I'm trying to make the image resolution width dictate the width of the container. The trick is that when a p element gets wider than the image, the whole container stretches. What I want it to do is for the p element to respect the width of the image and never stretch the container width more than the image does. I don't want to set a fixed width. Here's a demo:
#outer, #inner{
border-width: 1px;
border-style: solid;
box-sizing: border-box;
padding: 5px;
text-align: center;
}
#outer {
border-color red;
}
#inner { border-color: red; display:inline-block; }
img{max-width:100%;}
.fixed {
width:300px; /*This is what i'm trying to avoid*/
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>containers, img, p test</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="outer">
<div id="inner">
<img src="http://i67.tinypic.com/24yy8hv.jpg" />
<p>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nunc felis dui, varius in ligula id, ultricies rutrum lorem. Mauris felis mauris, pretium in leo ut, convallis tincidunt libero. Proin vel ultrices diam, nec rutrum purus.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="outer">
<div id="inner" class="fixed">
<img src="http://i67.tinypic.com/24yy8hv.jpg" />
<p>
This is how the first one is supposed to look. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nunc felis dui, varius in ligula id, ultricies rutrum lorem. Mauris felis mauris, pretium in leo ut, convallis tincidunt libero. Proin vel ultrices diam, nec rutrum purus.
</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Changing the CSS to inline-block will mean the elements increase with the size of the image.
I added inline-block for just the id img to show you how it can work.
#outer, #inner, #img {
border-width: 1px;
border-style: solid;
box-sizing: border-box;
padding: 5px;
text-align: center;
}
#outer {
border-color red;
}
#inner { border-color: red; display:inline-block; }
#img { border-color: blue;display:inline-block;}
img{max-width:100%;}
.fixed {
width:300px; /*This is what i'm trying to avoid*/
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>containers, img, p test</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="outer">
<div id="inner">
<div id="img">
<img src="http://i67.tinypic.com/24yy8hv.jpg" />
</div>
<p>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nunc felis dui, varius in ligula id, ultricies rutrum lorem. Mauris felis mauris, pretium in leo ut, convallis tincidunt libero. Proin vel ultrices diam, nec rutrum purus.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="outer">
<div id="inner" class="fixed">
<div id="img">
<img src="http://i67.tinypic.com/24yy8hv.jpg" />
</div>
<p>
This is how the fist one is supposed to look. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nunc felis dui, varius in ligula id, ultricies rutrum lorem. Mauris felis mauris, pretium in leo ut, convallis tincidunt libero. Proin vel ultrices diam, nec rutrum purus.
</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Hope that is what you were after.
Related
I am trying to create a layout where an element (.figure) is center aligned when it is shorter (in height) than its container (.timeline-content). But I want the element to have the same height as its container when it is longer than its container.
The height of the container itself depends on its parent.
This image should help clarify the desired behavior.
This is what I have right now, I don't quite understand why img extends past its parent even though its max-height: 100%
https://jsfiddle.net/kgdkyte4/3/
html{
position: relative;
}
.timeline-item{
width: 100%;
overflow:hidden
}
.timeline-content{
width: 50%;
float: left;
text-align: right;
}
.timeline-image{
display:flex;
align-items: center;
position:absolute;
right: 0;
width: 50%;
height:100%;
}
.figure{
width:100%;
max-height: 100%;
margin: 0;
position:relative;
}
img{
max-height:100%;
max-width:100%;
float:left;
}
<div class="timeline-item">
<div class="timeline-content">
<h3 class="timeline-title">Blah blah blah
</h3>
<p>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vestibulum a ornare sem. In sodales ac nisl facilisis pharetra. Nam non pellentesque mauris. Proin scelerisque, sapien non scelerisque auctor, nunc erat condimentum est, viverra dapibus dui odio a neque. Mauris est dui, posuere at urna in, gravida tincidunt odio. Integer quis egestas est. Praesent tincidunt justo nec nibh malesuada ullamcorper. Nulla convallis et quam vitae posuere.
