I am trying to create a page which will be have header and footer div with unknown height (or min-height) and middle content with scroll if the content increases and all these three should fit in screen only.
I tried below and works if the height of header and footer is fixed and if only middle content increases then i get scroll for content div perfectly. How do to handle unknown height part for header and footer to make it fit? I gave min-height but doesn't work.
#Pageheader {
position: fixed;
top: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
height: 100px;
background-color: Blue;
}
#Pagefooter {
position: fixed;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
height: 100px;
background-color:red;
}
#Pagecontent {
position: fixed;
top: 100px;
bottom: 100px;
left: 0;
right: 0;
background-color: #EEEEEE;
overflow: auto;
}
and Html side
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div id="Pageheader">
</div>
<div id="Pagecontent">
</div>
<div id="Pagefooter">
</div>
</form>
The ol' school dirty way is to use Jquery. Detect height of header/footer, place and resize the content div according to window height and the previous heights.
A sophisticated solution is to use Flexbox. Using the align-content: stretch you can create the layout you want. You can check it here.
I got stuck trying the same thing last week. I ended up doing it with css tables (compatible with all browsers including IE8). Here's the CSS for it:
/* Layout-1 | Header Footer */
html {
min-height: 100%;
}
html, body {
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
}
body {
display: table;
}
header, footer {
display: table-row;
padding: 30px;
}
div#container {
display: table-row;
height: 100%;
}
If you wanted a fixed header and footer and for the scrolling to only effect the body section in between, the markup and css would be totally different, and utilize position: absolute;
Let me know if this works for you : )
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I have four DIVs :
The first div has a fixed height and located on top (header).
The second div also has a fixed height and located below the first div.
The fourth div has a fixed height located on bottom.
The third div will have a variable height: it will expand to make the total of four divs are full to vertical space in browser IF the content is less than that. But it will follow the content's height if the content's height is larger than that. So at all times, I want the first div (the header) to stick at the top of the page, and the fourth div (the footer) to stick at the bottom of the page. I have no way to know how tall the content will be.
header
header
header
header
the CSS file:
#container { width:800px; height:*; }
#header { height:200px; }
#menu { height:50px; }
#content { height:*; }
#footer { height:150px; }
can I actually do this? how is the correct css way to do this? I get the feeling this should be not too hard, but I can't find relatable answers anywhere. Thank you.
What you could do is something like this:
#content { height: 100vh; /*100% of viewport height*/
margin-top: 250px;
margin-bottom: 150px; }
This way it will always be 100% of the screen height in total.
Well that turned out looking cool, JSBin
HTML
<div class="header">Header !</div>
<div class="menu">Menu !</div>
<div class="content">Content !</div>
<div class="footer">Footer !</div>
CSS
body { margin: 0; }
.header { width: 100%; height: 200px; position: fixed; top: 0; }
.menu { width: 100%; height: 50px; position: fixed; top: 200px; }
.footer { width: 100%; height: 150px; position: fixed; bottom: 0; }
.content { width: 100%; position: fixed; top: 250px; bottom: 150px;
overflow: auto; }
I'm trying to achieve a particular layout for a website I'm working on, but I'm not sure how to about it. The layout will look like this:
The header has nothing special about it. The footer has position: fixed and bottom: 0px. The main body content needs to be centred vertically within the space from the bottom of the header down to the top of the footer. If the window height is adjusted, the body content should remain centred between these two points. Also note that the website will be responsive, but only from 960px up to about 1600px (so the minimum width it will ever be is 960px).
My only idea on how to achieve this is to have the div containing the body content somehow automatically expand to always be the full height from the bottom of the header down to the bottom of the browser window (and then add some padding at the bottom to account for the footer), then use display: table on this containing div, and use display: table-cell and vertical-align: middle on a child div.
Are there any other (preferably CSS-only) ways I could potentially do this? If not, how can I get the containing div for the body content expand to always be the full height from the bottom of the header down to the bottom of the browser window?
Here is one solution, for a header with a fixed height.
Your HTML needs to have the following pattern:
<div class="header">Header</div>
<div class="main-wrap">
<div class="container">
<div class="content">Content...</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="footer">Footer</div>
and the CSS:
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
body {
margin: 0;
}
.header {
height: 50px;
background-color: beige;
}
.main-wrap {
position: absolute;
top: 50px;
bottom: 50px;
width: 100%;
background-color: silver;
overflow: auto;
}
.container {
display: table;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
}
.content {
border: 1px solid blue;
display: table-cell;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
vertical-align: middle;
}
.footer {
height: 50px;
width: 100%;
background-color: lightblue;
position: fixed;
bottom: 0;
}
See demo at: http://jsfiddle.net/audetwebdesign/aGTKs/
It is possible to adapt this to a header of flexible height.
The .main-wrap container defines the space between the header and footer.
The .container block uses display: table and inherits the height from .main-wrap.
Finally, .content uses display: table-cell, which allows you to use vertical-align: middle (default value) to center the content vertically.
You need to set the height of body and htmlto be 100% to capture the height of the view port.
You can hack it by doing {position: absolute; bottom: 0} !
There are 3 divs, side by side to each other.
so div1 div2 div3
Is there a way to focus the scroll only on div2? so that the contents of div1 and div3 is always seen while the user 'scrolls' only on div2?
Preferably a css solution if possible. If not, what solutions are possible?
#div1, #div3
{
overflow: hidden;
}
#div2
{
overflow:scroll;
}
If you want to hide horizontal scroll use: overflow-x:hidden and for vertical use overflow-y:hidden
Add the following css:
body, #div1, #div3
{
overflow:hidden;
}
#div2
{
overflow-y:scroll;
}
Note that you need to set a width and height to the elements, and anything that goes outside of the width and height of div1,div3 and the body won't be shown, while in div2 it will be scrollable.
