I have a 1000px wide page that holds output in a table that is much wider than the rest of the page. I have no problem with scrolling horizontally to read all of the data but the backgrounds of the surrounding divs like the header and footer are not repeating out with the large table.
I read some tips about adding "display:inline-block" to a div around the large table, but I still haven't found a solution.
Help is much appreciated.
<div id="top_ad">
</div>
<div id="header">
</div>
<table>
THIS IS THE HUGE TABLE
</table>
<div id="footer">
</div>
The header div's background is repeating out because I have the image set as the BODY's background as opposed to the "header" div. However the "top_ad" and "footer" div's backgrounds stop at 1000px. My CSS below:
body {
background:url(/images/header_background_repeat.jpg) repeat-x 0 110px;
padding:0;
margin:0;
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px;
color:#262626;
text-align:center;
}
#top_ad {
width:100%;
height:100px;
background: #0f3245;
text-align:center;
padding-top:10px;
}
#footer {
border-top: 6px solid #C9660D;
padding-top: 0;
width: 100%;
}
It sounds like you just need a scrollable div to contain your table. Here I use width 100% but you may want to use a width = to the width of your page.
http://jsfiddle.net/XXhzp/
<div id="tablecontainer" style="width: 100%; overflow: scroll;">
<table>
<tr><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td></tr>
<tr><td></td></tr>
</table>
</div>
append a width of 100% to your body
Try adding a container div around everything in the page. Presumably, that div will take on the width of the child table and will then confer that width to the other divs if they are set to 100%.
Related
I have two float:left divs that are designed to stack left-to-right, one is the classic left nav and has a fixed width declared. The other is designed to span the rest of the width of the browser and fill 100% of the remaining width. Currently it does not have a width declared either natively or by any js/jQuery.
The problem comes where there is a table in the second div, which has about 10 columns of tabular results, some of them longer text. As soon as the cumulative text of the table cells pushes the table width to the size of the div it's in, the div pops under the left nav.
Is there any strategy to basically "tell the table" that it will not expand any wider than the parent div, but instead that text in the cells will wrap? I'm hoping to NOT have to use JS in any way for this.
<div id="container">
<div id="leftNav" style="width:250px;">
left<br>nav<br>here<br>
</div>
<div id="mainContent">
<table>
<tr><td>about</td><td>10</td><td>Columns and they can contain sentences of text as well, but I'd like to not have the table push the div it's in down below the left nav div. This illustrates that point!</td></tr>
</table>
</div>
</div>
and the css:
#container{
width:100%;
}
#leftNav{
float:left;
width:250px;
border:1px solid #ccc;
padding:15px;
}
#mainContent{
float:left;
background-color:aliceblue;
}
/* nothing more*/
I would use display:table for this layout. The main benefit being that the columns will always line up regardless of their content width.
html,body { height: 100%; } enables percentage heights for the child elements of <body>
The container is given display: table
The two columns are given display: table-cell
The left column is given a fixed width and the right column is given no width
Possible drawback - display: table is compatible IE8+
Read more about the display values on the MDN.
CSS / HTML / Demo
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
html,
body {
height: 100%;
}
#container {
width: 100%;
display: table;
height: 100%;
}
#leftNav {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: top;
width: 250px;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
padding: 15px;
}
#mainContent {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: top;
background-color: aliceblue;
}
/* nothing more*/
<div id="container">
<div id="leftNav">left
<br>nav
<br>here
<br>
</div>
<div id="mainContent">
<table>
<tr>
<td>about</td>
<td>10</td>
<td>Columns and they can contain sentences of text as well, but I'd like to not have the table push the div it's in down below the left nav div. This illustrates that point!</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</div>
Display the two parent div elements as inline tables, the table will be treated as a child table and assume table like behavior of conforming. To have cell values completely conform to the width of the cell, you can use word-break: break-all; which will give characters inline like display and break when needed.
div {
display: inline-table;
word-break: break-all;
width: 40%;
}
<div>
<p>Hello World</p>
</div>
<div>
<table>
<tr>
<td>Table</td>
<td>Table</td>
<td>Table</td>
<td>Table</td>
<td>Table</td>
<td>Table</td>
<td>Table</td>
<td>Table</td>
<td>Table</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
I made an image slider for my forum homepage but the content is comming out of the wrapper.