</p>
</div>
<div class="timeline-image">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="http://via.placeholder.com/550x900">
<figcaption class="figure-caption">blah
</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
</div>
Without knowing what you're trying to accomplish with the caption, this is the closest I've gotten. Update info on the caption and I'll see what more I can do.
*{
box-sizing:border-box;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
.timeline-item{
width: 100%;
position:relative;
}
.timeline-leftbox{
width:50%;
text-align:right;
padding:0 8px;
}
.timeline-rightbox{
position:absolute;
height:100%;
width:50%;
top:0;
right:0;
overflow:hidden;
white-space:nowrap;
}
.timeline-rightbox::after{
content:"";
display:inline-block;
height:100%;
width:0;
vertical-align:middle;
}
.timeline-rightbox img{
max-height:100%;
max-width:100%;
width:auto;
height:auto;
vertical-align:middle;
}
<div class="timeline-item">
<div class="timeline-leftbox">
<div>
<h3 class="timeline-title">Blah blah blah</h3>
<p>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vestibulum a ornare sem. In sodales ac nisl facilisis pharetra. Nam non pellentesque mauris. Proin scelerisque, sapien non scelerisque auctor, nunc erat condimentum est, viverra dapibus dui odio a neque. Mauris est dui, posuere at urna in, gravida tincidunt odio. Integer quis egestas est. Praesent tincidunt justo nec nibh malesuada ullamcorper. Nulla convallis et quam vitae posuere.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="timeline-rightbox">
<img src="http://via.placeholder.com/550x900" />
</div>
</div>
You can create a caption space under the image using calc css:
https://jsfiddle.net/freer4/r08ujx5p/3/
I know there's got to be a simple solution to this, but I'm drawing a blank right now.
Here's what I have:
I want the yellow text block to be absolutely positioned inside its parent container, 10 pixels from the right edge. But when I add "position:absolute" and "right:10px" to .text-block, this is what happens:
I know I can just add a fixed height to the parent container for a quick fix, but this will be on a responsive site, so the parent containers need to have a fluid height and width. Here's my code. What am I doing wrong?
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<style type="text/css">
body {
background-color: #FFF;
font-family: helvetica;
color: #333;
}
#wrapper {
padding: 20px;
}
.block {
position: relative;
border: 1px solid #333;
margin-bottom: 10px;
padding: 10px;
}
.text-block {
width: 40%;
background-color: yellow;
position: absolute;
right: 10px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div class="block">
<h2>Heading</h2>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Quisque vitae est ut nunc iaculis luctus vitae in risus. Proin mollis facilisis ligula, sed elementum odio consequat quis.</p>
</div> <!-- block -->
<div class="block">
<div class="text-block">
<h2>Heading</h2>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Quisque vitae est ut nunc iaculis luctus vitae in risus. Proin mollis facilisis ligula, sed elementum odio consequat quis.</p>
</div> <!-- text-block -->
</div> <!-- block -->
<div class="block">
<h2>Heading</h2>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Quisque vitae est ut nunc iaculis luctus vitae in risus. Proin mollis facilisis ligula, sed elementum odio consequat quis.</p>
</div> <!-- block -->
</div> <!-- wrapper -->
</body>
</html>
Absolute positioning does take it out of the flow, so what it's doing is expected. Here's one solution using relative positioning instead, plus a transform to achieve what you want with no markup changes. There are many ways with different text-align, float, flex solutions to handle this.
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<style type="text/css">
body {
background-color: #FFF;
font-family: helvetica;
color: #333;
}
#wrapper {
padding: 20px;
}
.block {
position: relative;
border: 1px solid #333;
margin-bottom: 10px;
padding: 10px;
}
.text-block {
width: 40%;
background-color: yellow;
position: relative;
left: 100%;
transform:translate(-100%, 0%);
-webkit-transform:translate(-100%, 0%);
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div class="block">
<h2>Heading</h2>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Quisque vitae est ut nunc iaculis luctus vitae in risus. Proin mollis facilisis ligula, sed elementum odio consequat quis.</p>
</div> <!-- block -->
<div class="block">
<div class="text-block">
<h2>Heading</h2>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Quisque vitae est ut nunc iaculis luctus vitae in risus. Proin mollis facilisis ligula, sed elementum odio consequat quis.</p>
</div> <!-- text-block -->
</div> <!-- block -->
<div class="block">
<h2>Heading</h2>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Quisque vitae est ut nunc iaculis luctus vitae in risus. Proin mollis facilisis ligula, sed elementum odio consequat quis.</p>
</div> <!-- block -->
</div> <!-- wrapper -->
</body>
</html>
Absolutely positioned elements do not affect the parent container height.
