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If you decrease the size of your browser horizontally, the main content drops below the navigation. I'm not sure where or how in the CSS to fix this. Ideally, I would like it to scale to fit...but even just a horizontal scroll bar would be better.
Your #outer container div should have the following CSS:
#outer {
width: 1160px;
position: relative;
overflow: hidden;
}
Your #aside and #primary are floated with fixed widths, but their container #outer has a width of 100% which means the width changes. So when the browser window width changes to a value less than the width of #aside and #primary combined, then #primary will drop below the #aside div.
You should have a container div. Like:
<div id="container">
<div id="nav"></div>
<div id="content"></div>
</div>
Then give the container class a overflow : hidden (stretch the container div) and give the container div a width. I think your navigation and content are floated?
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I have problems to visualize a responsive menu well. The data of the menu is dynamic, I can have from 2 items to 8, and when these exceed the maximum height (100%) they only show those that fit inside the container.
I tried to generate a scroll in the container, it works, but as long as I give it a height in pixels, but since the height of the table is dynamic, I give it 100% height, auto, and the scroll disappears.
How do I generate a scroll in a container where the height will be variable?
you can make height of the container 100% but if container has parent and its parent has height in pixels like
<div class="parent">
<div class="scroll">
<!-- content -->
</div>
</div>
in style
.parent {
height: 200px;
}
.scroll {
height: 100%;
overflow-y: auto;
}
So I have a div that i want to position at the bottom of my page, with the body of the div completely hidden below the user's viewport, except the entirety of a header which is fixed to the bottom of the page.
Contraints:
The height of the entire div is dynamic, as there can be any number of items in there
The header of the div is contained entirely within the div, syntax-wise
Ideally I'd like to do this completely with CSS, but if a little bit of JavaScript is needed, that's fine too.
Any ideas on how this can be done? position: fixed and bottom: (height of header - height of div) doesn't work because the height of the div changes when you resize the viewport.
Figured it out. Here's my solution. The key is to have a wrapper that is the same height as the header that you want sticking out, and apply position fixed and bottom 0 to that parent wrapper.
html
<html>
<body>
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="wrapper-top">
</div>
<div class="wrapper-bottom">
This can be variable height
<div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
css
.wrapper {
height: 50px;
position: fixed;
bottom: 0;
width: 100%;
}
.wrapper-top {
height: 50px;
width: 100%;
}
I have a layout where I need to use height: 100% on html and body (and any wrapper divs I resort to using) to achieve an effect similar to pages, so that the content on my first "page" is centred, scrolling down the content on the second "page" is centred etc.
The html looks like this:
<section class="page" id="p01">
<div class="spacer">
</div>
<div class="outer">
<div class="inner">
Some content
</div>
<div class="inner">
Some content
</div>
</div>
</section>
<section class="page" id="p02">
<div class="spacer">
</div>
<div class="outer">
<div class="inner">
Some content
</div>
<div class="inner">
Some content
</div>
</div>
</section>
and the vertical centring etc. achieved with this styling:
body, .page {height: 100%; margin: 0 auto;}
.spacer {
float: left;
height: 50%;
margin-bottom: -150px;
}
.outer {
height: 300px;
width: 100%;
background-color: #fca;
clear: both;
position: relative;
display: block;
white-space: nowrap;
}
.inner {
width: 41%;
margin: 0 6%;
height: 300px;
background-color: green;
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
white-space: normal;
}
.inner:first-child {
margin-right: 0;
}
You can see it at work in this fiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/terraling/3V5rV/
The problem is the body background (here I'm just using color, but on my site it will be an image) leaks out into the body margins, i.e. the body content has a max-width and should be centred with white margins.
I can fix that either by... setting html background-color to white, as per
http://jsfiddle.net/terraling/yM53t/
...but body background becomes cutoff when scrolling into the second page (that wasn't a problem in the first fiddle).
Alternatively I could set the background image on a wrapper div and not on the body. That solves the problem of it leaking into the body margins, but it still has the same problem that it is cut off on scrolling.
(see: http://jsfiddle.net/terraling/3V5rV/1/ )
Any solution that involves removing the height: 100% declaration from any of html, body or wrapper collapses the layout (including replacing with max-height: 100%).
There's a whole lot of problems with this construct and not all of them can be solved, unfortunately.
The background issue
As you have seen yourself the background of body extends to the viewport if html does not have a background. That's solvable.
The float issue
When an element floats it does not contribute to the height of its parent element. So they don't grow (e.g. body does not expand). That can be solved if you can use alternatives. For vertically centering an element you could use display: table-cell e.g., which allows you to vertically center the content.
The height issue
This is where all hope is gone. height: 100% refers to the height of the parent, of course. The parent of body is html which in turn is the child of the viewport. You gave html the size of 100% (= the size of the viewport) and body the size of 100% (= size of html = size of viewport).
