Hello fellow stackies,
I'm developing a site and I have a small "problem". It's not that important, the site works but it's just one of those annoying things that u keep scratching ur head about over and over.
What I'm trying to do is mix static height with dynamic height.
Example:
HTML:
< HTML >
< BODY >
< DIV class="header_with_menu" >
< /DIV >
< DIV class="main_content" >
< /BODY >
< /HTML >
CSS:
body{ margin: 0; padding 0;
width: 100%; height: 100%; }
.header_with_menu {display: block; margin-left: 100%; margin-right: 100%; height: 160px; }
.main_content {display: block; margin-left: 100%; margin-right: 100%; height: 80% }
As u can see, nothing fancy. I use a custom scrollbar javascript on main_content.
It works fine until I start screwing with the window height of firefox (or any other browser).
What I expect: When I make the window of firefox smaller and smaller, main_container will get smaller and smaller, but, remain inside of the firefox window (since it's height is dynamic, it will simply adjust because it's cool.)
What happens: The height of main_container will eventually get stuck at a certain height, which I don't specify, and content will start disappearing out of view at the bottom of the browser window.
I want main_content to stay inside of the viewscreen and auto adapt to the height of the browserwindow.
How do I do this??
It's annoying when you have a smaller monitor with just 768 px of height and about 10px fall outside of the scrollable area... And the worst thing is, I can't seem to get it behave on my own. I've tried making things absolute, they just overlap each other and now way stopping that since they're both absolute and outside of normal flow. I've tried experimenting with maximum and minimum heights in percentages for both header and only container... didn't work. Searched for javascript to auto-fiddle with my css' height or max-height percentage, didn't work out too well...
basically i've been sparing with this for two days now and I'm just not creative enough to come up with some solution.
Is there a pure css solution for this?
(P.S. I'm using 77% height now for main_content since that seems to be the perfect border: not too small for 1920x1080, and not too large so content will start to disappear # 1440x900. 78% will make content start disappearing and below 75% just makes it seem ugly at 1920x1080.)
I'm sorry for answering my own question, but the answer is: use a flow layout with a script that calculates the space to the bottom of the screen using percentages calculated by the current width and height of the window, to calculate the height of the content and/or footer div.
If I have time I'll post the script here as an edit.
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I'm trying to set up a fluid column layout for a site I'm working on. I'd like to do this without javascript, but it's looking like that might end up being the easiest option. Regardless, anyone know how to get this done with CSS?
Both columns need to fill the browser height. The left column contains an image with an aspect ratio of 2:3, with height: 100% and width: auto, so the left column's width will change depending on how tall the browser is. The right column needs to fill the remaining space.
I saw a trick using float:left and overflow: hidden that's working great, except the divs do not resize themselves correctly when the browser window is resized.
Here's a simplified fiddle to demonstrate the problem, with the CSS below:
.left-column {
float: left;
}
.left-column img {
height: 100%;
display: block;
width: auto;
}
.right-column {
box-sizing: border-box;
padding: 20px;
overflow-x: hidden;
overflow-y: scroll;
}
.left-column, .right-column {
height: 100%;
}
https://jsfiddle.net/v7unnhnc/2/
It seems like .left-column doesn't resize itself automatically. Any ideas?
basically your code works ok. You may add display:inline-block to your left column and you will see the img container adapt when resizing vertically, however the text won't flow properly this time.
The problem (if a problem) is that the width of your container (left one).. the one with your width:auto (and you don't really need to add it to your css as your image will set the width of the container when overflow is hidden.. when floating) won't understand the resize of the img without reloading the page even if you visually can see it.
But it's important to know as many web developers these days are too much focused into (imho) making a responsive design while resizing the window that GOAL is not that. The main goal is your web to adapt to whatever window size your users (or future users) have at the moment they load your web. And your code is right on that.
Just people like us may go into a web and start resizing manually the window to check the responsiveness.. and even then, the vast mayoritie of us with just check it resizing on the x-axis.
The chances you have to get someone notice your web not working ok when resizing the window (y-axis) is... well, I hope you have SOO many pepople noticing. that will mean you have a lot of visitors.
On my website, the center elements are defined by width, 79%, and margin: auto. I like how it looks.
But for some of the pages, the width and the margins are slightly different. The page shifts slightly to the right and is slightly larger. It's clear that the 79% width is calculated differently, and the margin: auto is as well.
I can't tell the difference between the pages, however.
See this page vs this page.
I can’t figure out why. Oddly, zooming in enough can make the difference disappear.
Here's some relevant css code:
#container,
#header,
#access,
#footer-wrap-inner,
.message
{
width: 79%; max-width: 80em;
margin: 0 auto; position: relative;
}
The page does use ems to define some elements, but it doesn't seem relevant.
Input would be much appreciated.
the difference is the scrollbar appearing :) If I make the window so small that both of them have a vertical scrollbar, then no difference can be seen at all
Isolated test case (view in IE 7 or IE 8/9 in IE 7 mode)
Viewing this page in IE 7 is causing my width value to be ignored. If you remove the padding value, the width is properly applied, but when you add in the padding, it causes the entire page to grow, and it treats the padding almost as margin. The larger the width of the page, the larger the blank area to the right of the element. I've been unable to find which bug this is, and, more importantly, how to fix it. Has anyone seen this and does anyone know a solution?
Things I've tried so far:
zoom fix
display: inline-block (recommended for double vertical padding issue)
It isn't line-height (it's a width issue...)
Screenshot of the issue:
This div should span the entire width of the page, and no more, but you'll notice the scrollbar here:
And the result of scrolling to the right:
This should not be there.
Examining the element in the browser tools shows the width to be incorrectly the full width of the page, instead of the full width minus the padding.
