recently i asked this question: overflow (scroll) - 100% container height about how to achieve a vertically scrolling div with variable height.
a very helpful user provided a solution using absolute positioning and height:100%, here: http://jsfiddle.net/TUwej/2/. in this fiddle, you can see the basic desired behavior - the scrolling div will fill the height of the main container as is determined by the content in the '#main' element.
i modified this somewhat and used top:0 bottom:0 instead of height:100% to accommodate an element above the scrollable area. the modified version can be seen here: http://jsfiddle.net/N6muv/3/ (i realize there is a little extra markup and class definitions that are empty, and an adjacent sibling combinator that appears redundant - these are vestiges of the actual structure)
everything is fine, except that i had to supply a fixed top coordinate for the scrolling div (note the top:120px declaration for the '.sidebar-list' selector). i'd like this to be relative to the '.sidebar-options' element above it, so that the options container above can have any number of options and the scrollable div will position itself appropriately. using fixed coordinates, if any options are added or removed, either overlap occurs or unnecessary space develops - i'd like to avoid this. the exact number of options that should appear varies between views.
i had thought to wrap the scrolling div in a relatively positioned container, but doing that creates a conflict with bottom:0 no longer indicating the height of the main '.wrapper' container (which it should do). similarly, using height:100% will use the computed height of the '.wrapper' container so the scrollable div will extend beyond the boundary of the '.wrapper'.
is there a way to keep the functionality shown in the second fiddle, but with the top of the scrollable div relative to the bottom of the options div (which will be of variable height)?
thanks in advance for any suggestions.
EDIT: S.O. asked if i wanted to start a bounty, so i did (first time) - hopefully 100 pts isn't considered too low. still looking for a no-script, pure-css solution that doesn't involve fixed coordinates or dimensions for the y-axis (width and left assignments are OK). thx
UPDATE:
Import JQuery:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
New Demo:
http://jsfiddle.net/Mutant_Tractor/N6muv/28/
Add this nice little JQuery script to your page:
var contentColHeight = $('.content').height();
var optionColHeight = $('.sidebar-options').height();
var newHeight = contentColHeight - optionColHeight;
$('.sidebar-list').height(newHeight);
OLD
How does this suit your needs?
http://jsfiddle.net/Mutant_Tractor/N6muv/4/
I changed position:absolute; to position:relative and added a static height:190px as well as adding background:pink; (so the bg always looks right)
You can try adding and removing Options from the list above to demo this.
Full code:
.sidebar-content {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
background : pink;
}
I believe you should remove absolute positioning on the inner elements and try overflow:auto.
You need to define the height of the sidebar list coz you have to set this content to scroll-able and min or max height must be defined. And you could set .sidebar-list{position: relative;} See this Fiddle
Edit Your .sidebar-content should also be relatively positioned See this Fiddle whatever your 'options' content contains.
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I would think this would be a common issue, but my search for a solution leads me to believe it may not be possible. I simply want to place a div in the lower right corner of its parent div, yet have the text in the parent div flow around it.
Although I've found many posts addressing this question, I have not found one that appears to work. Most of these posts were several years old, which gives me a sliver of hope that there may be a way to do it after all with HTML 5?
I should have mentioned that this is in pursuit of a responsive design, so a static solution will not work.
Here's what I'm attempting to do: http://test.scoe.net/rfox/usalResponsive6/indexTeacher.html
I have a background image in the lower right of the div. I would like the text within this div to not flow across the image, but around it instead. I thought I'd be able to place an empty div (represented by the purple rectangle in the referenced page) in the lower corner to prevent text from flowing across the background image, but I can't seem to find a way to accomplish this.
Didn't see a demo there - or anyone doing it with a pseudo element (which would be a bit more semantically correct because it's styling and not content) so let me just post that then :
Demo
<div id="parent">
<div></div>
<span>text</span>
</div>
#parent:before {
content: '';
height: 35%;
float: right;
}
#parent div {
width: 130px;
height: 65%;
float: right;
clear: right;
}
When it comes to responsiveness in this particular case there are two aspects. First would be the background but since that isn't responsive itself for the most part and positioned at the bottom right, some width and height may have to be set along with the break points in the media queries.
Another form of responsiveness, automatic adjustment to the amount of text, is a tricky one that doesn't seem to be solvable without JavaScript. When height is left to auto, the floated elements will not inherit any height. This causes for the effect to not render. And because children cannot refer up the tree to relate to their parent's unknown height there isn't a pure CSS approach available.
So the example still has a fixed height and a minor bit of JS that's commented out but which should come close to making it adapt. It's a workaround but it's all current browser support will allow.
And now what can be used in the future!
Caniuse
The image itself could be cropped and saved as png, leaving transparent space around it. Then we can apply shape-outside and shape-image-threshold rules to it. With the current spec any text will then wrap when it's floated. Browser support it still limited at this point but it's very promising. The great thing I noticed about it is that when the floated element is given top margin, the text will start to flow above it! This does not occur in the example at the top of this post, it will only make the block appear longer (and empty as well). Because of this, a minimal bit of vanilla JS can make it fully responsive by only setting margin and without using an additional pusher element :
Example
<img id="image" src="image.png" alt="">
#image {
shape-outside: url(image.png);
shape-image-threshold: 0.5;
float: right;
}
window.onload = placeBottom;
window.onresize = placeBottom;
function placeBottom() {
var parent = document.getElementById('parent'),
image = document.getElementById('image');
image.style.marginTop = 0;
var space = parent.clientHeight-image.clientHeight;
image.style.marginTop = space + 'px';
}
It's actually very straightforward :
http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/shapes/getting-started/
Credit for the latter part to Paulie_D for putting me on the track of CSS shapes and later recognising that images used in this way are subject to same domain policy. Meaning they have to be hosted by the site itself or when linked externally, CORS restrictions will need to be relaxed.
