Let Monaco Editor fill the rest of the page (cross-browser) - css

I want to embed a Monaco Editor in a page under some fixed texts, I want the height of the Monaco Editor to fill exactly the rest of the page. People gave me an answer here: JSBin:
<html>
<style>
html, body, .rb {
margin: 0;
height: 100%;
}
.rb {
display: table;
width: 100%;
border-collapse: collapse;
}
.top, .myME {
display: table-row;
}
.buffer {
display: table-cell;
}
.top .buffer {
background: lightblue;
height:1%;
}
.myME .buffer {
background: tomato;
}
#container {
position:relative;
}
#container > * {
overflow:auto;
max-width:100%;
max-height:100%;
}
</style>
<body>
<div class="rb">
<div class="top">
<div class="buffer">
1<br/>2<br/>3<br/>4<br/>
</div>
</div>
<div class="myME">
<div class="buffer" id="container">
</div>
</div>
</div>
<script src="https://www.matrixlead.com/monaco-editor/min/vs/loader.js"></script>
<script>
require.config({ paths: { 'vs': 'https://www.matrixlead.com/monaco-editor/min/vs' }})
require(["vs/editor/editor.main"], function () {
var editor = monaco.editor.create(document.getElementById('container'), {
value: 'function x() {\n\tconsole.log("Hello world!");\n}',
language: 'javascript',
minimap: { enabled: false },
automaticLayout: true,
scrollBeyondLastLine: false
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
It works perfectly in Chrome, but it does not display the editor in Safari because of max-height:100% of #container > *. If we set it to max-height:100vh or height: 100vh, it works more or less in Safari (with a little bit flashing when the focus reaches the bottom of the editor), whereas it shows a scroller while scrolling up and down in Chrome.
Does anyone have a solution that works both in Chrome and Safari? Otherwise, is it possible to set specific rule for Chrome or Safari only?

You can use vh and flex-grow together:
.rb {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
height: 100vh;
margin: 0;
}
.rb #container {
flex-grow: 1;
}
Edit: Aha - Monico Editor has a fixedOverflowWidgets: true that can be set. Here is the final functional thing: https://jsfiddle.net/pa8y2fzy/3/
require.config({
paths: {
'vs': 'https://www.matrixlead.com/monaco-editor/min/vs'
}
})
require(["vs/editor/editor.main"], function() {
var editor = monaco.editor.create(document.getElementById('container'), {
value: [
'function x() {',
'\tconsole.log("Hello world!");',
'}'
].join('\n'),
language: 'javascript',
fixedOverflowWidgets: true
});
});
Edit: As I mentioned in the comments, I don't have access to Safari, but here is a page with Safari CSS hacks: is there a css hack for safari only NOT chrome?

Finally, in Chrome and Safari, the following code does not create any scroll bar while scrolling up and down, there are no lines hidden in the bottom when the code is long, the footer is always at the bottom regardless of resizing. Additionally, it is important to test it in an independent html file rather than in JSBin.
<html>
<style>
.rb {
height: 100%;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
.myME {
flex:1;
overflow: hidden;
}
.footer {
flex-shrink: 0;
background:#f8f8f8;
border-top: 1px solid #e7e7e7
}
</style>
<body>
<div class="rb">
<div class="top">1<br/>2<br/>3<br/>4<br/></div>
<div class="myME" id="container"></div>
<div class="footer">haha</div>
</div>
<script src="https://www.matrixlead.com/monaco-editor/min/vs/loader.js"></script>
<script>
require.config({ paths: { 'vs': 'https://www.matrixlead.com/monaco-editor/min/vs' }})
require(["vs/editor/editor.main"], function () {
var editor = monaco.editor.create(document.getElementById('container'), {
value: 'function x() {\n\tconsole.log("Hello world!");\n}\nfunction x() {\n\tconsole.log("Hello world!");\n}\nfunction x() {\n\tconsole.log("Hello world!");\n}',
language: 'javascript',
minimap: { enabled: false },
automaticLayout: true,
scrollBeyondLastLine: false
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>

