I am trying to get my right sidebar to fill to extend the full length of the content within my #wrapper on this site: http://www.starmedianetwork.com/
I put a red border around it to try to see where my #right is on my page. I have tried working with:
height:100% on that #right and others. Also searched on google about clear fixes but I couldn't get that too work, also came across some solutions on experts-exchange, but those didnt work.
Any ideas how I can get my sidebar to extend with the background-color to fit the length?
You could try this approach: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/multicolumnlayouts/
You can achieve this with a faux sidebar:
<div class="sidebar_back"><.div>
<div class="sidebar">
<p>The sidebar content</p>
</div>
With this css:
.sidebar_back {
top: 0;
left: 0;
bottom: 0;
z-index: -1;
width: 200px;
background: #444; // the color you want the sidebar to be
position: absolute;
}
.sidebar {
float: left;
width: 180px;
padding: 10px;
}
The .sidebar_back will extend all the way to the bottom of the page, so just give that the color that you'd like the sidebar to be, and the actual sidebar div will appear to be full-height. You can use a percentage-based width instead of pixels too. Here's a codepen showing an example:
http://codepen.io/poopsplat/full/jquBv
You cannot get a div to fill the height of it's parent. It may work in one browser, but I've had this problem and it is not simply solved by a height:100%.
You can simulate the background by creating a background that tiles all the way down the side. This isn't the most elegant solution.
The only other solution I have found is to use javascript. After the page loads, you can set the height of the div to precisely what it needs to be based upon the height of the div that you want it to expand within.
There may be some javascript libraries out there to assist you with positioning of this troublesome div, but I can't conjure up one at the moment.
I haven't tried this, but...it feels like it should work (which of course is likely the kiss of death to the attempt):
#wrapper
{position: fixed;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
right: 0;
left: 0;
display: block;
width: 100%;
background-color: #ffa;
}
#right {position: absolute;
top: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
width: 15%; /* this has to be fixed-size so you can account
for it in the next bit; but can still be kinda
fluid-ish... */
display: block;
background-color: #ccc;
overflow: auto;
}
#left {width: 83%; /* 100 - (15% + 2% (for a gutter)) */
margin-left: 1%;
margin-right: 16%; /* less than 100 - 83, to allow for rounding of % or px */
display: block;
background-color: #0ff;
overflow: auto;
}
p {display: block;
margin: 0.5em;
padding: 0.2em 0.5em;
}
...
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="left">
<p>The left-hand content</p>
</div>
<div id="right">
<p>The right-hand content</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
It's not terribly pretty, but it does work. Though I'm not a fan of using position: absolute (or fixed) so if anyone's got a better suggestion I'd go for it =)
Incidentally, there's working demo of the implementation (with added 'lorem ipsum' goodness) over at: http://www.davidrhysthomas.co.uk/so/cols.html.
(Okay, I lied: I clearly have tried it now...)
Here is the way I have found to solve this issue:
You have to use four div tags - one main container which contains the sidebar, the main content, and a footer.
First, add and style the elements in your stylesheet:
#container {
width: 100%;
background: #FFFAF0;
}
.content {
width: 950px;
float: right;
padding: 10px;
background: #FFFAF0;
}
.sidebar {
width: 220px;
float: left;
padding: 5px;
background: #FFFAF0;
}
#footer {
clear:both;
background:#FFFAF0;
}
You can edit the different elements however you want to, just be sure you dont change the footer property "clear:both" - this is very important to leave in.
Then, simply set up your web page like this:
<div id=”container”>
<div class=”sidebar”></div>
<div class=”content”></div>
<div id=”footer”></div>
</div>
I wrote a more in-depth blog post about this at [http://blog.thelibzter.com/how-to-make-a-sidebar-extend-the-entire-height-of-its-container][1]. Please let me know if you have any questions. Hope this helps!
I solved my sidebar problem for my admin page using jQuery with just a couple of lines of code
$('aside').height($(window).height()-($('#header').height()+$('#secondary_bar').height())-2); // Extend sidebar to bottom of viewport
$(window).resize(function(){
$('aside').height($(window).height()-($('#header').height()+$('#secondary_bar').height())-2); //change size of bar when viewport height changes
$('#main').height($(window).height()-($('#header').height()+$('#secondary_bar').height())-2); //change size of main content when size of viewport changes
});
It seems to work in all browsers, however, when the content on the right is larger then the viewport and issue will occur when you scroll down. It can be fixed with some content height checks but for me it doesn't matter. Hope that helps someone out there =)
Related
I am creating a landing page with HTML/CSS and using a little bit of bootstrap. I am having trouble resizing my main page to fit 100% height and width when the page is opened.
