This is probably a very dummy question, don't throw your shoes at me :)
Consider having HTML like this:
<div class="container">
<div class="header">
</div>
<div class="body">
</div>
<div class="footer">
</div>
</div>
I want 'header' and 'footer' to be anchored to the parent's top and bottom respectively, and 'body' to grow easily to fit all available space.
What would the CSS look like to achieve this?
EDIT: Maybe I'm saying this wrong (i'm not exactly a web developer :) ), but what I need is to have some part of a div always attached to its bottom. So when div grows this part (which might have a fixed size) would go lower with the div's lower end. But all this doesn't mean attaching a div to the bottom of browser's window.
If I understand your question correctly, you require some really basic css.
body { background: black; }
.container { width: 960px; }
.header { height: 100px; background: #ddd; }
.content { padding: 10px; }
.footer { height: 100px; background: #ddd; }
Your div's are not floated, so will stack on top of each other like pancakes.
If you want the footer to be "sticky", see here for a solution...
http://ryanfait.com/sticky-footer/
Here you go:
Example page - footer sticks to bottom
this will have the content right
between the footer and the header.
no overlapping.
HTML
<header>HEADER</header>
<article>
<p>some content here (might be very long)</p>
</article>
<footer>FOOTER</footer>
CSS
html{ height:100%; }
body{ min-height:100%; padding:0; margin:0; position:relative; }
body:after{
content:'';
display:block;
height:100px; // compensate Footer's height
}
header{ height:50px; }
footer{
position:absolute;
bottom:0;
width:100%;
height:100px; // height of your Footer (unfortunately it must be defined)
}
Try this: Set position: relative on the parent div. Set position: absolute on the inner div(s) and set both the top and the bottom properties; don't set height. The inner div(s) should stretch vertically with the parent, as required. (Doesn't work in IE6 and below unfortunately).
Related
I have a fixed-width left div, and I want to make the right div fill the remaining space.
So far I've been taking this approach recommended by another SO poster, but it doesn't work if I have content inside the right div.
The content in the right div is set to width: 100%, so I would expect it to be no wider than the right-hand div, but it overflows the right div.
<div>
<div id="left">left</div>
<div id="right">right<div id="insideright">overflows</div</div>
</div>
<style>
#left {
float:left;
width:180px;
background-color:#ff0000;
}
#right {
width: 100%;
background-color:#00FF00;
}
#insideright {
width: 100%;
background-color: blue;
height: 5px;
}
</style>
JSFiddle here, demoing the problem: http://jsfiddle.net/MHeqG/155/
What can I do?
I want to support older IE browsers, so I'd rather not use display: table-cell etc if I can avoid it, or at least not without a reasonable fallback.
Actually it's pretty simple... don't add 100% to the right div :)
just add the overflow property
LIVE DEMO
#left {
float:left;
width:180px;
background-color:#ff0000;
}
#right {
overflow:auto;
background-color:#00FF00;
}
#insideright {
background-color: blue;
}
...and if you even wondered how to make the red (left) div fill the remaining height...
DEMO
Not sure exactly what you're trying to do (your references to right are ambiguous). But if I'm understanding, you want the insideright to be nested within the right without overflowing?
Why not use a <span> instead? <div> out of the box is display: block; which will force a wrap like that. Alternatively, override this behavior by using display: inline; or display: inline-block;.
<div>
<div id="left">
left
</div>
<div id="right">
right
<span id="insideright">this should not overflow right</span>
</div>
</div>
http://jsfiddle.net/brandonscript/MHeqG/157/
I have a simple HTML page and it contains two divs aligned vertically. The page is scrollable because of second div. I want the first div's position to be fixed, or nonscrollable, so that only the second div is scrollable. I added position:fixed to first div's css but this time, the second div was placed on first div, so the first div disappears under the second div.