I cannot test in Safari but I don't see any reason to use max-height/width when you always want it to be 100% relative to the container. Try simply using
#container > * {
overflow:auto;
width:100%;
height:100%;
}

Related

vue js media queries

Daer all,
i use vue js 3, vue router and vuex. in dependencies were installed node-sas and sass-loader.
I have changed all style tags to lang="css".
In the example below, i tried to setup a mediaquery rule for small devices but... it daes not work att all. No error message appears in the terminal and on the browser inspector, this small devices rules styme daes not appear.
i do not want to use sass but simply use css only.
thank you for your help, i am completly lost.
<template>
<div class ="grp-header">
<div class ="grp-header__logo">
<img src = "#/assets/logogrp.png" alt="logo de groupomania">
</div>
</div>
</template>
<script>
export default {
name: 'Header',
data() {
return {
text: "Mon beau site"
};
}
};
</script>
<style lang="css" scoped>
.grp-header {
display:flex;
padding: 30px;
background-color: white;
height: 200px;
justify-content: flex-start;
align-content: center;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 5px;
border-color: #4E5166;
margin: auto;
width:100%;
}
#media only screen and (max-width: 600px) {
.grp-header {
height: 100px !important;
}
}
.grp-header__logo {
display:flex;
background-color:white;
}
</style>
It should work, I just created a below code snippet and it's working fine. Please have a look and try to find the root cause by taking the reference.
const app = Vue.createApp({
data () {
return {
message: 'Hello Vue!'
}
}
})
app.mount('#app')
.grp-header {
height: 50px;
background-color: yellow;
}
#media only screen and (max-width: 600px) {
.grp-header {
height: 100px;
background-color: #f00;
}
}
<script src="https://unpkg.com/vue#3.0.0-rc.5/dist/vue.global.js"></script>
<div id="app">
<p class="grp-header">{{ message }}</p>
</div>

Display css only when running on Windows

I display scrollbars when the mouse is moved over a div as follows:
div {
height: 100px;
width: 50%;
margin: 0 auto;
overflow: hidden;
}
div:hover {
overflow-y: scroll;
}
However, I really only want this to happen when my app is running on a Windows machine and not when it's running on any other operating system. Is this possible using css?
you can do it by little bit use of jQuery/JavaScript;
<head>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
function isMacintosh() {
return navigator.platform.indexOf('Mac') > -1
}
function isWindows() {
return navigator.platform.indexOf('Win') > -1
}
$(window).bind("load", function() {
if(isWindows() == true)
{
$('#scroll').attr('style', 'height: 100px;width: 50%;margin: 0 auto;overflow: hidden;');
$("#scroll").mouseover(function() {
$(this).css("overflow-y","scroll");
}).mouseout(function() {
$(this).css("overflow-y","hidden");
});
}
});
</script>
<div id="scroll">
Div with ID
</div>
<div>
Div with out ID
</div>
Note: For jquery you have to load jquery scripts in header.
hope it will help you.

Chatbox component - Flex item with scrollable content [duplicate]

