CSS - Make Div Not Push Open Browser Window (creating Scrollbars)
Is there a way I can have a div on my page that does not expand the window area (creating scrollbars) when the browser window is too small?
I ask because I have a three-column layout, but the left and right columns are merely aesthetic-- they hold no content. The center column is 1000px, which is my limit. So if a user has a screen resolution of 1024 pixels wide, I don't want the left and right columns to cause there to be scrollbars. If my far-left and far-right column divs weren't a set width, that would solve my problem-- but then I need multiple background-images, which is only compatible with Safari. I could also make the <body> have "overflow:hidden", getting rid of scrollbars altogether... but then the valuable content on the middle column would be hidden if the browser window is too small-- plus you wouldn't be able to scroll down! Any ideas? Similar TutorialsCan it be done with just CSS? I have a table of data where the text in the data cells wraps and fills the td cell with several lines of text. This is OK when the browser window is a "normal" size, but if someone is viewing with a widescreen monitor I would like the table to get wider and make the cell contents not wrap the text. Or if they are viewing with a small monitor I want it to wrap even more (table would get smaller). Can this be done with CSS, or do I need to do something with javascript? I deleted the other posting as it take too long to work on it and it doesn't work. So, I got the other code from google search and decided to use it. There, I rearrange, redo, customzie the scripts to make it work better. Now I have one problem. See the class "wrapper" that make use of the height. I when I have it set at 100%, the footer extend too far down and the vertical scroll bar appear at the right. This is not what I want. I figure maybe it's because of the float that the browser doesn't know the real height of the header and footer. Can anyone help? I would really apppreciated it. Code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <style type="text/css"> body { margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; background-color: #FFFF00; border-top: 0px solid black; /* Test/Debug, otherwise leave actual table border as 0px */ border-right: 0px solid black; /* Test/Debug, otherwise leave actual table border as 0px */ border-left: 0px solid black; /* Test/Debug, otherwise leave actual table border as 0px */ border-bottom: 0px solid black; /* Test/Debug, otherwise leave actual table border as 0px */ } html { margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; width: 100%; } table { border: 0px solid #000000; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; } #columnleft { margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 10%; height: 100%; /* Required by IE to inherit from wrapper (IE Hack) above */ background-color: #0000FF; border-top: 0px solid black; /* Test/Debug, otherwise leave actual table border as 0px */ border-right: 0px solid black; /* Test/Debug, otherwise leave actual table border as 0px */ border-left: 0px solid black; /* Test/Debug, otherwise leave actual table border as 0px */ border-bottom: 0px solid black; /* Test/Debug, otherwise leave actual table border as 0px */ /* position: absolute; */ float: left; } #columnright { margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 10%; height: 100%; /* Required by IE to inherit from wrapper (IE Hack) above */ background-color: #0000FF; border-top: 0px solid black; /* Test/Debug, otherwise leave actual table border as 0px */ border-right: 0px solid black; /* Test/Debug, otherwise leave actual table border as 0px */ border-left: 0px solid black; /* Test/Debug, otherwise leave actual table border as 0px */ border-bottom: 0px solid black; /* Test/Debug, otherwise leave actual table border as 0px */ /* position: absolute; */ float: right; } #footer { margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 100%; height: 65px; background-color: #FFCC00; border-top: 0px solid black; /* Test/Debug, otherwise leave actual table border as 0px */ border-right: 0px solid black; /* Test/Debug, otherwise leave actual table border as 0px */ border-left: 0px solid black; /* Test/Debug, otherwise leave actual table border as 0px */ border-bottom: 0px solid black; /* Test/Debug, otherwise leave actual table border as 0px */ /* position: relative; */ } #clearfooter { clear: both; } #header { margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 100%; height: 65px; background-color: #FFCC00; border-top: 0px solid black; /* Test/Debug, otherwise leave actual table border as 0px */ border-right: 0px solid black; /* Test/Debug, otherwise leave actual table border as 0px */ border-left: 0px solid black; /* Test/Debug, otherwise leave actual table border