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Xionico
Xionico

Reputation: 223

Beginner's stuff: How to stop CSS' Divs from overlapping?

First question ever, I started working on CSS about a month ago due to a job I got, but it seems I have encountered some problems I can't fix (mainly due to my inexperience and that it's someone else's CSS)

I won't beat around the bush so much and explain the problem before showing the code. There are a set of Div's in a form-like setting, but when the text get's too crowded it invades the next Div so, fixing it via CSS and not HTML, any fix on this? From the very problem I can imagine it's something so easy it's silly, but well, yeah.

Edit: I kinda of forgot to mention that part, I don't want them to be hidden, I want each div to automatically allow for the "previous" one to finish it's concent without overlapping (Tried with overflow: Auto but it gave them scrollbars, to all the forms in the whole site.

Here's a pic of how it looks at the moment, I'm sure you will see the problem right away

https://i.sstatic.net/wBrLL.jpg

Here's the relevant HTML

<html>
<head>
    <link href="hue.css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
    <div class="content">

        <div class="column">
            <div class="form">
                <div class="form-nivel">
                    <label for="cfdiCreate:organizationRfc">RFC</label><label id="cfdiCreate:organizationRfc">XXXXXXXXXXXX</label>
                </div>
                <div class="form-nivel">
                    <label for="cfdiCreate:organizationTaxSystem">Regimen    fiscal</label><label id="cfdiCreate:organizationTaxSystem">Sueldos y salarios</label>
                </div>
                <div class="form-nivel">
                    <label for="cfdiCreate:organizationTaxAddress">Domicilio  fiscal</label><label id="cfdiCreate:organizationTaxAddress">XXXXXX Colonia Tecnológico  Monterrey,Nuevo León,México.C.P.XXXXXX</label>
                </div>
                <div class="form-nivel">
                    <label for="cfdiCreate:organizationExpeditionPlace">Lugar de  expedición</label><label id="cfdiCreate:organizationExpeditionPlace">Suc.1 Chiapas,México.     </label>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
        <div class="column secondary">
            <!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?-->
        </div>
</body>
</html>

And here's the CSS

body {
    font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    text-align: center;
}

p {
    text-align: left;
}

.content {
    display: block;
    width: 100%;
    height: auto;
    margin-bottom: 10px;
    float: left;
    background: #;
    text-align: left;
}

    .content label, .content p {
        font-size: 16px;
        color: #024DA1;
        padding-left: 2%;
    }

.column {
    display: block;
    float: left;
    width: 48%;
    margin-top: 15px;
    height: auto;
    background:;
}

.secondary {
    margin-left: 10px;
}

.clearfix {
    clear: both;
    margin-bottom: 10px;
}

.form {
    display: block;
    width: 96%;
    height: auto;
    background:;
}

.form-nivel {
    display: block;
    width: 100%;
    width: 470px;
    min-height: 20px;
    margin-bottom: 20px;
    position: relative;
}

    .form-nivel label {
        width: 160px;
        float: left;
        height: 20px;
        line-height: 20px;
        margin-right: 10px;
        text-align: right;
    }

Upvotes: 22

Views: 87203

Answers (5)

Cobo
Cobo

Reputation: 118

The CSS logic for the left labels and the right labels are the same.

First thing you should do is set them apart.

<div class="form-nivel">
    <label class="leftLabel" for="cfdiCreate:organizationRfc">RFC</label>
    <label class="rightLabel" id="cfdiCreate:organizationRfc">XXXXXXXXXXXX</label>
</div>
  • Notice the added class

Then on your css you would do something like this:

.form-nivel label.leftLabel {
    width: 160px;
    float: left;
    height: 20px;
    line-height: 20px;
    margin-right: 10px;
    text-align: right;
}

.form-nivel label.rightLabel {
    width: 400px;
    float: left;
    height: 20px;
    line-height: 20px;
    margin-right: 10px;
    text-align: left;
}

I made the right labels bigger and aligned them to the left.

Also, you should add:

<meta charset="utf-8">

on the html head. This is to be able to display characters with accents.

Upvotes: 1

Stephen Rodriguez
Stephen Rodriguez

Reputation: 1037

Here. You are applying a CSS rule to all the labels. The overlapping happens because of this rule.

float: left;

To fix this, remove the .form-nivel label rule and add these.

.form-nivel label:nth-child(1) {
    width: 160px;
    float: left;
    height: 20px;
    line-height: 20px;
    margin-right: 10px;
    text-align: right;
}

.form-nivel label:nth-child(2) {
    width: 160px;
    height: 20px;
    line-height: 20px;
    margin-right: 10px;
    text-align: right;
}

Upvotes: 9

Cobo
Cobo

Reputation: 118

Try adding:

<div class="clearfix"></div>

between each row.

<div class="form-nivel">
    <label for="cfdiCreate:organizationRfc">RFC</label>
    <label        id="cfdiCreate:organizationRfc">XXXXXXXXXXXX</label>
</div>
<div class="clearfix"></div>
<div class="form-nivel">
    <label for="cfdiCreate:organizationTaxSystem">Regimen    fiscal</label>
    <label id="cfdiCreate:organizationTaxSystem">Sueldos y salarios</label>
</div>

Upvotes: 0

Andr&#233; Dion
Andr&#233; Dion

Reputation: 21758

Why not simply keep your <label/>s inline? Removing all the unneccessary declarations...

.form-nivel label {
    margin-right: 10px;
    line-height: 20px;
}

Upvotes: 0

Keith
Keith

Reputation: 4137

you can use overflow:hidden to hide the content if it overflows into the next one

Upvotes: 2

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