I have the following code:
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Test</title>
<style type="text/css">
*
{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
div#container
{
position: relative;
top: 100px;
left: 100px;
width: 640px;
height: 480px;
background: #ff0000;
}
textarea
{
position: absolute;
top: 20px;
left: 20px;
right: 20px;
bottom: 20px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<textarea></textarea>
</div>
</body>
</html>
If you test this in any other browser than IE you will see a red box and a textarea that fills the entire area with a 20px padding around it. However in IE (all versions) it will just show a tiny textarea.
The reason I am doing it this way is because I will be using the same effect for a popup that fills the screen and therefore the size is unknown which is why I just specify the position rather than using width and height.
How do I fix this to get it working in IE? jquery perhaps?
Just to confirm using width:100%;height:100%; will not work in this instance
The problem is that <textarea> is a replaced element and has an intrinsic width and there are rules - CSS2.1:10.3.8 - that govern what the eventual width will be. Ironically, Webkit is at fault here and Gecko is doing it right.
Using this CSS will make it work in Firefox3+, Safari and Opera and IE8+ which is unfortunate as you want it working from IE6 upwards.
IE6 and IE7 at least render the <textarea> at the correct width, so it is just the height that is incorrect. I strongly suggest that IE6/7 be left in this state since the <textarea> is usable. Progressive enhancement here allows modern browsers to render the box in a more accessible way but old browsers are still usable. Failing that, a quick, simple JavaScript function could be used to to set the height for IE6/7 if it must look the same in all browsers.
div#container {
position:relative;
top:100px;
left:100px;
width:600px;
height:440px;
background: #ff0000;
padding:20px;
}
textarea {
position:relative;
width:100%;
height:100%;
-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
-webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
Reference articles used for this answer
Absolutely positioned textareas
Firefox / IE textarea sizing quirk - workarounds?
there you go (you need to "play" with the textarea width percentage) you can hide the scrollbar with overflow:hidden;
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Test</title>
<style type="text/css">
*
{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
div#container
{
position: relative;
top: 100px;
left: 100px;
width: 640px;
height: 480px;
background: #ff0000;
}
textarea
{
position: absolute;
top: 20px;
left: 20px;
right: 20px;
bottom: 20px;
width:93%;
height:92%;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<textarea></textarea>
</div>
</body>
</html>
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Test</title>
<style type="text/css">
*
{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
div#container
{
position: relative;
top: 100px;
left: 100px;
width: 640px;
height: 480px;
background: #ff0000;
}
.box
{
position: absolute;
top: 20px;
left: 20px;
right: 20px;
bottom: 20px;
}
textarea
{
overflow-y: scroll;
width:100%;
height:100%;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div class="box">
<textarea></textarea>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Related
Can someone explain me why the first code does result in a fixed footer with a small margin on the right as I used an extra 'div' but that without this as seen in the second code it doesn't show a margin on the right? Thanks!
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style type="text/css">
body {
width: 100%;
margin: 0px auto;
}
.mymargin {
clear: both;
position: fixed;
bottom: 0px;
text-align: right;
width: 100%;
background-color: fuchsia;
}
footer {
margin-right: 20px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
Look in the right corner below!
<div class="mymargin">
<footer>
fixedfooterwithmargin-ontheright
</footer>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Second code without an extra div.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style type="text/css">
body {
width: 100%;
margin: 0px auto;
}
footer {
clear: both;
position: fixed;
bottom: 0px;
text-align: right;
width: 100%;
background-color: fuchsia;
margin-right: 20px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
Look in the right corner below!
<div class="mymargin">
<footer>
fixedfooter NO hmargin-ontheright
</footer>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Try right instead of margin-right:
footer {
clear: both;
position: fixed;
bottom: 0px;
text-align: right;
width: 100%;
background-color: fuchsia;
right: 20px;
}
jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/ashishanexpert/3eFPt/
Your footer tag is already taking 100% of the width.. So margin will be out of it.
It worked in the first case because you gave the width to the parent. so margin on the child worked. try to add 100% to footer in first case and even that wont work as required.
I've looked at 20 threads at least so far so sorry if this has been answered before but I couldn't find a solution that suits my particular css layout.
