width: 100%;
background-color:black;
margin: 0 auto;
top: 0px;
overflow:hidden;
height: 100vh;
background-image:url(Assets/background1.jpg);
}
Menu1 CSS:
#menu1 {
margin: 0 auto;
height: 100%;
width: 400px;
background-color:#191919;
color:white;
z-index: 400;
float: left;
}
Content CSS:
#content {
float:left;
color:white;
height: 100vh;
}
listen to resize event and call the same function when the window is resized:
$(window).resize(simplyWidth);

DIV height 100% for remaining space under another div

So I have a header bar for a page I made with a height of 150px. Under that area I want another DIV to fill the remaining space (width and height) all across the screen and to the bottom of the screen. I've tried setting height: 100% for the DIV, but that causes the screen to become scrollable and I only want it to fill the remainder of the page. NOTE: There is NO footer or anything under it.
Using jQuery/Javascript is acceptable, but CSS-only is prefered (if possible). If using jQuery, please explain the proper way to have it implemented into the page (I'm assuming $(function() {...}); under the <style> tag in the head.
I've tried searching for a result before, but nothing seems to work correctly.
tl;dr I basically made 3 options for you. click on the 'like this' in the below paragraph to see what they all look like without any text. Click on the A). B). and C). links in the paragraphs below that to see the difference between the three options. Check how each one scrolls differently, they are all different I promise. After you look at all three you can read how the one you want is implemented. (that is if you like any of them.) Hope you like it, no problem if you don't :)
I'll have a go at this, because it honestly depends on what you're going after there are multiple ways to look at it and it depends on your end goal. I will cover three possible scenarios: (which all look the same without text mind you, like this, but if you want to see what they look like with text click the letters. Make sure you scroll the page to see the difference between them.)
(Just as a side note I based A). and B). off how Twitter Bootstrap does it.)
A). You just want it to look like one div on top of the other (header div on top of main-content div) and display like that, but you still want the page to scroll if the 2nd div's text overflows. In this implementation when they scroll will move the header out of view, but if you don't want the header div to move out of view that leads me to
B). Same as the first header div on top of main-content div, but when they scroll the header div will still stay in place at the top instead of moving out of view.
and last of all,
C). You really do want the div to stretch to the bottom of the screen and never have the scroll bar for the whole page. This could be used in some cases, for instance, Spotify makes a nice music app with this kind of style so that you never scroll the whole page just panes in the page.
Ok so first here is the html code used to construct all three of them
<body>
<div class="header"></div>
<div class="main-content"></div>
</body>
And now to the fun part...
I will provide a Fiddle for the following examples, and with the css I will put the necessary code at the top and the unneccessary code at the bottom. (The html may have some unneccasary text so just ignore that. I just want you to see the page scrolls differently on the three.)
A).
no need to rephrase what it is so I'll just show you the code that is necessary.
First, here is A). without the text just so you can see what it looks like the others until the content gets too large.
Here is the fiddle with the text so you can see how it differs.
Here is the necessary css for A). (the background-color isn't completely necessary, but it is somewhat necessary to show the point.)
body {
padding-top: 150px;
background-color: #ddd;
}
.header {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
height: 150px;
background-color: #676767;
}
and now for...
B).
First, here is B). without the text just so you can see what it looks like the others until the content gets too large.
Here is the fiddle with the text so you can see how it differs.
Here is the necessary css for B).
body {
padding-top: 150px;
background-color: #ddd;
}
.header {
position: fixed;
top: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
height: 150px;
background-color: #676767;
}
As you can probably tell the only difference is the position: fixed on the .header, but look at the two examples to see the difference it makes.
and now last of all C).,
C).
First, here is C). without the text just so you can see what it looks like the others until the content gets too large.
Here is the fiddle with the text so you can see how it differs, and with I'll call option 1 where it has a scroll bar just for that area's overflowing content.
Here is the fiddle with the text so you can see how it differs, and with I'll call option 2 where it hides the overflowing content. (This is honestly bad practice and I wouldn't do it. So if I may suggest. I would go with option 1 of C).)
Here is the necessary css for C).
body {
padding-top: 150px;
}
.header {
position: fixed;
top: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
height: 150px;
background-color: #676767;
}
.main-content {
position: fixed;
top: 150px;
left: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
background-color: #ddd;
}
I won't explain it, but here is an article on positioning that will.
here is the only necessary css for option 1 is adding overflow-y: auto to .main-content, but if you want to go with option 2 which I don't suggest you can go with overflow-y: hidden on .main-content
Well that's all for my post which is probably too long for most people sorry if I bored you, but I'm just trying to help. Hope you figure out the layout you want. This is only a few examples of the layouts possible with good old css. If you don't get the layout you want from this or any other post feel free to send me a message by commenting below, and I'll be happy to answer it sometime. Hope this helped. If it didn't that's fine too. :)
You can try css3 flexbox.
http://jsfiddle.net/wL9aM/1/
.container {
display: -webkit-flex;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
height: 700px;
}
.header {
height: 200px;
background: red;
}
.main {
-webkit-flex: 1;
flex: 1;
background: blue;
}
try using script..
var window_h = $(window).height();
var header_h = $("header").height(); //This is what you said you had 150px
$(".filler_div").height(window_h - header_h);
You can also put that inside a function() so that you can add it also when you resize the browser, the filler space also adjusts...
function setfillerDivHeight(){
//the code above
}
$(document).ready(function(){
setFillerDivHeight(); //the initial setting of height
});
$(window).resize(function(){
setFillerDivHeight(); //reapply setting of height when window resizes
});
<div class="full-page-height-wrapper">
<header></header>
<main></main>
</div>
html,body {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
}
header {
height: 150px;
}
.full-page-height-wrapper {
min-height: 100%;
position: relative;
}
CODE: http://fiddle.jshell.net/N7zJg/9/
preview: http://fiddle.jshell.net/N7zJg/9/show/
I don't think you cannot acheive that in pure CSS.
So, there is two different solutions:
1) You can put the 150px div in the 100% div.
2) You can do it with jQuery:
If your top div is <div id="A"> and the second one is <div id="B">, you'll have:
var b = $("#B");
var height = $("body").height() - b.position().top;
b.css({ height: height });
Feel free to adapt the code if you have some margins.
Found a solution myself finally. Doing it this way makes the design more responsive since (if i choose to add something to the bottom), it will automatically resize the div's height.
.container {
display: table;
}
.row {
display: table-row;
}
.column {
display: table-column;
}
#fullDiv {
height: 100%;
}
I found two solution.
The one is that I have must set the div in the absolute position.
the div float over the screen.
another one is use table-row display.
If you use just CSS, you cant achieve your task by giving 100% height to div. Because what basically CSS is doing is giving 100% height to your DIV plus giving 150 px to above header. Consider giving height of DIV less than 100% or some static value such as 600px or 700px.
Alternate is having a class of DIV with min-height 100% and inside it putting your header and body.