Here is an example chat app ->
The idea here is to have the .messages-container take up as much of the screen as it can. Within .messages-container, .scroll holds the list of messages, and in case there are more messages then the size of the screen, scrolls.
Now, consider this case:
The user scrolls to the bottom of the conversation
The .text-input, dynamically gets bigger
Now, instead of the user staying scrolled to the bottom of the conversation, the text-input increases, and they no longer see the bottom.
One way to fix it, if we are using react, calculate the height of text-input, and if anything changes, let .messages-container know
componentDidUpdate() {
window.setTimeout(_ => {
const newHeight = this.calcHeight();
if (newHeight !== this._oldHeight) {
this.props.onResize();
}
this._oldHeight = newHeight;
});
}
But, this causes visible performance issues, and it's sad to be passing messages around like this.
Is there a better way? Could I use css in such a way, to express that when .text-input-increases, I want to essentially shift up all of .messages-container
2:nd revision of this answer
Your friend here is flex-direction: column-reverse; which does all you ask while align the messages at the bottom of the message container, just like for example Skype and many other chat apps do.
.chat-window{
display:flex;
flex-direction:column;
height:100%;
}
.chat-messages{
flex: 1;
height:100%;
overflow: auto;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column-reverse;
}
.chat-input { border-top: 1px solid #999; padding: 20px 5px }
.chat-input-text { width: 60%; min-height: 40px; max-width: 60%; }
The downside with flex-direction: column-reverse; is a bug in IE/Edge/Firefox, where the scrollbar doesn't show, which your can read more about here: Flexbox column-reverse and overflow in Firefox/IE
The upside is you have ~ 90% browser support on mobile/tablets and ~ 65% for desktop, and counting as the bug gets fixed, ...and there is a workaround.
// scroll to bottom
function updateScroll(el){
el.scrollTop = el.scrollHeight;
}
// only shift-up if at bottom
function scrollAtBottom(el){
return (el.scrollTop + 5 >= (el.scrollHeight - el.offsetHeight));
}
In the below code snippet I've added the 2 functions from above, to make IE/Edge/Firefox behave in the same way flex-direction: column-reverse; does.
function addContent () {
var msgdiv = document.getElementById('messages');
var msgtxt = document.getElementById('inputs');
var atbottom = scrollAtBottom(msgdiv);
if (msgtxt.value.length > 0) {
msgdiv.innerHTML += msgtxt.value + '<br/>';
msgtxt.value = "";
} else {
msgdiv.innerHTML += 'Long long content ' + (tempCounter++) + '!<br/>';
}
/* if at bottom and is IE/Edge/Firefox */
if (atbottom && (!isWebkit || isEdge)) {
updateScroll(msgdiv);
}
}
function resizeInput () {
var msgdiv = document.getElementById('messages');
var msgtxt = document.getElementById('inputs');
var atbottom = scrollAtBottom(msgdiv);
if (msgtxt.style.height == '120px') {
msgtxt.style.height = 'auto';
} else {
msgtxt.style.height = '120px';
}
/* if at bottom and is IE/Edge/Firefox */
if (atbottom && (!isWebkit || isEdge)) {
updateScroll(msgdiv);
}
}
/* fix for IE/Edge/Firefox */
var isWebkit = ('WebkitAppearance' in document.documentElement.style);
var isEdge = ('-ms-accelerator' in document.documentElement.style);
var tempCounter = 6;
function updateScroll(el){
el.scrollTop = el.scrollHeight;
}
function scrollAtBottom(el){
return (el.scrollTop + 5 >= (el.scrollHeight - el.offsetHeight));
}
html, body { height:100%; margin:0; padding:0; }
.chat-window{
display:flex;
flex-direction:column;
height:100%;
}
.chat-messages{
flex: 1;
height:100%;
overflow: auto;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column-reverse;
}
.chat-input { border-top: 1px solid #999; padding: 20px 5px }
.chat-input-text { width: 60%; min-height: 40px; max-width: 60%; }
/* temp. buttons for demo */
button { width: 12%; height: 44px; margin-left: 5%; vertical-align: top; }
/* begin - fix for hidden scrollbar in IE/Edge/Firefox */
.chat-messages-text{ overflow: auto; }
#media screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:0) {
.chat-messages-text{ overflow: visible; }
/* reset Edge as it identifies itself as webkit */
#supports (-ms-accelerator:true) { .chat-messages-text{ overflow: auto; } }
}
/* hide resize FF */
#-moz-document url-prefix() { .chat-input-text { resize: none } }
/* end - fix for hidden scrollbar in IE/Edge/Firefox */
<div class="chat-window">
<div class="chat-messages">
<div class="chat-messages-text" id="messages">
Long long content 1!<br/>
Long long content 2!<br/>
Long long content 3!<br/>
Long long content 4!<br/>
Long long content 5!<br/>
