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CSS

Laura Kyle
Laura Kyle
19,794 Points
Posted by Laura Kyle
Laura Kyle
19,794 Points

Positioning blues: Image overlapping div

I'm missing something that is no doubt an easy fix, but no matter how much I play around with it I can't seem to make it work.

I'm trying to get my div (topblock) to fill 20% in height. However, it seems to only leave enough room for the header. The image (banner) is the height I want it to be. Is it an overlap issue?

<header> 
    <div id="topblock"> 
        <h1>My Headline</h1> 
    </div>  
</header>


    <img id="banner" src="------" alt="------">

#topblock {
    width: 100%;
    height: 20%;
    padding: 0px auto;
    margin: 0px auto;
    background: linear-gradient(black, #121211);
}
 #banner {
    height: 22%;
    width: 100%;
    padding: 0px;
    margin: 0 auto;
}

h1 {
font-family: 'Archivo Narrow', sans-serif;
font-weight: 700;
margin: 0px auto;
padding: 0px auto;
color: #EE66FF;
}
Nick Ocampo
Nick Ocampo
15,661 Points

I think you may be looking at it the wrong way. You want your #topblock div's height to be 20% of what? If you specify a height in a percentage, by default, CSS will take it as 20% height of the total height of the closest ancestor element with a position of relative or absolute (maybe fixed too, I'm not sure).

So if you want to make it be 20% of the height of your header element (which is its closest ancestor, or parent) you have to specify a height for your header element and set its position to relative (or absolute if you want).

Sorry if that's confusing. I highly recommend the tutorial on CSS positioning to understand how that all works better.

Laura Kyle
Laura Kyle
19,794 Points
Laura Kyle
Laura Kyle
19,794 Points

That's not confusing at all, that's a huge help and clears up the misunderstanding I seem to be having. Thank you!