Set Div to take up remaining height in parent with a sibling that has floated children

I have three components, a #parent, and 2 of it's children #top and #bottom.
#parent is not of a fixed size.
#top has children that are floated, and does not have a fixed size (it's children can change size). To fix it's height because of floating children, it uses this:
#top:after {
content: " ";
display: block;
clear: both;
visibility: hidden;
line-height: 0;
height: 0;
}
I want #bottom to take up the remaining height in the parent, If I use height:100% like normal it makes it overflow the same size as #top's height.
I have also seen people use overflow:none; but this makes some of my content in #bottom get cut off.
How can I make #bottom take up the remaining height in #parent?
EDIT: I made a jFiddle to show the problem. Also, I need to support back to IE 7. I am open to using Javascript/jQuery.
if you float the top element then use height: 100%; this should solve the issue:
#top{
background-color: blue;
width:100%;
float:left;
}
see: http://jsfiddle.net/SKkAp/1/
What this does is now bottom actually fills the full parent since top is floated. But the content of bottom is pushed out of the way of the floated top making it appear as if bottom is filling the remaining space, where it's really filling the whole parent. Hopefully you can make sense of that. Haha

DIVs overlapping. Need to move it over so they don't

Basically what the title says. Though the spacing needs to be the same on any resoulution. I tried to do it with css but on different resolutions it moves around a bit. It dosn't matter how you do it (javascript, css, html), as long as it works.
You can view the site that im having issues on here.
If the error is the Fatal Error. Check Code. bit at the top, then do this
Change
#newscontent {
top: 4px;
left: 14%;
position: fixed;
}
to
#newscontent {
top: 4px;
left: 18%; //CHANGE HERE
position: fixed;
}
This will keep the text from overlapping the Latest News bit, at least until the page shrinks smaller than the BB.
Even better would be to make #newscontent a span and place it inside the #news div, so there would be no overlapping or separation no matter what the screen size.
only #topbar should be positioned absolute (if needed), child divs can have float left and margin/padding right
OK, so bottom line is you don't want to solve this using absolute or fixed positioning with left-offset percentages. This approach will fail depending on screen resolution and length of text. A better approach is to float the items, which will allow them to "push" the next element to the right, if need be. Try this:
First, remove all your CSS for your #serverstats, #news, and #newscontent selectors.
Second, on all three of those divs, add a menu-item class:
<div id="serverstats" class="menu-item">...</div>
<div id="news" class="menu-item">...</div>
<div id="newscontent" class="menu-item">...</div>
Third, add the following CSS to your style sheet:
.menu-item {
float: left;
font: bold 120% Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
margin-left: 15px;
padding-top: 3px;
text-decoration: none;
}

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