i want to place a title and a content div inside a container div. title div, (which has not a known constant height) should stay in top of container. content div comes below the title div and it should not overflow container. in overflow situation only the content div should scroll.
please take a look at this picture:
this is what i tried:
<div class="container">
<div class="title">title</div>
<div class="content">
a very long content...
</div>
</div>
CSS:
.container{
width: 300px;
height: 500px;
}
.title{
background-color: gray;
}
.content{
height: 100%;/*which is obviously wrong*/
overflow: auto;
}
and i don't want to use js for this.
In order to get the overflow to work you will have to give the content div a height. Here is a JSFiddle that looks like what you want, although to make it more dynamic you might want to look at javascript.
.container{
width: 300px;
height: 500px;
}
.title{
height: 1em;
background-color: gray;
line-height:1em;
text-align:center;
border:1px solid black;
}
.content{
height:400px;
overflow: auto;
padding:10px;
border:1px solid black;
}
Also I added some styles to match your picture.
http://jsfiddle.net/m0pum906/
I suggest you add position:fixed to your container class in CSS.
.container{
position:fixed;
width: 300px;
height: 500px;
}
Hope this helps :)
Related
I do want to display a scrollbar inside a table ( within a div ):
<div style="width:789px; height:150px; overflow:auto;">
...
</div>
The problem is that the div have the default height already 150px. I want it to have no height defined from the start, and when the div reaches 150px, the scroll-bar to appear. How can I achieve this?
You can do that with max-height instead of height. It will trigger the scroll-bar once it will reach the max-height.
CSS:
<div style="width:789px; max-height:150px; overflow:auto;">
...
</div>
check this fiddle it should show you how to archive this
.box{
width: 100px;
height: 50px;
overflow: auto;
border: 3px solid green;
}
.content{
width: 1000px;
height: 30px;
background: red;
}
Use the css property max-height
div {
overflow: auto;
max-height: 150px;
}
Here is an JSFIDDLE Example.
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I'm stuck with this problem:
I have a div (#container) which contains two divs. The height of the container should be exact 100%, regardless of the content of this div - not less not more.
Inside this div I want two full-width divs on top of each other:
The (#upper) div's content automatically determines its height.
The (#lower) div's content should be scrollable, but only vertically. Its height is dependent on the height of (#upper): 100% - (#upper)height = (#lower)height
Currently I have the following css ...
body {
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
#container
{
position: relative;
width: 500px;
height: 100%;
max-height: 100%;
background-color: #f00;
}
#upper {
width: 100%;
background-color: #0f0;
}
#lower {
width: 100%;
background-color: #00f;
overflow: auto;
}
... as well as this code:
<div id="container">
<div id="upper"></div>
<div id="lower"></div>
</div>
How can the (#container)'s height be exactly 100% - independent of its content? Now the height becomes larger because of the combined content of (#upper) and (#lower)?
How can (#lower) be scrollable (only up and down, not left to right!)?
Thank you very much for your feedback, I hope we can all learn from this.
You should set your html and body elements to have a height of 100%, so your children divs know what to base the percentage off of. Like so:
html, body {
height:100%;
width:100%;
}
Change your container to this:
#container
{
width: 500px;
height: 100%;
background-color: #f00;
}
As for your scrolling issue, you're almost there. Change the code to the following:
#lower {
width: 100%;
height:100px;
background-color: #00f;
overflow-y: auto;
}
For it to work best, have a fixed height set on your lower div and that'll make it easy for the scrollable action to work best.
EDIT:
I realized I mis-read your question. You'd like to have your lower div fill the remaining height of the window. Here's how to do that in jquery:
var top = $('#upper').height();
var remaining_height = parseInt($(window).height() - top);
$('#lower').height(remaining_height);
I still haven't found a way to do that with only CSS... Sadly.
I think this may help you:
<head>
<title></title>
<style>
.upper{
height:50px;
border: 1px solid groove;
}
.lower{
height:calc(100% - 50px);
border: 1px solid blue;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div style="height:500px; border:1px solid red; position:relative;">
<div class="upper"></div>
<div class="lower"></div>
</div>
</body>
This will take 50px out the lower div
For a pure CSS solution, use display: table-row.
<style>
*{
box-sizing: border-box;
margin:0;padding:0;
}
html, body, #container{
height: 100%;
}
#container{
display: table;
height: 100%;
}
#upper, #lower{
display: table-row;
}
#upper{
height: 100px;
}
</style>
<div id="container">
<div id="upper">bla</div>
<div id="lower">bla</div>
</div>
This solution only works if the height of the content is not more than 100%, see here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/13668087/603569
Here a 100% css alternative:
<div style="height:100%;">
main div
<div style="height:100%;padding-bottom:200px;">
header div
</div>
<div style="position:relative;height:200px;top:-200px;">
footer div
</div>
</div>
Remember that all parent elements, including body and html, must have their height set too.
I have a very simple structure:
<div class="parent">
<h1>Element taking space</h1>
<div class="stretch">
Not much content, but needs to be stretched to the end.
</div>
</div>
The parent div has a set height, and I want div.stretch to stretch all the way to that height, regardless of how little content it has. Using height: 100% does the trick, until you add some other element which pushes the content down.
I guess that specifying height: 100% means that the element should have the exact same absolute/computed height as the parent element, and not the remainder of the height after all the other elements have been computed.
Setting overflow: hidden obviously hides the overflowing content, but that's not an option for me.
Is there any way I can achieve that in pure CSS?
Demo of my problem
In the time since this question was asked and answered, a better way to achieve this has come into existence: flex-box.
Just set the parent's display to "flex" and flex-direction to "column", and set the "stretchy" child's height to "inherit". The child will inherit a height of however many pixels are left over to fill up its parent.
