Using the jQuery popbox library (http://gristmill.github.io/jquery-popbox/index.html) I encountered the following problem:
I have a huge div which has it's overflow set to auto. It is actually a tournament grid displaying a lot of matches to be played. Each match (separate divs) has a small info icon and upon clicking, I'm using the Popbox to display additional information in the window that comes up.
This is all working correctly, however, whenever I press the info icon on a div that's close to the bottom side or the left side of the parent div which has it's overflow set to auto, part of the popbox window is not visible as it ends up outside of the parent div. I'm looking for a user-friendly way to solve this issues.
Setting the parent's div overflow to visible is not an option as I need the scroll bars to appear if it gets too large. It would be nice though if I could make the Popbox window go outside of the parent div and be completely visible.
The other idea that I can think of right now is to set special classes to the info icons close to the edges and adjust the popbox window to the right/top so it is visible in the parent div regardless of its overflow.
I suggest you to use some special classes and make the popover "pop" on top/right.
You can see an example here: http://getbootstrap.com/javascript/#popovers
If you want to use Bootstrap you can make a custom build here: http://getbootstrap.com/customize/?id=6493526
Popover css+js is only additional ~ 10k min+gzip
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I have created a custom element named memory-game and I am able to create lots of them by clicking on the icon of the memory game. I want functionality so that when I click on a memory-game window, it appears on top of the other opened windows. I can't figure out how to do that.
Use z-index to control what order non-statically positioned divs appear on the page.
Aside from that, I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish with the code you have provided.
I am using animatedModal.js to get some simple dialog boxes.
Everything is working like a charm, but I can't click the link on my logo on the top of my page, because the modal with
opacity:0;
z-index:-9999;
is in front of it. It's behind all the other stuff and opacity is 0, like it should, but somehow it's still in front of the logo. The logo got z-index:100, but still the invisible modal is in front of it.
Because I couldn't find an online version of animatedModal.js (like cdnjs.com or smth), I can't make a fiddle, but you can check out my webpage here:
The full site
and the animatedModal.js on my site
The problem is quite simple. You are losing the track of the z-index. I don't have all the spot where you set your z-index but I found this two to be crucial:
Your a tag (class=logo) has z-index of 100
Your div tag (class=content) has z-index of 200
So the browser will understand that you always want you content to be above your a tag. So, keep this in mind, let's see how you set up your z-index for modal.
Your modal has z-index of -9999, which is relative to its parent (content) => which means it actually has z-index of 200.(-9999).
This means no matter what z-index you have on the logo, it will always below your modal:
TL;DR:
The fix is set the content z-index to be lower than your a tag. Or reorganize your DOM since modal doesn't need to be next to the call link. If you choose second one, set a tag z-index might kick in.
Here is the website I've been working on: Comotional - test site
I am using flipping cards within "Who we are" section and have problems with z-index. Whichever z-index and css combination I tried (even added additional divs on the back side), I can't fix the flipped content appearing below other cards. If you hover over these, you will see what happens and will see where the problems happens. Is there anyway to get this working via js?
It's limited by your container height, not the z-index. Set the height auto and find another way to set up the grid - perhaps making something like a row container along with a clear div while setting height to the front side of the card.
i think the problem is that you have lots of nested elements so changing the z-index of a nested element does not make them appear above on the stack unless until you make the z-index of the parent container greater than other parent containers that are blocking the view.
you can use hover event to change/increase the z-index of parent container on mouse-in and default on mouse-out
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I am trying to create a skewed div with scrolling content inside of it.
You can take a look at my code here:
http://jsfiddle.net/kDv45/1/
Originally I had it hidden by placing the content inside of a smaller div, but the skewing made the scrollbar visible again.
If I set the css overflow as hidden, it hides the scrollbar but it is no longer able to scroll. Can you guys think of a workaround for this problem?
I suggest you to use overflow : hidden on both x and y. And use JavaScript events for scrolling.
Here is my current situation:
I have a web page containing a couple scrollable divs. Each of those divs contains a number of objects. I am using YUI to display popup menus of actions that can be performed on each object. Each object has its own menu associated with it that is constructed and displayed dynamically. The popup menus can be large and can overlap the bounds of the scrollable div.
From what I believe are issues with focus (the menus must be accessible), when I hover the mouse over an action that lies on top of an edge of the scrollable div, the div automatically scrolls, moving the content but leaving the menu stationary. Trying to move the menu dynamically when this happens is not something I want to do as I believe it would provide a poor user experience.
So I need to prevent this focused menu from scrolling the div. My idea for providing the best user interface is to prevent these inner divs from scrolling when a menu is open. This leaves the menu positioned in the optimal location to show the user which item is being acted upon. If the user wants to scroll the box, they can click to close the menu and then scroll normally.
How can I do this? I need a solution that works across the major browsers.
My first thought was to listen to the onscroll event for that particular element. Unfortunately, there does not seem to be an easy way from there to just prevent the scrolling from happening. For one, my JavaScript event code appears to execute after the actual scrolling has occurred.
Then, I thought that since my code is being run after the object has scrolled, I could just reset obj.scrollTop and obj.scrollLeft. Sure enough, this appears to work, though I am worried that on slow browsers the user will see the content inside the div "jump around". Also, it would be really nice if the amount the element scrolls is part of the event object. Is it stuck in there somewhere? I'm looking for an alternative to having to store the scrollTop and scrollLeft variables for this element and then using them while the scrolling is temporarily disabled.
What is the best way to solve this entire problem?
I agree with Anthony regarding the presentation of the functionality you're trying to disallow. If you're going to disable scrolling, then you should make that part of the page visually disabled or removed.
To that end, you can position a semi-transparent div on top of the scrollable div in question, which would capture the mouse events and visually show that the scrollable div is inactive for now. It would be hard to make cross-browser compatible and wouldn't be perfect, but then again very few client-side tricks like this are.
The simple answer is no you can't do this. Its doubly no if you want a cross-browser solution.
Providing the user with the clear affordance that something can be scrolled then denying them that is just plain poor UI design.
Ok so after your edit it turns out you are not actually trying to prevent the user from scrolling.
The main answer remains true though. It sounds as though the focus is going to rectangle (probably an anchor?) that is not fully in view and causes a scroll. Is there a reason this rectangle must get the focus? For accessibility?
What if you didn't have overflow: scroll and instead you used overflow: hidden and provided scroll up/down buttons that allowed the user to scroll when necessary? These buttons could of course be disabled easily.
Though it may not be the answer you are looking for, if you are to set the display value of the div to 'none' while the page loads (from the server) and then have an event wired to the page load (either pageLoad in ajax.net or attach it to the onload event via javascript) that will make the div display set to 'block' .. that would ensure that slower browsers wouldn't see the div 'jumping around' (could even put a 'loading' image in the div to show users it's doing something and not just invisible)
sorry i couldn't provide a more complex/fluent solution.
I found a way to work around this issue. By removing the menu element from the scrollable div and then appending it directly to document.body, the browsers all stop trying to scroll the div to reveal the focused element (even though the element is already completely visible).
Thanks to all for your time and your answers!