I have a navigation bar on the left hand side of my page, and I want it to stretch to 100% of the page height. Not just the height of the viewport, but including the areas hidden until you scroll. I don't want to use javascript to accomplish this.
Can it be done in HTML/CSS?
Here is the solution I finally came up with when using a div as a container for a dynamic background.
Remove the z-index for non-background uses.
Remove left or right for a full height column.
Remove top or bottom for a full width row.
EDIT 1: CSS below has been edited because it did not show correctly in FF and Chrome. moved position:relative to be on the HTML and set the body to height:100% instead of min-height:100%.
EDIT 2: Added extra comments to CSS. Added some more instructions above.
The CSS:
html{
min-height:100%;/* make sure it is at least as tall as the viewport */
position:relative;
}
body{
height:100%; /* force the BODY element to match the height of the HTML element */
}
#cloud-container{
position:absolute;
top:0;
bottom:0;
left:0;
right:0;
overflow:hidden;
z-index:-1; /* Remove this line if it's not going to be a background! */
}
The html:
<!doctype html>
<html>
<body>
<div id="cloud-container"></div>
</body>
</html>
Why?
html{min-height:100%;position:relative;}
Without this the cloud-container DIV is removed from the HTML's layout context. position: relative ensures that the DIV remains inside the HTML box when it is drawn so that bottom:0 refers to the bottom of the HTML box. You can also use height:100% on the cloud-container as it now refers to the height of the HTML tag and not the viewport.
With HTML5, the easiest way is simply to do height: 100vh. Where 'vh' stands for viewport height of the browser window. Responsive to resizing of browser and mobile devices.
I had a similar problem and the solution was to do this:
#cloud-container{
position:absolute;
top:0;
bottom:0;
}
I wanted a page-centered div with height 100% of page height, so my total solution was:
#cloud-container{
position:absolute;
top:0;
bottom:0;
left:0;
right:0;
width: XXXpx; /*otherwise div defaults to page width*/
margin: 0 auto; /*horizontally centers div*/
}
You might need to make a parent element (or simply 'body') have position: relative;
You can cheat using Faux Columns
Or you can use some CSS trickery
Use position absolute. Note that this isn't how we are generally used to using position absolute which requires manually laying things out or having floating dialogs. This will automatically stretch when you resize the window or the content. I believe that this requires standards mode but will work in IE6 and above.
Just replace the div with id 'thecontent' with your content (the specified height there is just for illustration, you don't have to specify a height on the actual content.
<div style="position: relative; width: 100%;">
<div style="position: absolute; left: 0px; right: 33%; bottom: 0px; top: 0px; background-color: blue; width: 33%;" id="navbar">nav bar</div>
<div style="position: relative; left: 33%; width: 66%; background-color: yellow;" id="content">
<div style="height: 10000px;" id="thecontent"></div>
</div>
</div>
The way that this works is that the outer div acts as a reference point for the nav bar. The outer div is stretched out by the content of the 'content' div. The nav bar uses absolute positioning to stretch itself out to the height of its parent. For the horizontal alignment we make the content div offset itself by the same width of the navbar.
This is made much easier with CSS3 flex box model, but that's not available in IE yet and has some of it's own quirks.
I ran into the same problem as you. I wanted to make a DIV as background, why, because its easy to manipulate div through javascript. Anyways three things I did in the css for that div.
CSS:
{
position:absolute;
display:block;
height:100%;
width:100%;
top:0px;
left:0px;
z-index:-1;
}
It's simple using a table:
<html>
<head>
<title>100% Height test</title>
</head>
<body>
<table style="float: left; height: 100%; width: 200px; border: 1px solid red">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Nav area</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<div style="border: 1px solid green;">Content blabla... text
<br /> text
<br /> text
<br /> text
<br />
</div>
</body>
</html>
When DIV was introduced, people were so afraid of tables that the poor DIV became the metaphorical hammer.
