CSS - How To Make Center Div Span The Height Of Browser?

I want to wrap a few items in a container and have them laid out horzontal and not flow vertically. suggestions ?

It seems I get one or the other, but not all.

Hi,

Here's the site I'm working with:
http://www.cjfusion.com

I want to get that image centered on the browser window and then depending on how big the viewers screen is, the browser will cover up the left and the right. I hope that makes sense. I almost want it to be fluid, but I'm unsure how to do that.

Ask questions if this doesnt make sense. Its hard to explain.

-CJ

I have ads on the side of my website that when clicked open a div with a larger ad. The problem is that if a user has scrolled the page down and then clicks the ad, the div shows at the top of the page out of view, how can I fix this. I have tried position:fixed, relative and inherit as well as absolute but nothing works.

Tim

I actually have two problems...

Installing hte firebug plugin for firefox may ease helping me out...

The problem is with http:// kthxbai2u<dot>com

I cant for the life of me center the "content" div. I have tried every method I found on the first 4 pages of Google. The only thing I can think of is that it is inheriting something wierd or I am missing something simple...

The second problem, I can't seem to make the left and right side bar expand to meet up with the footer wayy down at the bottom of the page. I want that div to make a column the whole way down.

If anyone can help me out, it would be more than appreciated!

Thanks

Hi

I'm struggeling with the following:

I have some span elements inside a td.

If I apply padding to a span then the padding is flowing outside the td (above and below the borders of the td).

Why does that happen and is there a way to make the td to autogrow to fit all the span's inside?

Se example code below

Code:

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center" style="width:300px; margin-top:50px;">
<tr>
<td style="background-color:gray; text-align:center; border:1px solid black;">
<span style="margin-right:20px;">First</span>
<span style="margin-right:20px;">1</span>
<span style="margin-right:20px;">2</span>
<span style="margin-right:20px; background-color:orange; padding:10px;">3</span>
<span style="margin-right:20px;">4</span>
<span style="margin-right:20px;">5</span>
<span style="">Last</span>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

******* UPDATE *******
I found this link today:
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=FormattingContexts

which says (among other things):
*************************
Only one thing impacts the vertical space between inline elements: the line height. Normally, the line height is based upon the line height for the text in that line, or the height/padding/border/margin of any replaced items. The element on a line with the largest line height or replaced height is the one to define the vertical space that line takes up.

Height, padding, border or margins on text do not impact the line height or the container height. Instead, borders, padding and margins overlap from line to line. If you want to give an inline text element some padding and border, make sure you give it some extra line height, too, or else it will overlap with whatever else is above or below it.
*************************

So does that rule mean that I have no way to make my TD autogrow in relation to the padding applied to the SPAN in the example above?
Is there any working workarounds for this...?

http://www.webpagedesignrus.co.uk/DECS

Code:

#container {
	margin: auto;
 	width: 100%;
 	display: block;
	text-align: center;
	height: 100%;
}

#middle {
	text-align: left;
	margin: auto;
	width: 600px;
	height: 100%;
	background-color: #FFF;
}

#main {
	margin: auto;
	background-color: #FFF;
	border-left: solid black 1px;
	border-right: solid black 1px;
	width: 650px;
	height: 100%;
	cell-padding: 0px;
	cell-spacing: 0px:
}

I can't get the white part to be 100% height... I need it to go to the bottom of the page... Please help...

How do I get the 'results' div to be 100% in height ?

The page height changes depending on the page being shown so need to have the height of the div to be 100%, but using 100% for the div does not make it 100% !

Any ideas how I do this ?


Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>..</title><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta name="language" content="en" />
<meta name="rating" content="General" />
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow" />
<meta name="revisit-after" content="2 days" />
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="" />
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta http-equiv="content-style-type" content="text/css" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-language" content="en" />

<style type="text/css">
/* div { border: 1px solid blue; } */

body { border: 0px solid #A52A2A; background-color: #F2F2F2; } /* brown */
.outerBody { width: 1150px; margin: 0 auto; }
.bodyContainer { float: left; width: 1150px; padding: 1px 0 5px 0;		border: 0px solid #A52A2A; }

.menu {					float: left; width: 100%; text-align: center; font-size: 15pt; font-family: Broadway; border: 0px solid #EDB6B6; }
.widthLimiter{ width: 100%; margin: 0 auto; }
.menuwidthLimiter{ width: 100%; margin: auto; text-align: center; } /* width: 1200px; */

ul{ list-style: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; }
ul#navbar{ width:auto; list-style: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px auto; height: auto; overflow: hidden; background-color: #F2F2F2; /* white */   display: table; }
ul#navbar li, ul#navbar1 li{ float:left!important; display:inline!important; margin: 0px; }
ul#navbar li a { display:block; float:left;}
a:link,a:visited,a:active{ color: #757575; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; }
a:hover{ color: #222; text-decoration: underline; }
#navbar a:link,#navbar a:active,#navbar a:visited{ display:inline-block; color: #757575; text-decoration: none; border-left: 1px solid #DDD; border-right: 1px solid #DDD;  padding: 8px 3px 8px 3px; /* padding: 10px 20px 10px 20px; */ margin: 0px 4px 0px 4px; /* margin: 0px 5px 0px 5px; */ }
#navbar a:hover{ background: url('images/headerBarBgHover.png') repeat-x center #999999; display:inline-block; color: #222; text-decoration: underline; padding: 8px 3px 8px 3px; /* padding: 10px 20px 10px 20px; */ }

