I have reduced my problem to a simple example. I have multiple position:relative div containers, lets say checks, one per page. I lay out the data on the check using position:absolute div's. The layout is fine on the first check but all the following check data overlays the first check. In this example, the check numbers are all on the first box upper right. In one of my tests it looked OK in print preview but not on the screen. I have tested in both IE and Firefox.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
.check {
position : relitive;
width : 200mm;
height: 2.5in;
border : 1px solid Black;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="Check608" class="check" >
<div style="height: 100%; background: #ee3e64;">Check 1</div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 8mm; left: 175mm;">608</div>
</div>
<div id="Check609" class="check" >
<div style="height: 100%; background: #44accf;">Check 2</div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 12mm; left: 175mm;">609</div>
</div>
<div id="Check610" class="check" >
<div style="height: 100%; background: #b7d84b;">Check 3</div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 16mm; left: 175mm;">610</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
You have misspelt relitive. It should be relative like this:
.check {
position : relative;
width : 200mm;
height: 2.5in;
border : 1px solid Black;
}
That works correctly as demonstrated by this fiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/jfngyu75/
I have a page with the following structure:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html><head><meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Dashboard</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/coachmaster.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-ui.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="dashboard.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="outer">
<div id="wrap1">
<img id="logo" src="/images/dashboard.png" />
<div id="status">Status</div>
<div id="menu">Menu</div>
</div>
<div id="grip1" ></div>
<div id="wrap2">
<div id="content">
<table class="title"><tr><td>Ian's Dashboard</td></tr></table>
<div class="fields">This is the screen content
</div>
<table class="listhead"><tr>.. row of command buttons... </tr></table>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
The key CSS fragment are:
div.fields {
position: absolute;
top: 32px; bottom: 36px;
width: 99.8%;
overflow-y: scroll;
border-right:1px solid #d3d1d1;
border-left:1px solid #d3d1d1;
}
table.listhead {
position: fixed;
bottom: 0;
width: 100%;
}
This means that the .listhead table is always at the bottom of the screen, and when the div.fields gets too big for the space available, a vertical scroll bar appears.
The customer wants the table.listhead moved up to butt on to the div.fields so any spare space appears below it.
I have tried everything I can think of to achieve this, and failed. I wondered about wrapping div.fields with table.listhead, but I could not get anything to work.
Is it even possible?
Thanks. Ian
a little easier to understand now, thanks! :)
I would try playing around with position, I could move the bottom table up by doing:
table.listhead {
position:relative;
top: 285px;
}
hi,
Currently the text is at the top of my website but i want it bottom;
<p style="text-align:relative;">this is best day ever!this is best day ever!this is best day ever!<p>
when i edit it and add text-align:bottom it dosent works!!!!
Try this code :
<html>
<head>
<title>test</title>
</head>
<body>
<div style="position: relative">
<p style="position: fixed; bottom: 0; width:100%; text-align: center"> TEXT YOU WANT
</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Try this:
style="position:absolute; bottom:0px;"
Absolutely position the element and set its bottom property to 0.
p{
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
}
Working Example http://jsfiddle.net/zMKbf/
<p id="Bottom">this is best day ever!this is best day ever!this is best day ever!<p>
and CSS :
#Bottom {
position : absolute;
bottom : 0;
}
Demo
p {
height:200px;
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: bottom;
}
This is a better way...
<html>
<head>
<title>test</title>
</head>
<body>
<div style="display: table;">
<p style="display: table-row;vertical-align: bottom; text-align: center"> TEXT YOU WANT
</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
i found it in this question, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/526035/how-can-i-position-my-div-at-the-bottom-of-its-container/19110204#19110204
in Hashbrown answer
Specifially, this code:
<html>
<body style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px">
<div style="width:100%; background-color:#FFDDDD">head</div>
<div style="height:100%; background-color:#DDFFDD">body</div>
</body>
</html>
Is rendered bigger than the window, creating a permanent scrollbar:
What is a proper way to fix this issue?
The problem is that you are making this div 100% height:
<div style="height:100%; background-color:#DDFFDD">body</div>
the height property in % will make the div take up that percentage of its container, which in this case is the HTML <body>, so changing the header div to be height: 10% and the body div to be height: 90% should fix the problem.
You can simply do it this way:
HTML
<div class="header"> Header</div>
<div class="main">Main content area</div>
CSS
body {
background: yellow;
}
.header {
height: 30px;
background: red;
}
Check it out: http://jsfiddle.net/EDWTM/
Move the background color to the body, and lose the height.