In the following example, lines marked /* important */ are part of the actual solution; the rest of the CSS is just to make it visually easier to understand.
.parent {
display: flex; /* important */
flex-direction: column; /* important */
height: 150px;
border: 6px solid green;
}
h1 {
background: blue;
margin: 0px;
height: 90px
}
.stretch {
background: red;
height: inherit; /* important */
}
<div class="parent">
<h1>Element taking space</h1>
<div class="stretch">
Not much content, but needs to be stretched to the end.
</div>
</div>
You could float the h1 element. It would work no matter what height it is, and the content of the stretch element will be pushed below it. But I'm not entirely sure if this is what you are looking for.
EDIT: I'm not certain what kind of browser support you're looking for, but you could also set the display to table on .parent and then have .stretch inherit the height. Then you can nest the column divs inside of .stretch and float them.
Updated: http://jsbin.com/oluyin/2/edit
HTML
<div class="parent">
<h1>Element taking space</h1>
<div class="stretch">
<div class="col">Not much content, but needs to be stretched to the end.</div>
<div class="col">Not much content, but needs to be stretched to the end.</div>
</div>
</div>
CSS
.parent {
display: table;
}
.stretch {
height: inherit;
}
.col {
float: left;
width: 50%;
}
If you know the height of your H1 you can do this to fill out the child:
.parent {
background-color: #eee;
border: 1px solid black;
width: 300px;
height: 600px;
position:relative;
}
h1 { Height: 100px; }
.stretch
{
background-color:#dddddd;
position: absolute;
left: 0;
width: 100%;
top: 100px;
bottom: 0;
}
Example: http://jsbin.com/apocuh/1/edit
If you don't know the height of H1, I'm afraid you will probably need to use JavaScript or thgaskell's method.
Take a look at this post for more information, and an example with JS: CSS: height- fill out rest of div?
Maybe using display:table properties fits your needs ?
Edit: This answer actually looks like thgaskell's one, but instead of using floats I use table-row and table-cell display, and it seems to achieve what you are looking for.
Here is the jsfiddle : http://jsbin.com/ebojok/17/edit
.parent {
background-color: #eee;
border: 1px solid black;
width: 600px;
height: 600px;
display:table;
}
h1{
display:table-row;
width:100%;
}
.stretch{
vertical-align:top;
display:table-cell;
height:100%;
background-color: #ddd;
}
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset=utf-8 />
<title>JS Bin</title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="parent">
<h1>Element taking space</h1>
<div class="stretch">Not much content, but needs to be stretched to the end.</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
CSS
.parent {
background-color: #eee;
border: 1px solid black;
width: 300px;
height: 600px;
position:relative;
}
.stretch {
background-color: #ddd;
height: 100%;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
}
http://jsbin.com/amesox/1/edit
This will cover your h1 element as the .stretched goes over it. You could get around this by using z-index: 1; on your h1 element, but I'd advise against it if you want text in your .stretched element.
You need position:relative; on your parent div to give position: absolute something to 'hook on' to. absolute positioned elements, ignore other elements and are placed on top of them unless their z-index is higher or they are its children.
I have the following css but the scroll bars are visible. how can I make them invisible (scrollable div without scrollbars)?
.myDiv
{
height:300px;
overflow: scroll;
}
.myDiv {
width: 200px;
height:300px;
overflow: scroll;
}
.wrapper {
width: 183px;
height: 283px;
overflow: hidden;
border: 1px solid black;
}
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="myDiv">
floating div content...
</div>
</div>
This might work - basically you're placing a smaller div around the one you want and hiding the scroll bars.
I know this is a sort of a common problem, and I looked up some solutions, but couldn't find exactly what I was looking for.
I would like to convert this to a tableless layout.
Note: header and footer have to be set to a fixed height in pixels (50px is ok).
The main problem I'm having is that I cannot get that "big box" in the middle to behave like it does when it's done with tables. There are solutions which work OK for a variable length content (text, images), but I would like this box look and behave like a box - with borders, rounded corners and all.
You can do it with table style CSS properties, but still retain table less markup (which is still a win).
Example
HTML
<div id="container">
<div id="header"><div>header</div></div>
<div id="content"><div>content</div></div>
<div id="footer"><div>footer</div></div>
</div>
CSS
html,
body {
height: 100%;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
#container {
display: table;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
border: 1px solid red;
text-align: center;
}
#container > div {
display: table-row;
width: 100%;
}
#container > div > div {
display: table-cell;
width: 100%;
border-radius:10px;
}
#header > div {
height:50px;
border:solid 2px #aaa;
}
#content > div {
height: 100%;
background:#f0f4f0;
border:solid 2px #5a5;
}
#footer > div {
height:50px;
border:solid 2px #a55;
}
jsFiddle.
'Multiple absolute co-ordinates' is a nice way to achieve this. This is when you absolutely position a box, then give it both top and bottom co-ordinates. Without specifying a height, you get a box which wants to be 10px from the top, and 10px from the bottom edges of its parent.
Here's an example
There is an IE6 specific style you'll need to add, if you care about that browser.
Here's an article on the technique (plus the IE6 fix) - it's a good one to know, even if you don't use it for this problem.
You haven't said anything about heights of your sub elements, so I have had to make some presumptions. You could use percentages if you wanted.
<style>
html,body {margin:0;padding:0;
}
#mainContainer {
height:100%;
width:100%;
}
#header {
height:15%;
width:100%;
background-color:red;
}
#center {
height:75%;
width:100%;
background-color:blue;
}
#footer {
height:10%;
width:100%;
background-color:pink;
}
</style>
<body>
<div id="mainContainer">
<div id="header">Header</div>
<div id="center">Center</div>
<div id="footer">Footer</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>