I've been spacing list items using the technique found in this answer, but a recent change is requiring me to insert the elements dynamically. I have found that for some reason the approach completely stops working if the elements are inserted dynamically. Why?
This fiddle demonstrates the static and dynamic versions.
As seen in the linked question, the basic idea is below. It's just when the HTML is inserted to the page via Javascript, the menu items don't justify.
HTML
<div id="menuwrapper">
<div class="menuitem">menu</div>
<div class="menuitem">menu</div>
...
<span class="stretcher"></span>
</div>
CSS
#menuwrapper, #dynamic {
height: auto;
background: #000;
text-align: justify;
-ms-text-justify: distribute-all-lines;
text-justify: distribute-all-lines;
min-width: 300px; /* just for demo */
}
#dynamic {
background: blue;
}
.menuitem {
width: auto;
height: 40px;
vertical-align: top;
display: inline-block;
*display: inline;
zoom: 1
background: #000;
color: yellow;
}
.stretcher {
width: 100%;
display: inline-block;
font-size: 0;
line-height: 0;
}
There was no spaces between elements.
take a look jsfiddle
document.getElementById("dynamic").innerHTML = '<div class="menuitem">CAREERS</div> <div class="menuitem">TRADE</div> <div class="menuitem">CONTACT US</div> <div class="menuitem">PRIVACY POLICY</div> <div class="menuitem">T&CS</div> <div class="menuitem">SITEMAP</div> <span class="stretcher"></span>';
Some related articles:
- Fighting the Space Between Inline Block Elements
You can do what apple website does and make your menu items display: table-cell;
This is probably not completely cross browser compatible (e.g. IE6 will probably fail), but it does not require any javascript at all
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I have inserted a jQuery event into my webpage which allows for a div in my page to expand to reveal more content. I'm having a problem with the surrounding divs not moving down to accommodate for the space needed to display the expanded div.
I initially tested this div in a separate document and found it to work successfully without too much fuss. I worked with other divs to be sure that they'd move upon clicking the event. Upon inserting the same code into my already developed web page however, the surrounding divs remain fixed and the expansion works behind those divs. Why might this be? Could it be that one of my divs beneath the expanded one is somehow fixed?
I researched the CSS property 'position' but can't make any link between these contributing to the problem.
Incase the problem relates to that of my expanded div (instead of the surrounding divs), I shall only post the code for the HTML, CSS & Javascript/jQuery that directly relates to that particular part of my webpage. Please request any further code if you feel it's necessary.
Thank you for taking time to read.
Here is my code:
HTML
<div id="showmorelocations-container"><p>More Locations</p>
<div class="toggler-expand">
</div>
</div>
CSS
#showmorelocations-container {
height: 100px;
line-height: 150px;
width: auto;
margin: auto;
margin-bottom: 50px;
}
#showmorelocations-container p {
text-align: center;
font-family: 'Hind', sans-serif;
font-size: 20px;
font-weight: bold;
text-decoration: none;
position: relative;
top: 50%;
transform: translateY(-50%);
line-height: 100px;
}
.toggler-expand {
height: 400px;
width: auto;
background-color: #FFBBBB;
display: none;
margin-top: -25px;
}
jQuery
$(function() {
$('#showmorelocations-container').click(function() {
$(this).find('.toggler-expand').slideToggle();
});
});
The issue is most likely related to the fact that you have set a fixed height for your parent container and try to expand the a child.
Change the following line:
#showmorelocations-container {
height: 100px; // change px to %
...
}
to
#showmorelocations-container {
height: 100%;
...
}
in order to allow the parent to expand if the child expands too.
Check the fiddle here: https://jsfiddle.net/n1dwz8v1/
Is this the behavior you are looking for?
$( document ).ready(function() {
$('#showmorelocations-container').click(function() {
$(this).find('.toggler-expand').slideToggle();
});
});
#showmorelocations-container {
height: 100px;
line-height: 150px;
width: auto;
margin: auto;
margin-bottom: 50px;
background-color:#ccc
}
#showmorelocations-container p {
text-align: center;
font-family: 'Hind', sans-serif;
font-size: 20px;
font-weight: bold;
text-decoration: none;
position: relative;
top: 50%;
transform: translateY(-50%);
line-height: 100px;
}
.toggler-expand {
height: 400px;
width: auto;
background-color: #FFBBBB;
display: none;
margin-top: -25px;
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="showmorelocations-container">
<p>More Locations</p>
<div class="toggler-expand">
<p>Content</p>
</div>
</div>
use this :
$(function() {
$('#showmorelocations-container p').click(function() {
$(this).parent().find('.toggler-expand').slideToggle();
});
});
I have two <div>s with absolute position. One is displayed and the other is display: none on load. When the link on the visible one is clicked it is moved and the other is displayed.