<html>
<body style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color:#DDFFDD">
<div style="width:100%; background-color:#FFDDDD">head</div>
<div>body</div>
</body>
</html>
http://jsfiddle.net/4XVrW/
Alternatively, you could use margins and absolute positioning to place the header above the body:
<html>
<body style="margin: 30px 0 0 0; padding: 0px">
<div style="height: 30px; width:100%; background-color:#FFDDDD; position: absolute; top:0; left: 0;">head</div>
<div style="height:100%; background-color:#DDFFDD;">body</div>
</body>
</html>
I have a navigation bar on the left hand side of my page, and I want it to stretch to 100% of the page height. Not just the height of the viewport, but including the areas hidden until you scroll. I don't want to use javascript to accomplish this.
Can it be done in HTML/CSS?
Here is the solution I finally came up with when using a div as a container for a dynamic background.
Remove the z-index for non-background uses.
Remove left or right for a full height column.
Remove top or bottom for a full width row.
EDIT 1: CSS below has been edited because it did not show correctly in FF and Chrome. moved position:relative to be on the HTML and set the body to height:100% instead of min-height:100%.
EDIT 2: Added extra comments to CSS. Added some more instructions above.
The CSS:
html{
min-height:100%;/* make sure it is at least as tall as the viewport */
position:relative;
}
body{
height:100%; /* force the BODY element to match the height of the HTML element */
}
#cloud-container{
position:absolute;
top:0;
bottom:0;
left:0;
right:0;
overflow:hidden;
z-index:-1; /* Remove this line if it's not going to be a background! */
}
The html:
<!doctype html>
<html>
<body>
<div id="cloud-container"></div>
</body>
</html>
Why?
html{min-height:100%;position:relative;}
Without this the cloud-container DIV is removed from the HTML's layout context. position: relative ensures that the DIV remains inside the HTML box when it is drawn so that bottom:0 refers to the bottom of the HTML box. You can also use height:100% on the cloud-container as it now refers to the height of the HTML tag and not the viewport.
With HTML5, the easiest way is simply to do height: 100vh. Where 'vh' stands for viewport height of the browser window. Responsive to resizing of browser and mobile devices.
I had a similar problem and the solution was to do this:
#cloud-container{
position:absolute;
top:0;
bottom:0;
}
I wanted a page-centered div with height 100% of page height, so my total solution was:
#cloud-container{
position:absolute;
top:0;
bottom:0;
left:0;
right:0;
width: XXXpx; /*otherwise div defaults to page width*/
margin: 0 auto; /*horizontally centers div*/
}
You might need to make a parent element (or simply 'body') have position: relative;
You can cheat using Faux Columns
Or you can use some CSS trickery
Use position absolute. Note that this isn't how we are generally used to using position absolute which requires manually laying things out or having floating dialogs. This will automatically stretch when you resize the window or the content. I believe that this requires standards mode but will work in IE6 and above.
Just replace the div with id 'thecontent' with your content (the specified height there is just for illustration, you don't have to specify a height on the actual content.
<div style="position: relative; width: 100%;">
<div style="position: absolute; left: 0px; right: 33%; bottom: 0px; top: 0px; background-color: blue; width: 33%;" id="navbar">nav bar</div>
<div style="position: relative; left: 33%; width: 66%; background-color: yellow;" id="content">
<div style="height: 10000px;" id="thecontent"></div>
</div>
</div>
The way that this works is that the outer div acts as a reference point for the nav bar. The outer div is stretched out by the content of the 'content' div. The nav bar uses absolute positioning to stretch itself out to the height of its parent. For the horizontal alignment we make the content div offset itself by the same width of the navbar.
This is made much easier with CSS3 flex box model, but that's not available in IE yet and has some of it's own quirks.
I ran into the same problem as you. I wanted to make a DIV as background, why, because its easy to manipulate div through javascript. Anyways three things I did in the css for that div.
CSS:
{
position:absolute;
display:block;
height:100%;
width:100%;
top:0px;
left:0px;
z-index:-1;
}
It's simple using a table:
<html>
<head>
<title>100% Height test</title>
</head>
<body>
<table style="float: left; height: 100%; width: 200px; border: 1px solid red">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Nav area</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<div style="border: 1px solid green;">Content blabla... text
<br /> text
<br /> text
<br /> text
<br />
</div>
</body>
</html>
When DIV was introduced, people were so afraid of tables that the poor DIV became the metaphorical hammer.
