I have a div and I've tried to set the height to 100% so the content of it makes the div grow to fit.
I've tried the following and it won't work:
Adding 100%:
#latest{ height: 100%; background: #e3e3e3 url(banner_grad.jpg) repeat-x; border: none; margin-top: 10px;}
Leaving having to height setting at all, so the div would just fit the content in:
#latest{ background: #e3e3e3 url(banner_grad.jpg) repeat-x; border: none; margin-top: 10px;}
Unless I set a specific height (e.g. height: 370px;) the div will not even show it's outline in design view in Dreamweaver. Very odd.
Any ideas?
Thanks
The height property will correct here.But instead of this use following code.If you go on adding content the div will also increase in height.
#largest {
background: url("firefox-gray.jpg") repeat-x scroll 0 0 #E3E3E3;
border: medium none;
margin-top: 10px;
overflow: auto;
}
Unfortunately you can not set heights of divs as percentages, mainly as content tends to make divs grow downwards, so you would be limiting yourself.
Take a look at the min-height css property though. That, I think, will go some way to sorting your problem.
Does the content of the div have a "float: left" or a "float: right" attribute?
html, body{
height:100%
}
div{height: 50%}
I don't know the browser compatibility of this so you may need to test it.
http://jsfiddle.net/ZKZFa/
may be you have to write like this:
html, body{
height:100%
}
#latest{
height: 100%;
background: #e3e3e3 url(banner_grad.jpg) repeat-x;
border: none;
margin-top: 10px;
}
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I've spent 2 days trying to sort this out and I can't. I'd appreciate any help.
I have a container set to fill 100% vertically, which it does just fine. In the container I have another div for my header. Underneath the header, I want another div to also fill vertically 100% (from the bottom of the header to the bottom of the screen) regardless of how little content there is. The problem is, when I set the height for this div at 100%, it overflows past the bottom of the browser window, even if there is no other content in it. Just a long blank space. The overflow is the same size as my header.
If I remove my header, it works fine. And if I tell this div to not be 100%, then it will only go as deep as the content forces it, which won't be enough in some cases. I tried using overflow: hidden, but then that hides the shadow effect I have on the div.
You can view the page here
And the code in question is here:
#container {
height: 100%;
position: relative;
width: 960px;
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
margin-bottom: -80px;
}
#bodybox {
height: 100%;
width: 960px;
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-bottom: -80px;
background-color: #FFF;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 5px 20px 0px rgba(0,0,0,0.75);
-moz-box-shadow: 0px 5px 20px 0px rgba(0,0,0,0.75);
box-shadow: 0px 5px 20px 0px rgba(0,0,0,0.75);
}
You'll notice my footer is hovering over the bottom. That's because of the overflow. I'm using this sticky footer solution in case that's important.
I'm a bit of a novice at CSS and I really want to avoid excessive Photoshop usage or tables, but I can't seem to get any tip or suggestion I've read to fix this. Please help. Thanx.
try
#bodybox{
height: calc(100% - 142px);
...
where 142px is the height of the header. Calc calculates the height according to the arithmetic in the parentheses. Note the equation will not more without the spaces before and after the operator. The same equation can be used to counter the effect of margins too.
If you set an element to have a relative height/width (with percentages), the height/width will be relative to it's direct parent (if some exceptions do not apply, I will not explain them here). But that doesn't take positioning into account. So your content div has exactly the height you asked it to be, but because it is pushed down by the header it appears to be taller.
You could use calc to calculate the height you want, or use the oldschool push back method.
You start with building the container, header and content div:
<div class="conatiner">
<div class="header"></div>
<div class="content"><h1>My Content</h1></div>
</div>
And apply some styles:
.container { width: 300px; height: 100%; } /* height can be anything */
.header { width: 100%; height: 100px; } /* header SHOULD have a fixed height */
.content { width: 100%; height: 100%; }
And to push back you add to the styles of the .content div: margin-top: -100px;, where the 100px should be the same height as the header. With the minus in front you tell the browser to pull it back instead of push it down.
Now you have two more problems to solve. The first one is that the content div covers the header div. You can fix that with applying z-index, although that requires you to add position too (as z-index only applies to positioned elements). So add those two rules to both header and content:
z-index: 1/0; /* header has z-index: 0, content has z-index: 1 */
position: relative; /* to 'activate' z-index 'behavior' */
Now we're almost there, but as you might see the content also disappears behind the header. To fix this, add a padding to the content div:
.content { padding-top: 100px; } /* again the 100px should be the same as the header height */
And now don't despair if you see the content div pushed down again. That is because the padding adds up to the height. Luckily my great friend box-sizing helps us out!
.content { box-sizing: border-box; -moz-box-sizing: border-box; }
And here we are (fiddle)!
Note: there are some other strategies, like, absolute positioning of the content div and/or header, using the calc functions, and others. Choose what suits you best.
Quick fix:
#header_bkgd {
overflow: hidden;
}
I'm guessing its to do with the fact that they both have a margin-bottom of 80px? one is taking off the other forcing it to overflow.
Do this:
CSS:
#bodybox{
margin-bottom: -80px; //Remove
// rest of the css
}
#container {
margin: 0
}
The site in question is 1000freewebsites.com. The specific pages I'm struggling with are:
1000freewebsites.com/signup.php
1000freewebsites.com/login.php
This site uses the skeleton framework and Ryan Fait's sticky footer. On these pages I have a div with the ID of #bluestripe that should fill the vertical space between the header and the footer.