.leftSideImagePanel		{ float: left; width: 30px; height: 100%; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 5px 0 5px; background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 0px solid #999999; }
.specials { float: left; width: 180px; height: 100%; overflow: hidden; margin: 15px 5px 0 5px; padding: 5px; border: 0px solid #999999; background-color: #DADADA; border-radius:18px; } /* light grey */

form{ padding: 0px; margin: 0 auto; }

.outerbodycontainer { float: left; width: 870px; height: 100%;		border: 0px solid green; }
.innerbodycontainer { float: left; width: 870px; height: 100%; border-bottom: 0px solid #EDB6B6; }
.searchCategoryBox {	border-right: 1px solid #EDB6B6; float: left;	width: 130px; height: 100%; padding: 3px 3px 10px 10px; font-size: 9pt; }

.results { 		border: 1px solid #E5E5E5; float: left; width: 713px; height: 100%; padding: 4px 4px 4px 6px; font-size: 9pt; }

hr.smallDivider { color: #EDB6B6; height: 1px; } /* brown = #A52A2A */
.catListLineHeight {	line-height: 12px; }
a.cat { text-decoration: none; }
a.cat:link {	color: #333333; } /* grey */
a.cat:visited {	color: #333333; } /* grey */
a.cat:hover {	color: black; }
a.activeCat:link {	color: blue; text-decoration: none; }

.clearfloat {			clear: both; }
.indent {				padding-left: 40px; }
.center {				text-align: center; }
.centerTitles { text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-size: 12pt; }
</style>
</head>
<body>

<div class="outerBody">



<!-- bodyContainer start -->
<div class="bodyContainer">
<img alt="logo" src="images/header-trans.png" height="79" width="1150" />
	<!-- menu start -->
	<div class="menu">
    <div class="menuwidthLimiter">
      <ul id="navbar">
		<li> <a href="index.php">Home</a> </li>

		<li> <a href="cart.php">Our catalogue</a> </li>
		<li> <a href="cart.php?mycart=yes">View your cart</a> </li>
		<li> <a href="map.php">Store locations</a> </li>
		<li> <a href="contactus.php">Contact us</a> </li>

		<li> <a href="aboutus.php">About us</a> </li>
      </ul>
    </div>
</div>
	<!-- menu end -->
<div class="leftSideImagePanel">
<div style="width: 130px;">&nbsp;</div></div>

<div class="outerbodycontainer">
<!-- innerbodycontainer start -->

<div class="innerbodycontainer">
		<!-- search start -->
			<div class="searchCategoryBox">
<br />text text<br />text text<br />text text<br />text text<br />text text<br />text text<br />text text
<br />text text<br />text text<br />text text<br />text text<br />text text<br />text text<br />text text
<br />text text<br />text text<br />text text<br />text text<br />text text<br />text text<br />text text
<br />text text<br />text text<br />text text<br />text text<br />text text<br />text text<br />text text
<br />text text<br />text text<br />text text<br />text text<br />text text<br />text text<br />text text
  			</div>

		<!-- search end -->

		<!-- results start -->
		<div class="results">
		<br />
<br />text text tetext text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
<br />text text tetext text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
<br />text text tetext text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
<br />text text tetext text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
<br />
<br />wanting the 'results' div to be 100% in height.
		</div>
		<!-- results end -->
		<div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic;"><br />Prices correct at time of upload.&nbsp;&nbsp;Products, descriptions and prices subject to alteration and/or removal.</div>

</div>
<!-- innerbodycontainer end -->
<br class="clearfloat" />

</div>

<div class="rightSideImagePanel">
	<!-- start of specials -->
	<div class="specials">specials</div>
	<!-- end of specials -->
</div>



</div>
<!-- body container end -->
</div><!-- end of outerBody -->
</body>
</html>

i have 2 divs

one is a navigation bar, the other is the pages main contents.

the contents and navigation links changes from page to page so i need a method so if the content is long, the navigation will stretch down long too to be the same height of the content, and the same thing vice versa.

how do i go about doing this?

If you take a look here http://www.challengeyourdiet.com/login

you may notice that the page does not go all the way down on big screens. I would like my footer to automatically fall to the bottom of the page no matter what screen size someone has. Any ideas?

Thanks!

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>

I'm not so CSS savvy, can anyone help me with the specific changes needed here that will force the 3 columns to load height at 100% or full column height?

