I have a large div that I want to put content in. I want the div to be padded and have a minimum height so that if there is too much text in the div it expands down to maintain the padding. But I also don't want it to get less than 100px in height. Currently, when I run this code, some of the text falls outside of the div.
HTML:
<div id='content'>
<div>lots of text in here</div>
</div>
CSS:
#content {
position: relative;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
border: 1px solid gray;
min-height: 100px;
width: 800px;
padding: 60px;
}
Well, try to use paragraphs in your HTML, instead of duplicating divs. It does not work because the duplicate div is not styled in your CSS.
<div id='content'>
<p>lots of text in here</p>
</div>
If this solves your problem, feel free to accept this answer.
You can add height:auto; to your css, it may help.
Related
I was under the impression that when using % or auto for margins on a div contained within another div the position would be calculated in respect to the parent div.
So if I have a div with height: 50%, margin-top: 25% and margin-bottom: 25% the box should centre vertically within the parent div.
When I do this though the div centres on the page not the parent div.
The CSS
div#header {
width: 100%;
height: 100px;
margin: 0px;
position: fixed;
}
div#leftnavigation {
height: 50%;
margin-top: 25%;
margin-bottom: 25%;
float: left;
}
And the HTML
<!--Title and navigation bar-->
<div id='header'>
<!--Left navigation container-->
<div id='leftnavigation'>
<p>efwfwgwegwegweg</p>
</div>
</div>
In my case there are other divs floated to the right of the one detailed above, but any one of them behaves the same way. I'm assuming I'm doing something daft but I've been over all the other questions I could find along these lines and still can't figure it out.
EDIT
Here's the JSFiddle as requested http://jsfiddle.net/ChtVv/
UPDATE
I've tried removing the margin constraints and setting the leftnavigation div to height: 100%, this works so the issue is with the margin attribute?
The reason it didn't work is that percentage-margins are percentages of the parent's width, not its height. You can tell this by using margin-top: 25px; margin-bottom: 25px;, and also by increasing the width of the right-panel in jsFiddle.
In all cases % (percentage) is a valid value, but needs to be used
with care; such values are calculated as a proportion of the parent
element’s width, and careless provision of values might have
unintended consequences.
W3 reference
CSS is tricky!! :D
This is a borrowed technique to centre vertically and horizontally, but it would involve changing your HTML and CSS. I am not sure how flexible you are with your code:
CSS:
#outer {width: 100%; border: 3px solid red;}
#middle {width: 100%; text-align: center;border: 3px solid green;}
#inner {width: 200px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;border: 3px solid blue;}
/* Courtesy: http://www.jakpsatweb.cz/css/css-vertical-center-solution.html */
HTML
<!--Title and navigation bar-->
<div id='outer'>
<!--Left navigation container-->
<div id='middle'>
<p id="inner">efwfwgwegwegweg</p>
</div>
</div>
You can build upon this to achieve whatever you are after!
fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/pratik136/ChtVv/2/
Ok, so there are a lot of reasons why this would not work.
The main reason would be that your container has position:fixed;
When adding position:fixed; to a element, it no longer reserved it's space in the DOM and won't contain it's children.
I have made a example of the best way (in my Opinion) to center your child both Vertically & Horizontally
Here is a demo.
Demo
And here is the code.
<div id="container">
<div id="child"></div>
</div>
#container{
width:100%;
height:500px;
background:#CCC;
margin:0;
}
#child{
width:50%;
height:50%;
background:#EEE;
position:relative;
top:25%;
left:25%;
}
How do I create a div that has a fixed height and stays on the bottom of the page, and another one above it occupying the remaining vertical space?
Something like this should achieve what you're looking for.
Try like this
See Demo
Use height: inherit for your first div which takes the remaining height available
html
<div id='container'>
<div id='first'>
First Div content
</div>
<div id='second'>
Second div content
</div>
</div>
Css
#container{
width: 600px;
height: 450px;
border: 1px solid black;
}
#second{
position: relative;
bottom: 100px;
height: 100px;
background-color: green;
}
#first{
height: inherit;
background-color: red;
}
I don't think any of the other examples really work nicely when the page is resized.
This type of thing is best accomplished with a few lines of javascript, as its not something that CSS does a great job of generally speaking.
See here for a working demo. mod.it requires that you view the demo in chrome but the code in the demo is cross browser and will work anywhere.
https://mod.it/6hQaRsEL
Some html:
<div style="height: 300px">
<div id="inner">
<div id="title">
...
</div>
<div id="content">
....
