I'm working on a brand new website and I'm trying to just get the basic layout going. I am using the ASP.NET MVC 4 generated HTML and I would like to get the DIV named body to fill the available space after making room for the header and thus anchoring the footer to the bottom of the browser window. However, what I'm getting right now is three panels just stacked on top of each other.
I would like a solution that would work if the browser supported HTML5 and one if it didn't
Please note I've inlined comments in the CSS to try and explain what I've tried.
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>#ViewBag.Title - Title</title>
<link href="~/favicon.ico" rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
#Styles.Render("~/Content/css")
</head>
<body>
<header>
<div class="content-wrapper">
<div class="float-left">
<p class="site-title">#Html.ActionLink("Title", "Index", "Home")</p>
</div>
</div>
</header>
<div id="body">
#RenderSection("featured", required: false)
<section class="content-wrapper main-content clear-fix">
#RenderBody()
</section>
</div>
<footer>
<div class="content-wrapper">
<div class="float-left">
<p>© #DateTime.Now.Year - ACME. All rights reserved.</p>
</div>
<div class="float-right">
<ul id="social">
<li>Facebook</li>
<li>Twitter</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</footer>
#RenderSection("scripts", required: false)
</body>
</html>
CSS
body {
/* I'VE TRIED BOTH OF THE FOLLOWING TO SEE IF THE BODY ITSELF WOULD SPAN */
/* WITH NO OTHER CSS APPLIED TO THE body ELEMENT */
/*height: fill-available;*/
/*height: 100%*/
}
/* general layout
----------------------------------------------------------*/
.float-left {
float: left;
}
.float-right {
float: right;
}
.clear-fix:after {
content: ".";
clear: both;
display: block;
height: 0;
visibility: hidden;
}
/* main layout
----------------------------------------------------------*/
.content-wrapper {
margin: 0 auto;
max-width: 960px;
}
#body {
background-color: #efeeef;
clear: both;
padding-bottom: 35px;
/* I'VE TRIED BOTH OF THE FOLLOWING TO SEE IF I COULD GET THIS ELEMENT TO SPAN */
/* WITHOUT ANY OTHER CSS APPLIED TO THE body TAG */
/*height: fill-available;*/
/*height: 100%*/
}
.main-content {
/*background: url("../Images/accent.png") no-repeat;*/
padding-left: 10px;
padding-top: 30px;
}
.featured + .main-content {
/*background: url("../Images/heroAccent.png") no-repeat;*/
}
footer {
clear: both;
background-color: #e2e2e2;
font-size: .8em;
height: 100px;
}
/* site title
----------------------------------------------------------*/
.site-title {
color: #c8c8c8;
font-family: Rockwell, Consolas, "Courier New", Courier, monospace;
font-size: 2.3em;
margin: 20px 0;
}
.site-title a, .site-title a:hover, .site-title a:active {
background: none;
color: #c8c8c8;
outline: none;
text-decoration: none;
}
/* social
----------------------------------------------------------*/
ul#social li {
display: inline;
list-style: none;
}
ul#social li a {
color: #999;
text-decoration: none;
}
a.facebook, a.twitter {
display: block;
float: left;
height: 24px;
padding-left: 17px;
text-indent: -9999px;
width: 16px;
}
a.facebook {
background: url("../Images/facebook.png") no-repeat;
}
a.twitter {
background: url("../Images/twitter.png") no-repeat;
}
Just snap the header and footer at the bottom of the page using fixed positioning.
header, footer{ position:fixed; left:0; right:0; z-index:1; }
header{ top:0; }
footer{ bottom:0; }
Then you can give your body the background your div#body had before. The div gets no background and will expand as much as needed.
div#body{ background:none; }
body{ background:#eee; }
This will look like the div would fill the remaining space of the page. Finally give your header and footer a background so that you can't see the background of the body under it.
header, footer{ background:#fff; }
By the way I would suggest removing body margins. body{ margin:0; }
I believe it's a bit impossible to do that with just CSS. You can make a webpage with 100% height like this:
html{
height: 100%;
}
body{
height: 100%;
}
#body{
height: 100%;
}
And then for header, body and footer you can do like this:
header{
height: 100px;
left: 0;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
width: 100%;
background-color: #f00;
}
#body{
bottom: 100px;
left: 0;
position: absolute;
right: 0;
top: 100px;
background-color: #fff;
}
footer{
bottom: 0;
height: 100px;
left: 0;
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
background-color: #ff0;
}
It might work for a bit, but it'll break at some point. When you resize your browser, it'll be running out of room for your #body. If you want a better solution, you should use javascript. In your javascript, calculate how much space you have for your #body, then either adjust the height of header and footer. Or adjust the #body instead.
