Out of curiosity, considering the example below, why does having the margin on the #container div cause a vertical scrollbar to appear in the browser? The container is much smaller in height than the body height which is set to 100%.
I have set the padding and margins to 0 for all elements except the #container. Note that I have deliberately omitted absolute positioning on the #container div. In this case how is the browser calculating the height of the body and how is the margin affecting it?
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
* { padding:0; margin:0;}
html, body { height:100%; }
#container
{
padding:10px;
margin:50px;
border:1px solid black;
width: 200px;
height: 100px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id='container'>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Example also on JSFiddle
If you paint the backgrounds of html and body (giving each its own color), you'll quickly notice that body is being shifted down along with #container, and #container itself isn't offset from the top of body at all. This is a side effect of margin collapse, which I cover in detail here (although that answer describes a slightly different setup).
It's this behavior that's causing the scrollbar to appear, since you've declared body to have 100% the height of html. Note that the actual height of body is unaffected, as margins are never included in height calculations.
Based upon #BoltClock♦'s answer, I fixed it by zeroing the margin...
so
html,body, #st-full-pg {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
}
works where id "st-full-pg" is assigned to a panel div (which further contained panel-heading and panel-body)
A bit late, but maybe it helps someone.
Adding float: left; to #container removes the scrollbar, as W3C says:
•Margins between a floated box and any other box do not collapse (not even between a float and its in-flow children).
html,body {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
overflow: hidden;
}
This worked for me
adding float:left; is nice, but will interfere with central horizontal positioning using margin:auto;
if you know how big your margin is, you can account for that in your height percentage using calc:
height: calc(100% - 50px);
browser support is good, but only IE11+
https://caniuse.com/#feat=calc
/*removes default margin & padding*/
html, body{
padding: 0px !important;
margin: 0px !important;
}
/*sets body height to max; and allows scrollbar as page content grows*/
body{
min-height: 100vh;
}
I have found a solution: add padding: 1px 0; to body prevents vertical scrollbars to appear
For those who are coming here for an easier to understand answer that even includes code samples, this answer (copied from here) is for you.
No JavaScript or definite pixel values (such as 100px) are required, just, pure CSS and percentages.
If your div is just sitting there on its own, height: 50% will mean 50% the height of the body. Normally, the height of the body is zero without any visible content, so 50% of that is just, well, zero.
This is the solution (based on this) (uncomment the background lines to get a visualisation of the padding):
/* Makes <html> take up the full page without requiring content to stretch it to that height. */
html
{
height: 100%;
/* background: green; */
}
body
{
/*
100% the height of <html> minus 1 multiple of the total extra height from the padding of <html>.
This prevents an unnecessary vertical scrollbar from appearing.
*/
height: calc(100% - 1em);
/* background: blue; */
}
/* In most cases it's better to use stylesheets instead of inline-CSS. */
div
{
width: 50%;
height: 50%;
background: red;
}
<div></div>
The above was written so that there would still be the usual padding. You could set the dimensions of the red div to 100% and still see padding on each side/end. If you don't want this padding, use this (although it doesn't look nice, I recommend you stick with the first example):
/* Makes <html> take up the full page without requiring content to stretch it to that height. */
html, body
{
height: 100%;
}
/* You can uncomment it but you wouldn't be able to see it anyway. */
/*
html
{
background: green;
}
*/
body
{
margin: 0;
/* background: blue; */
}
/* In most cases it's better to use stylesheets instead of inline-CSS */
div
{
width: 50%;
height: 50%;
background: red;
}
<div></div>
I saw this problem fixed before where you put all the contents of body in a div called wrap. Wrap's style should be set to position: relative; min-height: 100%;. To position #container div 50px from the top and left put a div inside wrap with a padding set to 50px. Margins will not work with wrap and the div we just made, but they will work in #container and everything inside it.
here's my fix on jsfiddle.
you can add non-breaking space into the body tag.
<body> <othertags>...</body>
html, body {
height: 100%;
overflow: hidden;
}
If you want to remove the body scrolling add the following style:
body {
height: 100%;
overflow: hidden;
}
Inspired by #BoltClock, I tried this and it worked, even when zoom out and in.
Browser: Chrome 51
html{
height: 100%;
}
body{
height: 100%;
margin: 0px;
position: relative;
top: -20px;
}
I guess body was shifted down 20px.
It works for me:
html,
body {
height: 100%;
height: -webkit-fill-available; // Chrome
}
// Firefox
#-moz-document url-prefix() {
body {
box-sizing: border-box;
margin: 0;
padding: 1px;
}
}
Add overflow: hidden; to html and body.
html, body {
height: 100%;
overflow: hidden;
}
I found a quick solution: try set height to 99.99% instead of 100%
I'm switching divs from float:left to inline-block and don't know why some of the divs are displacing, like they have some invisible border or something.