as 0px */ border-bottom: 0px solid black; /* Test/Debug, otherwise leave actual table border as 0px */ /* position:relative; */ } #main { margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 79.8%; /* #columnleft + #main + #columnright = 100% width, but take away 0.02% for the #main due to for some browser's inaccurate mathetical rendering, such as 100.1% or 100.2% which cause the Right Column to jump to the bottom, so 99.8 % total width is better as it make the browser's glitch not be that noticeable. Just add some background color to the #wrapper so that the color can match either the #main or #columnright */ height: 100%; /* Required by IE to inherit from wrapper (IE Hack) above */ background-color: #FFFFFF; border-top: 0px solid black; /* Test/Debug, otherwise leave actual table border as 0px */ border-right: 0px solid black; /* Test/Debug, otherwise leave actual table border as 0px */ border-left: 0px solid black; /* Test/Debug, otherwise leave actual table border as 0px */ border-bottom: 0px solid black; /* Test/Debug, otherwise leave actual table border as 0px */ /* position: relative; */ float: left; } #wrapper { margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; /* min-height: 80%; */ /* Might not be needed, it's an IE Hack... */ background-color: #FF0000; border-top: 0px solid black; /* Test/Debug, otherwise leave actual table border as 0px */ border-right: 0px solid black; /* Test/Debug, otherwise leave actual table border as 0px */ border-left: 0px solid black; /* Test/Debug, otherwise leave actual table border as 0px */ border-bottom: 0px solid black; /* Test/Debug, otherwise leave actual table border as 0px */ /* position: relative; */ } /* IE Hack - Layout REQUIRES a height here to work */ /* * html #wrapper {height: 100%;} */ </style> </head> <body> <div id="header">Header Text</div> <div id="wrapper"> <div id="columnleft">Left Text</div> <div id="main">Center Content</div> <div id="columnright">Right Text</div> </div> <div id="clearfooter"></div> <div id="footer">Footer Text</div> </body> </html> Thanks, FletchSOD One of the most common problems i am sure most of us are having it different browsers rendering css in different. What is the best or good way to detect what browser the visitor is using and then give them the right style sheet for their browser? I am unable to use any real server side script like php or .asp Thanks! Good day, I'm hoping to have this content right up against the top of the browser window. I've played around with padding values, but they don't seem to do anything and I'm unsure of what to try next. Any advice appreciated. Code: #sectionHeader { width: 800px; margin-top: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; } Code: <body> <div id="sectionHeader"> <img src="images/header.jpg" alt="Welecome to Doctor Martin's Site" width="800" height="321" border="1" /> </div> </body> I am trying to center a 760x580 DIV box in the center of the browser window (horizontally AND vertically) regardless of the user's screen size. Horizontal centering hasn't been a problem, but I can't figure out how to get the thing to center vertically. Here is my code at the moment: Code: <html> <head> <title>Center a DIV</title> <style type='text/css'> html {height:100%;} body {height:100%; margin:0; padding:0;} #content { position: absolute; right: 0; left: 0; width: 760px; height: 580px; margin: 0 auto; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; background-image: url(grunge_paper.jpg); } img {display: block;} </style> </head> <body bgcolor='black'> <div id='content'> </div> </body> </html> I am not experienced in CSS or any web design for that matter. I am trying to make a very simple web site using CSS and I am being frustrated by some positioning problems. I would appreciate your help! Problem: When I restore the browser window to a smaller size, "things" in my web page start to overlap eachother. The smaller the window, the greater the overlap. What I have done: I have validated everything, guess and checked multiple positioning elements, fiddled with margins, and have browsed through multiple CSS sites looking for help. What I would like fixed: When the browser is in a smaller window, there will be a scrollbar that appears preserving the size of the web page instead of scrunching it all together. Graphical Representation: Full-Screen Smaller Window - Overlapping I Like This - Note the Scrollbar on the bottom Code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"> <title>Chapel</title> <style type="text/css"> @import "layout.css"; </style> </head> <body> <div id="chapell"> <img src="graphics\chapel1.jpg" alt="chapel"> </div> <div id="news"> <a href="news.html"> <img src="graphics\news.jpg" alt="news"> </a> </div> <div id="us"> <a href="index.html"> <img src="graphics\us.jpg" alt="us"> </a> </div> <div