I want to cover the whole web page before prompting a modal popup. I tried many methods using CSS and Javascript but none of them help until I figure out the following solution. It works for me, I hope it helps you too.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
html, body {
margin: 0px 0px;
height 100%;
}
div.full-page {
position: fixed;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
background-color: #000;
opacity:0.8;
overflow-y: hidden;
overflow-x: hidden;
}
div.full-page div.avoid-content-highlight {
position: relative;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
div.modal-popup {
position: fixed;
top: 20%;
bottom: 20%;
left: 30%;
right: 30%;
background-color: #FFF;
border: 1px solid #000;
}
</style>
<script>
// Polling for the sake of my intern tests
var interval = setInterval(function() {
if(document.readyState === 'complete') {
clearInterval(interval);
isReady();
}
}, 1000);
function isReady() {
document.getElementById('btn1').disabled = false;
document.getElementById('btn2').disabled = false;
// disable scrolling
document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].style.overflow = 'hidden';
}
function promptModalPopup() {
document.getElementById("div1").style.visibility = 'visible';
document.getElementById("div2").style.visibility = 'visible';
// disable scrolling
document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].style.overflow = 'hidden';
}
function closeModalPopup() {
document.getElementById("div2").style.visibility = 'hidden';
document.getElementById("div1").style.visibility = 'hidden';
// enable scrolling
document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].style.overflow = 'scroll';
}
</script>
</head>
<body id="body">
<div id="div1" class="full-page">
<div class="avoid-content-highlight">
</div>
</div>
<button id="btn1" onclick="promptModalPopup()" disabled>Prompt Modal Popup</button>
<div id="demo">
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
<h2>Original content</h2>
</div>
<div id="div2" class="modal-popup">
I am on top of all other containers
<button id="btn2" onclick="closeModalPopup()" disabled>Close</button>
<div>
</body>
</html>
Good luck ;-)
* {
margin: 0;
}
html, body {
height: 90%;
}
.content {
min-height: 100%;
height: auto !important;
height: 100%;
margin: 0 auto ;
}
If you are targeting more modern browsers, life can be very simple.
try:
.elem{
height: 100vh;
}
if you need it at 50% of the page, replace 100 with 50.
document.body.onload = function () {
var textcontrol = document.getElementById("page");
textcontrol.style.height = (window.innerHeight) + 'px';
}
<html>
<head><title></title></head>
<body>
<div id="page" style="background:green;">
</div>
</body>
</html>
This is how you can make your side nav as tall as the page content, without having to change the body to be flex or table.
Don't set html or body to height 100%, because that will make it only as tall as the browser viewport, and the page will be overflowing that, and your nav will only be as tall as the viewport.
Just set your nav to height:100% position:absolute with the html tag position:relative.
The reason this works is because height 100% only works if its container is fixed height, with the exception (for some reason) the html tag.
<html style='position:relative'>
<body style='margin:0'>
<div style='height:100%; position:absolute; top:0; background:linear-gradient(to bottom,red,green); border:2px solid blue'>
nav
</div>
<div style='font-size:99px;padding:33px'>
I want my side div to be as tall as the page content.<br />
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I want my side div to be as tall as the page content.<br />
I want my side div to be as tall as the page content.<br />
I want my side div to be as tall as the page content.<br />
I want my side div to be as tall as the page content.<br />
I want my side div to be as tall as the page content.<br />
I want my side div to be as tall as the page content.<br />
I want my side div to be as tall as the page content.<br />
I want my side div to be as tall as the page content.<br />
</div>
</body>
</html>
This code works but not fully supports:
height: 100svmax;
Browsers support
Edit
Sorry, old answer is not correct..
i have tried all viewport units
but the only solution work using javascript here
Simple, just wrap it up in a table div...
The HTML:
<div class="fake-table">
<div class="left-side">
some text
</div>
<div class="right-side">
My Navigation or something
</div>
</div>
The CSS:
<style>
.fake-table{display:table;width:100%;height:100%;}
.left-size{width:30%;height:100%;}
.left-size{width:70%;height:100%;}
</style>
I succeeded with
min-height: 100vh
for both, the menu and content div.
Related
I am having an issue with my divs moving when the page is resized. If you look at the plunker you will see a Header with boxes below. If you resize the workspace by dragging the scroll bar to the left you will see how the page should be. I tried wrapping all items in 1 div named wrapper and tried both relative and absolute positioning with a min-width. I also did the same for body. After inspecting the page with firebug looks like the html tag should have sizing or positioning. That didn't work either (see below). I would like to be able to minimize my screen to 50% and maximize to 250% and keep the same initial layout as if my screen is at 95% based on the wrapper. Any ideas?
