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Move relative object position when scrollbar appears using CSS

On my page, I'm displaying a log file in a div element with overflow-y:auto. In the top right corner of the div, I'm overlaying a close button div with position:relative.
When the scrollbar appears, the button is overlaying the scrollbar which is hard to see and looks ugly. You can see an example here: https://jsfiddle.net/4azw0rLf/
Moving it with javascript when scrollHeight exceeds clientHeight feels like a hack. Is there an option in CSS to move the close button to the left for the width of the scrollbar as soon as it appears?

You can wrap your terminal and move your close button inside. I created a minimal example starting from your code.
EDIT
With the first answer the close button scrolled along with the text, I corrected using the position: sticky; and top:0px;
It is not compatible with all browsers, but with most, you can check compatibility here.
const terminal = document.getElementById("terminal");
addText = () => {
terminal.innerHTML += "overflowing line<br>";
}
#container-terminal {
position: relative;
overflow-y: auto;
border: 2px solid;
height: 100px;
width: 200px;
}
#terminal {
position: absolute;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
}
#closeBtn {
background-color: red;
position: -webkit-sticky;
position: sticky;
top:0px;
width: 20px;
display: inline-block;
float: right;
}
<div onclick="addText()" style="cursor:pointer;">Click to add text</div><br>
<div id="container-terminal">
<div id="terminal">CSS only<br>CSS only<br>CSS only<br>CSS only<br>CSS only<br></div>
<div id="closeBtn">X</div>
</div>

align texts or images in Bootstrap carousel

I use Bootstrap 3.3.4 and I want to know which way is better to align texts or items in carousel.
here is a exemple from a slider. How can I align text like this and stay at any screen resolution at the same place. I use top: x, right: x but every time when I resize the window, text climb above and not stay at middle anymore.
CSS for align
.carousel-caption {
position: absolute;
right: 15%;
bottom: 40%;
left: 15%;
z-index: 10;
padding-top: 20px;
padding-bottom: 20px;
color: #fff;
text-align: center;
text-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, .6);
}
Just basic bootstrap slider. But If I use bottom 40% for exemple to rise text at middle of the page works. But if I use smaller displays the text rise and stay almost on top.
In this exemple text stay fixed on every device.

<div class="wrap">
<div class="display-table">
<div class="display-cell">
<h1>Title in here</h1>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<style>
.wrap {
width: 100%;
height: 400px;
}
.display-table {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
display: table;
}
.display-cell {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
}
</style>
This allows fixed vertical alignment and should work cross browser. Just note the fixed height applied to .wrap must be present for the children to inherit 100% height!
Hope this helps :)

Hope, Try this demo that centers text vertically in the Bootstrap carousel.
Here is the Fiddle.
All I do here is give the div a height that contains the text and then position it with this css...
.vcenter {
position: absolute;
height:100px;
width:100%;
top:50%;
bottom:50%;
margin-top: -50px;
margin-bottom: -50px;
}

Alignment with fixed elements and scrollable content

Here is a simplified JSFiddle of the problem.
As you can see, the content is beat out of alingment with the header because of the scrollbar.
As far as I know, the only way to deal with this is to calculate the width of the scrollbar using Javascript (David Walsh's excellent method springs to mind) and to set it as left/right: -scrollbarwidthpx value to the header.
However, considering the dynamic nature of the page I'm working on, with the headers place in the DOM and position changing depending on at what point the user has scrolled to, this is an option I am hoping to turn to only if there's nothing else I can do.
My question is, is there any way that I can maybe take the scrollbars or the content out of the flow while preserving a scrolling overflow, or otherwise align the two elements using only HTML/CSS? Are scrollbar widths consistent across all browsers/OS's that have them affect the flow? Or will I have to resort to using Javascript to align them?
Thanks!

html, body {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
overflow: hidden;
margin: 0;
}
.scroll {
overflow: auto;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
#content{
width: 400px;
height:auto;
margin: auto;
background:gray;
}
.header {
width: 400px;
position: fixed;
margin: 0 auto;
height: 60px;
background: yellow;
z-index: 10;
}
.content {
height: 1200px;
background: linear-gradient(red, orange);
width: 100%;
margin: auto;
position: relative;
z-index: 1;
border-top:61px solid;
border-bottom:1px solid;
}
<div class="scroll">
<div id="content">
<div class="header"></div>
<div class="content"></div>
</div>
</div>

How to align a website to the center of the screen top/bottom and right/left?

I want to have the effect like dropbox:https://www.dropbox.com/ where my website is centered in the exact middle of the page.