id="directions"> <a href="directions.html"> <img src="graphics\directions.jpg" alt="directions"> </a> </div> <div id="contact"> <a href="contact.html"> <img src="graphics\contact.jpg" alt="contact"> </a> </div> <div id="schedule"> <a href="schedule.html"> <img src="graphics\schedule.jpg" alt="schedule"> </a> </div> <div id="myspace"> <a href="http://www.myspace.com" target="_blank"> <img src="graphics\myspace.jpg" alt="myspace"> </a> </div> <div id="art"> <a href="art.html"> <img src="graphics\art.jpg" alt="artistry"> </a> </div> <div id="messages"> <a href="messages.html"> <img src="graphics\messages.jpg" alt="messages"> </a> </div> <div id="scoop"> <img src="graphics\scoop.jpg" alt="scoop"> </div> <div class="roundcont"> <div class="roundtop"> <img src="tl.gif" alt="" width="15" height="15" class="corner" style="display: none" /> </div> <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.</p><br><br> <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.</p> <div class="roundbottom"> <img src="bl.gif" alt="" width="15" height="15" class="corner" style="display: none" /> </div> </div> </body> </html> Code: body { color: white; background-color: #FDF8DF } #chapell img { position: absolute; left: 21.5%; top: 34%; border: none; margin-bottom: 10%; margin-right: 10%; } #news img { position: absolute; left: 20%; top: 38%; border: none; margin-bottom: 10%; margin-right: 10%; } #us img { position: absolute; left: 20%; top: 42%; border: none; margin-bottom: 10%; margin-right: 10%; } #directions img { position: absolute; left: 20%; top: 46%; border: none; margin-bottom: 10%; margin-right: 10%; } #contact img { position: absolute; left: 20%; top: 50%; border: none; margin-bottom: 10%; margin-right: 10%; } #schedule img { position: absolute; left: 20%; top: 54%; border: none; margin-bottom: 10%; margin-right: 10%; } #myspace img { position: absolute; left: 20%; top: 58%; border: none; margin-bottom: 10%; margin-right: 10%; } #art img { position: absolute; left: 20%; top: 62%; border: none; margin-bottom: 10%; margin-right: 10%; } #messages img { position: absolute; left: 20%; top: 66%; border: none; margin-bottom: 10%; margin-right: 10%; } #whoarewe img { position: absolute; left: 37%; top: 25%; } #scoop img { position: absolute; left: 36%; top: 25%; margin-bottom: 10%; margin-right: 10%; } #findus img { position: absolute; left: 40%; top: 25%; } #banter img { position: absolute; left: 32.5%; top: 25%; } #docket img { position: absolute; left: 39%; top: 25%; } #expressions img { position: absolute; left: 37%; top: 25%; } #listen img { position: absolute; left: 39%; top: 25%; } .roundcont { top: 35%; right: 35%; width: 35%; background: white; color: black; position: absolute; margin-left: 10%; margin-top: 0%; } .roundcont p { margin: 0 3%; font: 12px arial, tahoma, serif; } .roundtop { background: url(tr.gif) no-repeat top right; } .roundbottom { background: url(br.gif) no-repeat top right; } img.corner { width: 3%; height: 15px; border: none; display: block !important; } Thank you, Daniel hey all i have a prob....when the browser window is maximised it is fine...however...when i make it a bit smaller the content div shoots off halfway down the page Go Here To See What I Mean the css can be found here any ideas...cus im stumped thanks very much RF works in FireFox, page looks the same no matter how u resize the window: http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/3264/firefoxview.png looks bad in IE: http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/8986/ieview.png css: Code: body { height: 100%; width: 100%; margin: 0; padding: 0; } #content { height: 100%; width: 100%; position:absolute; z-index:2; } img#bg { width:100%; height:100%; position:absolute; z-index:1; } img#titleimg { width:100%; height:100%;/*new*/ } img#mainmenuimg { text-align:center; width:30%; height:100%;/*new*/ } img#analogskillsimg { width:40%; height:60%; } img#programmingimg { float:right; vertical-align:bottom; width:40%; height:60%; } img#analogskillstext { vertical-align:bottom; width:40%; height:100%;/*new*/ } img#programmingtext { float:right; width:40%; height:100%;/*new*/ } table.introlayout { width:100%; height:100%; } td.introtitle { width:100%; height:10%; } td.skillpics { vertical-align:bottom; width:100%; height:70%; } td.skilltext { vertical-align:top; width:100%; height:10%; } td.menu { text-align:center; width:100%; height:10%; } xhtml: Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Patrick Allard's Very Graphic Website</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="main.css" /> </head> <body> <img src="backgroundfire2.gif" alt="background image" id="bg" /> <div id="content"> <table class="introlayout"> <tr> <td class="introtitle"> <img src="titlemaxfontgreyredfire.gif" alt="background image" id="titleimg" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="skillpics"> <img