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I have an div element that has position: absolute;. I want it to always be on the right edge and not cover other elements.

Here is my HTML:

.color2 {
  background-color: #ff0078 !important;
  color: white !important;
}

.colorW {
  background-color: white;
  color: black;
  border: 1px #d4d4d4 dotted;
}

.condition-input {
  display: inline-block;
  padding: 3px 7px;
  line-height: 1;
  text-align: center;
  white-space: nowrap;
  vertical-align: middle;
  border-radius: 10px;
  font-size: 0.9em !important;
  width: 180px;
  height: 19px;
  background-color: #fff200;
  color: black;
}

.condition-button-group {
  position: absolute;
  right: 12px;
}
<div>
  <span class="badge color2">Height</span>
  <span class="badge colorW">==</span>
  <input type="text" class="form-control condition-input" />
  <div class="d-inline condition-button-group">Text</div>
</div>

But on the page I see the following. I don't want the "Text" to cover the left on the input, there should be an indentation. How to fix it?

karen
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Peter
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  • perhaps you shouldn't use "position: absolute" for that div. check usages of "float: right" and try removing "position: absolute.". check this webpage if you are not familiar with float usage: http://tutorials.jenkov.com/css/float.html – schlingel Aug 17 '18 at 13:39

2 Answers2

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If you use absolute, your parent div needs to be positioned relative so that the absolutely positioned element is absolute within the parent and not the DOM as a whole (or other ancestors set to relative). 

<div class="wrapper">
    <span class="badge color2">Height</span>
    <span class="badge colorW">==</span>
    <input type="text" class="form-control condition-input"/>
    <div class="d-inline condition-button-group">Text</div>
</div>

Style:

.wrapper{
    position:relative;
}
.condition-button-group {
   right:0;
   top:0;
}

Check out this link: Position absolute but relative to parent

You may need to play with the style a bit to position it exactly where you want, but this is the route to take to do what you are trying to do.

Adam
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You can add padding-right: 70px; to the parent div which is equal to the .condition-button-group class.

Updated code should looks like as below.

<div class="parent">
    <span class="badge color2">Height</span>
    <span class="badge colorW">==</span>
    <input type="text" class="form-control condition-input"/>
    <div class="d-inline condition-button-group">Text</div>
</div>

.parent{
    position:relative;
    padding-right:70px;
}

Hope this helps.

if you create any plunker that should be great.

Anji
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  • This is good, no need for the padding as OP could position .condition-button-group absolutely in the parent when the parent is set to position:relative... so right:70px on .condition-button-group would do the same but making use of the positioning – Adam Aug 17 '18 at 14:09