Disclaimer: I'll ignore the functional requirement and your comments on the other answers and just concentrate on the concrete problem.
This IE7 specific problem is caused by using an offset (e.g. top, right, bottom or left) on a relatively positioned element. If you offsets a relatively positioned element, then it will basically still retain the whole space of its original position. Note that this doesn't happen when offsetting absolutely positioned element.
Before the left offset is been applied, the relatively positioned element is due to its width and and the right padding completely out of the viewport and hence a horizontal scollbar will be generated. After the left offset is applied on the relatively positioned element, you're basically leaving a space of the same size as the offset on the other side of the offset, still outside the viewport.
A bit sane webbrowser will during redrawing however discover that there's nothing visible outside the viewport and hence hide the scrollbar again. IE7, however, isn't that smart enough and retains the scrollbar.
After all, using left offset was technically been the wrong solution. You should in first place have used margin-left instead of left. Unlike the offset, the margin doesn't leave an empty space on the original position, but really pushes the whole element to the desired position.
So, here's how your script is been fixed:
$('#el').css({
'width': document.body.scrollWidth - 200,
'padding-right': 200,
'margin-left': (-1 * (document.body.scrollWidth - 322) / 2) - 1
});
By the way, I wonder how that float: left; makes sense in this construct wherein you apparently want to simulate a 100% width. It'll probably be for other purposes not visible in the concrete example.
You can solve this without using javascript for calculating width, and no padding, instead use position: absolute. Here's an updated fiddle. It will work in any browser
#el {
background-color: #FFFF00;
min-height: 45px;
width: 100%;
position: absolute;
left:0;
right: 0;
top: 0;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/LRpHq/7/
I was having this problem with a skeleton.css implementation. Specifically, my #header was taking the width of body, which took the width of html. The remaining content had a set-width of 978px. So when the window was smaller than 978, the background of the header would only render to the width of the viewport. i.e. - if you started the render at 500 wide, that's all the wider #header would get. Dragging a wider width of the viewport had no problems, but right scroll cut the header to the size of initial viewport.
My fix: html,body { min-width:978px } /* your width may vary */
Since you seem to be fine with using Javascript, adjust your resize() function:
function resize () {
$('#el').css({'width':$(window).width(),'position':'absolute','left':'0px'});
}
Fixed the original post as it was off by miles.
edit:
Tested in a sandboxed IE7 and it works. (what can i say, i go out of my way to get something perfect, also am new around here so that bounty would really help to be very honest) to also note that it works natively in IE7, IE8 and IE9, FF3.6, Opera 10 and should work in Safari with no problem, Chrome didn't get mentioned as it's my default browser and it works, no doubt about it.
Here is the JS:
function resize () {
$('#el').trigger('resize').width('100%');
}
resize();
and the CSS:
#container {
width: 320px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
min-height: 500px;
margin: 0px auto;
}
#el {
background-color: #FFFF00;
min-height: 45px;
width: 100%;
position: absolute;
left: 0;
}
i found solution for similar problem here. see if it can helps you too.
First, I wonder if anyone can even say that question title ten times fast.
This should be pretty easy. I've been googling around, and while there are a lot of tutorials on it, I'm having trouble grasping the idea overall. I've even looked at some other SO questions that seem related but I've not been able to make them work.
I have 3 layers. header, menu, body. The real application is much more complicated, of course. But for the sake of this question this is sufficient enough data.
The entire page itself fills 100% width, but the content within each section will be fixed to 1024px wide. This was easily done with the reknown margin: 0 auto; style. So that wasn't an issue.
Here is the trick. The middle layer, the menu. I want the menu to overlap the border between the header and the content. Now then, doing this was also not too hard. I just absolutely position the menu and kick it down by 100px to get it to the right vertical alignment.
What I cannot seem to achieve is the horizontal alignment of the 1024px block. I've included a light fiddle and an image of the expected output (beware, jsfiddle's default preview pane is not 1024px wide, so it looks like it is working at first glance)
Update
Following the instructions at this post I was able to make it work. But it is only functioning in Chrome.
http://jsfiddle.net/dE8xE/
Desired Output (colors exaggerated for emphasis and distinction)
#site-menu {
background-color: #fff;
height: 64px;
position: absolute;
top: 100px;
display: block;
width: 1024px;
/* everything is easy when you have fixed width */
left: 50%;
margin-left: -512px;
}
Can you use percentage margins and width to achieve the effect you're going for? Setting the z-index to something greater than those of the other sections will get it to float over them. Example: http://jsfiddle.net/6xCfU/
margin: 10% 0 0 10%;
width: 80%;
z-index; 100;
When using a css background such as in the footer on the page below (in the elements div.footer_head and div.footer_footer), if the browser window is resized to less than about 1000px the divs themselves remain at the full width but scrolling right in the browser causes whitespace to appear where the background should be.
I was sure I'd find a similar question on here but can't seem to word it correctly enough to find it in search.
If someone could point me in the right direction I'm sure I can figure this out.
Look at how the divs with class footer_head and footer_footer behave when you resize the browser to be quite thin and scroll to the right.
screenshot http://printanomics.unbranded-nomads.co.uk/picture-2.jpg
You need to add a min-width:1000px to .footer-container.
.footer-container {
float: left;
line-height: 1.5;
margin-top: 20px;
width: 100%;
min-width: 1000px; /* add this */
}
This will mean the smallest width the .footer-container will get is 1000px. Though after that it will expand to 100%.
If you have a look at your css file you will see that the footer width is set to 100% and not 1000px as the other divs. This also applies to your background as your background won't be bigger than the div itself.
I don't know if you use this, but Firebug is a very good Firefox plugin to identify troubles in CSS files.