src="analogskillspic.jpg" alt="background image" id="analogskillsimg" /> <img src="programmingpic.jpg" alt="background image" id="programmingimg" /> </td> </tr> <td class="skilltext"> <img src="analogskillsmaxfontblackbluefire.gif" alt="background image" id="analogskillstext" /> <img src="programmingmaxfontblackbluefire.gif" alt="background image" id="programmingtext" /> </td> </tr> <td class="menu"> <img src="mainmenumaxfontblackbluefire.gif" alt="background image" id="mainmenuimg" /> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html> I am trying to get my container to be 100% the height of the browser window but have so far been unsuccessful, and I am not sure what I am doing wrong. Thanks for any help. Code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title>TEST</title> <style type="text/css" media="all"> body { margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #333; font: 13px Trebuchet MS, Lucida Sans Unicode, Arial, sans-serif; background: #EEEEEE; text-align: center; } a { color: #434C3E; } a:hover { color: #F15925; } #container { margin: 0 auto; width: 724px; height:100%; position: relative; background: #fff; padding: 0 10px 0 10px; text-align: left; } * html #container { width: 744px; w\idth: 724px; } #logo { position: absolute; top: 20px; left: 70px; width:94px; height:147px; background-image:url(../images/logo.gif); } h3 { color:#555555; } #top { height: 145px; margin-left:240px; } #container #intro #quickSummary .p1 { font-size: 11px; height: 171px; margin: 0; width: 724px; color: #fff; font: 12px/150% Trebuchet MS; } #container #intro #quickSummary .p1 span { padding: 30px 530px 0 30px; display: block; margin: 0; font: 12px/150% Trebuchet MS; } #text { margin: 20px 20px 0 243px; } #text p { line-height: 150%; margin: 10px 0 10px 0; } #footer { color: #fff; height: 48px; text-align: right; padding: 0 10px 0 0; line-height: 26px; font-size: 11px; } #footer a { color: #fff; text-decoration: none; } #footer a:hover { text-decoration: underline; } </style> </head> <body> <div id="container"> <div id="intro"> <div id="logo"></div> <div id="top"></div> <div id="text"> <h3>Heading number one</h3> <p class="p1">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Etiam arcu purus, sodales volutpat, eleifend ac, semper ut, dolor. Curabitur porttitor suscipit ligula. Sed vehicula mauris non sapien suscipit luctus. Fusce luctus pulvinar lectus. Aenean mi. Pellentesque rutrum nibh ut diam. Mauris porta, lectus sit amet ultricies lobortis, metus mauris semper orci, porta tincidunt neque dui ac magna.</p> <p class="p2">Curabitur nunc. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Vestibulum eu purus ac nisl vestibulum ultrices. Pellentesque lacus. Suspendisse quam risus, hendrerit sit amet, gravida non, dapibus quis, ante.</p> </div> </div> <div id="text"> <h3>Heading Number Two</h3> <p class="p1">Etiam nec metus vestibulum lacus facilisis consectetuer. Cras sed odio. Sed et purus a pede condimentum fermentum. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Integer ornare nisl eu sem.</p> <p class="p2">Nam laoreet, eros non cursus varius, nisi enim pharetra nisi, ut fringilla nisl turpis a diam. Proin ac elit ut nibh nonummy ultrices. Phasellus felis quam, consectetuer in, bibendum et, dictum id, mi. Nunc quis eros id metus auctor volutpat. Nunc diam odio, vehicula a, accumsan a, semper quis, mauris. Ut mauris enim, ultricies sed, viverra non, porta vitae, dui.</p> <div> <h3>Heading Number Three</h3> <p class="p1">Curabitur nunc. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Vestibulum eu purus ac nisl vestibulum ultrices. Pellentesque lacus. Suspendisse quam risus, hendrerit sit amet, gravida non, dapibus quis, ante.</p> </div> </div> <div id="footer">Foo</div> </div><!--end container--> </body> </html> Hi, I have started to reformat my webpage (formally with frames) using css. Needless to say I am a complete newbie. The css file (included below) is an alteration of some layout files I found online. The page looks great (to me at least) using firefox 1.01 but appears like complete crap with IE6. Are there some fairly simple hacks to make this appear good in both browsers? You can view the page at: rhaynes.acadiau.ca/cards/newmywish.php Here is the part of the css file which includes the layout. Code: body { margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: #ccc; } #top { margin: 20px 20px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px solid #000000; background: #FFFFFF; } html>body #top { height: 70px; } #left { position: absolute; top: 110px; left: 0px; margin: 20px; padding: 10px; border: 3px solid #000000; background: #FFFFFF; } html>body #left { width: 210px; } #middle { position: absolute; top: 110px; margin: 20px 20px 20px 270px; padding: 10px; border: 4px solid #000000; background: #FFFFFF; } Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. R Haynes This is a very interesting bug and I have been trying to do a little bit of hacking but with no success here. So, thought anyone of you would know what I'm missing.. The problem here is that it showed up just fine on the webpage but not in Print Preview or Print-Out for IE. Code: <style type="text/css"> divBlackBox1 { margin: 50px auto; padding: 0px; width: 400px; height: 4px; display: block; /* for IE stupidity (to make height work correctly with the correct pixels)... */ font-size: 1pt; /* for IE stupidity (to make the smaller height work due to default font-size)... */ overflow: hidden; /* Problem is that it doesn't work for print preview or print-out in IE... */ background-color: #000000; } </style> <div class="divBlackBox1"></div> Thanks, FletchSOD I'm using The Man in Blue's "footerStickAlt" code to ensure a footer sticks at the bottom of the page even with *short* content. No problem there til I resize my browser window. When the browser window shortened and I scroll down, the footer has jumped up and is concealing part of the menu. Yikes. Pages where the content is longer than the menu are fine, so I haven't uploaded them. It's only when content is shorter than the menu that this issue arises ~ which is the exact issue it's supposed to be tackling! Flaw/s in the code? I've already tried ripping out the horizontal min-widths and it seems there's no conflict there. From what I can make out, it's just a matter between the menu and the footer.... altho, when the browser is shortened in the way I've described the actual footer moves higher than it should be. Still, can't believe it's blueman at fault here. Must be something I've missed or tagged wrong. Or maybe it just doesn't work with this kind of menu? For reference, Blue Man's original code is he http://themaninblue.com/writing/perspective/2005/08/29/ Am just hoping the clever folk here will have some advice. I've burnt the whole day on this to no avail :| heloo geniuses. please to someone helping me for preventing more of the hair pulling out. I am trying to figure out how to repeat a border image, basically to repeat the div holding the wood images on this page: http://greentypeoftube.com/kc/ essentially to have the bottom expand with the user's browser window size. thanks to you for the thinking and the helping of me with it. s oh. also I am hoping for a way to show the scroll buttons only if the text [will be in another div being cropped by the content window}. is there a way to do this with css? I am working much very hard to be more with css to design than just designing it. When I resize the browser window on this page, the text "onclick" and the Cart and Search text stay in one place while the other text and background move. Why is this happening, I need everything to move together. This only seems to be happening IE, FF and Chrome seem fine. http://makethemoviehappen.com/darix.html How to make images that are right aligned with the web page window? Anyone helps? Thanks in advance. I need the video on my site to stretch and contract to the screen size or as small as a cell phone screen and show my whole site smaller. I'm always going to use this header on all the pages on all my sites. I'll either have a photo, video, background image or rss feed underneath. Like google web search engine has but with the same header. I just need everything on the whole page to always resize... streachable video i'm talking about that does this... youtube.com/v/vr3x_RRJdd4 Here's my site I can't get to work... crossroads.site50.net putting a v in the video link doesn't work... This was my first css project done a couple of months ago, and I recently added some functionality to finish it off. A quick check in different browsers and I find its hosed in Mozilla and Opera. Usually this wouldn't be a problem, and normally requires some light adjustment, but this page is just hosed. Opera doesn't even react to adjustments I make. I've got 6 hours into trying to make this cross browser, and nothing works. Even link classes that work in IE/Opera, are completely ignored in Mozilla. I'm assuming if you look at the source you'll be able to see whats going on. I'm trying to break the formatting out of my page to post here for ease of reading, but its taking me some time. The desired effect is acheived in IE. Any opinions, or help would be appreciated! Hello, I've created a wrapper div for my main content and I center it on the page by setting margin left and right to auto. I add some content to it but the height of the wrapper never grows larger than the content. How can I make it so the background color of the wrapper, for example, goes to the bottom of the browser regardless of the amount of content inside of it? Thanks in advance. |