I recently saw a site that had the blog aligned to the right hand side of the screen (so any extra space was on the left of the main column. Unfortunately, it was Wordpress and all I can seem to find when I search for aligning blog templates to the right is stuff about right aligning pictures.
I suppose could add padding (trial and error) on that side to bump it across, but that wouldn't display properly on other computers.
My sidebar is 325 wide and the main column is 625, leaving ~240 on the left.
I'm just using the Simple template as a base. I don't know that it's worth the time that it would take to do it from scratch. Or that I have the skills :. The Blogger help areas are practically abandoned.
Is this possible? Or are there any other ideas that could work across different computers/resolutions?
Whatever element you want to align to the right , enclose it in a div and make it float right ? Wouldn't this work?
...
<div style="float:right">
<div class='sidebar'>...</div>
<div class='main-column'>...</div>
</div>
...
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So I admit this is very close to a question that is to broad, but I think it counts as an acceptable question.
So been playing around with Angular Material, and yes it has a lot and cool stuff, and I like the idea of getting more or less a full styleguide to web layout as part of the package (have a look at http://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introduction.html it is worth a read)
My question is though, how do I use the pallette. I defined a palette in my java script (like the one below)
$mdThemingProvider.definePalette('Stackit', {
"50":"#f6f7f9",
"100":"#c9d3d9",
"200":"#a8b8c2",
"300":"#7d95a5",
"400":"#6b8798",
"500":"#5e7787",
"600":"#516775",
"700":"#455763",
"800":"#384751",
"900":"#2c373f",
"A100":"#f6f7f9",
"A200":"#c9d3d9",
"A400":"#6b8798",
"A700":"#455763",
'contrastDefaultColor': 'dark', // whether, by default, text (contrast)
// on this palette should be dark or light
'contrastDarkColors': ['50', '100', //hues which contrast should be 'dark' by default
'200', '300', '400', 'A100'],
'contrastLightColors': undefined // could also specify this if default was 'dark'
});
So we have a pallette, and it picks up some of these colors automatically, for example, run this code and your md-toolbar will change colours.
However, there are a lot of colours in a palette, but I haven't figured out how to use them in a useful manner.
Say for example that I want my webpage to have to type of sections, one light grey with black text, one dark grey with white text, all are about half a screen size each, might have some icons or pictures, as well as some text.
So how I would do it normally would be something like
<div class=dark style="height: 350px">
Some welcome text and saying hi
</div>
<div class=light style="height: 350px">
A nice picture and some other bits
</div>
<div class=dark style="height: 350px">
Now lets do something with a big button
</div>
So in Material Design I'll get the divs by setting up a layout=row and a flex, nice layout and scroll down over my zebra.
However, in theory I would like to use color 100 for light and 600 for dark from my palette, but there does not seem to be a way to do so. Yes, I can create a CSS class with those colours, but it means that the whole Palette things seems rather wasteful.
After much faffing about, I manage to figure out part of it.
There is a md-accent option which seems to be create for this very purpose. You do need to set the accent first.
.accentPalette('grey')
In my case, I just needed the grey one, but you could define the whole palette using definePalette. So using our example above, the configuration would look as follows:
$mdThemingProvider.theme('default')
.dark()
.primaryPalette('Stackit')
.backgroundPalette('Stackit')
.accentPalette('grey')
.warnPalette('red');
Then all you need to do to make light (grey) text on black background:
<H1 class="md-accent">Prototypes</H1>
This is a very basic CSS design question.
When I have two block-elements
+----------+ +----------+
|~~~~~~~~~~| |**********|
|~~~~~~~~~~| |**********|
|~~~~~~~~~~| |**********|
+----------+ +----------+
and I want to set the space between them, there are three possibilities:
Left block with right margin
Right block with left margin
Margin for both blocks
What are the pros and cons for each one and—most importantly—what is considered
best practice?
It is generally a good idea to choose a direction (margin-left OR margin-right) and to stick to it on the whole project so designing will be easier and more consistent.
For more on the subject you can read this blog post: Single-direction margin declarations
That said, margin-left on boxes means "I do not want to be too close to the box before me" while margin-right means "I do not want other boxes to be too close to me".
So on designs where boxes have a margin by default, use margin-right (and margin-bottom) and on designs where boxes have no margin by default, use margin-left (and margin-top) on the few boxes with a margin. If it is mixed, choose the direction that seems the most coherent to you and stick to it.
No pros and cons, it is totally on your design, what you want to go for, using margin-right will make the last element have margin-right for no good reason, so say for example, you have three boxes, floated to the left, or they are displayed inline-block so because of the right margin, the last box won't touch the extreme right of the template, instead it will wrap and move down.