I want to set the height of 2 columns equal to each other in a way that the leftcolumn equals the contentcolumn. I've tried using multiple javascripts like this :
`
$(document).ready(function() {
// get the heights
l = $('#contentcolumn').height();
// get maximum heights of all columns
h = Math.max(l);
// apply it
$('#leftcolumn').height(h);
});
And:
document.getElementById("leftcolumn").style.maxHeight = document.getElementById("contentcolumn").style.height;
And:
$("#contentcolumn").height($("#leftcolumn").height())
The problem with the first code is that it drops the left div to some really long height which I don't even know. The second and third codes change nothing at all.
Can someone please help me I know there's probably a really simple solution to this problem but I just can't find and I just can't go to sleep until I do !
New webpage after clean up:
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>
<body>
<div id="maincontainer">
<div id="topsection"></div>
<div id="leftcolumn"></div>
<div id="contentcolumn">
</div>
</font>
</body>
</html>
New CSS after clean up:
body,
html {
background: #cacaca url(img/bg.png) repeat-x;
}
#maincontainer {
width:1000px;
margin:0 auto;
background: url(img/bg5.png) repeat-x;
}
#topsection {
background: #ffffff url(img/bg4.png) repeat-y;
height: 10px;
}
#leftcolumn {
float:left;
height: 100%;
width: 145px;
background: url(img/bg2.png) repeat-y;
}
#contentcolumn {
margin-left: 145px; /*Set left margin to LeftColumnWidth*/
min-height: 800px;
height: auto;
background: #dbdbdb url(img/bg3.png) repeat-x;
padding:10px;
}
You can do this without javascript--in a cross-browser way, even. This takes advantage of absolutely-positioning elements within relatively-positioned elements. If you set your #maincontainer div to position: relative and your #leftcolumn div to position: absolute, you can then set both top and bottom on #leftcolumn, so it always assumes the height of its parent (#maincontainer), even though #maincontiner's height is being set by its children (#contentcolumn in this case). Use this jsfiddle demo and play with #contentcolumn's height to see how #leftcolumn responds.
HTML:
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
</head>
<body>
<div id="maincontainer">
<div id="topsection"></div>
<div id="leftcolumn"></div>
<div id="contentcolumn"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
CSS:
body,
html {
background: #cacaca;
}
#maincontainer {
position: relative;
width:500px;
margin:0 auto;
background: #000;
}
#topsection {
background: #ffffff;
height: 10px;
}
#leftcolumn {
position: absolute;
top: 10px; /* room for #topsection */
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
width: 145px;
background: red;
}
#contentcolumn {
margin-left: 145px; /*Set left margin to LeftColumnWidth*/
min-height: 500px;
height: auto;
background: #dbdbdb;
padding:10px;
}
I am trying to work on a new project using Twitter's Bootstrap framework, but I am having an issue. I want a full body background, yet the background seems to be limited to the height of the container div. here is the HTML/CSS code:
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset='UTF-8'>
<meta http-equiv='X-UA-Compatible' content='IE=edge,chrome=1'>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/1.3.0/bootstrap.min.css">
<title>Bootstrap Issue</title>
<style>
body { background: black; }
.container { background: white; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<h1> Hello, World!</h1>
</div>
</body>
</html>
How can I get the body to take up the entire screen?
You need to either add this:
html { background: transparent }
Or, set the "page background" (background: black) on html instead, which is fine to do.
Why? Inside Bootstrap, there's this:
html,body{background-color:#ffffff;}
(bear in mind the default background value is transparent)
For more information on why this matters, see: What is the difference between applying css rules to html compared to body?
Note that this is no longer an issue with Bootstrap 3+.
Set the height of html and body to be 100% in the CSS.
html, body { height: 100%; }
Then it should work. The problem is that the height of body is automatically calculated to be the height of the contents, rather than the height of the whole screen.
/* here is a pure CSS solution */
<style type="text/css">
html, body {
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
#full-screen-background-image {
z-index: -999;
min-height: 100%;
min-width: 1024px;
width: 100%;
height: auto;
position: fixed;
top: 0;
left: 0;
}
#wrapper {
position: relative;
width: 800px;
min-height: 400px;
margin: 100px auto;
color: #333;
}
a:link, a:visited, a:hover {
color: #333;
font-style: italic;
}
a.to-top:link,
a.to-top:visited,
a.to-top:hover {
margin-top: 1000px;
display: block;
font-weight: bold;
padding-bottom: 30px;
font-size: 30px;
}
</style>
<body>
<img src="/background.jpg" id="full-screen-background-image" />
<div id="wrapper">
<p>Content goes here...</p>
</div>
</body>
<style>
body { background: url(background.png); }
.container { background: ; }
</style>
this works for a background image if you want it
best solution would be
.content{
background-color:red;
height: 100%;
min-height: 100vh;
}
its automatically take veiwport height(vh) in bootstrap.