Here's plnkr
<html>
body, html{margin:0px; padding:0px; width:100%; min-width: 900px; position:relative}
div.wrapper{ width:95%; min-width: 900px; padding-left: 6px; padding-top:5px; position: relative; }
<body>
<div class="wrapper" >
<div id="header">
<img align="left" style="padding-left:10px; padding-top:5px; width: 80px; height: 65px"><h1> Header</h1>
</div>
<div class="left"></div>
<div class="right"></div>
</div> <!--end wrapper -->
</body>
</html>
you could use percentage and fix min-wheight + set overflow to auto (looks like frameset .. not so nice actually)
Or you could try to relay on box-sizing and use vertical padding on percentage value(it will use parent's width as reference).
floatting pseudo can then, be used and will allow divs to grow taller instead showing a scrollbar.
. {
box-sizing:border-box;
}
.wrapper {
max-width:1300px;
margin:auto; /* ?*/
}
.wrapper #header ~ div {
border:double;
margin:0.4% 0.2%;
padding:5px;
}
#header, .right, .rightbottom {
overflow:hidden;
}
.left {
float:left;
width:30%;
}
.left:before {
content:'';
float:left;
padding-top:204.5%;
}
.right:before, .rightbottom:before {
content:'';
padding-top:30%;
float:left;
}
.wrapper #header ~ div.rightbottom {
border:solid 1px;
}
.rightbottom:before {
padding-top:60%;
}
<div class="wrapper" >
<div id="header">
<img align="left" style="padding-left:10px; padding-top:5px; width: 80px; height: 65px"><h1> Header</h1>
</div>
<div class="left">
</div>
<div class="right" >
<div class="gridStyle" data-ng-grid="gridOptions1">grid</div>
</div>
<div class="rightbottom">right bottom</div>
</div>
http://plnkr.co/edit/K1yOpBOfX3ukqHX7f2oa?p=preview
I'm not too sure of what kind of behavior you look for once there is real stuff in your pages.
If you want the header and the two divs to always have their own row, perhaps you could contain them each in divs that are set to width: 100%?
On load I'd like to load the topsection div with a bg image and have it take up the entire screen, but then I have content below it which you can scroll down to. The div should size itself to the window screen only on load and not remain like that on scrolldown. I cannot give the div a position:absolute; either.
I'm banging my head on this one. I've tried a ton of different things
Here is my html:
<div id="topsection" class="row bgimage ">
<div id="logomain" class="mainlogo ">
<div class=" floorplanbuttoncontainer helvetical">
<ul>
<li>Residence A - Duplex</li>
<li>
Residence D - Simplex</li>
</ul>
</div><!-- end floorplanbuttoncontainer -->
</div><!-- end logomain -->
Here is my css for the background image:
.bgimage {
background: url(images/image.jpg) no-repeat center center fixed;
background-size: cover;
.mainlogo {
margin:0 auto;text-align:center;width:100%;height:488px; /*I think this height is messing things up */
background-image:url(images/picture.png);background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position: center;
}
In order to set a div to take up the entire screen you need to set the height of the body and html element to 100%. You also have to remove the padding and margin from them. Then you create a wrapper class to encase your content and assign it your background-image. Then all ya' gotta do is create the content below your full screen image to scroll into!
Fiddle
Edit
If you run the snippet below and hit full page you can see how it works.
body, html {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
.wrapper {
min-height: 100%;
background: red;
}
.full {
width: 100%;
}
.footerThing {
width: 100%;
height: 200px;
background: blue;
}
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="full">
asd
</div>
</div>
<div class="footerThing">
</div>
Modern browsers: a simple way is to use vh units to get the Viewport Height
Just to simplify: jsBin demo
<div id="home" class="container full">
<h1>HOME</h1>
</div>
<div id="about" class="container">
<h1>About us</h1>
<p>Content</p>
</div>
CSS:
.container { min-height:400px; }
.full { height:100vh; }
Crossbrowser: use % instead of vh and simply add html, body{height:100%;} jsBin demo
Below I have some HTML code. Everything is positioned relative apart from contentRow which is positioned absolutely. This is making the footer stick to where the browser window ends and not where the scroll bar ends.
Is there any way I can make the footer go down to the very bottom where the scroll bar ends.