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I am pretty new to this. I am hoping for some help and advise keeping my divs side by side. One is a menu which works fine but now my content is overlapping and I'm not sure what I did. I should make multiple saves. any advice on positioning my divs would be crazy appreciated.
apologies if my formatting of the post is wrong. brain is fried and my website is due for class tomorrow.
body {
background-color: #35455e;
}
h1 {
text-align: center;
font-size: 400%;
color: #ecb3ff;
padding-left: 30px;
}
h2 {
text-align: center;
font-size: 300%;
color: #ecb3ff;
padding-left: 40px;
}
ul {
list-style: none;
overflow: hidden;
list-style: none;
text-align: center;
border-style: hidden;
}
a {
color: white;
text-decoration: none;
font-size: 125%;
padding-left: 12px;
}
a:hover {
color: #fff666;
}
a:active {
color: #9bc1ff;
}
div.header {
background-image: url("https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-
9/22089728_10212094710577763_385045730802353501_n.jpg?
oh=534f6bd3108f6f68f96cf5709e404b9f&oe=5AD4BADA");
background-size: initial;
background-repeat: repeat;
border-radius: 8px;
height: 573px;
width: 449px;
border: 10px;
box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px #333333;
float: left;
position:fixed;}
div.main{
position: relative;
top: 500px;
right: 500px;
}
li {
width: 30%;
}
My HTML:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Madison Queen's Art Portfolio: Home</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="final.css">
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="header">
<h1>Madison Art Portfolio</h1>
<ul>
<li>Home</li>
<li>Photography</li>
<li>Contact</li>
</ul>
</div><!--closing of header-->
<div class="main">
<h2>Madison Art Portfolio</h2>
</div><!--CLOSING OF MAIN-->
</div><!--CLOSING OF THE CONTAINER-->
</body>
</html>
As you are using position:fixed; in div.header and position:relative; in div.main you can change the stack of them using z-index value in CSS. if you want your header on the front side and main on the back side then add z-index:2 in div.header and z-index:1 in div.main.
it is overlapping because you have specified the fixed position to the header which is placing the header on the fixed place and anything on the page will overlap with the header. you can try position:absolute
Remove all the code from div.main. It's not required. Also remove position: fixed from the div.header block.
I need to vertically align with CSS multiple elements inside my header.
At the moment, I am using this structure:
-Header
-Content div (This only set my width to 940 with paddings of 10px each side)
-Element 1 (Height: Known, 50px)
-Element 2 (Height: Unknown, bigger fonts)
-Element 3 (Height: Unknown, smaller fonts)
So I need to vertically align to the middle (50% of my header - size of the element) all of my elements and I need to make it cross-browser compatible...
I've found some suggestion by searching such as using a floater div, however I had a hard time trying to align all of my elements since they are not all of the same size...
EDIT
As requested, here is my HTML and CSS:
HTML:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../CSS/mediadevis.css" />
</head>
<body>
<header>
<div class="content">
<div id="logo"></div>
<nav>
<ul>
<li>Accueil</li>
<li>Nos services</li>
<li>Notre compagnie</li>
<li>Nous joindre</li>
</ul>
</nav>
<div id="lang">English</div>
</div>
</header>
</body>
</html>
CSS:
body {
margin: 0;
background-color: #336699;
}
header{
background-image:url('../IMG/bg_top.png');
height: 90px;
}
nav > ul{
float: left;
list-style-type:none;
margin:0;
margin-left: 10px;
padding:0;
color: #ffffff;
}
nav > ul > li{
display: inline;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 20px;
padding: 10px;
}
.content{
margin: auto;
width: 940px;
padding-right: 10px;
padding-left: 10px;
}
#lang{
float: left;
}
#logo{
background-image:url('../IMG/logo.png');
height: 50px;
width: 180px;
float: left;
}
Try these suggestions from Smashing Magazine:
http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2013/08/09/absolute-horizontal-vertical-centering-css/
Specifically, try this code, using the TOP, LEFT, RIGHT, and BOTTOM properties to position your elements:
HTML
<div class="magix">
magix!
</div>
<div class="more-magix">
More Magix!