You need to use Javascript to change the height as a workaround to this behavior (or, alternatively, use relative positioning).
$(document).ready(function() {
var objHeight = 0;
$.each($('.block').children(), function(){
objHeight += $(this).height();
});
$('.block').height(objHeight);
});
This answer is from here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/8185521/722617
This question already has answers here:
Is there a way to make a child DIV's width wider than the parent DIV using CSS?
(15 answers)
Closed 7 years ago.
I'm trying to build a web template in which the main content resides in a div called #content. #content is 90% the width of its parent container, #wrapper, and has a max-width of 1200px. But I also want to have the occasional section that spans the entire width of the browser window. (I can't just apply the 90% width rule to each regular section, because sometimes there will be a sidebar that exists outside of #content, and the sidebar and #content need to have the 90% width applied to them as a whole.)
How do I do this? I played around with negative margins, but I couldn't figure it out.
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<style type="text/css">
body {
background-color: #DDD;
}
#content {
width: 90%;
max-width: 1200px;
margin: 0 auto;
background-color: #FFF;
padding: 1em;
}
.full-width {
background-color: #333;
color: #EEE;
padding: 1em;
margin: 0 -10%; /* obviously this doesn't work */
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="content">
<section class="regular">
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Quisque vitae est ut nunc iaculis luctus vitae in risus. Proin mollis facilisis ligula, sed elementum odio consequat quis. Sed at diam urna, vulputate egestas dui. Aenean vehicula fringilla dapibus. Fusce aliquet rhoncus leo, vel tempus mi auctor ultricies.</p>
</section> <!-- regular -->
<section class="full-width">
<p>This section should extend all the way to the sides of the browser window. This section should extend all the way to the sides of the browser window. This section should extend all the way to the sides of the browser window. This section should extend all the way to the sides of the browser window.</p>
</section> <!-- regular -->
<section class="regular">
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Quisque vitae est ut nunc iaculis luctus vitae in risus. Proin mollis facilisis ligula, sed elementum odio consequat quis. Sed at diam urna, vulputate egestas dui. Aenean vehicula fringilla dapibus. Fusce aliquet rhoncus leo, vel tempus mi auctor ultricies.</p>
</section> <!-- regular -->
</div> <!-- content -->
</div> <!-- wrapper -->
</body>
When you are wrapping content within an element constrained by margin limits, then you must compensate for this space "taken" from children of it.
If your parent div is 90% width of the body, it means all 100% children will take full width of that 90% not 100%, so how to fix this?
Those children must be 110% width and take negative margin.