</div>
</div>
<div class="chat-input">
<textarea class="chat-input-text" placeholder="Type your message here..." id="inputs"></textarea>
<button onclick="addContent();">Add msg</button>
<button onclick="resizeInput();">Resize input</button>
</div>
</div>
Side note 1: The detection method is not fully tested, but it should work on newer browsers.
Side note 2: Attach a resize event handler for the chat-input might be more efficient then calling the updateScroll function.
Note: Credits to HaZardouS for reusing his html structure
You just need one CSS rule set:
.messages-container, .scroll {transform: scale(1,-1);}
That's it, you're done!
How it works: First, it vertically flips the container element so that the top becomes the bottom (giving us the desired scroll orientation), then it flips the content element so that the messages won't be upside down.
This approach works in all modern browsers. It does have a strange side effect, though: when you use a mouse wheel in the message box, the scroll direction is reversed. This can be fixed with a few lines of JavaScript, as shown below.
Here's a demo and a fiddle to play with:
//Reverse wheel direction
document.querySelector('.messages-container').addEventListener('wheel', function(e) {
if(e.deltaY) {
e.preventDefault();
e.currentTarget.scrollTop -= e.deltaY;
}
});
//The rest of the JS just handles the test buttons and is not part of the solution
send = function() {
var inp = document.querySelector('.text-input');
document.querySelector('.scroll').insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', '<p>' + inp.value);
inp.value = '';
inp.focus();
}
resize = function() {
var inp = document.querySelector('.text-input');
inp.style.height = inp.style.height === '50%' ? null : '50%';
}
html,body {height: 100%;margin: 0;}
.conversation {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
height: 100%;
}
.messages-container {
flex-shrink: 10;
height: 100%;
overflow: auto;
}
.messages-container, .scroll {transform: scale(1,-1);}
.text-input {resize: vertical;}
<div class="conversation">
<div class="messages-container">
<div class="scroll">
<p>Message 1<p>Message 2<p>Message 3<p>Message 4<p>Message 5
<p>Message 6<p>Message 7<p>Message 8<p>Message 9<p>Message 10<p>Message 11<p>Message 12<p>Message 13<p>Message 14<p>Message 15<p>Message 16<p>Message 17<p>Message 18<p>Message 19<p>Message 20
</div>
</div>
<textarea class="text-input" autofocus>Your message</textarea>
<div>
<button id="send" onclick="send();">Send input</button>
<button id="resize" onclick="resize();">Resize input box</button>
</div>
</div>
Edit: thanks to #SomeoneSpecial for suggesting a simplification to the scroll code!
Please try the following fiddle - https://jsfiddle.net/Hazardous/bypxg25c/. Although the fiddle is currently using jQuery to grow/resize the text area, the crux is in the flex related styles used for the messages-container and input-container classes -
.messages-container{
order:1;
flex:0.9 1 auto;
overflow-y:auto;
display:flex;
flex-direction:row;
flex-wrap:nowrap;
justify-content:flex-start;
align-items:stretch;
align-content:stretch;
}
.input-container{
order:2;
flex:0.1 0 auto;
}
The flex-shrink value is set to 1 for .messages-container and 0 for .input-container. This ensures that messages-container shrinks when there is a reallocation of size.
I've moved text-input within messages, absolute positioned it to the bottom of the container and given messages enough bottom padding to space accordingly.
Run some code to add a class to conversation, which changes the height of text-input and bottom padding of messages using a nice CSS transition animation.
The JavaScript runs a "scrollTo" function at the same time as the CSS transition is running to keep the scroll at the bottom.
When the scroll comes off the bottom again, we remove the class from conversation
Hope this helps.
https://jsfiddle.net/cnvzLfso/5/
var doScollCheck = true;
var objConv = document.querySelector('.conversation');
var objMessages = document.querySelector('.messages');
var objInput = document.querySelector('.text-input');
function scrollTo(element, to, duration) {
if (duration <= 0) {
doScollCheck = true;
return;
}
var difference = to - element.scrollTop;
var perTick = difference / duration * 10;
setTimeout(function() {
element.scrollTop = element.scrollTop + perTick;
if (element.scrollTop === to) {
doScollCheck = true;
return;
}
scrollTo(element, to, duration - 10);
}, 10);
}
function resizeInput(atBottom) {
var className = 'bigger',
hasClass;
if (objConv.classList) {
hasClass = objConv.classList.contains(className);
} else {
hasClass = new RegExp('(^| )' + className + '( |$)', 'gi').test(objConv.className);