</div>
CSS
.magix{
background: red;
bottom: 0;
height: 100px;
left: 0;
margin: auto;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
right: 0;
width: 100px;
}
.more-magix {
background: blue;
bottom: 0;
height: 100px;
left: 0;
margin: auto;
position: absolute;
top: 500px;
right: 0;
width: 100px;
}
OR, check out Chris Coiyer's methods:
http://css-tricks.com/centering-in-the-unknown/
would you be able to help me to position my navigation - "wrapperNav" completely left in the browser so there would be no gap between the blue navigation and the browser edge?
thanks a lot.
code: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/hKsCe
<header>
<div id="logo"><img src="images/logo.jpg" alt="logo"/></div>
<h1 id="adminHeader">Administrace webu</h1>
<div id="wrapperNav">
<nav>
<ul>
<li>Vložit obrázek</li>
<li>Editovat odkazy</li>
<li>Nahrát soubor</li>
<li>Editovat text</li>
</ul>
</nav>
</div>
</header>
#logo,
#adminHeader {
float: left;
display: inline;
width: 45%;
}
nav li {
list-style: none;
height: 100px;
color: #7E8AA2;
background: #263248;
min-width: 100px;
}
nav li:hover {
background: #000;
}
#wrapperNav {
margin-top: 70px;
margin-left: 0;
margin-bottom: 0;
margin-right: 0;
padding: 0;
position: fixed;
float: left;
display:block;
}
Fixed, you just needed to add in padding-left: 0px; to nav ul
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Administrace odkazů</title>
<link href="adminstyle2.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<style type="text/css">
#logo, #adminHeader {
float: left;
display: inline;
width: 45%;
}
nav li {
list-style: none;
height: 100px;
color: #7E8AA2;
background: #263248;
min-width: 100px;
}
nav li:hover {
background: #000;
}
#wrapperNav {
margin-top: 70px;
margin-left: 0;
margin-bottom: 0;
margin-right: 0;
padding: 0;
position: fixed;
float: left;
display:block;
}
nav ul {
padding-left:0px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<header>
</header>
<div id="logo"><img src="images/logo.jpg" alt="logo"/></div>
<h1 id="adminHeader">Administrace webu</h1>
<div id="wrapperNav">
<nav>
<ul>
<li>Vložit obrázek</li>
<li>Editovat odkazy</li>
<li>Nahrát soubor "credentials"</li>
<li>Editovat text</li>
</ul>
</nav>
</div>
</body>
</html>
#wrapperNav ul {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
As need to be updated, I did on your example, try it once.
As a best practice you have to use css re-set for better styling. Because HTML tags has its own padding and margins, so using a re-set css, you can re--set them and control by yourself. Use following link for more. http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/
You are missing a reset. For example, put in your css:
* {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
I have changed your code check it.
[http://codepen.io/anon/pen/Dvcgr][1]
I am making a basic template for a website. It has div containers of 1 header, a main menu listed horizontally below the header, the main content which is a google maps iframe (variable width) and a sidebar (absolute width, floated right) and a footer.
I am having some trouble with the height of the main content. I would like the iframe and the sidebar to have equal height whilst fitting to the page and leaving a margin for the footer but the main content always sets itself to min-height rather than stretching to the page.
HTML
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="header"><img src="images/logo.png" width="360" height="127" /> </div><!--header-->
<div id="menu">
<ul><li>Home</li>
<li>About</li>
<li>Network</li>
<li>Help</li>
<li>Contact</li></ul>
</div><!--mrnu-->
<div id="content">
<div id="sidebar">
Sidebar
</div><!--sidebar-->
<div id="main">
<iframe id="map" width="100%" height="auto" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=52.988337,3.120117&num=1&ie=UTF8&t=m&z=6&ll=51.206883,7.756348&output=embed"></iframe>
</div><!--main-->
<div class="clear"></div>
</div><!--content-->
<div class="push"></div><!--push-->
<div id="footer" class="footer">
</div><!--footer-->
</div><!--wrapper-->
</body>
</html>
CSS
body {
font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 75.00%;
color: #fff;
background: url(images/bg.png);
}
a{
color: #090;
text-decoration:none;
}
a:focus, a:hover, a:active {
color: #FFF;
text-decoration: underline;
}
.clearfix:after {
content: ".";
display: block;
height: 0;
clear: both;
visibility: hidden
}
* {
margin: 0;
}
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
/* div tags */
#wrapper {
width: auto;
min-height: 100%;
height: auto !important;
height: 100%;
margin: 0 auto -100px;
}
#header {
position: relative;
width: auto;
height: auto;
background-color: #090;
}
#menu {
width: auto;
height: auto;
border: 2px solid #000;
font-size: 18px;
}
#menu ul {
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
text-align: center;
}
#menu li {
display: inline;
padding: 50px;
}
#content {
width: auto;
height: 100%;
}
#main {
width: auto;
margin-right: 125px;
}
#map {
width: 100%;
height: auto;
}
#sidebar {
width: 125px;
height: auto;
float: right;
text-align: center;
background-color: #FC0;
}
#footer {
width: auto;
height: 125px;
background-color:#CC0;
}
/* classes */
.clear {
clear: both;
}
.footer .push {
height:125px;
}
Note: There may be 1 or 2 unused lines of code that I haven't spotted when I've been playing around with it so if anything seems out of place then it probably is.