I have a third <div> with link that I would like to display directly below these. Since they’re both position: absolute I have not been able to find a way to do this. I have found various solutions, but most of them are workarounds for using absolute position. Since my <div>s need to show ontop of each other I unfortunately can’t remove the absolute positioning.
As such I have tried various combinations of position: absolute and position: relative on the three <div>s, but so far nothing has worked.
JSFiddle with my problem: https://jsfiddle.net/dagz9tLw/1/
<div> with id linkbar is the one that needs to be at the bottom.
The other two <div>s don’t have a set height so margin-top won’t work. linkbar also needs to be just below the <div>s and not right at the bottom of the page.
I experienced that using a div acting as a buffer is quite useful and easy to implement for this purpose. You just set it above your div#linkbar and adjust it's height on load and when the div#front get's repositioned:
$("#topBuffer").css("height", $("#front").offset().top + $("#front").height());
$("#showLink").click(function() {
if (!$("#back").is(":visible")) {
$("#back").show();
$("#front").animate({
'marginLeft': "+=30px"
});
$("#front").animate({
'marginTop': "+=20px"
});
$("#topBuffer").animate({
'height': "+=20px"
});
}
return true;
});
.front {
width: 400px;
display: block;
border: 2px solid #000000;
text-align: center;
position: absolute;
margin-top: 20px;
z-index: 10;
background-color: white;
}
.back {
display: none;
width: 400px;
border: 2px solid #000000;
text-align: center;
position: absolute;
z-index: 1;
margin-top: 20px;
background-color: white;
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="front" class="front">
<a id="showLink" href="javascript:void(0);">front</a>
</div>
<div id="back" class="back">
back
</div>
<div id="topBuffer"></div>
<div id="linkbar">
test
test
test
</div>
I would like to place an image centrally within a div (fiddle). Because I want that div to inherit that div's height from another one that is floating next to it, I had to use this trick.
For that reason, the solutions described here don't seem to be working.
The requirement is that no other behavior is modified, but the code can be as long as the effect achieved is the same. I am also willing to accept solutions involving javascript, if necessary.
<div class="container">
<div class="logo-div">
<img class="logo" src="http://bit.ly/1qCKrtJ" />
</div>
<div class="text-div">
<h4 style="display: inline;">Because Sometimes It Takes a Village</h4><br />
What about robots the size of tea cups that scoot around on tiny wheels, snapping pictures with miniature cameras and keeping track of where they are in relation to dozens of others?
</div>
.container {
background: green;
overflow: hidden;
}
.logo-div {
background: yellow;
width: 150px;
float: left;
padding-bottom: 1000px;
margin-bottom: -1000px;
}
.text-div {
background: blue;
float: left;
max-width: 350px;
padding-bottom: 1000px;
margin-bottom: -1000px;
}
.logo {
width: 100px;
}
I have modified the code so that the logo image can be center aligned horizontally as well as vertically.
JSFiddle
HTML code:
<div class="container">
<div class="image-div">
<div class="logo-div">
<img class="logo" src="http://bit.ly/1qCKrtJ" />
</div>
</div>
<div class="text-div">
<h4 style="display: inline;">Because Sometimes It Takes a Village</h4><br />
What about robots the size of tea cups that scoot around on tiny wheels, snapping pictures with miniature cameras and keeping track of where they are in relation to dozens of others?
</div>
</div>
Css code:
.container {
background: green;
overflow: hidden;
}
.logo-div {
background: #FFFF00;
display: table-cell;
height: 100px;
text-align: center;
vertical-align: middle;
width: 150px;
}
.text-div {
background: blue;
float: left;
max-width: 350px;
}
.image-div {
float: left;
}
.logo {
width: 100px;
}
If you have further issue, please comment on the code, and modify the jsfiddle.
Regards D.
There are two ways for this. One you can set Margin property of any component to 'auto' if you want it to align at the middle. Of course you can set this property in CSS instead of using style tag.
<img src="http://bit.ly/1qCKrtJ" style="margin:auto;"/>
Another is using center tag
(As 'margin:auto' may not work for images for some browsers however it works for div tag.)
