Finally got a chance to get back to work on that HTML5 game.
[Here’s the previous post if you don’t know what I’m talking about].
Anyway, I had some trouble for a little while... I had programmed my Tumblr using an older version of HTML, and I was a bit rusty anyway. I’d never really done anything with CSS (or, rather, I probably used it directly in the HTML file and didn’t realize I was using it lol).
Anyway, the align property is apparently outdated, so it took a bit to figure out how to get it lined up properly.
After a while of fiddling with it, and trying out different settings, this is the goofy thing I wound up with.
I had come up with this using the position: relative property in CSS.
I wanted to get the various divs to line up based around the container div.
Buuuut, when I got it to stay in the container div, it would all stack on top of each other. It would only stand side-by-side if I would let it get out of the container.
I wound up deciding to just more-or-less ditch the container, just using it to affect the text, not the alignment. I changed the position to absolute, that way I could get it to do what I wanted.
Took a while to figure out how to get the divs to not sit on top of each other, but after tweaking the heights and widths, I wound up with this:
Strangely, it seems that I can’t get it to just let me say, “make this 95% the width of the page”, or maybe it would if I used a different position attribute, but as far as I can tell, the absolute version is the only one that would let me set them side-by-side.
I’m dissapointed that I couldn’t use a % specification to size them, because that means that it might not really scale very well.
But, in the end, I did wind up with a final result that fairly well matches my original design.
Took a bit to get the footer to sit down there, but I have everything about where I want it. I think the Main area needs to be scaled down some so the other areas can be a bit bigger, but idk I may leave it like this.
But woo! I think that’ll about do it for now. I have a bunch to do, and this seems like a good place to stop.
If you’d like to see more HTML5 goodies from me, I’ll be keeping a neat little list of my posts about it [here]!
I wanted to post links to the code-in-progress, too, but Google Drive is loading exceedingly slowly right now. I'll update this post and/or the Tumblr equivalent to this post with the links soon as I'm able to access faster WiFi.
EDIT: You can check out the [HTML here] and the [CSS here]!
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