Something like:
.content {
width: 90%;
margin: 0 auto;
}
.offmargins {
width: 110%;
margin-left: -6%;
background: #ccc;
padding: 1%;
}
Here is an example:
jQuery(document).ready(function(){
jQuery(window).on('resize', adapt);
adapt();
});
function adapt() {
jQuery('.full-width').css({
width: jQuery(window).width(),
marginLeft: '-6.2%'
});
}
#content {
width: 90%;
margin: 0 auto;
max-width: 1200px;
}
section {
width: 90%;
margin: 0 auto;
}
.full-width {
background: #ccc;
padding: .5em 0;
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="content">
<section class="regular">
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Quisque vitae est ut nunc iaculis luctus vitae in risus. Proin mollis facilisis ligula, sed elementum odio consequat quis. Sed at diam urna, vulputate egestas dui. Aenean vehicula fringilla dapibus. Fusce aliquet rhoncus leo, vel tempus mi auctor ultricies.</p>
</section> <!-- regular -->
<section class="full-width">
<p>This section should extend all the way to the sides of the browser window. This section should extend all the way to the sides of the browser window. This section should extend all the way to the sides of the browser window. This section should extend all the way to the sides of the browser window.</p>
</section> <!-- regular -->
<section class="regular">
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Quisque vitae est ut nunc iaculis luctus vitae in risus. Proin mollis facilisis ligula, sed elementum odio consequat quis. Sed at diam urna, vulputate egestas dui. Aenean vehicula fringilla dapibus. Fusce aliquet rhoncus leo, vel tempus mi auctor ultricies.</p>
</section> <!-- regular -->
</div> <!-- content -->
</div> <!-- wrapper -->
Another approach without JS:
#content {
width: 90%;
margin: 0 auto;
max-width: 1200px;
}
section {
width: 90%;
margin: 0 auto;
}
.full-width {
background: #ccc;
padding: .5em 0;
position: relative;
width: 100vw;
left: calc(-50vw + 50%);
}
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="content">
<section class="regular">
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Quisque vitae est ut nunc iaculis luctus vitae in risus. Proin mollis facilisis ligula, sed elementum odio consequat quis. Sed at diam urna, vulputate egestas dui. Aenean vehicula fringilla dapibus. Fusce aliquet rhoncus leo, vel tempus mi auctor ultricies.</p>
</section> <!-- regular -->
<section class="full-width">
<p>This section should extend all the way to the sides of the browser window. This section should extend all the way to the sides of the browser window. This section should extend all the way to the sides of the browser window. This section should extend all the way to the sides of the browser window.</p>
</section> <!-- regular -->
<section class="regular">
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Quisque vitae est ut nunc iaculis luctus vitae in risus. Proin mollis facilisis ligula, sed elementum odio consequat quis. Sed at diam urna, vulputate egestas dui. Aenean vehicula fringilla dapibus. Fusce aliquet rhoncus leo, vel tempus mi auctor ultricies.</p>
</section> <!-- regular -->
</div> <!-- content -->
</div> <!-- wrapper -->
Is there some reason why you can't have two different sized sections? It seems to me that you just need to have two containers - one that is restricted to 90%/1200px and one that isnt:
section {
width: 90%;
max-width: 1200px;
margin: 0 auto;
background-color: #FFF;
padding: 1em;
box-sizing:border-box;
}
section.full-width {
background-color: #333;
color: #EEE;
width: 100%;
max-width: inherit;
}
See: http://jsfiddle.net/t9wuapb9/
or the following snippet:
html, body {
background-color: #DDD;
margin:0;
}
#wrapper, #content {
width: 100%;
}
section {
width: 90%;
max-width: 1200px;
margin: 0 auto;
background-color: #FFF;
padding: 1em;
box-sizing:border-box;
}
section.full-width {
background-color: #333;
color: #EEE;
width: 100%;
max-width: inherit;
}
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="content">
<section class="regular">
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Quisque vitae est ut nunc iaculis luctus vitae in risus. Proin mollis facilisis ligula, sed elementum odio consequat quis. Sed at diam urna, vulputate egestas dui. Aenean vehicula fringilla dapibus. Fusce aliquet rhoncus leo, vel tempus mi auctor ultricies.</p>
</section>
<section class="full-width">
<p>This section should extend all the way to the sides of the browser window. This section should extend all the way to the sides of the browser window. This section should extend all the way to the sides of the browser window. This section should extend all the way to the sides of the browser window.</p>
</section>
<section>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Quisque vitae est ut nunc iaculis luctus vitae in risus. Proin mollis facilisis ligula, sed elementum odio consequat quis. Sed at diam urna, vulputate egestas dui. Aenean vehicula fringilla dapibus. Fusce aliquet rhoncus leo, vel tempus mi auctor ultricies.</p>
</section>
</div>
</div>
A following html markup creates a QA section in my site.
I want it to be this way - sentence in Q section should be positioned on the same line as "Q" symbol; Sentences in A section should be moved slightly to the right and each sentence should start from new line.