So now body has a fixed height and it can't expand meaning the background doesn't expand as well. Now one might have the idea to give body no size so that it can expand. But .page has 100% too. If a parent (in this case body) has no fixed size 100% has no meaning and will be treated as auto, which means as big as the content. And the content has a height of 300px. So the .page elements wouild no longer have the height of the viewport but 300px.
As for the collapse of the CSS, you should either specify the height specifically height:200px; or add padding to the bottom/top of the page so that the content wraps. You can also use min-height:200px; then add the margin-bottom:20px; to separate the pages. I would approach this at a specific height with the wrapper having the specific background-image and bottom-margin.
In order to center your background-image to the <html> you can specify the position as 50%.
This can be done by doing background:url('yourimage.jpg') repeat 0 50%;This will ensure the background is centered.
I want to make a web page that uses 100% of screen space. I have two divs:
1st - menu with fixed width (~250px)
2nd - whats left
The misleading part for me is that the menu div is not in the 2nd div. They both are in a wrapper div (100% width). The problem is that if I write 100% width for the 2nd div, it goes below the menu. If I write less %, I cannot be sure how it will be displayed in smaller resolutions.
Is there is some negative sizing or something? ATM. 1st div floats left and 2nd div float right.
UDPATE: here is some code:
div.main {
width: 100%;
}
div.1st {
width: 250px;
float: left;
}
div.2nd {
width: 100%; #here should be the space that is left in the main div#
float: right;
}
<div class="main">
<div class="1st">menu</div>
<div class="2nd">content</div>
</div>
Problem: content could be as wide as it needs to so if string or objects in it is big enough 2nd div goes below 1st. Menu width is fixed.
UPDATE #2: if i leave content width empty then it will also goes below menu since content is wide enough
Take a look at this Post, there you have the correct solution:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/holygrail
You could do something like this : http://jsfiddle.net/steweb/78x8y/
markup:
<div id="container">
<div id="left">Width=> 250px, float left</div>
<!-- following div takes automatically the remaining width, no need to declare further css rules -->
<div id="remaining">Width => the remaining space</div>
</div>
css:
#container{
width: 100%;
float:left;
overflow:hidden; /* instead of clearfix div */
}
#left{
float:left;
width:250px;
background:red;
}
#remaining{
overflow: hidden;
background:#DEDEDE;
}
Yes, you can determine the width of absolutely positioned elements by setting left and right. This makes the browser solve the equation in the standard for width. See this demo for an example.
i have a few problems setting up a layout with horizontal sections that should have an automatic height depending on it's content.
This is my page structure.
<div id="#page-wrap">
<header>
<div class="inner">
#navigation
#logo floated right
</div>
</header>
<section id="services">
<div class="inner">
#some floated boxes
</div>
</section>
<section id="main">
<div class="inner">
#secteion content
#aside sidebar
</div>
</section>
<footer>
<div class="inner">
#footer stuff
</div>
</footer>
</div>
header, sections and footer are always 100% wide.
each section has a .inner div which is centered with margin: 0 auto.
.inner {
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 96px 72px 0;
width: 1068px;
color: #3C3C3C;
}
and as example this is my header:
header .inner {
background: #fff url('images/years.png') no-repeat top right;
position:relative;
/*height:100px;*/
}
#logo {
position:absolute;
right:70px;
top:15px;
float:right;
}
THE PROBLEM: if i don't set the header to a specific height the background image get's cut off. If i inspect the header with a develper tool like firebug the navigation inside of it is kind of outside the the header-box. So if i don't set the height of 100px the horizontal navigation cuts off the the background image - even though it's in the same header.
any idea what i have to consider here.
you state that it should have an automatic height depending on its content and then later state the problem is the background gets cut off. so, what exactly are you looking for? a min-height of 100px which expands if the content is larger? or did you expect the nav to be 100px in height (thus forcing the header to 100px)? its a bit confusing... at any rate, the header will have a height of zero if the height is not set and it's children are floats. it sounds to me as if you want the header to be 100px for the purpose of showing the entire background - if so, just set the headers height to 100px (as you've done)
edit// you've also stated that the logo is floated, but then show that its positioned absolutely - which is it? and how is the nav positioned? more information is needed
header, section and footer elements are not container elements - if you want them to behave as if they were you have to set them display: block - this will make them to behave as normal div would
I think this may be a clearfix issue--
you could try adding <div style="clear: both;"></div> before you close your header, or add the following properties to your header
.header {
overflow: hidden;
display: inline-block; /* Necessary to trigger "hasLayout" in IE */
display: block; /* Sets element back to block */
}
however if your navigation will have things that hang out of its container sometimes (like a dropdown), it's best to use something like the method at http://www.positioniseverything.net/easyclearing.html.
finally, you can also try wrapping the whole thing (header, and content) in another div which will only have the background property. that way the bg image will not get cut off.