I want to cover the whole web page before prompting a modal popup. I tried many methods using CSS and Javascript but none of them help until I figure out the following solution. It works for me, I hope it helps you too.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
html, body {
margin: 0px 0px;
height 100%;
}
div.full-page {
position: fixed;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
background-color: #000;
opacity:0.8;
overflow-y: hidden;
overflow-x: hidden;
}
div.full-page div.avoid-content-highlight {
position: relative;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
div.modal-popup {
position: fixed;
top: 20%;
bottom: 20%;
left: 30%;
right: 30%;
background-color: #FFF;
border: 1px solid #000;
}
</style>
<script>
// Polling for the sake of my intern tests
var interval = setInterval(function() {
if(document.readyState === 'complete') {
clearInterval(interval);
isReady();
}
}, 1000);
function isReady() {
document.getElementById('btn1').disabled = false;
document.getElementById('btn2').disabled = false;
// disable scrolling
document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].style.overflow = 'hidden';
}
function promptModalPopup() {
document.getElementById("div1").style.visibility = 'visible';
document.getElementById("div2").style.visibility = 'visible';
// disable scrolling
document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].style.overflow = 'hidden';
}
function closeModalPopup() {
document.getElementById("div2").style.visibility = 'hidden';
document.getElementById("div1").style.visibility = 'hidden';
// enable scrolling
document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].style.overflow = 'scroll';
}
</script>
</head>
<body id="body">
<div id="div1" class="full-page">
<div class="avoid-content-highlight">
</div>
</div>
<button id="btn1" onclick="promptModalPopup()" disabled>Prompt Modal Popup</button>
<div id="demo">
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
</div>
<div id="div2" class="modal-popup">
I am on top of all other containers
<button id="btn2" onclick="closeModalPopup()" disabled>Close</button>
<div>
</body>
</html>
Good luck ;-)
* {
margin: 0;
}
html, body {
height: 90%;
}
.content {
min-height: 100%;
height: auto !important;
height: 100%;
margin: 0 auto ;
}
If you are targeting more modern browsers, life can be very simple.
try:
.elem{
height: 100vh;
}
if you need it at 50% of the page, replace 100 with 50.
document.body.onload = function () {
var textcontrol = document.getElementById("page");
textcontrol.style.height = (window.innerHeight) + 'px';
}
<html>
<head><title></title></head>
<body>
<div id="page" style="background:green;">
</div>
</body>
</html>
This is how you can make your side nav as tall as the page content, without having to change the body to be flex or table.
Don't set html or body to height 100%, because that will make it only as tall as the browser viewport, and the page will be overflowing that, and your nav will only be as tall as the viewport.
Just set your nav to height:100% position:absolute with the html tag position:relative.
The reason this works is because height 100% only works if its container is fixed height, with the exception (for some reason) the html tag.
<html style='position:relative'>
<body style='margin:0'>
<div style='height:100%; position:absolute; top:0; background:linear-gradient(to bottom,red,green); border:2px solid blue'>
nav
</div>
<div style='font-size:99px;padding:33px'>
I want my side div to be as tall as the page content.<br />
I want my side div to be as tall as the page content.<br />
I want my side div to be as tall as the page content.<br />
I want my side div to be as tall as the page content.<br />
I want my side div to be as tall as the page content.<br />
I want my side div to be as tall as the page content.<br />
I want my side div to be as tall as the page content.<br />
I want my side div to be as tall as the page content.<br />
I want my side div to be as tall as the page content.<br />
I want my side div to be as tall as the page content.<br />
I want my side div to be as tall as the page content.<br />
</div>
</body>
</html>
This code works but not fully supports:
height: 100svmax;
Browsers support
Edit
Sorry, old answer is not correct..
i have tried all viewport units
but the only solution work using javascript here
Simple, just wrap it up in a table div...
The HTML:
<div class="fake-table">
<div class="left-side">
some text
</div>
<div class="right-side">
My Navigation or something
</div>
</div>
The CSS:
<style>
.fake-table{display:table;width:100%;height:100%;}
.left-size{width:30%;height:100%;}
.left-size{width:70%;height:100%;}
</style>
I succeeded with
min-height: 100vh
for both, the menu and content div.