There are three parent elements; #html, #body and .wrapper. All are set to height:100%; in the stylesheet. #bluestripe is also set to height:100% and min-height:100%. As I understand it, this should achieve the effect I desire. Do I have my theory wrong?
Using Chrome Inspector I find that the height attribute is crossed out for .wrapper. If my theory is correct, this explains why #bluestripe is not expanding to fill the vertical space.
I cannot find any element that over rides .wrapper's height setting. Can you see what I am missing?
Your CSS rule for .wrapper has 2 height declarations. Get rid of the one setting height to auto.
.wrapper {
min-height: 100%;
height: auto !important; /* <- Get rid of this one */
margin: 0 auto -40px;
height: 100%;
}
this is your css:
.wrapper {
min-height: 100%;
height: auto !important; //height here
margin: 0 auto -40px;
height: 100% ;//height again here
}
you are defining two times the height and as the first one got !important its overriding the second one
this cause another error, because the paddings and the other elements are pushing the .container div down, so if you change a few properties you can get rid of this behavior:
#bluestripe {
background: #0099cc;
width: 100%;
padding: 40px 0px 40px 0px;
border-top: 10px solid #666666;
/*height: 100%; drop this line*/
}
.wrapper {
background: #0099cc; /*add this line*/
min-height: 100%;
margin: 0 auto -40px;
height: auto; /*acording to ryanfaits's css this is what mades the footer stick to the botom*/
}
this will made the .bluestripe shrink again but as the .wrapper still has the same background color, it doesn´t matters
Fiddle
I would like to have multiple divs with margins and below them one that fills up the rest of the space provided by the fixed size parent div.
EDIT: I am sorry, I should have mentioned that the container divs size is fixed and should not change at all.
EDIT2: SOLUTION.
I had tried overflow: hidden but missunderstood it and put it on on the child element and not the parent.
Hope this is you want http://jsfiddle.net/FR5Ud/33/
Use min-height so that your basic look of the page remains the same and it increases based on the content
#container {
float: left;
background-color: green;
width: 300px;
min-height: 300px; height
border-color: violet;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 10px;
}
#content {
background-color: blue;
min-height: 100px; height:auto
}
#toFillUp {
background-color: red;
/* that's what it should end up looking like.
However, what if the size of #content changes?
What if there are more content divs before that?
What if those have margins? */
min-height: 200px; height:auto
}
Demo http://jsfiddle.net/FR5Ud/25/
I imagine there is a simple solution, but it eludes me. If you look at this page you will see that only the header has a grey background. The grey background is set by the #container DIV which I would like to stretch down the entire height of the page:
#container {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
background-color: #292929;
width: 1200px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
At the moment it is only stretching over the header section of the page, and the content below is not contained within it. I imagine that is because the main content in the #content DIV has absolute positioning, which I need in order to be able to do some animations on the positioning of this div (you can see this when you hover over the nav bar image):
#content {
font-family: Lucida sans unicode !important;
color: #CECBBB;
text-align: justify;
position: absolute;
top: 210px;
padding: 20px 40px;
}
From some research it would seem that DIVs with absolute positioning are not included in the height of parent DIVs, but I am not sure how to fix this.
I'd be grateful for some help.
Thanks,
Nick
Yes, you're right. Elements with absolute positioning are not considered anymore in layout of their parent container. To understand it better, I recommend you read CSS Positioning from A List Apart.
IMHO, you have many solutions:
Use floated layout, instead of absolute positioned layout
Hardcode the height of container element
Use JavaScript to always update the height of the container element.
If you need to have #content absolutely positioned (as you state in your question) then the best way to get the background you desire is to either put the background-color: #292929 on the #content itself (you will probably need to adjust some positioning and padding to eliminate any black).
However, if the animation is the submenu at the top that opens on hover, then I suggest setting both the menu and the content divs to position: relative, and instead of animating the top position of the #content (as your script appears to be doing), animate the height of the menu (have it zero as default and animate to something like 45px high [that's what firebug showed the height to be open]).
#content {
color: #CECBBB;
font-family: Lucida sans unicode !important;
margin-top: 40px;
padding: 20px 40px;
text-align: justify;
}
add a margin-top and remove the position absolute will do this.
Expanding a bit on Cecil's answer here.
One can position divs with margins instead, in order to make sure parent grows with child.
Se this fiddle
https://jsfiddle.net/944oahmy/10/
Where the following css is used
#parent {
border: 1px solid blue;
margin-top: -5px;
margin-left: 10px;
display: inline-block;
}
#child {
border: 1px solid red;
margin-top: 75px;
margin-left: 150px;
width: 500px;
}
I'm working on a new website and on one my pages I just cant get my #main div which is my page content's containing DIV to stretch long enough to cover the inner DIV's.
Please check it out and point out the parts of my CSS that need fixing. Many thanks to all.
#bikey; just right
#main {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #101010;
border-color: #333333;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 1px 1px 0;
margin: 15px auto 0;
overflow: hidden;
padding: 20px;
width: 920px;
}
The problem is in your #main div there are floated element's so you have to clear it first.
in the example above i write overflow:hidden & remove height:100%
Just remove height: 100% from layout.css at #main{...} (line 31 or so)
and add <br style="clear:both;" /> after <div id="content">...</div>