Here are with float:left https://jsfiddle.net/f7op4dze/
div{
background-color: red;
width: calc(25% - 40px);
height: 50px;
float:left;
margin:0 20px;
}
And here with inline-block https://jsfiddle.net/dfdxa5hc/
div{
background-color: red;
width: calc(25% - 40px);
height: 50px;
display:inline-block;
margin:0 20px;
}
There's a space automatically added with inline elements and this space is applied to inline-block as well.
If there's no whitespace (either a space or a return) between the elements in your markup, the inline-block elements will be rendered without a space.
The easiest way to do this and still retain optimal formatting is using comment tags in between the <div> elements like so:
https://jsfiddle.net/orvn/wd0ynq98/2/
<section>
<div></div><!--
--><div></div><!--
--><div></div><!--
--><div></div>
</section>
As one possible option to fix the problem, set the font-size of the parent to 0.
section { font-size: 0; }
You can restore the font on the child elements:
div { font-size: 16px; }
Demo: https://jsfiddle.net/dfdxa5hc/3/
For an explanation and other possible solutions, see my answer here:
inline-block boxes not fitting in their container
There is (finally) a CSS only solution to this problem
section {
display: table;
word-spacing: -2em;
width: 100%;
}
div {
display: inline-block;
word-spacing: normal;
}
When I set the padding size for input field it automatically changed the size. It becomes bigger.
.container{
width: 150px;
}
.item label{
display: block;
width: 100%;
margin-bottom: 10px;
}
.from-item{
width: 100%;
}
input[type="text"]{
width: 100%;
padding: 5px;
}
JSFfiddle
You should think about putting this in your CSS:
* { box-sizing: border-box }
This alters the box model such that padding will not add to the size that an element occupies on the screen. It is, to my mind and the mind of many others, a much better model to work with:
http://www.paulirish.com/2012/box-sizing-border-box-ftw/
General info on the box model: http://css-tricks.com/the-css-box-model/
You can use box-sizing:border-box to solve your problem, but it is a css3 property. Thus incompatible with old browsers.
Another way to achive this is put a wrapper div around input & give padding to it.
<div class="ibox"><input type="text" class="from-item"></div>
.ibox{
padding: 5px;
}
input[type="text"]{
width: 100%;
}
Here is Demo link http://jsfiddle.net/aq8mP/1/
Whenever I resize the browser, the 2nd div in .container positions below the first one.
<div class = "container">
<div class = "one"></div>
<div class = "two"></div>
</div>
The divs are really blank.
CSS
.container{
overflow: hidden;
width: 810px;
min-width: 810px;
}
.one,.two{
width: 300px;
height: 450px;
}
.one{float:left}
I just realized that, you are not floating the other element, this is causing it to shift down, you should use float: left; or right as it's a div so it will take up entire horizontal space, and hence it is pushed down.
Demo
.one, .two{
width: 300px;
height: 450px;
float:left; /* Float both elements */
background: #f00;
}
Alternative
You should use display: inline-block; and white-space: nowrap; to prevent the wrapping of the elements
Demo
This will gave you the same effect, the only thing is 4px white space, you can simply use
.two {
margin-left: -4px;
}
the above will fix the white space issue for you
Demo 2
Add this CSS. Demo.
.two {
margin-left: 300px;
}
PS: When works with float, you should clearfix.
Give your body a minimum width:
body {
min-width: 1110px;
}
Then, when the viewport gets smaller than 1110px the scrollbar will appear.
Note: if you add margin, padding or border to the divs, add it to the min-width of the body (or take some extra space).
Fiddle
I would like to have multiple divs with margins and below them one that fills up the rest of the space provided by the fixed size parent div.
EDIT: I am sorry, I should have mentioned that the container divs size is fixed and should not change at all.
EDIT2: SOLUTION.
I had tried overflow: hidden but missunderstood it and put it on on the child element and not the parent.
Hope this is you want http://jsfiddle.net/FR5Ud/33/
Use min-height so that your basic look of the page remains the same and it increases based on the content
#container {
float: left;
background-color: green;
width: 300px;
min-height: 300px; height
border-color: violet;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 10px;
}
#content {
background-color: blue;
min-height: 100px; height:auto
}
#toFillUp {
background-color: red;
/* that's what it should end up looking like.
However, what if the size of #content changes?
What if there are more content divs before that?
What if those have margins? */
min-height: 200px; height:auto
}
Demo http://jsfiddle.net/FR5Ud/25/