Also is it possible to have multiple content boxes loading one above the other in the left and right columns instead of one long content box?

jarsandmixes.com/liquid.php





body {
background-color: #FFF7EF;
}

div {
text-align:center;
}

div#wrapper {
background-color: transparent;
border:0px solid black;
margin:0px auto;
text-align:left;
position:relative;
width:100%;
height:100%;
min-height:100%;
}

div#border {
background-image: url(images/bkg2.gif);
background-repeat: repeat;
border-top: 1px solid #000000;
border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;
border-left: 1px solid #000000;
border-right: 1px solid #000000;
width:100%;
height:10px;
}

div#page {
background-color: #DEC6B5;
border:1px dashed black;
position:relative;
clear:both;
float:left;
width:100%;
height:100%;
min-height:100%;
padding-bottom: 10px;
overflow:hidden;
}

div#header {
background-image: url(images/.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
border:1px dashed black;
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
width:100%;
height:80px;
}

div#menu {
clear: both;
background-color: #CA7B93;
border-top: 1px solid #000000;
border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;
border-left: 1px solid #000000;
border-right: 1px solid #000000;
width:100%;
height:30px;
}

div#left1 {
background-image: url(images/bkg2.gif);
background-repeat: repeat;
border:1px solid black;
float:left;
margin:5px;
width:20%;
height:auto;
}

div#left2 {
background-color: #FFF7EF;
background-image: url(images/bkg3.gif);
background-repeat: repeat;
border:1px solid black;
margin:0px 5px 0px 5px;
padding:4px;
right:20px;
width:90%;
height:auto;
}

div#content1 {
background-image: url(images/bkg2.gif);
background-repeat: repeat;
border:1px solid black;
margin:5px auto;
width:54%;
height:auto;
}

div#content2 {
background-color: #DEC6B5;
background-image: url(images/bkg3.gif);
border:1px solid black;
margin:0px 5px 0px 5px;
padding:4px;
width:96%;
height:auto;
}

div#divider {
background-image: url(images/.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
margin:10px auto;
width:439px;
height:60px
}

div#right1 {
background-image: url(images/bkg2.gif);
background-repeat: repeat;
float:right;
border:1px solid black;
margin:5px;
right:10px;
width:20%;
height:auto;
}

div#right2 {
background-color: #FFF7EF;
background-image: url(images/bkg3.gif);
background-repeat: repeat;
border:1px solid black;
margin:0px 5px 0px 5px;
padding:4px;
right:20px;
width:90%;
height:auto;
}

div#footer {
clear: both;
border-top: 1px solid #000000;
border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;
border-left: 1px solid #000000;
border-right: 1px solid #000000;
width:100%;
height:30px;
}

I'm having trouble getting the height to be the same for two divs. One is a big content area (left) and the other is a vertical menu (right) that is created dynamically with PHP. I need the bottom of both divs to line up UNLESS there is a lot of content in the left div that makes the left side taller. (So, if there's not much text in the left content area, it should go ahead and line up with the bottom of the menu.) Is this possible? I'm stumped. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you.

Code:

#content {width: 750px;height: 100%;position: relative;margin: 10px 25px 0 25px;}

/*BEGIN LOCATION PAGES MINIMUM HEIGHT STYLES*/
/* for Mozilla/Safari/Opera */
*>.boxContent {padding-top: 900px;min-height: 1px;}
*>#locDoctors, .locInfoMap {margin-top: -900px;}
/* for IE, with IE5/Mac backslash filter \*/
* html .boxContent {height: 900px;}
/* end filter */
/*END LOCATION PAGES MINIMUM HEIGHT STYLES*/

/*BEGIN LOCATION BOX*/
#locationBox {background-image: url(../images/location/pgBotLocation.gif);background-repeat: no-repeat;width: 614px;height:810px;position: relative;background-position: bottom;background-color: #DDF0F2;}
#locationBox .boxTop {background-image: url(../images/location/pgTopLocation.gif);background-repeat: no-repeat;width: 100%;height: 20px;}
#locationBox .locInfoMap {width: 100%;height: 408px;background-image: url(../images/location/mapLarge.gif);background-repeat: no-repeat;background-position: top right;}
#locationBox .boxBot {background-image: url(../images/location/pgBotLocation.gif);background-repeat: no-repeat;width: 100%;height: 15px;}
/*END LOCATION BOX*/

/*LOCATION MENU START*/
#locationMenu {width: 136px;position: absolute;z-index: 10;right: 0px;}
#locMenuList {margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 9px;list-style: none;}
#locMenuList li {margin: 0;padding: 0;display: inline;}
#locMenuList li.main {height: 30px;height /**/: 30px;/* for IE5/Win only */ }
#locMenuList li.sub {height: 20px;height /**/: 20px;/* for IE5/Win only */ }
#locMenuList li a {text-decoration: none;color: #FFFFFF;}
#locMenuList li.locHead {display: block;margin: 0;padding: 10px 9px 9px;font-weight: 900;color: #FFFFFF;}
...
/*LOCATION MENU END*/

Code:

<div id="content"><!--CONTENT SECTION START-->
   PHP MENU IS CREATED HERE...
   <div id="locationBox"><!--OPEN BOX-->
      <div class="boxTop"></div>
      <div class="boxContent">
         <div class="locInfoMap">
            MAIN CONTENT GOES HERE...
         </div>
      </div>
   </div><!--CLOSE BOX-->
</div><!--CONTENT SECTION END-->