Expand DIV to page bottom when scrolling down - css

On my site, I want to have a 'div' at the bottom of the page. It has no fixed height, but should always start '200px' from the top of the page.
The problem I am having is that when the content of the 'div' is very long, it's background doesn't expand when you scroll down.
Here is my code: JSFiddle (updated)
I have tried working with height=auto and border=auto, but then the 'div' doesn't stretch to the page bottom when there is less content and you don't have to scroll down.
Update:
Sorry for miss expressing my problem: I need the 'div' to have position: relative because I need it to be positioned in the center of the page with left=10% and right=10%.
I also updated the JSFiddle.
Update 2:
I guess there is no perfect solution to this problem. What I will end up doing: Having two 'divs'. The first div will have the page content on it and will not show the background when there is less content; the other div will be behind the content-div and won't scroll at all, but it will show the background for the div in front when there is less content.

I've changed some 'design' from your original to be able to satisfy your requirement.
First, here's my jsfiddle
#top {
height:200px;
background:#FFF;
}
body {
background:red;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
What I've done is I've set the whole page background to red. Made the #top height 200px with white background, so the #bottom would be 200px apart from the top. Now the trick I've done is, the #bottom is actually isn't touching the bottom if it has less content, but what you see is the illusion from the body's background and #bottom's no background.

Change it to position relative will work in your example fiddle.

add height: auto; to your div's css
EDIT:
and remove bottom: 0;

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I have at the top of my page a div dedicated as a top bar. I want the position to be fixed so that it stays in the same place when scrolling. BUT.. once I apply the fixed positioning, all of the content moves up by about 30px (the size of the bar) and sits behind the bar making the header appear smaller in height than what it should be.
Once the css for position:fixed is removed from #topbar the content moves down to it's desired place
code via codepen: http://codepen.io/Hafkamp/pen/jabmE
css
#topbar{position:fixed}
To the #topbar, add CSS:
#topbar{
top:0;
}
Also, to the #header add:
#header{
margin-top:30px;
}
This way, your #topbar will stick to the top of the page and the following html will be pushed down by 30px(the height of the #topbar)
Just give the margib top to the header of 30 px

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Make your footer div out of the tabs div and no need of position: absolute on it. Make following changes:
#footer
{
margin-top:80%;
height: 20px;
width:50%;
text-align:center;
background:#C00;
}
Here is fiddle.
Also it seems that you are trying to make responsive design but let me tell you that the way you are proceeding is not the right one for it. You may read Responsive Design By Ethan Marcotte for learning it.
EDIT
Make following changes:
Give height: 400px; or as required to table div.
Make your footer div out of the table div.
Either remove margin-top or change it to 5% or 10% as required in footer div.
Add min-height: 100%; to .tabs.
Check out the fiddle.
Try hardcoding the height value
#spaceheader {
width: 100%;
height: 100px;
background: #000000;
}
I see your issue now. The parent element <div class="tab"> is what's causing your issues. If I were you, I'd take the radio buttons out of the tab, make it not have a float:left on it, and this will probably fix things. You then need to remove the absolute positioning on your footer div.
Also, it looked like you put the footer div inside of the tab, when in actuality, it should be outside of all of the tabs, beneath them in the code.

Fixed block element hides on window resize

I noticed a behavior that drives me crazy.
I have two divs, that have both similar css:
.one, .two {
position: fixed;
bottom: 6%
}
One div is for navigation, and other is for content, that has max 300px height. The problem is, that if the user resizes the browser window to really small one, the scrollbar is not shown.
I tried to change position to absolute, but then the ajaxify plugin breaks the position if new page is loaded. I couldn't find other ideas, how to position those divs at fixed position at bottom.
p.s. I pasted a sample test on http://pastebin.com/Bp1490dj
the background-green div is at the bottom with position:absolute;
from what I know a position:fixed; and or position:absolute; will never make a scroll. (please correct me if I'm wrong) so a way to go arround this is to set a min-height to body
body {
min-height:200px;
}
have a look at the fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/u2ZWa/
also, there is a fix with a scroll now. But you have to know the fixed elements will never be scrollable because they're fixed
Scrollbars are not compatible with a fixed positioning.

FIXED Div stays at the top but cuts off text with no scroll bars

I have some text that I display in a div with the following CSS:
.fixed-box {
position:fixed;
top:10px;
width: 270px;
}
This is so that when I scroll it always shows on the top of the screen. However when there is a lot of text the div gets cut off, because the position:fixed prevents it from scrolling down with the page it's on.
I was going to switch to an iframe, but is this really the best way to go?
Add overflow:auto; and set height property either to 100% or manually.
Here is code example http://jsfiddle.net/7ZVb8/

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I have been working at this for the past day and a half. So any help will be greatly appreciated.
The general layout has a top bar and a side bar which are position fixed. I want the content container to fill the rest of the page without a scroll bar unless it is necessary due to content. I am not sure if it is possible to do purely in CSS or if I will need to modify my html structure as well. I have posted a fiddle below to show the most simple example possible.
http://jsfiddle.net/wU2Hd/
Again, any help or pushes in the right direction will be greatly appreciated, this has been throwing me for a loop.
It's not impossible. Check out this JSFiddle I forked from yours.
I did not need to change the HTML structure, but there were some important changes made to the CSS.
First I removed the height: 100%; from html, body. This was forcing the scroll bar to appear.
Then I removed the height and width declarations from .content, and gave #shell-content absolute positioning:
#shell-content {
background: #FFFFFF;
position:absolute;
left: 100px;
top: 86px;
bottom: 0px;
right: 0px;
overflow-y: auto;
}​
The left and top are values based on the explicit height you gave to your header and the explicit width you gave to your menu. The overflow-y: auto tells it to only show the scroll bar if the content out-grows its available space, but not otherwise.
The JSFiddle has some crazy-long lorem ipsum text to show the effect. If you change it to less text, the scrollbar will disappear entirely.
The problem is that you are setting
#shell-content{
height:100%
}
body{
height:100%
}
Which means the body fills to fit the window, and then the shell-content expands to fill that space (the EXACT size of its direct parent), but is displaced by shell-top-wrapper, so it overflows. You should either decide on a relative height for the shell top wrapper, or change the height of the shell-content dynamically (using javascript).
Here is a take off of your fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/eeMz4/. You'll see that with the large image in the content area, it scrolls. If you take the image OUT and replace it with text or something smaller than the available space, the scrollbar goes away.
The trick was adding overflow:auto to #shell-content.
Cheers!
Cynthia
I made a few small changes: http://jsfiddle.net/wU2Hd/5/
- remove the height from content
- remove the height from content-shell
- set the body background to white
- set the sidebar background to grey
This will not actually stretch up the content, but it will appear like it does. Scrollbar will appear automaticly when the content becomes bigger then the viewport.

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