</div>
<div>
..another div
</div>
</div>
</div>
I want my inner div height to be not greater than parent div's and if it is greater then content div should have scroll, but if it is smaller it should be the same size with it's content.
I've tried to set inner's max_height=100%, but I can't make my content have scroll.
I want to do it without js
UPD: I do not know main div's height (300px is not constant)
UPD2: My main div has "max-height: 100%", so I do not know exact value
Demo:
http://jsfiddle.net/kzfRk/7/
Not sure I understand, but if your scroll bars are not appearing try:
#inner{overflow-y:scroll;}
Is this what you had in mind? (colours are just for ease of viewing) See live here.
css
.container{
height: 300px;
overflow: hidden;
border: 1px solid #000;
}
#inner{
max-height:300px;
overflow-y: auto; border: 1px solid #f00;
}
#title{ background-color: #eed;}
#content{background-color: #fee;}
html
<div class='container'>
<div id="inner">
<div id="title">
...
</div>
<div id="content">
....
</div>
<div>
..another div
</div>
</div>
</div>
Do you have a live example? It's difficult to work out what you are trying to do.
Do you want the parent div to fill the screen and the content to scroll withing it? If so, give your parent div a height of 100% and try applying the following style to your inner div:
height:100%; min-height: 100%; overflow:auto;
You set your height then use overflow to control the scrolling.
#inner{max-height:100%;overflow-y:scroll;}
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/calder12/drC3L/ Change the size of the outer div to anything you want, if there is too much content the inner div will scroll.
You need to set the inner div maximum height the same as the root div height. Using your fiddle, copy and paste the CSS below into your CSS file and it will work...
.container{
max-height: 100%;
border: 1px solid #000;
}
.inner{
max-height: 100px;
overflow-y: auto; border: 1px solid #f00;
}
.root{
height: 100px;
border: 1px solid;
}
I need to do a website with divs. See the code snippet for the format. The MENU is of variable height, depending if the menu-items is rolled out or not, and the content is of variable height as well, but with a minimum of 700px. If the MENU is folded together to its min-height, it is 300px, and the BOX should take up the remaining space so MENU+BOX is the same height as the CONTENT. The content of BOX is 600px, so when BOX only gets 400px, there should be scrollbars. When the CONTENT div expands, the BOX should expand as well, so they stay the same height.
Here's what i got so far, but it is not working properly. I've tried some other stuff, but deleted it for this post so I only get the points shown instead. Hope you can help, and thank you in advance!
#container{ width: 800px; }
#leftbar{ float: left; width: 250px; background-color: lightgray; }
#content { float: left; width: 550px; background-color: white; }
#menu { width: 250px; }
#box { width: 250px; height: 300px; overflow-y: scroll; }
<div id="container">
<div id="leftbar">
<div id="menu">
<div id="box">
</div>
<div id="content"></div>
</div>
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
hi at the first look i can see you have some unclosed div tags, and probably that's why it doesn't do what you want. You can assign scroll bars by using java script, if you set overflow from the css it will have a scroll bar from the beginning
I have 2 divs inside a container, Each of the inside divs are floated to the left and right, I want to make 2 columns for data inside the main content div.
Currently, text leaks out the bottom of content-left and content-right, even though they are contained within content.
Here is a jsfiddle
<div id="content">
<div id="content-left">I want to put content in here<br/><br/><br/>This is outside? why? </div>
<div id="content-right">and more in here</div>
Maybe other content here, inside the content
</div>
And the CSS
#content-left{
width: 50%;
border: 1px dotted #aaa;
float: left;
}
#content-right{
width: 49%;
float: right;
border: 1px dotted #aaa;
}
#content{
background-color: #eee;
width: 95%; /* Width of Main Content Div, % for Fluid*/
height: auto;
max-width: 1350px; /*Max width, To wide on big monitor*/
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 10px;
padding-left: 20px;
padding-right: 20px;
}
Also, any tips about floating items would be great and might earn reps if I find them useful, I thought I had it mastered but obviously not! :P
You just need to add a clearing br inside the last div
Maybe other content here, but this should be below the 2 above divs in the rendered view.
<br style="clear:both;" />
</div>
http://jsfiddle.net/jasongennaro/sahbz/9/
This is happening because the floated elements are taken out of the document flow.
Currently, text leaks out the bottom of content-left and
content-right, even though they are contained within content.
You need to "clear/contain your floats", more information here: http://www.ejeliot.com/blog/59
One simple way to do that is to add overflow: hidden to #content.
See: http://jsfiddle.net/sahbz/8/
Pure CSS
.content:after {
clear: both;
content: '';
display: block;
}