}
if (atBottom) {
if (!hasClass) {
doScollCheck = false;
if (objConv.classList) {
objConv.classList.add(className);
} else {
objConv.className += ' ' + className;
}
scrollTo(objMessages, (objMessages.scrollHeight - objMessages.offsetHeight) + 50, 500);
}
} else {
if (hasClass) {
if (objConv.classList) {
objConv.classList.remove(className);
} else {
objConv.className = objConv.className.replace(new RegExp('(^|\\b)' + className.split(' ').join('|') + '(\\b|$)', 'gi'), ' ');
}
}
}
}
objMessages.addEventListener('scroll', function() {
if (doScollCheck) {
var isBottom = ((this.scrollHeight - this.offsetHeight) === this.scrollTop);
resizeInput(isBottom);
}
});
html,
body {
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
background: white;
}
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
.conversation {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
justify-content: space-between;
height: 100%;
position: relative;
}
.messages {
overflow-y: scroll;
padding: 10px 10px 60px 10px;
-webkit-transition: padding .5s;
-moz-transition: padding .5s;
transition: padding .5s;
}
.text-input {
padding: 10px;
-webkit-transition: height .5s;
-moz-transition: height .5s;
transition: height .5s;
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
height: 50px;
background: white;
}
.conversation.bigger .messages {
padding-bottom: 110px;
}
.conversation.bigger .text-input {
height: 100px;
}
.text-input input {
height: 100%;
}
<div class="conversation">
<div class="messages">
<p>
This is a message content
</p>
<p>
This is a message content
</p>
<p>
This is a message content
</p>
<p>
This is a message content
</p>
<p>
This is a message content
</p>
<p>
This is a message content
</p>
<p>
This is a message content
</p>
<p>
This is a message content
</p>
<p>
This is a message content
</p>
<p>
This is a message content
</p>
<p>
This is a message content
</p>
<p>
This is a message content
</p>
<p>
This is a message content
</p>
<p>
This is a message content
</p>
<p>
This is the last message
</p>
<div class="text-input">
<input type="text" />
</div>
</div>
</div>
You write;
Now, consider this case:
The user scrolls to the bottom of the conversation
The .text-input, dynamically gets bigger
Wouldn't the method that dynamically sets the .text-input be the logical place to fire this.props.onResize().
To whom it may concern,
The answers above did not suffice my question.
The solution I found was to make my innerWidth and innerHeight variable constant - as the innerWidth of the browser changes on scroll to adapt for the scrollbar.
var innerWidth = window.innerWidth
var innerHeight = window.innerHeight
OR FOR REACT
this.setState({width: window.innerWidth, height: window.innerHeight})
In other words, to ignore it, you must make everything constant as if it were never scrolling. Do remember to update these on Resize / Orientation Change !
IMHO current answer is not a correct one:
1/ flex-direction: column-reverse; reverses the order of messages - I didn't want that.
2/ javascript there is also a bit hacky and obsolete
If you want to make it like a PRO use spacer-box which has properties:
flex-grow: 1;
flex-basis: 0;
and is located above messages. It pushes them down to the chat input.
When user is typing new messages and input height is growing the scrollbar moves up, but when the message is sent (input is cleared) scrollbar is back at bottom.
Check my snippet:
body {
background: #ccc;
}
.chat {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
width: 300px;
max-height: 300px;
max-width: 90%;
background: #fff;
}
.spacer-box {
flex-basis: 0;
flex-grow: 1;
}
.messages {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
overflow-y: auto;
flex-grow: 1;
padding: 24px 24px 4px;
}
.footer {
padding: 4px 24px 24px;
}
#chat-input {
width: 100%;
max-height: 100px;
overflow-y: auto;
border: 1px solid pink;
outline: none;
user-select: text;
white-space: pre-wrap;
overflow-wrap: break-word;
}
<div class="chat">
<div class="messages">
<div class="spacer-box"></div>
<div class="message">1</div>
<div class="message">2</div>
<div class="message">3</div>
<div class="message">4</div>
<div class="message">5</div>
<div class="message">6</div>
<div class="message">7</div>
<div class="message">8</div>
<div class="message">9</div>
<div class="message">10</div>
<div class="message">11</div>
<div class="message">12</div>
<div class="message">13</div>
<div class="message">14</div>
<div class="message">15</div>
<div class="message">16</div>
<div class="message">17</div>
<div class="message">18</div>
</div>
<div class="footer">
<div contenteditable role="textbox" id="chat-input"></div>
</div>
<div>
Hope I could help :)
Cheers