How can I make sure the content will always be 100% width of the wrapper?
HTML:
<div id="wrapper">
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<div class="rg-content">
//image slider code
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
CSS:
#wrapper {
margin: 0 auto;
max-width: 980px;
width: 90%;
background: linear-gradient(#fefefe, #e7e7e7);
}
.rg-content {
width: 100%;
background: #101010;
}
Screenshot:
What's Going On
It looks like your #wrapper doesn't have overflow set to hidden. Personally I tend to stay away from tables and use either float'd block elements or inline-block elements. I recently built a slider using figure for the outside wrap, ul for the fixed width inner wrap, and lis for each item. I had to set the figure to overflow:hidden for it to hide everything that wasn't supposed to be visible. Try adding that.
Code
#wrapper {
overflow:hidden;
}
Just add
<table style="width:100%;">
http://jsfiddle.net/jzLN6/
EDIT:
according to your jsfinddle and your comments I made some modifications to get this result
http://jsfiddle.net/bB9tQ/4/embedded/result/
is not fully functional but maybe its a basic idea of what you want to do
so if you want the layout to be fluid you will have to do some changes
remove de px of your ul and change your display to inline-block because if you have
display: block
this will make your li elements to lose the normal flow on the page and you won't be able to use % to stretch the content
<ul style="width: 100%; display: inline-block; margin-left: ;">
after that you should use % on each li tag instead of px.
if this is an approach to what you need, please let me know to give you a better elaborated example
I have a table inside a div, and the table won't fill the container div. Why not?
HTML:
<div class="fill">
<table class="table">
...
</table>
</div>
CSS:
.fill {
position:relative;
width:100%;
height:100%;
}
.table {
position:absolute !important;
left:0 !important;
right:10px !important;
bottom:0 !important;
top:39px !important;
}
The table only fills a small portion of the container div. Why?
UPDATE:
Or, If I try the following, it doesn't work in Firefox, but it does in Chrome.
HTML:
<div class="fill">
<div class="wrap">
<table class="table">
...
</table>
</div>
</div>
CSS:
.fill {
position:relative;
width:100%;
height:100%;
}
.wrap {
position:absolute;
left:0;
right:0;
top:39px;
bottom:0;
}
.table {
position:relative;
height:100%;
width:100%;
}
This second version is closer to what I want (since it DOES work in Chrome).
In regards to your original question, this is the answer to your 'why not':
If the height of the containing block is not specified explicitly
(i.e., it depends on content height), and this element is not
absolutely positioned, the value computes to 'auto'.
Source: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visudet.html#the-height-property
Your 'fill' div is set to 100% height, but what is its parent element's height set to? And if its parent element's height is also a percentage, what is its parent's height set to, and so on?
Add borders to your updated example and you could see, the height of 'fill' is 0 as it has no parent with a specified height, and so the height of 'wrap' is also zero. Add a parent wrapper to wrap the whole example with a height of 500px or so and it works as expected in (at least) Firefox and Chrome.
CSS:
.fill {
position:relative;
width:100%;
height:100%;
border: 1px solid red;
}
.wrap {
position:absolute;
left:0;
right:0;
top:39px;
bottom:0;
border: 1px solid blue;
}
.table {
position:relative;
height:100%;
border: 1px solid green;
}
.parent {
height: 300px;
}
HTML:
<div class="parent">
<div class="fill">
<div class="wrap">
<table class="table">
<tr><td>...</td></tr>
</table>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Tables are special, they don't behave like other block elements. Normally, a table will be just wide enough to hold its contents, and no more. Setting a width of 100% for the table should force it to fill the space allotted for it.
On .table, put width=100%
You may have to set a width for the td as well.. Depending keeping your layout structured
Your parent div of the table has a width and height of 100% which is going to be whatever the parent element is. The table needs to not be position: absolute, and therefore no need to have top, left, right, bottom set.
table {
border: 1px solid blue;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
}
Here's my fiddle of what you wanted, minus the top and right offsetting you have.
http://jsfiddle.net/jaredwilli/5s4DD/
You can instead use margin to set the top and right but you then cannot use the 100% width, that will not work. You can use display:inline-block, while not having a 100% width but instead dynamically setting the width to be 10px less than the width of the fill div's width using javascript but that's another thing. Same goes for the top positioning. You could do some other things too, but there's a lot of playing with things that you would need to do.
