Make height of DIV to be at least the screen height - css

The main content div #page-content-wrapper is shaded a light grey in color.
How can the height of this div be extended such that the bottom of this div is at the bottom of the screen? height: 100%; does not seem to work.
Content is growable to beyond 1 viewport height, forcing vertical scroll to be necessary.
CSS
#page-content-wrapper {
width: 100%;
position: absolute;
padding: 15px;
background: #ddd;
height: 100%;
}
Bootply: http://www.bootply.com/kkrDITPGrO

Use height: 100vh ... or give #wrapper and html, body also height: 100%
For an element to respond to a height using percent, its parent need a height, and if the parent also use percent, you need to go all the way to the html/body element for it to be able to calculate its height on something other than auto.
Updated bootply
Update based on comment
For content to be able to grow, use min-height: 100vh ... or min-height: 100% using the same "percent" principle as above
#page-content-wrapper {
min-height: 100vh;
width: 100%;
position: absolute;
padding: 15px;
background: #ddd;
}
Updated booply

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Fixed left navigation + remaining space

I'm trying to achieve the following with CSS:
I want a fixed sidebar with navigation, so that when you scroll down, the sidebar stays in it's place. The remaining space on the right should be filled up with my content, as if it were the body at 100%.
However, my problem is that the right part takes exactly 300px more space on the right, resulting in a horizontal scroll bar.
I can't fid a solution on my own, can anybody help me? Thanks a lot! :)
JSFIDDLE: http://jsfiddle.net/ALGpP/4/
nav {
height: 100%;
width: 300px;
position: fixed;
z-index:99;
}
#wrapper {
overflow: hidden;
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
margin-left:300px;
}
Do you mean something like this?
I gave the #wrapper element some new CSS properties:
height: 1200px;
background-color: red;
The height: 1200px is in this case just for testing, to make the page longer.
The background-color: red is also just for testing to make it more visible.
Your nav element i have given the following css properties:
height: 100%;
width: 20%;
position: fixed;
background-color: green;
The height: 100% is used to make the element fill the page in the height
The width: 20% is used to make it 20% width.
The position: fixedis to make the element stick to a certain point at the page.
The background-color is used for testing, so you can see better what you're doing.
Also, i reccomend using a CSS reset. This is a really simple one im using in the fiddle:
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
It basicly selects all elements and gives it a margin and padding of 0.
If you want the nav element to be 300px wide, use this fiddle.
Fix for the content that wasnt showing
Add the following properties to your #wrapper element:
width: calc(100% - 300px);
float: right;
So it looks like this:
#wrapper {
width: calc(100% - 300px);
height: 1200px;
background-color: red;
float: right;
}
Demo here

How can I make a CSS Wrapper adjust height automatically?

I've been looking around for a while today and can't find a question that answers my specific problem.
I am designing my website and the content is in the center placed inside a div, which is the wrapper. My problem is that even though the height is set at 100%, if I add to much content, the wrapper does no stretch with the content, so the text ends up being placed outside the wrapper; it is still centered with it.
How can I fix this? The CSS I have is:
#wrapper {
position: absolute;
left: 50%;
width: 800px;
height: 100%;
min-height: 100%;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-left: -400px;
background-color: #F7F7F7;
border-radius: 5px;
}
Change
#wrapper{height:100%;}
to
#wrapper{height:auto;}
Fiddle here.
You could also take off the Height Property, if you need to have a minimum height of 100% before the wrapper div begins to enlarge as respective to its content. so it will be:
#wrapper{
min-height: 100%
}
not:
#wrapper{
height:100%;
min-height: 100%;
}

DIV width: 100% creates a space when is the window resize to a size less than major DIV

I got a div #header width: 1000px;
#header {
width: 1000px;
margin: auto;
height: 164px;
}
A div #main-container in full-width
#main-container {
height: 278px;
background: url(images/mainbg.png);
width: 100%;
}
But when I resize my window to a size less than 1000px setted on header, the #main-container creates a empty space.
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=1zcmmpf&s=5
I want to remove this space, and let the #main-container have full-width
What you are seeing is correct CSS behavior.
For example, consider your HMTL snippet:
<div id="header"></div>
<div id="main-container"></div>
with the following CSS:
body {
margin: 0;
}
#header {
width: 1000px;
margin: auto;
height: 164px;
background-color: yellow;
}
#main-container {
height: 278px;
background: pink url('http://placekitten.com/2000/278') top center no-repeat;
width: 100%;
}
See demo at: http://jsfiddle.net/audetwebdesign/5xwRu/
For pages wider than 1000px, your header is centered as you expect.
Your background image fills up width of the page because the #main-container has 100% width.
As you reduce the page width to less than 1000px, you will see a horizontal scrolling bar appear because the fixed width header is too wide to fit in the view port, which triggers
an overflow condition.
In this situation, the CSS engine creates some white space the right of #main-container since #main-container has a computed width less than 1000px and it fills up the view port width (which is less than 1000px), which does not include the space created for the overflowing content.
You can fix this a number of ways, but it depends in part on what you want to do.
You could set a minimum width as follows:
#main-container {
height: 278px;
background: pink url('http://placekitten.com/2000/278') top center no-repeat;
width: 100%;
min-width: 1000px;
}
See example 2 in the demo fiddle.
Note: You may have a wrapper container to which the CSS property overflow: hidden is applied. If this is the case you may not see a horizontal scrolling bar.