min-height css issue when using AngularJS Routing

I have the following configuration in a simple html file:
* {
box-sizing: border-box;
}
html, body {
height: 100%;
min-height: 100%;
margin: 0;
}
section {
display: block;
width: 100%;
min-height: 100%;
padding: 1em
}
.b1 {
background: #2AC56D
}
.b2 {
background: #fae10c
}
.b3 {
background: #03a9f4
}
<section class="b1">1
</section>
<section class="b2">2
</section>
<section class="b3">3
</section>
Then I try to use AngularJS Routing in the following way: the section elements go into a template called template.html like this:
<section class="b1">1
</section>
<section class="b2">2
</section>
<section class="b3">3
</section>
And I add to the main file the AngularJS, the ng-route dependencies and the following script like this:
<script src="js/angular.min.js"></script>
<script src="js/angular-route.min.js"></script>
<script>
var app = angular.module('app', ['ngRoute']);
app.config(function($routeProvider, $locationProvider) {
$routeProvider.when('/', {
templateUrl: 'template.html'
}).otherwise({
redirectTo: '/'
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body data-ng-app="app">
<div data-ng-view>
</div>
</body>
It is working on the scripting part, but the section elements are no longer full height and look like this.
What is really the issue and, more important, how can I correct it? What I really need is to have some div's or section's at least full screen height.
Thank you.
Hmmm, To make height: 100%; work properly, you need to set in its parent div too.
Suppose this html:
<div id="main">
<section>1</section>
</div>
Then just applying 100% height in section won't work. You need to set fixed height for the parent element. So, use:
#main{
height: 100%;
}
You already set 100% height in html,body tag that's good.
So, in your case, apply like this:
div[data-ng-view]{
height: 100%;
}

Any reliable, cross-browser way to distribute the remaining space in parent element between several DIVs?