Do you see the red space, it's margin-right for the last element, which you won't need. shifting it more will result your div to move down.
Solution?
If you are willing to support legacy browsers, assign a class to the last element and write margin-right: 0;, say you are having 3 li elements floated, so you will write
ul.class_name li.class_name {
margin-right: 0;
}
Else, you can use :last-child pseudo to get rid of the extra margin.
So it will be
ul.class_name li:last-child {
margin-right: 0;
}
Same thing will go for the left, but instead of using :last-child and margin-right you need to use margin-left and :first-child respectively.
Last but not the least, using margin on both sides, will create a space on both the sides, again, resulting in disorientation of your layout.
In the above case, you will have to use both, either assign class to first and last element, or you need to use :first-child and :last-child to get rid of margin on the left for first element and margin on the right for last element.
Conclusion: For the two boxes you have, you should use margin-right
and use a class or :last-child to remove the extra margin on the
last element.
It depends where you will use it and how you will use it there is no exact rule for this. However if you will use some grid system for elements it is best practice. If your element cannot be suitable for grid system you can use any approach.
P.S. And there is another possibility to use pseudo element after or before I guess.
Simple Answer: It depends
It all depends on what you are trying to do, and what elements are those.
For example, if your site is oriented to the left, and those are two floating divs, with the same class, you wouldn't want to use margin-left, because that will introduce some space on the left of the first block.
It obviously makes no sense to add margin to both elements, unless you have dynamic content that may appear in between.
So, other than the obvious styling manner that you want your page to have, there is no difference in performance, but mostly readability of your code
I trying to create a fixed border to the site that dynamically change size with the browser window from this sprite (it isn't perfect I know.): http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/269/7/0/bordersprite_by_nakos-d4ayzne.png
DEMO on jSFiddle
My problem as you can see is the vertical wall part. As the #falJ and #falB are height:100% they include the bottom wall's end too with the space between the two wall sprites. Is there a way to force backround-position to only use vertical wall part without bottom wall's end?
Thanks in advance.
Solution: http://jsfiddle.net/vonkly/Ld43B/
It's not the prettiest thing in the world, but it achieves what you want. Check out the source code & direct link for the background images to see what you'll need to do. It's currently set at 299px wide; I imagine you'll be using something wider.
I'd also suggest adding some padding around your content (either with a p tag, span, another div, etc.) - the way it is currently set up isn't what I'd recommend for readability.
EDIT
The only way I can imagine achieving a fluid width + height box with the borders that you have in the way that you want is to use a second image for the west and east containing divs. This should work with your current method.
I need to make a journal, and I want to have a "recommended books" on the side of the page within the last page of the journal, but I couldn't find anything that would give me this result. I'm already using multicols package for the content and i cant see how a graphicx package would help me out.
I want to have a nice blue background with rounded corners too, help is welcome ^^.
If you are already using multicol, just make it another column and draw a box around it with the usual techniques. Maybe not the fanciest solution, but it seems like it should work. Use \newcolumn in the multicol environment to put the sidebar in its own column. For your fancy boxes, try the fancybox package. With it, you can draw boxes with rounded corners.
On the other hand, this guy gets super fancy and uses the TikZ package to get colors and all sorts of stuff.
I have a large figure that appears at the end of my document rather than in the section that I want to be in. Even \begin{figure}[h] doesn't help. Without scaling it down, how can I put it at the end of the section I want it in?
Using the afterpage package can be a good solution. However, using the option here you are trying to tell LaTeX where you want to put the image. Instead, you need to tell LaTeX where the image is good to be put:
use \begin{figure}[tb] for figures that fit well in a page with text (say, half of the text height for the figure and the other half for the text)
use \begin{figure}[p] for floats large enough to require a dedicated page.
Setting a proper option increase your chances to have the image almost where you want, having at the same time a good page layout.
If the figure is still too far from the page where it should be placed, you can set some "barriers" for floats positioning with the packages placeins or afterpage (already mentioned).
Here is a small tutorial for float placement. The thing you want to do is put an \afterpage{\clearpage} command at the end of the section. This will create an additional page after the current one and place the floats that are left in the queque there. If the float still doesn't get placed, you have to resize it. If you really don't want to resize it and it should fit on the page, then you could try changing the margins and text area temporarily (i.e. just for that one page) and see if that lets the float get placed.
i forget if it's the float or array package that provides this, but,
\begin{figure}[H]
...
\end{figure}
The upper case H will put the figure exactly where it is in your code.