Make div stretch to length of it's content and beyond if parent div is longer?

I want to make a div (my sidebar) stretch to the bottom of the page. I know that I need to add "height: 100%;" in order to do that.
But when I add height: 100%;, pages that have less content than the sidebar cuts the sidebar's height and then you can't see the sidebar content.
This is the index page . Everything looks exactly the way I want it to.
This is a sample page . Notice that the sidebar has been cut.
CSS:
#menu-container {
background-image: url('floral.png');
width: 300px;
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: top;
height: 100%;
overflow: hidden;
position: absolute;
}
#menu {
background-image: url('menubg.png');
width: 220px;
margin: 0;
padding-top: 50px;
padding-left: 30px;
padding-right: 20px;
color: #e8e8e8;
height: 100%;
}
#content {
padding: 0px 0px 30px 325px;
width: 1000px;
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: top;
}
Thanks in advance!
* #Ritabrata Gautam *
The changed CSS fixed my second problem but now I'm back to the cut off sidebar on shorter pages: See here: http://www.tarawilder.com/staging/?page_id=19
I'm leaving my house now, I'll be able to respond later tonight. Thanks again for your help!
#container {
display: inline-block;
height: 100%;
position: absolute;
width: 900px;
}
try this..it will give you the result you want..though there are many other mistakes in your html markup
some other areas where you need to be careful...
your container's width is 900px..which contains side menu and the large text...combined width of your side menu and the large text is far greater than your 900px width of your container..as you are not using overflow:hidden; you cant see the effect...why dont you apply overflow:auto; width:100% or something like that
BETTER CSS::
#container {
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
overflow: auto;
position: absolute;
}
ACCORDING TO YOUR NEW PROBLEM :: now your body height must be more than 100% now..thats why after 100% height your side menu becomes invisible
CHANGED CSS ::
#container {
height: auto;
overflow: hidden;
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
}
your third problem ::
strange...you are now using width:100% for your cantainer..and your container contains side menu and large text...and side menu has width of 300px and then your having width of 1000px for large text..so naturally the overflowed part ot the text gets invisible; and also remove position:absolute; from container
now your css
#container {
height: auto;
overflow: hidden;
width: 100%;
}
#content {
padding: 0px 0px 30px 325px;
vertical-align: top;
}
NOTE:: don't delete your edited part of your question..you have already deleted the 2nd edit you made to your question earlier...it will create difficulties for future users to relate the answer with question
Make sure that your parent containers (#container, body, html) are height:100%; as well.
Personally, I would do something like this(if the rest of the site layout allows it):
Instead of creating separate backgrounds for #menu, #menu-caontainer and body i would create background on body something like this: http://cl.ly/image/3L060f2w3Z0s
that would repeat vertically on y axis, so no matter how high the body is the background would stretch/repeat to the bottom.

CSS height 100% issue

I know there are a lot of questions about a css 100% height problem.
However I've tried to follow the instructions there and still the height isn't 100%,
so I thought I'd ask the question again.
The site where you can see the problem is:
www.exendo.be
some css styles:
html {
height: auto !important;
margin: 0;
min-height: 100%;
padding: 0;
}
body {
background: url("/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/bg.png") repeat-x scroll 0 100px #F2F7E8;
height: auto !important;
margin: 0;
min-height: 100%;
padding: 0;
width: 100%;
}
wrapper {
height: auto !important;
min-height: 100%;
position: relative;
}
footer-container {
background: url("/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/exendo-footer_bg.png") no-repeat scroll center bottom #557F40;
height:146px;
}
As you can see on the site, the footer is too high on the page.
If I inspect the page with Firebug, I can see that the html is 100% height, but the body tag isn't.
The problem both occurs on Firefox and IE.
If anybody could help that would be great!
A number of people suggested position:absolute; bottom:0;
This can cause an issue if the content is taller than the container. The height will not increase so the content will no longer fit and can get cut off or result in ugly scroll bars.
If you can give a fixed height to the container, this is ideal since the height:100% will then work on the child element. In case the content is too large, you can put a background on the child with overflow:visible on the parent, so the content still displays. This helps, but it can still break unless the child is the same width as the parent.
If that doesn't work, I recommend using min-height in em or pixels. This will make sure the height fills the parent, and expands if the content is too long. This worked best for customer comments on www.baka.ca
I think this article can help you.
According to this article:
Assign "position:relative" to your "container" div - page, page-container, or wrapper (I'm not sure to which one of the three, just try), and then "position:absolute; bottom:0;" to your "footer-container" div.
I hope that helps you.
#denappel; give html & body 100% height put footer outside of your main div wrapper & give margin-bottom in minus according to the height of footer.
css:
.wrapper {
position: relative;
width: 700px;
font-size: 0.9em;
margin: 0 auto -142px;
background:yellow;
}
.header {
height: 190px;
background:green;
}
.footer {
position: relative;
width: 700px;
margin: 0 auto;
background:red;
}
* {
margin: 0;
}
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
.wrapper {
min-height: 100%;
height: auto !important;
height: 100%;
margin: 0 auto -142px;
.footer, .push {
height: 142px;
}
check this example
http://jsfiddle.net/sandeep/tCdPX/3/
this functionally called stickyfooter

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