<div id="s4-workspace" style="width: 1920px; height: 748px; overflow:scroll">
<div id="s4-bodyContainer" style="position:relative">
<div class="headerSection" style="position:relative">
<div class="globalHeader">
</div>
</div>
<div>
<div id="contentRow" style="position:relative">
<div class="fixedWidthMain" style="position:relative">
<div class="fixedWidthMain" style="position:absolute">
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<!--PAGE FOOTER SECTION-->
<div class="pageFooterSection" style="clear: both;position:relative">
</div>
</div>
Theres a few available flavours of the solution for this but they basically go something like this.
EXAMPLE
html {
position: relative;
min-height: 100%;
}
body {
margin: 0 0 100px; /* bottom = footer height */
}
footer {
position: absolute;
left: 0;
bottom: 0;
height: 100px;
width: 100%;
}
a point to remember is that height of elements in html are always passed through the parent. so if you dont define height 100% on a parent the child won't know either. Good luck and let me know if you have any other issues :)
SOURCE
http://mystrd.at/modern-clean-css-sticky-footer/
If I'm understanding correctly, you could make s4-bodyContainer position:relative so that the contentRow is only positioned absolutely within that container. Then footer would go below the bodyContainer.
How would i make my middle div take the remaining space left in width, but still staying in its place beside the 2 other divs?
Also if i remove either of the 2 divs on the sides, the main div should just take what space there is left?
Code:
<div class="row-fluid">
<div class="span12">
<div class="sidebar">1</div>
<div class="content-box">2</div>
<div class="sidebar">3</div>
</div>
</div>
http://jsfiddle.net/U3Hr5/2/
My suggestion is using a table since you want all of them to be on the same row but with their own heights.
Html:
<div class="row-fluid">
<table style="width: 100%">
<tr>
<td class="sidebar">1</td>
<td class="content-box">2</td>
<td class="sidebar">3</td>
</tr>
</table>
Css:
.sidebar {
width:225px;
background-color:blue;
}
.content-box {
background-color:red;
}
Here is the fiddle edit:
http://jsfiddle.net/mDpEX/
//Flipbed
If you don't want to use table for layout, you can make use of css3 display table, table-cell properties,
#container {
display: table;
width: 100%;
}
#left, #middle, #right {
display: table-cell;
height: 100px;
}
#left, #right {
width: 150px;
background: green;
}
#middle {
background: gray;
}
<div id="container">
<div id="left"></div>
<div id="middle"></div>
<div id="right"></div>
</div>
jsfiddle
More on css display properties
I assume you want something like this.
The HTML:
<div class="row-fluid">
<div class="span12">
<div class="sidebar">1</div>
<div class="content-box">2</div>
<div class="sidebar">3</div>
</div>
</div>
The CSS:
.sidebar {
float:left;
width:225px;
background-color:blue;
}
.content-box {
clear:left;
background-color:red;
width:225px;
}
Hope this helps.
Actually i didn't get your question correctly. If you are looking to align your div on to the remaining space after your first div ie after sidebar div simply put width of content-box as 50%(or the size you want).
It depends upon how much you want the layout to respond to resizing without using JavaScript and what browsers you're trying to cater for. If your layout is essentially static and you just want to respond to width changes then you can use something like this.
http://jsfiddle.net/U3Hr5/4/
HTML
<div class="row-fluid">
<div class="span12">
<div class="left sidebar">1</div>
<div class="content-box">2</div>
<div class="right sidebar">3</div>
</div>
</div>
CSS
.span12 {
position: relative;
}
.sidebar {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
width: 225px;
background-color:blue;
}
.left{left: 0;}
.right{right:0}
.content-box {
margin-left: 225px;
margin-right: 225px;
background-color:red;
}
You can try something like this http://jsfiddle.net/kKGVr/
Basically, if you don't wrap the content in a containing div it will expand to fill the available space - you can test this by removing the divs called #left or #right. This will also allow you to add a footer because no absolute positioning is used.
It will fall down, however, if the central column becomes longer than the side columns... solution? Not sure, perhaps use javascript to adjust the height of the side columns so they are always at least as long as the central column.
HTML:
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="right">...</div>
<div id="left">...</div>
content here
</div>
and CSS:
#left{width: 200px;background:#f00;float:left}
#right{width:200px;background:#0f0;float:right}
I am trying to create a CSS-based layout that has:
- A dynamically sized banner.
- A content area that should use all available space.
- A footer that aligns against the bottom of the page.
Currently, I have this. However, my challenge is working in the content area. Within the content area, I need to show:
- A dynamically sized header.
- A content area that uses all available space.
- A footer that aligns at the bottom of the content area, but above the footer mentioned above.