First of all, I am searching for a pure CSS solution. I can do it really easily with JavaScript, so don't bother giving me hint on how to do it in JS.
I have a web page with 3 container. 2 of them are fixed, the other one is static.
I want to give the static container a padding top and bottom equal to the fixed container.
The first fixed element have a fixed height, so that's not a problem, i give a padding equal to the height :
#header{
height : 100px;
position : fixed;
}
#content{
padding-top : 100px;
}
But the second fixed element is dynamic since we are using a CMS. Some element can be added by the client and we want the layout to adjust automatically.
You can easily see what i'm trying to do in this Fiddle, just uncomment the JS to see the desired Result.
P.S.: I support iE8 and older.
P.P.S.: I am totally aware that it may be impossible w/o JS. If so, just tell me in comment.
Since #header and #footer are fixed positioned, they are taken out of the document flow and have no relationship to #content anymore.
Therefor you have to options (imho).
1) give the footer a fixed height, so you can do the padding trick, same as with your header.
2) use Javascript, since there is no pure CSS solution (except for 1. point).
I want to overlap some elements without using position: absolute. The reason therefore is that I have several vertical sections (which should not overlap) containing elements which overlap. The problem is, I cannot know beforehand whether the overlapping or the overlapped element has the bigger size.
If one of those would receive a position: absolute it would be taken out of flow and therefore the parent container would not be sized accordingly and the sections would overlap.
I have already found this question but nobody seemed to answer the question.
Here is an example:
http://jsfiddle.net/nNhtU/
If it's ok to use jQuery, this can be done quite easily. Set the overflow property of the parent element to scroll:
.designer-question {
overflow: scroll;
}
And then you can set the height of each .designer-question to the height of its img using a simple each loop:
$('.designer-question').each(function () {
var $el = $(this); // Get jQuery of each designer question
var $backImg = $('.back img', $el); // Get background image
$el.css('height', $backImg.height());
});
I've applied this to your jsfiddle to demonstrate: http://jsfiddle.net/jfdPb/1/
The problem I'm having is I have two divs at the top of my page, one contains a repeating blue background, the other contains a background image.
I have to set the height of both divs in order for them to expand vertically, the don't expand with the content. I have that form on the right hand side set to overflow. Which I believe is what's causing the problem.
I have tried not having the height css in the code, but it still won't expand vertically.
In order to get the backgrounds to even show up I have to manually set the height.
This is the page: http://www.repipespecialists.com/landing/google/repiping.html
This is the CSS code:
#top_container {
width:100%;
height:1040px;
background-image:url(../images/top_bg_repeat.jpg);
background-repeat:repeat-x;
background-color:#83b4e9;
}
#top_header {
width:1200px;
height:1040px;
background-image:url(../images/header_bg.jpg);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-color:#83b4e9;
margin: 0 auto;
}
I agree with WDan in that the issue you are having is due to your use of float: left and float: right on the left_content and right_content div elements.
When you use float on an element, you are basically removing it from the normal flow of the document. By default, elements will appear on the page in whatever order you specify in the markup. Using float (or things like position: absolute) will remove the element from this "order", or "document flow", such that the floated element will be ignored when placing other elements in their default position on the page.
Since the space used by these floated elements are ignored, the top_header div does not take the floated element's size into account when determining its own size. This is why your div is not automatically expanding.
Another alternative to float is to use display: inline-block. Here are some links you can read to learn more about the differences:
http://www.ternstyle.us/blog/float-vs-inline-block
http://www.onderhond.com/blog/work/inline-block-vs-float/
http://designshack.net/articles/css/whats-the-deal-with-display-inline-block/
http://robertnyman.com/2010/02/24/css-display-inline-block-why-it-rocks-and-why-it-sucks/
I think the problem is you use float in 'left_content' and 'right_content'
Use “overflow: hidden” in the wrapper div.
i'll try to make my question really simple 2 you
Basically, i have a DIV, in which i have a picture
What CSS styles should i apply to the picture to position it correctly inside the div
with the condition that everytime i resize the browser window it stays there (inside the div) at the same distance from the borders
Sorry for wasting your time but i'm still a newbie which needs help, thank you alot!
EXAMPLE HERE
code
html
<div id="super_div">
<img id="eyes" src="images/eyes.png" />
</div>
css
that's the question :)
You need to look at absolute positioning. First, you set the containing div's position attribute to relative. For example:
#super_div
{
position: relative;
}
Then, you set the image's position property to absolute and use the top and left or right properties to place it inside the parent div. So, for example:
#eyes
{
position: absolute;
top: 20px;
left: 20px;
}
That's how you make the image keep its current position no matter what. Here's a link to an article explaining the basics. Hope this helps.
This will get it horizontally centered:
margin:auto;
If you need it vertically centered as well then things get a bit more tricky. You can either resort to tables, use a background image (if this is appropriate to your situation) or fiddle with the css. I used the code on http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/absolute-center-vertical-horizontal-an-image/ as a basis for solving a similar situation I had a while ago..