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How to give a site a side scroll bar when resizing window instead of allowing all elements to bundle or stack up together?

I am creating a site where i have given the elements static widths and heights. The website also includes images. When i resize the window, all the elements bundle up together (for example, in full window mode there are 3 images in a line whereas when I resize the window only 1 image is shown per line). Also all other elements get stacked up on each other. I wanted to know how can I prevent this and let all the elements in the same order as they are when in full window by giving it a side scroll bar on the bottom. For reference, see the Facebook login page: facebook login page. You might need to logout.
When you resize it, it simply gives a side scroll bar on the bottom and all elements remain in the same order. Is it possible to do this just with HTML or CSS or do I have to use JavaScript. Thanks a lot in advance!

By applying the following Css:
body {
min-width: 1280px;
overflow-x: scroll;
}
Just replace the pixel value with the required width.

you need to make the width of the body fixed to a specific px (the width of your window), for 1000px example
body {
min-width: 1000px;
max-width: 1000px;
overflow-x: auto;
}

If you add overflow-x: scroll; or overflow-x: auto; to the body, that should do the trick. Also don't forget to add a min-width and max-width as well to make it take effect.

How to make my image gallery width responsive to div below it?

I have an image gallery with name slider1_container and it's style properties are specified within the HTML code such as:
<div id="slider1_container" style="position: relative; top: 0px; left: 0px; width:700px;
height: 600px; background: #191919; overflow: hidden;">
This works perfectly, except that the slider is wider than the div box beneath this. This div box is 100% of the width of the parent class "rightcolumn", and my slider1_container div is ALSO within this class, but since it's width of 700px is set within the HTML code, it doesn't seem to be responsive at other viewport sizes.
I've tried to use media queries at various points to change the width of the slider1_container to something smaller than 700px, but it seems that the width specified in the HTML code overrules that.
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If I set the 700px to auto, the width works perfectly BUT the image gallery shows only black when you load the page, until you choose another photo it will quickly appear (javascript issue it sounds).
If you resize the viewport on my site you can see the image gallery's width doesn't match the div box below it How can I make this responsive like the other div?
Thank you!!

Read the documentation for whatever slideshow plugin it is that you are using. It most likely has settings for responsiveness. If not, you can find a million different responsive slideshow plugins here

css margin issue with jquery slider

I've having an issue with the background images i have embedded into my carousel. click here I've noticed when i click from one slide to another the background image on my site moves out of place. The margin-top for my carousel is current set to margin-top:-275px; and the background image is set to margin-top:-64px; I am slight concerned about these settings.
Does anyone have a solution to this problem?
In order to activate the slides click the thin red tab under the nav bar

I guess that's because you have
.rslides li {
top:0;
}
It does nothing with position:relative (and the current slide has it), but it moves down the slide with position:absolute (hidden slides).
When you click a tab, there's a moment in which the new one is fading in, but it doesn't have position:relative yet. Then, in that moment, the new slide isn't where you want.
So remove that line.

The jumping is occurring because you are switching the LI items from position: absolute; to position: relative; at the end of the animation toggle. This can be avoided by removing your CSS rule:
.rslides li { left: 0; top: 0; }
Specifying width and height is fine, but as soon as you specify left and top - then switch from relative to absolute positioning, you get that jump you're seeing.
As for the positioning of each panel - it has to do with the way you are laying out your boxes. The sizes you are specifying are not large enough for the content you are providing. For instance: <div id="header"> is 37px tall, which is the appropriate size for the social media buttons, but you also have it as the container for the #nav-menu UL - which is another 102px tall.
It appears that in order to correct this and make things overlap, you are using negative margins - which is getting you all thrown off.
My suggestion would be to use a standardized layout system, such as any of the following:
http://cssgrid.net/
http://960.gs/
http://www.1kbgrid.com/
http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/grid.php
And use it to perform your layout tasks, rather than trying to self-craft overlapping layers with mixed absolute/relative positioning.
Alternatively, if you're going to go the overlapping layers route (again, not suggested), really commit to it. Position things absolutely throughout the layout.
In order to accomplish this, you might consider CSS rules like:
#header {
display: block;
position: absolute;
left: 50%; top: 0px;
height: 139px; /* Your Social media links height + nav buttons height */
width: 1018px; /* Your current width */
margin-left: -509px; /* Half the width - centers on page */
}
Again - this is MUCH more work, MUCH harder to maintain and MUCH less elegant - but will yield you at least a consistent spacing / sizing.

Overlaying one div over another, but not knowing the size of the div

I'm trying to lay one div over another. This is really simple if you know the dimensions of the div.
Solved here:
How to overlay one div over another div
So, here is my HTML:
<div class="container">
<div class="overlay"></div>
<div class="content"></div>
</div>
In my case, I don't know the exact dimensions of the "content" or "container" div. This is because I don't have control over any of the content in the div (we are making our app extensible for 3rd party developers).
See my example on jsFiddle
The overlay should cover the content entirely. Width 100% and Height 100%. However, this does not work because in my example I positioned the overlay absolutely.
One solution is to use JavaScript to get the size of the content div and then set the size of the overlay. I don't like this solution much since if image sizes are not specified, you need to wait until images are loaded and recalculate the size of the div.
Is there any way of solving this problem in CSS?