Also, you can use table, no need for a class unless you have multiple tables in the page.
And remove all of the !important's from your CSS.
It's never necessary to use !important, just saying.
I have a table set to 100% width. I will add a random div with php full of ads at times. I want the ad div to be on the right and the content of the table. I want the table to be on the left but still at 100% or so it will fill all the space to the left of the ad div.
In short, so when the div is not present the table will fill 100% width.
When the div is present the div will be on the right side of the table at a set width of 300px.
Here is the style for the div
.ContentAds {
float: right;
height: 100%;
width: 300px;
display: block;
clear: none;
}
The table is not a div but simply set to 100% width.
<table width="100%" border="0" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><p class="Title">Title</p>
<p>This is the content. This is the content. This is the content. This is the content. This is the content. This is the content. This is the content. This is the content.. </p></td>
</tr>
</table>
For now I can only suggest to wrap your table with a positioned div. But I can't be sure that it will be sufficient to you cause you provided rather small amount of code
jsfiddle
<div class="ad">
advertise... advertise
advertise... advertise
advertise... advertise
</div>
<div class="table_wr">
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<p class="Title">Title</p>
<p>
This is the content. This is the content.
This is the content. This is the content.
This is the content. This is the content.
This is the content. This is the content..
</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
CSS
body {
position: relative;
}
table {
border: 1px solid black;
width: 100%;
}
.ad {
float:right;
width:300px;
height: 500px;
background-color: #a2e89f;
}
.table_wr {
position: absolute;
left: 0;
right: 300px;
}
border is set for table for you can see where table stretches
I think this won't work unless you give the table a smaller set width when the other DIV is present then you could float it to the left too.
Perhaps you could have the table set to be 100% then when the other DIV is there you add a class onto the table which adjusts the width and floats it?
I'm trying to make a 100% height layout with a footer at the bottom. I have a site wrapper, in which I have two content divs. In the second content div I have a footer at the bottom. The problem is the top content div seems to be pushing the second content div beyond the website wrapper.
This is the code I'm experimenting with:
<style type="text/css">
html, body { height:100%;}
#sitecontainer {
height:100%;
border: medium #000 solid;
}
#contentcontainerone{
border: medium #F00 solid;
}
#contentcontainertwo{
height:100%;
border: medium #00F solid;
position:relative;
}
#footer{
position:absolute;
bottom:0;
width:100%;
text-align:center;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="sitecontainer">
<div id="contentcontainerone">
Some content <br />
Some content <br />
Some content <br />
Some content <br />
Some content <br />
</div>
<div id="contentcontainertwo">
<div id="footer">Footer</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
This is the link to the page: http://www.smsidat.com/test/index.html
What I basically want to achieve is that the website should always be 100% height wise and so stretch to the bottom of the browser window or where the content ends if it's of greater height with a footer at the bottom. So ideally, the div with the blue border should remain within the wrapper which has the black border and stretch no further than the bottom of the browser window or the end of the content if it's greater.
Would appreciate any ideas how to fix this, thanks.
Here the solution:
html, body
{
height: 100%;
overflow: hidden;
}
#sitecontainer
{
height: 100%;
position: relative;
}
#footer /*OUTSIDE THE CONTAINER */
{
bottom: 0;
position: absolute;
height: 50px; /*change this*/
}
Using the <table> tag is indeed not recommended for layout.
CSS3 has many ways to solve this as described above (use 100% height for the container and their parents all the way to the html tag). There are cases (ref: Eric Meyer, Smashing CSS book) however, when the CSS display: table-cell style attribute can be appropriate for layout ... such that at least it puts the layout control back in the CSS versus the content as a best-practice.
Trying to align a DIV at the bottom of another div can be tricky. There are hackish ways to accomplish this but I would recommend just using a table.
<table>
<tr>
<td><div id="header"></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div id="content"></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div id="footer"></div></td>
</tr>
</table>
Then use CSS to define the heights of each DIV, with the content DIV stretching with the page until overflow occurs while the header and footer DIVs stay at their original heights.