I want it to look like google docs' main page: https://www.google.com/docs/about/. If you go there, you'll see:
the nav is in fixed position and follows you everywhere. I got that part down.
The main image automatically resizes depending on your screen size. The icon-arrow-hint (the arrow on mid-bottom of page) can always be seen on the bottom of the image.
Two problems that I have:
Got this weird gap on the right side even though I set right: 0.
After page load, it looks like it fits about 90% of the height and I still need to scroll down. I placed this text on the bottom - theoretically, this should be shown on the bottom of the screen without scrolling, but I have to always scroll slightly down.
This is the JSfiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/iggyfiddle/DTcHh/35435/
I am using position: absolute and I 0-ed all 4 sides.
How can I fit the yellow div 100% height and 100% width like the google page nicely?
If you give an element height: 100%, but there's another element above or below in the same container, you need to adjust for the height of the other element, otherwise there will be an overflow.
Also, adjust for the -15px horizontal margins applied by Bootstrap.
Try this:
.primary-content {
position: absolute;
top: 10%;
left: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 90%; /* ADJUSTMENT */
background: yellow;
margin: 0; /* NEW */
}
https://jsfiddle.net/DTcHh/35437/
Your .primary-content div has the bootstrap .row class on it which declares negative horizontal margins. A solution would be to remove the .row class from your div or to override the margins in css.
These are the default bootstrap .row styles:
.row {
margin-right: -15px;
margin-left: -15px;
}
Using the class of .row adds a margin of 15px. A quick fix is to remove the class from primary-content div like so.
<div class="primary-content">
<div class="col-md-12">
<h1>This is a super awesome product</h1>
<h4>Help me stackoverflow, you are my only hope!</h4>
</div>
or add a class and remove the margins.
The reason that your yellow div is going too far is that you need to set the height to 90%.
To fix the weird padding on the right side, add margin: 0 !important;.
.primary-content {
position: absolute;
top: 10%;
left: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 90%; // change this
background: yellow;
margin: 0 !important; // add this
}
See this JSFiddle or run the snippet below
/* Latest compiled and minified CSS included as External Resource*/
/* Optional theme */
#import url('//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.0.0/css/bootstrap-theme.min.css');
.universal-header {
background: red;
border-radius: none;
height: 10%;
width: 100%;
position: fixed;
}
.color-brown {
color: #58482C;
text-decoration: none;
}
.primary-content {
position: absolute;
top: 10%;
left: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 90%;
background: yellow;
margin: 0 !important;
}
.bottom {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
right: 0;
}
<link href="https://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.0.0/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<script src="https://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.0.0/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<nav class="navbar universal-header navbar-static-top">
<a class="navbar-brand navigation-title color-brown">
</a>
<span class="color-brown navbar-brand navigation-title">HELLO</span>
<span class="navbar-brand navigation-title pull-right color-brown">Login</span>
<span class="navbar-brand navigation-title pull-right color-brown">Features</span>
<span class="navbar-brand navigation-title pull-right color-brown">About</span>
</nav>
<div class="row primary-content">
<div class="col-md-12">
<h1>This is a super awesome product</h1>
<h4>Help me stackoverflow, you are my only hope!</h4>
</div>
<div class="bottom">
You should be able to see me without scrolling
</div>
</div>
Problem 1:
Got this weird gap on the right side
When using bootstrap's row class it will add a margin of -15px to the left and right of your div, see the second answer to this question if you want to understand better why.
Solution: don't use the row class for your primary-content div.
Problem 2:
this should be shown on the bottom of the screen without scrolling,
but I have to always scroll slightly down
you are using absolute positioning, remember that needs a relative positioned parent container, in your case, since you don't have any, everything is relative to the initial containing block, hence your viewport/window.
Quick fix: delete the height: 100%; css from .primary-content
Warning: using absolute positioning the way you are right now will bring you trouble if you want to add more content below your yellow container
I am quite new with HTML5. Now I'm trying two make to paragraphs in the first article. I used some snippets of http://f6design.com/projects/parallax-scrolling/. Simply I want to achieve two paragraphs on the intro article. I tried this alternative, but failed.
