I have to build a Modular Window for a chat! I allready got a Toolbar and an Flex conatiner which gets filled. Now i got the Problem, that i want to add an Div for a chat input field. I tried nearly everything to align this thing to the bottom but nothing works.
Here is how it should look like:
“Message input” has to be aligned to the bottom
This is my actual HTML-Code:
<div id="chat_dialog" class="modal" style="height: 600px; overflow-y: hidden">
<div class="toolbar_standard">
<div class="toolbar_standard_control_row">
<img src="/static/images/ic_arrow_back_white.svg" class="toolbar-button" data-bind="click: closeChatDialog">
<div style="font-size: 20px; color: white">Chat</div>
<div style="font-size: 20px; color: white; padding-left: 40%" data-bind="html: chatPartnerName"></div>
<div style="..."></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="display:flex; height: 100%;">
<div data-bind="foreach: contacts" style="width: 300px; overflow-y: scroll;">
<div class="overviewlist_row waves-effect" style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px" data-bind="click: $parent.onClick.bind($parent)">
<div>
<div>
<p data-bind="html: name"></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="background-color: #e6e6e6; flex-grow: 1; overflow-y: scroll; padding-bottom: 10px">
<div style="height: 80%; display: flex; flex-direction: column;">
<div id="spinner" class="spinner">
<div class="bounce1"></div>
<div class="bounce2"></div>
<div class="bounce3"></div>
</div>
<div data-bind="foreach: messages" style="padding-left: 15px; min-height: 306px">
<p data-bind="html: message, css: messageClassName"></p>
</div>
<div style="height: auto">
<div class="input-field col s6" style="background-color: white; height: auto;">
<input id="message_to_send" type="text" class="validate" data-bind="value: message_to_send" style="width: 94%;">
<a id="sendChat" class="clickable-icon" data-bind="click: sendMessage" style="padding-top: 0px"><img src="/static/images/ic_send_black.svg"></a>
<label for="message_to_send">Nachricht</label>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
And this is how it looks like in the Browser:
Here you can see that is is floating under the Div of the “Messages” and that its dynamically moving whit the size of the “Messages” Div!
How and where do i have to set the the alignment to the bottom?
First point: Don’t use inline CSS without any necessity.
You can bring your message to bottom by positioning. Try to change your code as below
Add
position:relative
to<div style="height: 80%; display: flex; flex-direction: column;">
and addposition:absolute; bottom:0;
to<div style="height: auto">
.Edit: If it doesn’t bring your message to exact bottom, then you are suppose to work on the height of
<div style="height: 80%; display: flex; flex-direction: column;">
on this part.Add
position: fixed;
andbottom:0;
to your message input container, to fix the width overlap issue just add property ofwidth: inherit;
that will take the width value of parent element.Otherwise you can assign the parent width to your message container dynamicly using JavaScript code :
Just add
position: absolute;
andbottom: 0px;
in your textarea or container of textarea