This question already has answers here: Why does this CSS margin-top style not work? (13 answers) Closed 2 years ago. My css margins doesn’t behave the way I want or expect them to. I seems like my header margin-top affect the div-tags surrounding it. This is what I want and expect: …but this is what … Read more
I have actually two issues, but lets resolve the primary issue first as I believe the other is easier to address. I have a fixed position div on the left side of the scroll for a menu. Right side is a standard div that scrolls properly. The issue is that when the browser view-port is … Read more
What’s the easiest way to detect if an element has been overflowed? My use case is, I want to limit a certain content box to have a height of 300px. If the inner content is taller than that, I cut it off with an overflow. But if it is overflowed I want to show a … Read more
I have a div element on my page with its height set to 100%. The height of the body is also set to 100%. The inner div has a background and all that and is different from the body background. This works for making the div height 100% of the browser screen height, but the … Read more
Meet Fred. He’s a table: <table border=”1″ style=”width: 100%;”> <tr> <td>This cells has more content</td> <td>Less content here</td> </tr> </table> Fred’s apartment has a bizarre habit of changing size, so he’s learned to hide some of his content so as not to push all the other units over and shove Mrs. Whitford’s living room off … Read more
Following is my code and I want to understand that why #firstDiv is being pushed downward by all browsers. I really want to understand the inner workings of the fact that why its being pushed downward rather than pulling it upward by one way or another. (and I know how to align their tops :)) … Read more
So currently I have: #div { position: relative; height: 510px; overflow-y: scroll; } However I don’t believe that it will be obvious to some users that there is more content there. They could scroll down the page without knowing that my div actually contains a lot more content. I use the height 510px so that … Read more
I don’t know why this simple CSS isn’t working… .app a { height: 18px; width: 140px; padding: 0; overflow: hidden; position: relative; margin: 0 5px 0 5px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; color: #000; } <div class=”app”> <a href=””>Test Test Test Test Test Test</a> </div> Should cut off around the 4th “Test” … Read more
Suppose you have some style and the markup: ul { white-space: nowrap; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: hidden; /* added width so it would work in the snippet */ width: 100px; } li { display: inline-block; } <div> <ul> <li>1</li> <li>2</li> <li>3</li> <li>4</li> <li>5</li> <li>6</li> <li>7</li> <li>8</li> <li>9</li> <li>1</li> <li>2</li> <li>3</li> <li>4</li> <li>5</li> <li>6</li> <li>7</li> <li>8</li> <li>9</li> … Read more
I want to use CSS text-overflow in a table cell, such that if the text is too long to fit on one line, it will clip with an ellipsis instead of wrapping to multiple lines. Is this possible? I tried this: td { overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; } But the white-space: nowrap seems … Read more