Like this:
But for now it looks this way:
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
.qa b {
font-size: 50px;
}
.qa .answer_box {
margin-left: 90px;
display: inline;
}
.qa p {
font-size: 25px;
}
</style>
</head>
<div class="qa">
<div class="question">
<b>Q</b>
<p>
Do you believe in SEO?
</p>
</div>
<div class="answer">
<b>A</b>
<div class="answer_box">
<p>
Yes I Do
</p>
<p>
SEO is a very powerful technique to increase your site ranking in Google.
</p>
<p>
Also it just cool and so so so.
</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Would be grateful for your help.
Use float and a padding/margin maneuver, with the b tag replaced with a strong and place within the first p tag per block:
p strong {
float: left;
margin-left: -1.5em;
font-size: 3em;
}
p {
padding-left: 5em;
}
<p>
<strong>Q:</strong>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed non turpis cursus, viverra libero a, ultricies enim. Cras quis ornare urna, condimentum luctus lorem. Aliquam et odio et magna pretium molestie. Fusce pulvinar nisi id mi pharetra scelerisque. Sed mollis accumsan tincidunt. Quisque libero erat, gravida sed rutrum et, volutpat non dui. Etiam eget leo in ipsum consectetur iaculis. Vestibulum dictum leo quis tristique feugiat. Donec vestibulum odio placerat, tincidunt orci vel, sagittis nibh. Integer ultricies ultrices ornare. Duis neque ligula, facilisis sit amet metus eget, adipiscing rhoncus justo. Nam fermentum suscipit mauris, nec volutpat augue condimentum ac. Mauris consequat ante sed lacus vehicula scelerisque. In non gravida ligula, at dapibus ligula.
</p>
<p>
<strong>A:</strong>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed non turpis cursus, viverra libero a, ultricies enim.
</p>
<p>Cras quis ornare urna, condimentum luctus lorem. Aliquam et odio et magna pretium molestie. Fusce pulvinar nisi id mi pharetra scelerisque. Sed mollis accumsan tincidunt. Quisque libero erat, gravida sed rutrum et, volutpat non dui. Etiam eget leo in ipsum consectetur iaculis. Vestibulum dictum leo quis tristique feugiat. Donec vestibulum odio placerat, tincidunt orci vel, sagittis nibh. Integer ultricies ultrices ornare. Duis neque ligula, facilisis sit amet metus eget, adipiscing rhoncus justo. Nam fermentum suscipit mauris, nec volutpat augue condimentum ac. Mauris consequat ante sed lacus vehicula scelerisque. In non gravida ligula, at dapibus ligula.</p>
http://jsfiddle.net/userdude/cZJhU/5/
Keep in mind you'll want to use classes to add these styles, not element-level selectors like p and p strong. This is for demonstration purposes only.
NOTE
For those claiming it does not look like what the OP asked for, here is what it appears like in every browser I look at it with:
I just rewrote your code as I couldn't deal with it - this looks exactly how you'd like it to be:
http://jsfiddle.net/f8NjK/
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="leftcol">
<strong>Q</strong>
</div>
<div class="rightcol">
<p>Do you believe in SEO?</p>
</div>
<div class="leftcol">
<strong>A</strong>
</div>
<div class="rightcol">
<p>Yes I do</p>
<p>SEO is a very powerful technique to increase your site ranking in Google.</p>
<p>Also it just cool and so and so</p>
</div>
</div>
CSS:
strong {
font-size: 50px;
}
.wrapper {
width:100%;
}
.leftcol {
width:10%;
display:inline-block;
}
.rightcol {
width:80%;
vertical-align:top;
display:inline-block;
}
I put a container. check this fiddle for live demo. http://jsfiddle.net/KdPfz/1/
.container
{
width: 100%;
height: 60px;
}
.letter
{
font-size: 50px;
float: left;
}
.sentence
{
width: 350px;
margin-top: 20px;
margin-left: 20px;
font-size: 20px;
float: left;
z-index: 5;
}
Like this?
