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markiz
markiz

Reputation: 2184

Aligning elements on same line

I want both labels and textbox appear on same line ("Search for products:" label is above "search" label, i want them to be on the same line), the difference is slight but it exists, I want them to be precise.

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Markup:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
  <html lang="en">
    <head>
       <title>Test</title>
    </head>
    <body>
      <div class="panel">
        <div class="displayModes">
           Search for products:          
        </div>
      <div class="searchPanel">
        Search :
        <input name="txtSearch" type="text" id="txtSearch" style="height:14px;" />          
      </div>
   </div>    
 </body>
</html>

CSS:

.displayModes
{
        float:left;
    padding-left: 2px;  
    text-align: center;
}

.searchPanel
{
    float: right;
    margin-right: 150px;
    text-align: center;
}
.panel
{
font-family: Arial, Verdana, Sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;

    padding-top:10px;
    width:600px;
 }

Upvotes: 3

Views: 27565

Answers (3)

BitDrink
BitDrink

Reputation: 1193

just set up the line heigh of the div "displayModes" to 20px:

<div class="panel">
   <div class="displayModes">
      Search for products:          
      </div>
      <div class="searchPanel">
        Search :
        <input name="txtSearch" type="text" id="txtSearch" style="height:14px;" />          
      </div>
</div>

CSS:

.displayModes{
   float:left;
   padding-left: 2px;  
   text-align: center;
   line-height: 20px;
}

.searchPanel{
   float: right;
   margin-right: 150px;
   text-align: center;
}

.panel{
   font-family: Arial, Verdana, Sans-serif;
   font-size: 12px;
   padding-top:10px;
   width:500px;
 }

Small suggestion: you have a problem of overflow, just add a "clearer" div to force the childs div to be contained from "panel":

<div class="panel">
   <div class="displayModes">
      Search for products:          
      </div>
      <div class="searchPanel">
        Search :
        <input name="txtSearch" type="text" id="txtSearch" style="height:14px;" />          
      </div>
      <div class="clearer"></div>
</div>

CSS:

.clearer{ clear: both; }

FIX: The line-height, of the "displayModes" div, has to be 21px! Tested on FF 3.5.3 and Safari 4.0.3

Upvotes: 0

Ehz
Ehz

Reputation: 2067

Wrap all text in divs so you can add top padding so they all line up on the same line well. Always specify widths when floating. I find it easier to specify floats as all left and having specific widths.

Markup

 <div class="panel">
    <div class="displayModes">
       Search for products:          
    </div>
    <div class="searchPanel">
        <div style="float:left;width:60px;padding-top:2px;"> 
            Search :
        </div>
        <div style="float:left;width:100px;"> 
            <input name="txtSearch" type="text" id="txtSearch" style="height:14px;" />  
        </div>        
     </div>
  </div>

CSS

.displayModes
{
    float:left;
    width:200px;
    padding-top:2px;
    padding-left: 2px;  
    text-align: center;
}

.searchPanel
{
    float: left;
    width:200px;
    margin-right: 150px;
    text-align: center;
}

.panel
{
    font-family: Arial, Verdana, Sans-serif;
    font-size: 12px;
    padding-top:10px;
    width:600px;
}

Update without extra divs for label centering

Markup

<div class="panel">
    <div class="displayModes">
       Search for products:          
    </div>
    <div class="searchPanel">        
        Search :        
        <input name="txtSearch" type="text" id="txtSearch" style="height:14px;"/>                
     </div>
</div>

CSS

.displayModes
{
    float:left;
    width:200px;
    padding-top:4px;
    padding-left: 2px;  
    text-align: center;
}

.searchPanel
{
    float: left;
    width:200px;
    margin-right: 150px;
    text-align: center;
}

.panel
{
    font-family: Arial, Verdana, Sans-serif;
    font-size: 12px;
    padding-top:10px;
    width:600px;
}

Upvotes: 2

Buggabill
Buggabill

Reputation: 13901

I did it by adding some padding to the following section of the CSS:

.displayModes
{
    float:left;
    padding-left: 2px;
    padding-top: 2px;  
    text-align: center;
}

Upvotes: 0

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