Background
I am working on a browser-based UI that needs to fill the entire screen without any scrolling. The basic layout is like this:
What I want to achieve
The title div should has a fixed height (2em) and the rest 4 divs/panels should devide the remaining space of the screen according to percentages I set.
What I've tried
The best solution I've found is " CSS - How to force elements to 100% of remaining/available space of parent element without extending beyond it? ", which involves using a container div with position:absolute. This works across all browsers, but requires some additional DIVs to be created. Also, panel 2 can sometimes be forced to start on the next line due to inaccuracies in percentage widths.
My previous solution was based on CSS3 Flexbox, but the model is flawed as it does not resize child elements that have a percentage height after stretching the container boxes (at least Chrome doesn't). (The newer flex-* attributes are only implemented in Chrome and the standard is still changing.)
I have also tried the calc() function; however, it's not yet implemented in Chrome. Also, it requires hard-coding the height of the title element in two places, which I've been trying to avoid.
Edit:
What am I looking for
Just to be clear, I am not asking for a perfect/pure-CSS solution (as none seems to exist). If anyone can suggest any jQuery plug-in or open-source framework that can do this, it would be good enough for me.
In addition, I don't require any backwards compatibility with browser releases before 2012. (As long as the solution uses technology that is implemented in some browser and is going to be implemented by Firefox and Chrome in the near future, it's good enough for me.)
A little something thrown together:
http://jsfiddle.net/gDTGn/2/
Here is a pure CSS version:
http://jsfiddle.net/t0nyh0/KHzsg/63/
The trick to this technique is using position:absolute and using top, bottom, and height to create a fixed header with expanding panels. It is also really important to use:
box-sizing: border-box;
-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
to make the height and width calculations consistent across browsers. Tested and works in IE9, Firefox, and Chrome.
Pure CSS solution: http://jsfiddle.net/ehqcx/7/embedded/result/
This assumes you set width that don't sum up than more than 100%, the small gap at the right side can usually be fixed by using the same background or the background of the page. An alternative is to introduce some Javascript that sets the width of the last panel correctly, but that should be some trivial jQuery code... $("#panels .small:last").width(browser width - other small panels);
Should work correctly for the height, think away the jsFiddle header which takes away some height...
Edit:
Meh, seems the #title is bugging me... http://fiddle.jshell.net/ehqcx/7/show/light/
ECMAScript is the way to go, leaving my answer in place because of the other simplicity... :(
HTML:
<div id="content">
<div id="title">Title!</div>
<div id="panels">
<div id="panel0" class="small">0</div>
<div id="panel1" class="small">1</div>
<div id="panel2" class="small">2</div>
<div id="panel3" class="wide">3</div>
</div>
</div>​
CSS:
* { margin, padding: 0px; }
#content { background-color: black; }
#title { background-color: red; }
#panels { background-color: orange; }
#panel0 { background-color: purple; }
#panel1 { background-color: brown; }
#panel2 { background-color: orange; }
#panel3 { background-color: green; }
html, body, #content, #panels { max-height: 100%; height: 100%; max-width: 100%; width: 100%; }
#panels .small { float: left; }
#panels .wide { clear: both; }
#title { height : 2em; }
#panels .small { height: 75%; }
#panels .wide { height: 25%; }
#panel0, #panel1, #panel2 { width: 33.33%; }
It's possible using the new CSS3 flexbox model. It was basically designed to solve the problem you are facing.
Here is a simple example:
CSS:
*{margin:0 padding:0;}
html{height:100%;}
body{height:100%; display:box; box-orient:vertical;}
body > div {box-flex:1; border:1px solid black;}
.header {box-flex:0; height:4em;}
.content {
display: box;
box-orient: horizontal;
}
.content div {
box-flex: 1;
border:1px solid black;
}
HTML:
<html>
<body>
<div class="header">Title</div>
<div class="content">
<div>Panel 0</div>
<div>Panel 1</div>
<div>Panel 2</div>
</div>
<div>Panel 3</div>
</body>
</html>
It has good support in Chrome, Safari, and Firefox, with planned support in IE.
edit 2:
Tested it in
Chrome/Safari: some 1 or two pixel failure, because of percent calculations
FireFox: Perfect
IE9: Perfect
Opera: Can't have decimal places in percentage width values. This is bad