<div class="side-container">
<!-- left side -->
<aside>
Left: Fixed width, 100% height of the window or right hand content
</aside>
<!-- main content -->
<article>
Right: Fluid width
</article>
</div>
http://jsfiddle.net/t3AxY/7/
Here's my code
http://jsfiddle.net/sw8s4/
Any suggestions how to do this?
Best,
Sebastian
I would try something like this:
#content {
z-index: 4;
position: relative;
max-width: 900px;
padding: 0 10px;
margin: 0 auto;
line-height: 1.7;
}
#intro {
float:left;
width: 400px;
padding-right:40px;
}
#manned-flight {
width: 100%;
}
article img {
height:30px;
width:100%;
}
I am not sure what exactly your output should look like, but this way you get two columns.
where the forst one gets a fixed width, and the second one resizes to fill the rest of the parent.
updatet your jsfiddle
Now you can also put height:100%; on body, #content and #intro to make it 100% of the window height.
Please Help me to center the message box on fit on any screen resolution..
can you show what css or style, margins, left, right,that I can use?
Center Horizontally
To center a div horizontally you can use margin: auto auto; width: 500px where the width is any width you want it to be.
JS Fiddle
HTML:
<div id="content">
Some content
</div>
CSS:
#content {
width: 200px;
margin: auto auto;
background-color: #CCC;
}
Center screen with fixed dimensions
If you can fix the content height and width then it's possible to center the div both horizontally and vertically using just css. This is achieved by wrapping your content in another div, then positioning your content div's top: 50% and then subtracting half the height of it's margin from it: margin-top: -100px, assuming the height was 200px. See example below:
JS Fiddle.
HTML:
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="content">
Some content
</div>
</div>
CSS:
#wrapper {
position: relative;
background-color: #EEE;
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
font-size: 10px;
}
#content {
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
width: 80px;
height: 80px;
margin-top: -40px;
margin-left: -40px;
background-color: #DDD;
}
Pretend it's vertically centered
Also you can give a fixed margin-top (or top with position: absolute) to make it seem vertically centered in most desktop and laptop screens.
JS Fiddle
HTML:
<div id="content">
Some content
</div>
CSS:
#content {
width: 200px;
margin: 100px auto;
background-color: #CCC;
}
Use Javascript
It is not possible to vertically center content with arbitrary height using just css. In this case you will need to use Javascript to position the div.:
The basic idea is:
you calculate the height of the content at the time you need to show the content, or when the content is loaded.
Then change any of the many css properties to position the div at the vertical center.
My personal preference is you to use position: absolute with top property. You can also use margin-top but you probably don't want this div to take up space in the box model if you have other content on the page.
JS Fiddle
<html>
<head>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
var windowWidth = document.documentElement.clientWidth;
var windowHeight = document.documentElement.clientHeight;
var el = $('#content');
var elWidth = el.width();
var elHeight = el.height();
el.css({
position: 'absolute',
top: (windowHeight / 2) - (elHeight / 2),
left: (windowWidth / 2) - (elWidth / 2),
});
});
</script>
<style>
#content {
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
background-color: #CCC;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="content">
Some content
</div>
</body>
</html>
Use any of the many Javascript "plugins" available
There is a multitude of CSS frameworks around the web that provide boilerplate CSS that we use on most websites. And some of these also help with these kind of common presentation issues with small Javascript plugins. Personally I know that Twitter Bootstrap provides a Modal plugin which you can use for this purpose. There is also many jQuery plugins for the sole purpose of centering content in a page.
Conclusion
Although there is a multitude of options to achieve this, I it sad to see that CSS still does not support doing this. Maybe it's a hard thing to do across different scenarios, I don't know. From the options that I mention above, I think the Javascript option is the most versatile, and with todays browser speeds, and the likeliness that nobody would have Javascript disabled on their browser, this would be the best way to go.
I just saw this after reading about how to do one on a CSS Techniques page.
Basically, define a little CSS:
.Absolute-Center {
margin: auto;
position: absolute;
top: 0; left: 0; bottom: 0; right: 0;
}
ADVANTAGES:
Cross-browser (including IE8-10)
No special markup, minimal styles
Responsive with percentages and min-/max-
Use one class to center any content
I have not had time to test it out, but I wanted to post it up here in the hope that it helps others.
Here is what you are searching for http://tutorialzine.com/2010/03/centering-div-vertically-and-horizontally/
You can easily make it with jquery! Or with an css solution given on this site!