You could fix the position of the first and last div, so only the center div will scroll;
HTML
<div class="l">left</div>
<div class="m">middle</div>
<div class="r">right</div>
CSS:
html, body {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
.l, .r {
width: 33%;
height: 100%;
position: fixed;
background: lightgreen;
top: 0;
}
.l { left: 0; }
.r { right: 0; }
.m {
margin: 0 33%;
min-height: 100%;
background: lightblue;
}
Also check this JSFiddle.
You could use the position: fixed in css. My solution makes the body scrollable. If one would refresh the page, it would hop back to where they were, not sure if the overflow-method does that. Also, this allows you to user anchors to parts of you content ()
This is a quick draft:
<div id="divWrap">
<div id="div1">1</div>
<div id="div2">2</div>
<div id="div3">3</div>
</div>
.
/* This wrapper places content centered in the page, the relative is important */
#divWrap{
position: relative;
margin: 0 auto;
width: 500px;
}
/* Place this one fixed, top, left */
#div1{
position: fixed;
left: 0;
top: 0;
width: 100px;
}
/* This div acts normal */
#div2{
margin: 0 100px 0 200px; /* margins => the widths of 1 & 2 */
width: 200px;
}
/* Place this one fixed, top, right */
#div3{
position: fixed;
right: 0;
top: 0;
width: 200px;
}
hmm do you mean so div1 and div3 are fixed on the page, meaning that when you scroll only div2 is scrolled? if so, something like
HTML
<div class="container">
<div class="div-one"></div>
<div class="div-two"></div>
<div class="div-thee"></div>
</div>
CSS
.container { position: relative; }
.div-one, .div-two { position: fixed; }
This won't work right off the bat but you get the idea.
I have what is a fairly common page layout where the content div is centralised on the page using margin:auto 0. The width of the div itself varies depending on available page width.
I want another div featuring a logo to 'stick' to the outside left hand side of this div (ie no gap or overlap between the two) at a fixed height. What CSS should I use for this?
something like
html:
<html>
<div id='content'>
<div id='stickything'>a</div>
</div>
</html>
css:
html {
width: 100%;
}
#content {
position: relative;
width: 100px;
height: 600px;
margin: auto;
background-color: green;
}
#stickything {
position: fixed;
width: 25px;
height: 30px;
top: 0px;
margin-left: -25px;
background-color: red;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/Kkcnn/
Use position:absolute. It must help:
.container-div{
position: relative
}
.outer-div{
position:absolute;
top: 0 (your choice)
left: -/outer div's width/
}
I have a quick question about to how setup my basic fluid layout. I have one 40px high, and 100% wide header bar at the top, this looks great.
Then i have a #left and #right div, each floated respectively. This looks cool. They both have height 100% which works great but the issue is the page then scrolls 40px down, because there is the 40px from the header bar... if i use a fluid layout for the header and then the content box's it would look awful on a tiny or very large resolution.
Any ideas?
Here is my CSS
body
{
background: #ebebeb;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
min-width: 750px;
max-width: 1500px;
}
#wrap
{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
#header
{
background: #414141;
height: 40px;
width: 100%;
}
#sidebar
{
width: 30%;
background: #ebebeb;
height: 100%;
float: left;
}
#rightcontent
{
width: 70%;
background: #fff;
height: 100%;
float: right;
}
#footer
{
width: 100%;
background: #414141;
height: 40px;
clear: both;
}
And here is my html page:
<body>
<div id="wrap">
<div id="header">
head
</div>
<div id="sidebar">
side
</div>
<div id="rightcontent">
right
</div>
<div id="footer">
footer
</div>
</div>
</body>
Does that help :)
height: 100%; is a tricky thing for web pages, as you are no doubt keenly aware. Looking at your code in Firefox 3.5.7 the #sidebar and #rightcontent columns only have only the height of about an em — just enough to hold the text you put in them, not the full page length I think you were hoping for. The columns are trying to calculate percent height from the explicit height of their parent, but #wrap also has a %-based height, which causes this to fail (at least in my Firefox).
Now, as you've described it (the columns being the right height, except for an extra 40px scroll) what seems to be happening is that whatever browser you're using is passing the full height of #wrap as 100% of it's parent, which is <body>. So naturally, when your columns are sized to the height of <body>, which also encloses the height of your header and footer, the columns are too tall.
A trick I've used a couple of times to achieve the full page length appearance of columns that scales appropriately to whatever page dimension is to stick a position: fixed; bottom: 0px; <div> tag at the bottom of my page with just enough markup inside it to mimic the structure and relevant CSS of the columns.
Here's what I did to your page to get this effect:
<!--Add this to your HTML-->
<div id='columnfooter'>
<div id='sidecont'></div>
<div id='rightcont'></div>
</div>
/* And modify your CSS like this */
#sidebar, div#sidecont {
width: 30%;
background: #ebebeb;
float: left;
}
#rightcontent, div#rightcont {
width: 70%;
background: #fff;
float: right;
}
div#rightcont, div#sidecont {
height:100%;
}
#footer {
width: 100%;
background: #414141;
height: 40px;
position: relative;
bottom: 0px;
}
div#columnfooter {
position: fixed;
z-index: -25;
bottom: 40px;
height: 100%;
background: #ebebeb;
width: 100%;
}
Yes, using the HTML to form empty background columns this way does kind of mix semantic and stylistic markup — a technical no-no. But the CSS is clearly abstracted from the HTML, and with this code I have full page columns, #footer at the bottom (even when more than a page of content is added to either column above it), and it behaves the same in the latest versions of Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome and IE8 at any resolution (tested down to 800x600).
Hope this helps!