Altogether, I want to create a screen that looks like this:
+------------------------------------+
| Banner |
| |
|------------------------------------|
| Header |
|------------------------------------|
| Some Content |
| This needs to be dynamically sized |
| to fill all remaining content |
|-------------------------------------
| Toolbar |
|------------------------------------|
| Footer |
+------------------------------------+
Currently, I have the following
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title></title>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.1.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<style type="text/css">
html, body{
height: 100%;
overflow: hidden;
}
body {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
font-size: .85em;
font-family: Arial, Verdana;
color: #232323;
background-color: #fff;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="banner" style="width:100%; background-color:Black; color:White;">[Banner]</div>
<div id="content" style="width:100%; height:100%; background-color:Gray; margin:0px 8px 0px 8px;">
<h2>Header</h2>
<div id="contentArea">
<div id="mainContent" style="background-color:Silver;">The main content goes here.</div>
</div>
<div id="toolbar" style="padding:8px 0px 8px 8px;">
<input type="button" id="refreshButton" value="Refresh" />
<input type="button" id="addButton" value="Add" />
</div>
</div>
<div id="statusBar" style="background-color:black; color:White; width:100%; position:fixed; bottom:0;">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width:100%;">
<tr>
<td style="width:33%;">Info</td>
<td style="text-align:center; width:34%;">Message</td>
<td style="text-align:right; width:33%;">Miscellaneous</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</body>
</html>
This screen does not render as desired though. From what I can tell, when I set the "content" div height to 100%, it means 100% of the entire screen. In addition, I can't seem to get the "contentArea" div to take up the remaining space, nor can I get the toolbar to be aligned to the bottom. What am I doing wrong? How do I accomplish this?
This "sticky footer" technique should help with your footer problems. It will make it stick to the bottom, but will not overlap content like a position:absolute will if the page scrolls.
http://ryanfait.com/sticky-footer/
I believe you are asking how to make a side bar and the content section of a webpage appear to be equal in height without concern for the actual height of the content in either of the aforementioned div sections. If this is true, I believe I have what I perceive to be an easy answer to your dilemma.
Using HTML 5 and CSS 3, this is my proposal.
Starting with the CSS:
body{/*enter in your parameters */ }
.container{/*this div surrounds all the other divs and allows you to give percentage based widths in subsequent divs*/ max-width: 1000px; min-width: 760px; maergin: 0, auto, 0, auto; background-color: #000;}
.extraheight{float: left; width: 100%; height: 100%; background-color: #ccc;}
.header{width: 100%; color: #FFF; background-color: #00f; /*just for demo purposes*/ }
.sidebar{float: left; width: 30%; background-color: #ccc; /*match the background of the extraheight div*/ }
.content{float: left; width: 70%; background-color: #ccc; /*matches extraheight and siderbar colors */ }
.footer{color: #FFF; /* must make sure you clear the floats above */ position: relative; /* IE6 to properly clear */ clear: both; /* this clear property forces the .container to understand where the columns end and contain them */ }
Some basic HTML Using the above CSS to illustrate how it works:
<div class="container">
<div class="extraheight">
<div class="header"><h1>THIS IS MY WEBSITE</h1></div>
<div class="sidebar">
<p>This where you put your feed or whatever sidebar content you desire</p>
</div><!-- ENDS SIDEBAR -->
<div class="content">
<h2>This is where you place your content</h2>
<p>My site is the product of my effort and desire to provide each user with an enjoyable visit. We strive to exceed expectation without comprimising any needs. Check back often as our content is constantly changing.</p>
</div><!-- ENDS CONTENT -->
</div><!-- ENDS EXTRAHEIGHT -->
<div class="footer"><p>Put your footer content here</p></div>
</div><!-- ENDS CONTAINER -->
I don't have enough points yet to provide you with screenshots of how the page displays but I encourage you to give it a try. Most important issue to is to either make the extraheight div the background you want for the sidebar and content divs while making the background transparent in those divs or to make the sidebar and content divs the same background as the extraheight div. The latter being very easy when a solid color is used as the background but the former is necessary with a background that is any but extremely basic.
I hope this provided you with at least a portion of the information you were interested in when you posted. I am still trying to learn how to properly interpret the questions asked by our colleagues that post to this forum. Alas, I am new to this forum, but a quick learner!
Best wishes and success,
Steve K