I have seen solutions to this problem with fixed width containers, but I think the problem lies in my use of the float function. I have read that positioning needs to be absolute for this to work properly, however using float is the only way I have been able to find that allows the map to fill the space using variable width.
It could be something as simple as being incompatible with the browsers I am testing on but I'm not sure.
Thanks in advance and sorry if this post is a bit messy. I'm sure I will learn to keep clean soon enough ;D
Try these style changes-:
#map {
width: 100%;
// height: auto;
}
#content {
width: auto;
//height: 100%;
height: auto;
}
Setting #content to height:auto pushes the #footer div to meet the #content div.
and in <iframe> set height to 100% (or 80% to show footer). It still leaves the issue of the map div now pushing the footer to below screen height. To deal with that, possibly set an absolute height for the iframe, or use an alternative to iframe.
I believe this is a beginner's CSS question. I am utilizing the method described in http://www.xs4all.nl/~peterned/examples/csslayout1.html to fix a header to the top and a footer to the bottom.
What I'd like to achieve now is two columns inside the content div. A left one of 200px and a right one that takes up the rest of the width.
Unfortunately, I can't get the left and right divs to display correctly: they just don't grow vertically, and if I make the right div "width: 100%" it positions itself underneath the left one.
What is the trick to make the left and right div take up all the space within the content div?
The layout1.css is the original one. I just added two entries: #left and #right
layout1.css:
/**
* 100% height layout with header and footer
* ----------------------------------------------
* Feel free to copy/use/change/improve
*/
html,body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
height: 100%; /* needed for container min-height */
background: gray;
font-family: arial, sans-serif;
font-size: small;
color: #666;
}
h1 {
font: 1.5em georgia, serif;
margin: 0.5em 0;
}
h2 {
font: 1.25em georgia, serif;
margin: 0 0 0.5em;
}
h1,h2,a {
color: orange;
}
p {
line-height: 1.5;
margin: 0 0 1em;
}
div#container {
position: relative; /* needed for footer positioning*/
margin: 0 auto; /* center, not in IE5 */
width: 750px;
background: #f0f0f0;
height: auto !important; /* real browsers */
height: 100%; /* IE6: treaded as min-height*/
min-height: 100%; /* real browsers */
}
div#header {
padding: 1em;
background: #ddd url("../csslayout.gif") 98% 10px no-repeat;
border-bottom: 6px double gray;
}
div#header p {
font-style: italic;
font-size: 1.1em;
margin: 0;
}
div#content {
padding: 1em 1em 5em; /* bottom padding for footer */
}
div#content p {
text-align: justify;
padding: 0 1em;
}
div#footer {
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
bottom: 0; /* stick to bottom */
background: #ddd;
border-top: 6px double gray;
}
div#footer p {
padding: 1em;
margin: 0;
}
// added the following:
div#left {
border: 1px solid red;
width: 200px;
float: left;
min-height: 100%;
height: 100%;
padding-left: 10px;
margin-right: 10px;
}
div#right {
border: 1px solid blue;
float: left;
min-height: 100%;
height: 100%;
padding-left: 10px;
margin-right: 10px;
}
layout.html:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>CSS Layout - 100% height</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="layout1.css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="header">
<h1>header</h1>
</div>
<div id="content">
<div id="left">
left column
</div>
<div id="right">
right column
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer">
<p>
footer
</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
Just in case somebody else stumbles onto this question like me. This is what I ended up doing.
<div class="left">
text
</div>
<div class="right">
text
</div>
.left {
float: left;
width: 200px;
}
.right {
margin-left: 200px;
}
And for simpler cases (e.g., when you don't need border on the right element), you don't even have to specify left width twice: http://jsfiddle.net/j8T9v/1/
Another example, without setting up width at all. Left element takes as much space as it needs, right - the rest: http://jsfiddle.net/j8T9v/2/
The way I usually do it is by using the float and padding properties.
HTML:
<div id="leftCol">
content
</div>
<div id = "rightCol">
content
</div>
CSS:
#leftCol {
width: 200px;
}
#rightCol {
width: 100%;
float: right;
padding-left: 200px;
}
Should work.
So you are using float, and padding to put the div's side by side.
You might need:
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
right: 0px;
in your #rightCol CSS style (Not tested btw... from memory)