<center>
<img src="http://bit.ly/1qCKrtJ" alt="Logo">
</center>
If you need just horizontal center, try:
.logo-div {text-align: center;}
img {margin: 0 auto;}
http://jsfiddle.net/yXNnd/18/
JS version
Using jQuery (I'm too lazy :))
http://jsfiddle.net/yXNnd/25/
Add this js
$(document).ready(function(){
var img = $('.logo-div img');
var top = ($('.container').height() / 2) - (img.height() / 2);
img.css('margin-top', top + 'px');
});
Does anyone have any tips on how to fix the below problem of the labels and text-areas being so unsymmetric? What's the best way to structure a form like this?
I was thinking of having one div floating left (with the labels) and another div with the text areas floating right, but I didn't quite manage to structure it correctly.
It was your idea, I just wrote it...
Fiddle
HTML Layout
<div>
<div class="left">
<span>Comment</span>
<span>Tags</span>
<span>Category List</span>
</div>
<div class="right">
<input type="text" />
<input type="text" />
<select></select>
</div>
</div>
CSS
body { background: #222; color: white; }
.left, .right { width: 50%; float: left; }
.left { text-align: right; }
.right { text-align: left; }
span, input, select { display: block; padding: 5px; margin: 5px; }
span { font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; font-weight: bold; }
input { width: 200px; height: 30px; box-sizing:border-box; }
select { width: 200px; height: 30px; box-sizing:border-box; }
The best way is to use BootStrap framework styling issue. you can enter the website and learn more.. alternative way is to put the labels and the input fields (select fields also) in table and they will be organized.
The better to submit BootStrap otherwise use the simple way. and there is no floating issues and that's better!
If you want to use divs, then make them both float:left and immediately after put <div style="clear:both"></div>. Then they will be displayed correctly.
Personally I use tables for this though, like in Islam Attrash's answer.
Is there a CSS way to vertically align my div within the body element?
The thing is my div will have a different height each time, so its not constant.
These are the things I've tried but they dont work:
body { vertical-align: middle; }
#mainContent {
vertical-align: middle;
}
// Also this
body { margin-top: 20%; margin-bottom: 20%; }
I did it without table: (demo on dabblet.com)
The main trick in this demo is that in the normal flow of elements going from top to bottom, so the margin-top: auto is set to zero. However, for an absolutely positioned element acts the same distribution of free space, and similarly can be centered vertically at the specified top and bottom (does not work in IE7).
This trick will work with any sizes of div.
HTML:
<div></div>
CSS:
div {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
background-color: red;
position: absolute;
top:0;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
margin: auto;
}
A common problem indeed. I have seen many people offering straight css solutions for this but they all require knowing the height of the element needing to be centered, so no help there.
I usually do it this way using jquery:
$(document).ready(function(){
site.resize();
$(window).resize(function(){
site.resize();
});
});
var site = {
resize: function(){
var new_margin = Math.ceil(($(window).height() - $('#mainContent').height()) / 2);
$('#mainContent').css('margin-top', new_margin + 'px');
}
};
Surprisingly (or not), the vertical-align tool actually works best for this job. Best of all, no Javascript is required.
In the following example, I am positioning the outer class in the middle of the body, and the inner class in the middle of the outer class.
Preview: http://jsfiddle.net/tLkSV/513/
HTML:
<div id="container">
<span></span><div class="outer">
<span></span><div class="inner">
</div>
</div>
</div>
CSS:
html, body {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0; }
#container {
text-align: center;
height: 100%; }
span {
height: 100%;
vertical-align: middle;
display: inline-block; }
.outer {
width: 100px;
height: 200px;
padding: 0;
border: 1px solid #000;
vertical-align: middle;
display: inline-block; }
.inner {
background: red;
width: 30px;
height: 20px;
vertical-align: middle;
display: inline-block; }
Vertical align works by aligning the centers of elements that are next to each other. Applying vertical-align to a single element does absolutely nothing. If you add a second element that has no width but is the height of the container, your single element will move to vertically center with this no-width element, thus vertically centering it. The only requirements are that you set both elements to inline (or inline-block), and set their vertical-align attribute to vertical-align: middle.
Note: You may notice in my code below that my <span> tag and <div> tag are touching. Because they are both inline elements, a space will actually add a space between the no-width element and your div, so be sure to leave it out.
You can do it without using tables, and without adding extra elements:
<ul>
<li>One short item</li>
<li>Any real long text...</li>
<li>Another short item</li>
</ul>
And then the CSS:
ul {
list-style-type: none;
display: table-row;
}
li {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
}
You can see it here
It would work with any other kind of hierarchy, including div, p, etc.
Honestly, my opinion is often that if you're doing vertical alignment you should still be using a table. I know it's often frowned upon, but it is still the simplest and cleanest way to vertically center something.
HTML
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<div>Your DIV here.</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
CSS
td {vertical-align: middle;}