Showing div at the center of the webpage - javascript

I have a div showing "Please wait". The markup for the div is
<div id="pleaseWait" class="divOuterPleaseWait" style="left:expression((documentElement.clientWidth-this.offsetWidth)/2);top:expression(documentElement.scrollTop+((documentElement.clientHeight-this.clientHeight)/2 ));">Please Wait...</div>
This is working fine with IE7. In IE7 the div is show at the center of the page. But excepted behariour is not optained in other browsers (ie. IE8,IE9,FireFox,Google Chrome etc). What should i give to get this working in all browsers? Also can I move the inline style to the my CSS?

A good way to center a div is to use fixed positioning, top and left set to 50% and left and top margin to the negative of half of the width/height:
http://jsfiddle.net/fLa4S/

See this SO answer, or this jsfiddle (press the 'confirm' button). The css you showed in your question is browser specific (especially: IE). In javascript you can center an element by determining the 'viewport' dimensions (height/width of the available screen) and position your element relative to those dimension. The links here demonstrate a way to do that.

It doesn't work in "other browsers" because you are using expressions in your CSS which are 1) incredibly bad for a variety of reasons (slow, deprecated, non-standard) and 2) unnecessary.
You can use pure CSS positioning (percentages and negative margins) or a little JavaScript (jQuery makes this very easy) to accomplish the same thing in all browsers.

Another approach:
<div style="text-align:center;width=200px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto">Please wait...</div>

CSS expressions are only working in IE. However, it´s generally not a good idea to use them because they are not W3C conform and in addition they can be very slow when you make heavy use of them.
The CSS attribute position: fixed could help you here:
#pleaseWait {
width: 400px;
height: 200px;
position: fixed; /* IE8+ */
left: 50%;
top: 50%;
margin-left: -200px; /* half of width*/
margin-top: -100px; /* half of height*/
}
If you have to still support <=IE7 you have to use JavaScript (but not within the CSS definition!)

Using auto as margins and defining a width and hight should be enough
<div style="width:200px;height:50px;margin:auto;text-align:center">Please wait ...</div>
If you only want to center verticaly, use margin: 0 auto;
PS: if you want to be more XHTML-correct, put your CSS in a CSS-file and use a class or a id to define the css-styling
I've answered this before: How to set the div in center of the page

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Minimum / Maximum absolute position in CSS

What is the best approach to restricting an absolutely positioned element's position, ideally in pure CSS?
I know that the following isn't possible but I guess what I'm looking for would look something like:
.stickyElement{
bottom-max:auto;
bottom-min:0px;
top-max: auto;
top-min: 100px;
}
That would allow an element to move to a position no less than 100px from the top of it's containing, positioned element.
An example (and my initial) use case for this is a menu that scrolls as part of a page but stops scrolling when it hits the top of a viewport. (Sticky menus?) an example of which can be seen on this page:
http://spektrummedia.com/startups
I fully expect that this is not possible without using some Javascript but I thought I'd put it out there.
position: sticky
There have been discussions in the W3C about this in recent years. One proposal is the addition of a sticky value for the position property.
.content {
position: -webkit-sticky;
position: -moz-sticky;
position: -ms-sticky;
position: -o-sticky;
position: sticky;
top: 10px;
}
This is currently supported in Chrome 23.0.1247.0 and later as an experimental feature. To enable it, enter about:flags for the URL address and press enter. Then search for "experimental WebKit features" and toggle it between enabled and disabled.
On the html5rocks website, there's a working demo.
Strictly speaking, this is an implementation of sticky content, and not a general-purpose way to limit the minimum or maximum position of an element relative to another element. However, sticky content might be the only practical application for the type of the behavior you're describing.
As there is no way to build this for all major browsers without the use of JavasScript I made my own solution with jQuery:
Assign position:relative to your sticky-top-menu. When it reaches the top of the browser window through scrolling the position is changed to positon:fixed.
Also give your sticky-top-menu top:0 to make sure that it sticks to the top of your browser window.
Here you find a working JSFiddle Example.
HTML
<header>I'm the Header</header>
<div class="sticky-top-menu">
<nav>
Page 1
Page 2
</nav>
</div>
<div class="content">
<p>Some content...</p>
</div>
jQuery
$(window).scroll(function () {
var headerTop = $("header").offset().top + $("header").outerHeight();
if ($(window).scrollTop() > headerTop) {
//when the header reaches the top of the window change position to fixed
$(".sticky-top-menu").css("position", "fixed");
} else {
//put position back to relative
$(".sticky-top-menu").css("position", "relative");
}
});
CSS
.sticky-top-menu {
position:relative;
top: 0px;
width: 100%;
}
I know this post is old, and I might be a little late to it, but to anyone still wondering how to do this i would suggest checking out the clamp() method in CSS, you could do something like this:
top: clamp(30px, 10vw, 50px);
Which would set the min top value to 30px, the ideal value to 10vw, and the max value to 50px.
A media query expression that defines the distance between body 0X 0Y and browser-window 0X 0Y would allow elements to be made sticky after page is scrolled
No such expression has otherwise been proposed and is not supported by any browser, to my knowledge, but it would be a useful expression to allow dynamic configuration of sticky elements, such as menu bars that are sticky after page is scrolled past head, without use of JavaScript.
.this element {
position: absolute;
top: 200px;
}
#media (max-scroll: 200px 0) {
.this.element {
position:fixed;
top: 0;
}
}
To my knowledge, there is no way to restrict an element that was positioned using absolute positioning using solely CSS.

