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August 7, 2023
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Hello!
I’m having problems with my title bar not taking up the intended space. Here’s a diagram:
Diagram of my problem
The area I highlighted in red is where I want my title bar to be (Next to the existing buttons) but my title bar instead moves to the next line.
Here’s the code:

body, html{
    margin: 0px;
    height: 100%;
}
div.titlebar{
    background-color: rgb(226, 147, 0);
    color: white;
    padding: 5px;
    font-size: 20px;
    line-height: 30px;
    height: 30px;
    font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Arial', 'Helvetica', sans-serif;
    display: inline-block;
    cursor: default;
}
div.titlebutton{
    cursor: pointer;
    margin-left: 2px;
    background-color: orange;
    color: white;
    padding: 5px;
    font-size: 20px;
    line-height: 30px;
    height: 30px;
    font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Arial', 'Helvetica', sans-serif;
    display: inline-block;
}
div.titlebutton:hover{
    background-color: rgb(226, 147, 0);
}
#editor{
    border: none;
    resize: none;
    font-size: 20px;
    width: 100%;
    height: calc(100% - 45px);
    box-sizing: border-box;
}
div#rest {
    background-color: orange;
    color: white;
    margin-left: 2px;
    padding: 5px;
    height:30px;
    display: inline-block;
    cursor: default;
    width: 100%;
}

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Text Editor</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="text.css">
</head>
<body>
    <div class="titlebar">Text Editor</div><div class="titlebutton" id="save">Save</div><div class="titlebutton" id="load">Load</div><div id="rest"></div>
    <br/>
    <textarea id="editor"></textarea>
    <script src="text.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Attempts to fix

! (Please keep in mind that I’m a CSS beginner)
I tried using width:100%; along with display:inline-block; to make it go next to the buttons. I’m not familiar with other ways to do it, so that’s the only way I tried aside from display:inline;, that ended up breaking the whole bar.

Tags: css spacing

Answers

Have you tried Wrapping the content in a div?
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Document</title>
    <style>
        .titlebutton{
            display:inline-block;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="titlebar">Text Editor<div class="titlebutton" id="save">Save</div><div class="titlebutton" id="load">Load</div><div id="rest"></div></div>
</body>
</html>
    
Like this?

If you wrap it in a container that is block formatted and make the buttons inside inline-block, it should work as a base point.

You’ve made this quite hard for yourself by not including a wrapper element for the titlebar. The layout you’re going for is very flexbox and so naturally you’d want a flexbox parent for the items inside the titlebar:

body, html{
    margin: 0px;
    height: 100%;
}
div.titlebar-wrapper {
    display: flex;
    background-color: rgb(226, 147, 0);
}
div.titlebar{
    color: white;
    padding: 5px;
    font-size: 20px;
    line-height: 30px;
    height: 30px;
    font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Arial', 'Helvetica', sans-serif;
    display: inline-block;
    cursor: default;
}
div.titlebutton{
    cursor: pointer;
    margin-left: 2px;
    background-color: orange;
    color: white;
    padding: 5px;
    font-size: 20px;
    line-height: 30px;
    height: 30px;
    font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Arial', 'Helvetica', sans-serif;
    display: inline-block;
}
div.titlebutton:hover{
    background-color: rgb(226, 147, 0);
}
#editor{
    border: none;
    resize: none;
    font-size: 20px;
    width: 100%;
    height: calc(100% - 45px);
    box-sizing: border-box;
}

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Text Editor</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="text.css">
</head>
<body>
    <div class="titlebar-wrapper">
      <div class="titlebar">Text Editor</div><div class="titlebutton" id="save">Save</div><div class="titlebutton" id="load">Load</div>
    </div>
    <br/>
    <textarea id="editor"></textarea>
    <script src="text.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

This also allows you to get rid of the <div id="rest">, by simply giving the parent the appropriate background-color.

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How do I make my title bar take up the intended space in CSS?

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