CSS
body {
width:1000px;
height:100%;
margin:0 auto;/*body ortalama*/
}
#div1 {
height:300px;
background-color:#00CC66;
}
#div2 {
display:block;
word-wrap:break-word;
padding:30px;
font-size:72px;
background-color:#FF3;
}
HTML
<div>
<div id="div1"></div>
<div id="div2">
<p>
<!--Content Here-->
</p>
</div>
</div>
Fixed is always relative to the parent window, never an element. Once the position is set to fixed its taken out of the document flow.
Fixed positioning is a subcategory of absolute positioning. The only difference is that for a fixed positioned box, the containing block is established by the viewport.
so in the second div2 add these
position:relative;
top:300px; /*Bump it down by the height of div1;*/
Hope it helps;
You should add a height and set overflow auto instead of scroll because with scroll you will have the scrollbar always even if the content is less than the specified height. For example:
#div2 {
background-color: #FFFF33;
display: block;
font-size: 72px;
height: 200px;
overflow: auto;
padding: 30px;
word-wrap: break-word;
}
Add this css to #div2 (you'll need to specify a height for #div2 otherwise the the scroll bar won't know where to start):
overflow-y:auto;
height:50px;
See the example here: http://jsfiddle.net/38xkn/1/ (scroll to the right first as you've set the body width to 100px, then you'll see the scroll bar for #div2).
Okay, here is another option. It's layout is somewhat different but it should get the job done. It uses absolute positioning on div1 to get it to the top, and a percentage width to stop it covering the scroll bar for div2. It's not perfect so you may need to tweek it slightly.
HTML
<body>
<div>
<div id="div1">a</div>
<div id="div2">
<p> SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSDDDDDDDDDLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDAMSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSDDDDDDDDDLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
CSS:
body{
width:100%;
height:100%;
margin:0 auto;/*body ortalama*/
overflow:hidden;
}
#div1{
height:300px;
background-color:#00CC66;
position:absolute;
top:0;
width:97.5%;
}
#div2{
display:block;
word-wrap:break-word;
padding:30px;
font-size:72px;
background-color:#FF3;
overflow-y:auto;
max-height:50px;
padding-top:300px;
}
EXAMPLE:
http://jsfiddle.net/38xkn/6/
I'm looking for a way to add a footer to my page which will always show up at the bottom. The problem is, a lot of the content on the page is set via position: absolute;, so at the moment, unless I manually give the footer a margin-top: 900px; value, its simply hidden by one of the absolute positioned content. But on some pages where the content is less than 900px, there is an unnecessary gap at the bottom between the end of the page, and the footer.
How can I resolve this in such a way that there's no gap between the end of content and footer?
In the new jquery, you can just use this:
<div data-role="footer" data-position="fixed">
<h1>Fixed Footer!</h1>
</div>
from http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.2.0/docs/toolbars/bars-fixed.html
Put everything before the footer in a div with position relative. This div will flex vertically to the content in it and will provide the buffer to keep anything after it right below it. No margin needed.
You also can put indexes.
z-index: 1;
http://www.fiveminuteargument.com/fixed-position-z-index
In your case, put z-index in css for footer at 10 or more.
Let's suppose a <footer>, styled with display: block and height: 250px.
So all you have to do to achieve what you want is add:
position: fixed;
top: 100%;
margin-top: -250px;
That's it. It'll be permanently aligned at the bottom. :)
Sticky footer. No javascript required:
http://www.cssstickyfooter.com/
After doing some fiddling I was reminded that absolute positioning removes the element from the document flow. You cannot depend on an absolute positioned element to affect the other elements because it will not. Because you do not know the height of the content then using margin-top is clearly not option.
So I came up with this: basically do a normal layout with floats then use position relative to move the items where you want them. This way the elements still affect the document flow, however, now you have total control over the position. This is precisely what relative positioning is for: You want total control over the position of an element but you still want they element to affect the layout normally.