lte IE8: Does not support Array reduce function. One has to make one up (like from here: Array.reduce), Then it works at least in IE8
edit 1:
I added horizontal layout and window resize function
I've fiddled around a bit:
This is just a demonstration: To have a full fledged application you have to add the programming for the horizontal layout. But it's start
http://jsfiddle.net/HerrSerker/PmHtf/
Here is the code
HTML
<div class="full-stretch">
<div class="flex-layout flex-layout-vertical">
<div class="flex-layout-fixed" style="height:50px; text-align: center">
<div class="padding">Title</div>
</div>
<div class="flex-layout-consume flex-layout-consume-3" style="text-align: center">
<div class="flex-layout flex-layout-horizontal">
<div class="flex-layout-consume flex-layout-consume-1" style="text-align: center">
<div class="padding">Panel 0</div>
</div>
<div class="flex-layout-consume flex-layout-consume-1" style="text-align: center">
<div class="padding">Panel 1</div>
</div>
<div class="flex-layout-consume flex-layout-consume-1" style="text-align: center">
<div class="padding">Panel 2</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="flex-layout-consume flex-layout-consume-1" style="text-align: center">
<div class="padding">Panel 3</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>​
CSS
.full-stretch {
position: absolute;
top: 2px;
right:2px;
bottom:2px;
left: 2px;
}
.padding {
position: absolute;
top: 2px;
right:2px;
bottom:2px;
left: 2px;
border: 1px solid darkGray;
background: lightBlue;
border-radius: 10px;
}
.flex-layout {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
right:0;
bottom:0;
left: 0;
overflow: hidden;
}
.flex-layout-consume {
height: 100%;
float:left;
overflow: hidden;
position: relative;
-webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
.flex-layout-vertical > .flex-layout-consume {
width: 100%;
}
.flex-layout-fixed {
height: 100%;
float:left;
overflow: hidden;
position: relative;
}
.flex-layout-vertical > .flex-layout-fixed {
width: 100%;
}
jQuery
(function($) {
var flex = function() {
$('.flex-layout').each(function() {
var fixed = $(this).children('.flex-layout-fixed');
if ($(this).hasClass('flex-layout-horizontal')) { // horizontal
var fixed_widths = $(this)
.children('.flex-layout-fixed')
.get()
.reduce(function(total, elem) {
return (total + $(elem).outerWidth())
},0)
;
var remain_width = ($(this).outerWidth() - fixed_widths)/$(this).outerWidth() * 100; // percent
var consumers = $(this)
.children('.flex-layout-consume')
.get()
;
var count_consumers = consumers
.reduce(function(total, elem) {
var cm = parseInt($(elem).attr('class').match(/flex-layout-consume-(\d+)/)[1]);
$(elem).data('consume_multiplicator', cm);
return total + cm;
},0)
;
var consumers_tic = (remain_width/count_consumers)
$(consumers).each(function() {
$(this).width(Math.round((consumers_tic * $(this).data('consume_multiplicator'))*1000)/1000+'%')
})
} else if ($(this).hasClass('flex-layout-vertical')) { // vertical
var fixed_heights = $(this)
.children('.flex-layout-fixed')
.get()
.reduce(function(total, elem) {
return (total + $(elem).outerHeight())
},0)
;
var remain_height = ($(this).outerHeight() - fixed_heights)/$(this).outerHeight() * 100; // percent
var consumers = $(this)
.children('.flex-layout-consume')
.get()
;
var count_consumers = consumers
.reduce(function(total, elem) {
var cm = parseInt($(elem).attr('class').match(/flex-layout-consume-(\d+)/)[1]);
$(elem).data('consume_multiplicator', cm);
return total + cm;
},0)
;
var consumers_tic = (remain_height/count_consumers)
$(consumers).each(function() {
$(this).height(Math.round((consumers_tic * $(this).data('consume_multiplicator'))*1000)/1000+'%')
})
}
})
};
$(function() {
flex()
$(self).resize(flex)
})
}(jQuery))
​
I might be missing something in your question, but see if this is what you are looking for. Pure CSS solution that works in all browsers down to IE7.
http://jsfiddle.net/nyHgM/1/
This is my suggestion (pure css)... Tested on IE7+, Chrome & FF http://jsfiddle.net/victmo/hKGUe/
HTML
<div id='header'></div>
<div id='col0'></div>
<div id='col1'></div>
<div id='col2'></div>
<div id='footer'></div>
CSS
div{
position:absolute;
}
#header{
top:0px;
left:0px;
right:0px;
height:3em;
}
#footer{
bottom:0px;
left:0px;
right:0px;
height:2em;
}
#col0,
#col1,
#col2{
top:3em; /* header height */
bottom:2em; /* footer height */
width:33.33%;
}
#col0{ left:0%; width:30%; } /* left = 0 */
#col1{ left:30%; width:40%; } /* left = 0 + 30 */
#col2{ left:70%; width:30%; } /* left = 30 + 40 */
/* Colors */
#header{ background:#bbb; }
#col0{ background:#ccc; }
#col1{ background:#ddd; }
#col2{ background:#eee; }
#footer{ background:#aaa; }
​

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