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
.qa b {
font-size: 50px;
}
.qa .answer_box {
margin-left: 90px;
display: inline;
}
.qa p {
font-size: 25px;
display: block;
}
.answer_box p {
margin-left: 50px;
}
</style>
</head><body>
<div class="qa">
<div class="question">
<b>Q</b>
<p style="display: inline-block;">
Do you believe in SEO?
</p>
</div>
<div class="answer">
<b>A</b>
<div class="answer_box">
<p style="display: inline-block;">
Yes I Do
</p>
<p>
SEO is a very powerful technique to increase your site ranking in Google.
</p>
<p>
Also it just cool and so so so.
</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
If you inject a display: inline-block; style into your first p tag, leave the rest to the p tags natural block format, and a conditional margin for the answer block.
This may be more what you are looking for - a fiddle - I re-wrote your html to avoid using styling elements
<div class="qa">
<div class="question">
<div class="bold-letters">Q</div>
<div class="questions">
<p>Do you believe in SEO?</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="answer">
<div class="answer_box">
<div class="bold-letters">A</div>
<div class="answers">
<p>
Yes I Do
</p>
<p>
SEO is a very powerful technique to increase your site ranking in Google.
</p>
<p>
Also it just cool and so so so.
</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
and some short css
.bold-letters, .answers, .questions{
display:inline-block;
}
.bold-letters{
font-size:50px;
vertical-align:top;
margin-right: 30px;
}
.questions{
vertical-align:bottom;
}
I was writing this while the other answers popped up
http://jsfiddle.net/tprats108/ugaYM/
css:
.qa {
font-size: 25px;
}
.qa .heading {
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 50px;
float: left;
}
.qa .response {
float: left;
margin-left: 20px;
}
.clear {
clear: both;
}
html:
<div class="qa">
<div class="question">
<div class="heading">Q</div>
<div class="response">
<p>Do you believe in SEO?</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
<div class="answer">
<div class="heading">A</div>
<div class="response">
<p>Yes I Do</p>
<p>SEO is a very powerful technique to increase your site ranking in Google.</p>
<p>Also it just cool and so so so.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
I'm building a page layout with 3 divs: a header and a footer with fixed heights in pixels, and a content div in the middle of the page that should fill the remaining screen height. Furthermore, I want to be able to set height to 100% in the inner content divs, because one of them will host a kind of drawing area that need to fill the remaining screen height. So, it's especially important that inner divs do not leak under the header or footer. So far, I achieved a 100% valid CSS solution that work in all majors browsers except Internet Explorer 6 & 7.
Is there anything I can do to fix my layout for IE6 & 7? Or, do you see another way to do what I want?
Here is the code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>The #content div fill the remaining height and appears to have a height</title>
<style TYPE="text/css">
<!--
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
html, body,
#container{
height: 100%;
}
#container{
position: relative;
}
#header,
#footer{
height: 60px;
line-height: 60px;
background: #ccc;
text-align: center;
width : 100%;
position: absolute;
}
#header{
top: 0;
}
#footer{
bottom: 0;
}
#content{
position: absolute;
top:60px;
bottom: 60px;
width : 100%;
overflow: auto;
border-top: 1px solid #888;
border-bottom: 1px solid #888;
}
#inner-content{
overflow: auto;
background-color: #FC0;
height: 100%;
}
p{
margin-bottom: 10px;
}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="header">
<h1>Header</h1>
</div>
<div id="content">
<div id='inner-content'>
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</p>
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quam dictum hendrerit eu non elit. Donec ultricies ullamcorper libero a molestie.
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</p>
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quam dictum hendrerit eu non elit. Donec ultricies ullamcorper libero a molestie.
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</p>
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quam dictum hendrerit eu non elit. Donec ultricies ullamcorper libero a molestie.
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</p>
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quam dictum hendrerit eu non elit. Donec ultricies ullamcorper libero a molestie.
Donec auctor nulla vitae tortor ullamcorper posuere. Etiam fringilla tristique blandit.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer">
<h1>Footer</h1>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Thanks in advance for your help.
Live example here.
I ended up using Javascript to achieve the same thing