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CSS

Posted by Chris Feltus
Chris Feltus
3,970 Points

Text Spilling out of Div (codepen inside)

Hello,

I am working on a site and I am having an issue with some of the media queries. When the site goes below the 480px break point the text in the <header> section (gray banner) spills out of its container as shown in the image below.http://s24.postimg.org/557drjmyd/spilling.png

I have tried several different things but seem to be having difficulty coming up with a solution. Here is the codepen: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/Ggxpzz

Thanks in advance

4 Answers

Sean T. Unwin
Sean T. Unwin
28,690 Points

The primary reason is because you have a finite height and quite a bit of left padding while placing too much content in that amount of available space.

There are numerous potential solutions:

  • remove height
  • reduce padding-left
  • reduce font-size (not really recommended)
  • set overflow: auto to induce scrolling (not recommended)

My preference would be using both points 1 & 2 above -- remove height and, if you still want the text (content) on the right, set padding-left: 50%.

Colin Bell
Colin Bell
29,679 Points
Colin Bell
Colin Bell
29,679 Points

Reduce your left-padding at smaller resolutions

.header { 
  padding-left: 15px; 
} 

@media (min-width: 768px) {
  .header {
    padding-left: 225px;
  }
}
Chris Feltus
Chris Feltus
3,970 Points
Chris Feltus
Chris Feltus
3,970 Points

Thank you very much Colin Bell

Chris Feltus
Chris Feltus
3,970 Points
Chris Feltus
Chris Feltus
3,970 Points

Thank you once again everyone, very grateful for your replies.