100% layout with min/max sizes which doesn't overflow

I have two layout elements lets say one is 33%, the other 66%. They both use 100% of my screen size (So it is dependent on browser window). The smaller element also has a min-size property, so it cant fall below 250px;
Now if the layout is at least 757px large (so the size where the min property doesn't apply) everything looks fine. If the layout falls below the 757px the second element starts to overflow since it still takes the 66%, so the sum of both layouts exceeds the 100%.
I made some graphics to show the behavior:
Layout 1000px not overflowing:
Layout 500px overflowing
Is there a solution to prevent the overflow (not overflow: hidden) so the second element takes only the remaining space when the first element reaches it's min width.
Also JavaScript shouldn't be used excessive!
Regards, Stefan
Sure, this is actually pretty easy and requires a very minimal amount of code:
HTML:
<div class="sidebar">
...
</div>
<div class="content">
...
</div>
CSS:
.sidebar{
float: left;
width: 33%;
}
.content {
overflow: hidden; /* Ensures that your content will not overlap the sidebar */
}
You can view the live demo here: http://jsfiddle.net/7A4Tj/
Edit:
If you're trying to achieve a site layout that has equal-height background images for the sidebar and content, all you need to do is wrap both those elements in a containing div and use the Faux Columns technique.
Try using the following for the second widget:
position: fixed;
right: 0;
Here´s my five cents
min-width on both divs
and a wrapper that also has min-width, plus both of the divs having percentage width
JS fiddle code
PS seems to be working fine in IE8
PPS Also do check out #media queries if you want to have conditional CSS rules on different window sizes, might be helpful. Will run on browsers supporting CSS3: CSS Media queries at CSS Tricks

Keep control always visible

I was wondering if anybody knows how to keep a image/control always visible when the user scrolls up and down the page.
An example is on the new Google search page that automatically perdicts your results when you type in. On the right-hand side there is a map that starts roughtly 100px from the top of the page. When you scroll down the map remains in view but is 0px from top of page. When you scroll back up, it returns to its normal position, 100px from the top of the page.
Any ideas on how this is done?
You are looking for position: fixed
<div style="position: fixed; right: 100px; top: 100px; width: 200px; height: 100px; background-color: red">
I'm fixed</div>
Works in all browsers except IE6.
position:fixed is the way to go here. If you want to achieve the described effect like on the google page, you'll need a little javascript that toggles the element's css-styles depending on the scroll position.
You can find a script for that task here:
http://jsfiddle.net/6bnuU/
Note that depends on jquery. If you're looking for a solution that does not require jquery, you can easily rewrite the script, but you'll have to use a browser switch because IE uses a different API for the scrolling state than the other browsers.
Also note that IE 6 does not support position:fixed, so if you want to support it you'll have to emulate it with javascript (which is an easy task)
Use CSS position with the value fixed, then position it on the page with left, right, top and/or bottom. For example:
#some_element {
position: fixed;
top: 100px;
right: 0;
}
The exact example you mention also requires some JavaScript.

Always on top html block for iPhone

How can I create a DIV block that always stays at the bottom of my page? When scrolling more content should show up right above the block. The only solution i can think of is to use 2 iframes but I prefer using CSS.
Update: The solution needs to work on iOS
Here's some CSS:
.bottomFixed {
position:fixed;
bottom: 0;
/* technically not necessary, but helps to see */
background-color: yellow;
padding: 10px;
}
Here's some HTML:
<div class="bottomFixed">Hello, world!</div>
This div would be placed at the bottom of the screen and stay there. Note: this won't work on iOS because of the way it does scrolling.
div.bottom {
position:fixed;
}
Then just move it where you want. Unfortunately, browser support is limited. IE6 for example doesn't support this option for position. Also note that this removes the div from the flow, so you'll have to make sure there's enough space for the viewer to see stuff at the bottom of the page with the div on top.

Javascript Drop Down Menu over Image Rotator

Designer here, trying to code.
I am almost there! Trying to get a drop down menu from dynamic drive to work over an jQuery image rotator. Played with z-index. I can get the menu to work over the image rotation on all browsers except in IE compatibility mode, cannot click on the buttons in the rotator.
http://local495.bigrigmedia.com/
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Always so much easier to get everything looking right in Photoshop eh? You can fix your overlap issue with 2 minor tweaks to the CSS:
styles.css
#top {
position: relative;
z-index: 2;
height: 155px;
}
ddsmoothmenu.css
.ddsmoothmenu{
position: relative;
z-index: 2;
/* remaining css */
}
homerotation.css
div#feature_list {
position: relative;
z-index: 1;
/* remaining css */
}
I also noticed you had a lot of z-index: -100 sprinkled around your CSS. Those are also going to cause you trouble. I would suggest taking them all out and just using the above 2 changes.
What the above 2 rules do is establish the stacking order for the menu and image rotator in a way that all browsers (including our friend IE) understands.
The trick with IE when using z-index is to make sure all the elements you're trying to overlap are in the same stacking context. IE creates a new stacking context whenever you use relative, absolute or fixed position on an element. In our case above, we're setting the stacking order on the top most elements in the stacking context (i.e. the document), therefore it will be respected.
Edit
Added a z-index to the #top container as this is actually the <div> that's at the same level in the document as <div id="feature_list">.

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