I've been trying to create a site with the following structure:
But I can't seem to get the header correct (e1 left, e2 centered, e3 right). I want the three elements e1, e2 and e3 to be left, middle and right positioned. This is what I'm trying:
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="header">
<div id="header-e1">
1
</div>
<div id="header-e2">
2
</div>
<div id="header-e3">
3
</div>
</div>
<div id="nav">
links
</div>
<div id="content">
content
</div>
<div id="footer">
footer
</div>
</div>
With this css:
#wrapper
{
width: 95%;
margin: 20px auto;
border: 1px solid black;
}
#header
{
margin: 5px;
}
#header-e1
{
float: left;
border: 1px solid black;
}
#header-e2
{
float: left;
border: 1px solid black;
}
#header-e3
{
border: 1px solid black;
}
#nav
{
margin: 5px;
}
#content
{
margin: 5px;
}
#footer
{
margin: 5px;
}
UPDATE
The code I have above gives me this: But I want the 2 centered and the 3 on the right side. I don't want to set the width to a percent because the content in the elements may vary, meaning it may be 20/60/20 - 10/80/10 - 33/33/33 or something else.
If you can swap the html position of 2 & 3 like so:
<div id="header-e1">
1 is wider
</div>
<div id="header-e3">
3 is also
</div>
<div id="header-e2">
2 conforms
</div>
Then you can set this css which will cause 2 to "fill" the available space because of the overlow: hidden
on it. So if 1 & 3 expand, 2 narrows (shrink window down to see what happens at really small size).
#header-e1 {float: left;}
#header-e2 {overflow: hidden;}
#header-e3 {float: right;}
Technically, you could keep your current html order and your float: left
on both 1 & 2 and make 3 the flex div with overflow: hidden
. You could do the same with 1 by reversing the order of the html completely and setting 2 & 3 to float: right
with 1 having overflow: hidden
. To me it would seem best to have the middle flex, but you know your application better than I.