You should give us your code that you have tried. Assume that you have HTML code like below:
<div id="message">
Hello World!
</div>
CSS code:
#message {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
margin: 50px auto;
}
Then your message box will be 100x100 and 50px from the top of the screen and automatically aligns to the center of the screen.
I found a lot of questions on stack overflow about getting rid of white space, but I can't seem to figure out how to put it in.
I have a bottom navigation on my site that floats with the page, but if the window is small, the bottom part of the page gets covered up. I would like to insert some white space at the bottom, so when the window is smaller than the length of the page you can still read it.
I've tried adding:
margin-bottom: 50px;
padding-bottom: 50px;
to the div containing the top page content, but it doesn't work.
Is there something I am missing? Here's a demonstration: http://www.writingprompts.net/name-generator/
#left, #right {
margin-bottom: 90px;
}
or
#top_section > div {
margin-bottom: 90px;
}
It doesn't work on #top_section because you use absolutes and therefore the content actually over extends the div itself, but trust me, either of those two css' i gave you WILL work
Simply add the following rule:
#top_section {
overflow: hidden;
padding-bottom: 90px;
}
This will make #top_section be as big as the floating content inside it.
http://jsfiddle.net/rlemon/fSYmu/ This is a simplified example, having no idea what your layout looks like (I am not going to assume the demonstration is yours... unless you revise and tell me it is) i'll show you how I would do this
HTML
<div class="container"> <!-- main page wrapper -->
<div class="content"> <!-- main content wrapper, backgrounds apply here -->
<div class="inner-content"> <!-- content inner, where your content goes! -->
content
</div>
</div>
<div class="footer">footer</div> <!-- footer -->
</div>
CSS
html,body,.container {
height: 100%; margin: 0; padding: 0; // I am important so the page knows what 100% height is.
}
.content {
height: 100%; // see above... i need to cascade down.
background-color: green;
}
.content-inner {
padding-bottom: 100px; // offset for the footer.
}
.footer {
width: 100%;
position: absolute; // stick me to the bottom.
bottom: 0;
height: 100px;
background-color: red;
}
enjoy!
You need to use fixed position in CSS to achieve this.
HTML:
<div id="top-section">
Insert content here...
</div>
<div id="bottom-nav">
<div id="content">
Bottom content...
</div>
</div>
CSS:
#bottom-nav {
bottom: 0;
position: fixed;
width: 100%;
}
#content {
margin: 0 auto;
width: 960px;
}
Goal:
A CSS two column layout with main content in the flow first followed by left nav (see example code). This is probably easier than I think but I could not find any clear cut example here or online. The left nav has to have a fixed width.
I would like to position the left nav and main content areas as you would expect (left nav then main content). This is for SEO purposes to place the content as high up in the flow as possible then position it appropriately. I need to have this work in IE6 as well. The main content area needs to expand with the browser window. With my current version the left nav is absolute positioned and overlaps the main content container. Thanks in advance for all you CSS gurus!!! Hopefully this can be of use to others as well.
<style>
.clearly {clear: both; font-size: 1px;}
.contentContainer {border:1px solid; width:800px;}
.leftNav {width:200px;background-color:#CCC;position:absolute;}
.mainContent { position:relative;left:200px;width:100%;float:left;background-color:#A6C9FF;}
</style>
<div class="contentContainer">
<div class="mainContent">
Relative Main Content - Width 100%
</div>
<div class="leftNav">
Absolute Left Nav<br />
Absolute Left Nav<br />
Absolute Left Nav<br />
</div>
<div class="clearly"> </div>
</div>
Drop the containing div.
html, body { width: 100%; height: 100%; overflow: hidden; margin:0; padding: 0; }
.mainContent
{
position: absolute;
left: 200px;
right: 0;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
overflow: auto;
}
.leftNav{
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
width: 200px;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/hFAaZ/
P.S. this has an advantage over the other answer in that any backgrounds applied to either nav or content areas will always fill the page. This is usually what is expected from the designer.
Edit
Just noticed that you need a fixed width on the container. Add .container to the html,body list above, then also add another rule to ste it's width to 100%;
Is this what you are after:
http://jsfiddle.net/Mutant_Tractor/8uws6/
Simple semi-fluid + fixed layout:
Fluid column:
padding-left: 170px;
Fixed:
width:150px;
float:left;
background:red;
position:absolute;