You could set the position to absolute and then set all 4 positioning values to 0px which will make the box expand. See a demo here: http://jsfiddle.net/6g6dy/
This way you dont have to worry about recalculating things if you want padding on the overlay or the container (like you would if you used actual height and width values), because its always going to be adjusted to the outer dimensions of the box.

It's not possible to do this because:
The overlay is not contained by anything to restrict it's size (since there is no height/width applied to the container).
The size of the content div can change as content loads (since it has no fixed width/height).
I solved this by using JavaScript*. Eg.
function resizeOverlay() {
$('.overlay').css({
width: $('.content').width()
height: $('.content').height()
});
}
$('.content').find('img').on('load', resizeOverlay);
*Code not tested.

Hey are you looking like this : http://tinkerbin.com/Vc4RkGgQ
CSS
.container {
position:relative;
background:blue;
color:white;
}
.content {
position:absolute;
top:0;
left:15px;
background:red;
color:yellow;
}

I do not know what you are exactly trying to do but this might work:
container must be relative: anything from static
overlay and content are absolute :move top/left in first non static parent; no flow.
Give same top/left to be on top and higher z-index for upper element.

See this demo: http://jsfiddle.net/rathoreahsan/kEsbx/
Are you trying to do as mentioned in above Demo?
CSS:
#container {
position: relative;
}
.overlay,
.content{
display:block;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
}
.overlay{
z-index: 10;
background: #ccc;
}

You can indeed do this without JavaScript. Your problem is that #container element has 100% width relative to the whole page. To fix this you can:
a) position it absolutely,
#container {
position: absolute;
}
b) make it float or
#container {
float: left;
}
c) make it display as table cell
#container {
display: table-cell;
}
One of the above is enough, you don't need to apply all. Also you should not position .content absolutely as this will prevent #container to have the same width/height.

If you are worried about images loading after the height is set you can go ahead and set the dimensions of the image in the containing div and use the padding-bottom hack. This way when the browsers paints over the page it knows how big the image will be before it loads.

Can the content remain centered while the screen size changes?

First, here's is my rough example: http://demindu.com/sandbox/simple.html
What I'm trying to do:
Create a content div: let's say 400px tall and 700px wide, like the example. The content box has a margin of 50px in each direction. The content div should always be centered both vertically and horizontally, regardless of screen resolution. The black background should extend from the centered content area all the way to the right side of the screen, but not to the left.
The only way I can think of possibly doing this is something using window.innerWidth & window.innerHeight in JavaScript, but I don't know enough to know if this is even possible.
The amount of blank space above and below the middle section would need to be:
window.innerHeight - height of the div (in this example: 500px [400px box with two 50px margins]) / 2
The blank space to the left of the black bar would need to be:
window.innerWidth - width of the div (in this example: 800px [700px box with two 50px margins]) / 2
My question to you is: Is this possible in JavaScript? Is this possible somehow with pure CSS?

You can do this entirely in CSS with 4-point absolute positioning. You will need two elements:
The first item spans from the right of the screen to the center where the content is positioned. This element uses absolute positioning for the top, left, and right coordinates of the element (we can leave bottom unspecified as it's taken care of by the height.)
The second item is nested in the former. This item has a fixed width to ensure the content itself remains in the specified width you've chosen. We can also set the height and padding on this object and the parent will inherit it's height. Don't use margins to simulate padding - it can cause cross browser issues when you're just trying to do some positioning tricks as we are here.
So your HTML code would look something like this:
<div id="my_centered_design">
<div id="my_centered_design_content">
<p>This is just some example text.</p>
</div>
</div>
And you're CSS would look like this:
div#my_centered_design {
background: #000;
margin-left: -400px;
margin-top: -250px;
left: 50%;
position: absolute;
right: 0;
top: 50%;
}
div#my_centered_design_content {
background: #333;
height: 400px;
/* I think you actually want padding for
the effect you're trying to accomplish */
padding: 50px;
width: 700px;
}
Essentially this is the same trick as the Joe2Tutorial except we are applying additional positioning rules to adhere the centered element to the right side of the screen.

I think this pure css solution would suit you best: http://www.joe2torials.com/view_tutorial.php?view=37

A very quick google resulted in this piece of code.
this code does not align a div in the middle. what you actually for your own website is that you put the following div css
.main {
width: 140px;background-color: #252525; float: left;margin-top: 25px; }
inside a table that is aligned to be centered. so, basically you're using the table's centering feature to center your left floated div simply as a content. you're not doing anything through div or css for that matter. the piece of css code you offered doesn't not anything about centering a div in the middle.