I have some problem about css layout.
I wrote the code like below:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" />
</head>
<style>
html { height:100%; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; }
body {
height: 100%;
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
font-family: Verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 68.75%;
background: #fff;
color: #333;
}
#header {
position: absolute;
width:100%;
background: #c0c0c0;
height: 100px;
}
#wrapper {
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
}
#content {
position: relative;
margin-left: 370px;
background: #ffdab9;
height: 100%;
}
#sidebar {
position: absolute;
background: #eee8aa;
width: 370px;
height: 100%;
}
</style>
<body>
<div id="header">header</div>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="sidebar">sidebar</div>
<div id="content">content</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
then, the thing what I want to do is
"header"'s height is 100 pixel.
"sidebar(left side)"'s width id 370 pixel.
"content(right side)"'s width is relative.
When I control the browser smaller, I do not want browser to make "scroll bar".
like http://maps.google.com. google maps never make scroll bar when any resizing browser.
num.4 is most important that I told.
If the goal is made it, my code can be fixed all. Please give me any help.
I think you need two css changes (also see my jsfiddle):
add overflow: hidden to body
body {
...
overflow: hidden;
}
change position to relative in #header:
#header {
position: relative;
...
}
=== UPDATE ===
There are (at least) three possible solutions, but none is perfect:
1.) Your example site from google calculates the (content) height at the beginning and after each resize with javascript.
Negative: not css only, you need a script.
2.) Add the height of the header (here 100px) to the css bottom definition of all elements in the sidebar and content (see demo2).
Negative: if the header height changes, you have to update all bottom definitions too.
#words {
bottom: 102px;
...
}
3.) Use the css function calc for the #wrapper to calculate the real height (see demo3).
Negative: at the moment it works only with firefox4 (and above) and IE9.
#wrapper {
...
height: calc(100% - 100px);
height: -moz-calc(100% - 100px);
}
How to put a div in center of browser both vertically and horizontally using CSS only?
Make sure it works on IE7 too.
If everything fails, we may use JavaScript, but a last choice.
HTML:
<div id="something">... content ...</div>
CSS:
#something {
position: absolute;
height: 200px;
width: 400px;
margin: -100px 0 0 -200px;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
}
The simplest solution is just to use an auto margin, and give your div a fixed width and height. This will work in IE7, FF, Opera, Safari, and Chrome:
HTML:
<body>
<div class="centered">...</div>
</body>
CSS:
body { width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; }
.centered
{
margin: auto;
width: 400px;
height: 200px;
}
EDIT!! Sorry, I just noticed you said vertically...the default "auto" margin for top and bottom is zero...so this will only center it horizontally. The only solution to position vertically and horizontally is to muck around with negative margins like the accepted answer.
margin: auto;
try this
#center_div
{
margin: auto;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
bottom: 0;
right: 0;
}
Using this:
center-div { margin: auto; position: absolute; top: 50%; left: 50%; bottom: 0; right: 0; transform: translate(-50% -50%); }
You can also set your div with the following:
#something {width: 400px; margin: auto;}
With that setting, the div will have a set width, and the margin and either side will automatically set depending on the with of the browser.
<html>
<head>
<style>
*
{
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
html, body
{
height:100%;
}
#distance
{
width:1px;
height:50%;
margin-bottom:-300px;
float:left;
}
#something
{
position:relative;
margin:0 auto;
text-align:left;
clear:left;
width:800px;
min-height:600px;
height:auto;
border: solid 1px #993333;
z-index: 0;
}
/* for Internet Explorer */
* html #something{
height: 600px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="distance"></div>
<div id="something">
</div>
</body>
</html>
Tested in FF2-3, IE6-7, Opera and works well!
.center {
margin: auto;
margin-top: 15vh;
}
Should do the trick
<center>
<h3 > your div goes here!</h3>
</center>
For Older browsers, you need to add this line on top of HTML doc
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">