<html>
<head>
<style>
body {
text-align:center;
}
#container {
position:relative;
margin:0 auto;
width: 1000px;
text-align:left;
}
#header {
position:relative;
top:0px;
left:0px;
width:1000px;
height: 100px;
border:solid 1px #000;
}
#sidebar {
position:relative;
top:10px;
left:0px;
width:300px;
height: 500px; /* for demo */
float:left;
margin-bottom: 20px;
border:solid 1px #000;
}
#main {
position:relative;
top:10px;
left:310px;
width:690px;
height: 200px; /* for demo */
margin-bottom:20px;
border:solid 1px #000;
}
#footer {
margin:0 auto;
top:20px;
width: 1000px;
text-align:left;
height: 100px;
clear:both;
border:solid 1px #000;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container"> <!-- Holds all the content except the footer -->
<div id="header">Header content here</div>
<div id="sidebar">Sidebar content here</div>
<div id="main">Main content here</div>
</div>
<div id="footer">Footer content here</div>
</body>
</html>
I'm trying to achieve, that the div's will behave like an example on picture, using css:
Is there any clean way to do this? I achieve this using javascript to calculate "left" div height and "main" div width and height. But i dont like this solution...is there any way to do this using css only?
Edit:
Page must not have scrollbar...so page's height is always max 100%, and no more...
thanks
If the sidebar (or any other div) is 100% height, and on top you have a 30px header, so that causes your container to be 100% + 30px height.
In the future you will have in css3 calc():
http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/css3-calc/
This will solve your problem.
But for now you can add overflow: hidden; to the html and body section, but I recommend calculate the height of the sidebar ( container height - header height) using Javascript.
Check fiddle here
If you mean the two-column layout, you do it with pure CSS like this:
.container {
background-color: #aaaaaa;
}
.left {
float: left;
width: 100px;
clear: left;
}
.right {
margin-left: 100px;
background-color: #888888;
}
and HTML:
<div class="container">
<div class="left">left</div>
<div class="right">right</div>
</div>
Live demo: jsFiddle
The div on top can be achieved without any special CSS. To place something below (a footer for example), you'll need to use clear: both.
Without any code it is hard to determine what you want. Here is a extremely simple version of what I believe you want.
HTML:
<div id="header">
</div>
<div id="side">
</div>
<div id="content">
</div>
CSS:
#header {
width:100%;
height:50px;
}
#side {
width:300px;
height:100%;
float:left;
}
#content {
width:660px;
height:100%;
float:left;
}
jsFiddle
Im not too great at CSS but hopefully someone on here can help. I have the following mockup. (i have stripped out my content to make it easy to view)
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="header"></div>
<div id="body">
<div id="navBar"></div>
<div id="mainContent"></div>
</div>
<div id="footer"></div>
</div>
</body>
my CSS is as follows:
html,
body {
margin:0;
padding:0;
height:100%;
}
#container {
min-height:100%;
position:relative;
}
#header {
background:#ff0;
padding:10px;
}
#body {
padding:10px;
padding-bottom:60px; /* Height of the footer */
}
#footer {
position:absolute;
bottom:0;
width:100%;
height:60px; /* Height of the footer */
background:#6cf;
}
now im unsure as to how to get the "navBar" to be the page height. I've tried adding height: 100% but that doesnt work.
Thanks,
Matt
Giving an element height: 100% will give it a height equal to that of its containing element, which in your case is #body. Since body in your example is only as big as it needs to be to hold its content, #navBar will be 100% of that height.
To fix this, you can make #container and #body height:100% to make them as tall as tho body tag, which takes up the whole page:
#container {
height:100%
}
#body{
height:100%;
}
In the interest of completeness, you could also set the top and bottom of #navBar:
position: absolute;
top: 20px;
bottom: 60px; /* height of footer */
To understand the difference, play around with This JS Fiddle. Mess around with the height and top, bottom, position properties to see how your changes affect the layout; just don't use both positioning methods at once!
Your issue appears to be that each parent DIV all the way up to the BODY tag must explicitely have a height of 100% for #navBar to have 100% height. This means you would also have to set the height of #body to 100% as well, since it is the parent container of #navBar.
Have a look at this site - I assume you want a two column layout - this site will show you how to do what you want. Hope it helps.