Achieving this effect is way more complicated than it should be. Here's a bare-bones working example: http://jsfiddle.net/JakobJingleheimer/UEsYM/
html, body { height: 100%; } // needed for vertical centre
html { width: 100%; } // needed for horizontal centre
body {
display: table; // needed for vertical centre
margin: 0 auto; // needed for horizontal centre
width: 50%; // needed for horizontal centre
}
.main-container {
background-color: #eee;
display: table-cell; // needed for vertical centre
height: 100%; // needed for vertical centre
// overflow: auto; // <- probably a good idea
vertical-align: middle; // needed for vertical centre
width: 100%; // needed for horizontal centre
}
.container {
background-color: #ccc;
padding: 20px;
}

If you want to achieve this:
Here are different methods, with the pros/cons of each one, for centering a page vertically. Choose which one you prefer:
http://blog.themeforest.net/tutorials/vertical-centering-with-css/
EDIT. As suggested, I will proceed to explain one of the methods. It only works if you already know the height/width of the element to center (the link includes more methods). Assuming all your content is within <body>, and that your content is 900px x 600px, you can do in your css:
html {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
body {
width: 900px;
height: 600px;
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
margin-top: -300px; /* Half of the height of your body */
}
However, this falls short for dynamically generated content, since you don't know the height of it. I've used it succesfully on log-in box pop-up and settings pop-up.
Another method I've used in the past for the whole page is the Method 1 from the link. It makes a set of divs to behave as a table, which can vertical-align to the middle.

If you want to align it vertically center, please check this web page: http://www.jakpsatweb.cz/css/css-vertical-center-solution.html

If you know the width and height of your page
then wrap your contents in following div css
.center
{
position:absolute;
top:50%;
left:50%;
margin-left: -(yourPageWidth/2);
margin-top: -(YourPageHeight/2);
}

On your topmost div give margin:0 auto 0 auto; Also define some width to that div.

First create a main container of the desired width and then put all your code inside the main container. For Eg.
<body>
<div id="container">
......... your code
</div>
</body>
And in the css
#container{
width: 700px ;
margin-left: auto ;
margin-right: auto ;
}
You can change the width as per your needs

<body>
<div class="container">
......... your code
</div>
</body>
#container{
width: 700px ;
margin:0 auto ;
padding:0px;
}

Try this:
html
<span id="forceValign"></span><!--
--><div id="centerMiddleWrap">
<div id="centered">Hello this is some text. Hello this is some text. Hello this is some text.</div>
</div>
CSS
html {
height: 100%;
background: #eee;
}
body {
margin: 0;
height: 100%;
/*important*/
text-align: center;
}
#centerMiddleWrap {
/*important*/
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
}
#forceValign {
/*important*/
height: 100%;
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
}
#centered {
background: #000;
color: #fff;
font-size: 34px;
padding: 15px;
max-width: 50%;
/*important*/
display: inline-block;
}
Here is an demo

Wrap a div and define its width, use margin:0 auto for centering the div.
You can check a site's CSS by using Firebug or browser extensions.

Centering Dynamic width Divs

I have a page that has 2 columns. The first column is a dynamic width. It contains a bunch of tabular data in tables. The 2nd column is a fixed width full of navigation stuff.
The 2 columns are divs with float left. I need to accomplish 2 things.
I need to center the 2 divs on the page. For example, if the first div is 600px wide as dictated by the data inside of it and the second div is a fixed 200px, the centering point is 400px.
I don't want the 2nd div to wrap down if the browser window is resized.
I'm thinking that I may have to nest the 2 divs inside of another div, set the parent div width using javascript, then center it.
I created this fiddle to help illustrate. http://jsfiddle.net/darthg8r/uhKdt/

Surround them with a div and set its style to:
width: ( whatever you need )
margin: 0 auto; // this centers the div
You can set the width dynamically with JavaScript if needed. As long as it's smaller than 100% of the surrounding container, it will stay centered.

You could achieve this with the following code:
HTML:
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="container">
<div id="variable">test</div>
<div id="fixed">test</div>
</div>
</div>
CSS:
#wrapper { overflow: hidden; }
#container {
float: left;
position: relative;
left: 50%; }
#container > div {
float: left;
position: relative;
right: 50%;
height: 300px; }
#variable {
background: red;
width: 300px; }
#fixed {
background: blue;
width: 200px; }
Preview: https://jsfiddle.net/Wexcode/mreLt/
You could also achieve this effect by wrapping the two elements in a container, setting them both to display: inline-block, and finally setting their container to have text-align: center.
The answer is a little more complicated than this, so let me know if you want to choose this route instead.
To make it so the elements don't fall to the next line, use inline-block.
<div id="container">
<div id="variable">
<p>test</p>
</div><div id="fixed">
<p>test</p>
</div>
</div>
CSS:
body { margin: 0; }
#container {
color: #fff;
text-align: center;
white-space: nowrap; }
#container > div {
height: 300px;
display: inline-block; }
#variable {
background: red;
width: 100px; }
#fixed {
background: blue;
width: 200px; }
Preview: https://jsfiddle.net/Wexcode/mreLt/2/