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CSS - Div Height To Fit Children
I am converting a working table layout to a better div layout.
One problem is that the height of the rows, which in a table layout would effectively be the height of the tallest cell, is being set to 0 in my divs. I basically have this nested structure Code:
<div id="tabl" style="position:absolute;">
<!-- not important, this is basically a container div--!>
<div class="row" style="position:relative;">
<!-- important, relative is the only way i know
how to arrange children by % values --!>
<div class="cola" style="position:absolute; left:25%; width:25%;">
</div>
<div class="colb" style="position:absolute; left:50%; width:25%;">
</div>
<!-- more cells --!>
</div><!--closes the row --!>
<div class="row"><!-- same as above, the structure repeats--!>
</div>
</div>
that's not a copy/paste of the actual code, just an adaptation highlighting what's important. The columns align perfectly, the problem is that the height of the rows is 0, and so the rows all overlap. Setting the height of row to 100px proved this basically. I could set height to a value large enough so that overlapping becomes unlikely, but I would much prefer to have the height automatically assume the value of the height of the tallest child, much like auto, but available to an element whose position is relative. if you want to see a live model of the actual code you can see it at: http://www.drfool.net/test/articles/ As you can see, the rows overlap. If there is no way to solve this problem in the way I described, I'm open to suggestions (so long as they don't involve table layout and/or something silly like frames) thank you PS, it's 5 in the morning and I'm going to sleep. I'll verify any suggestions in the afternoon when I wake up. Side note, that entire wing of the website is basically dead, so no need to tell me "the links don't work, the images don't load" UPDATE: Ha ha, the code works exactly as desired in IE (IE ignores height:100px, which is actually what I wanted in this case, to demonstrate my problem, irony) but not in FF3, which is my target browser. UPDATE: made the code more clear Similar TutorialsThis seems odd to me to even bother putting this up here, as I'm guessing it is a simple fix. I'm familiar with css and html, so I hate to post this, but it is a pressing matter that I'm drawing a blank on. I'll post the HTML and CSS below, as I don't have a live location I can place it as an example. Hopefully someone will pop open dreamweaver and take a few minutes to help me out The div 'main' contains the divs 'rightColumnPartners' , 'mainContentPartners', and 'leftColumn'. However, main does not push down to contain the content of those children divs. Maybe I'm missing something elementary and simple, but it seems considering main encompasses these divs, it should stretch downways to contain the content within them. Below is the HTML and CSS, again I apologize for not having an example page up, but it is pretty basic and should be easy to visualize. ---------------- <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <link href="main.css" media="all" rel="Stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="keywords" content=""> <meta name="description" content=""> <title>Test</title> </head> <body> <div id="topSection"> </div> <!--close of topSection --> <div id="header"> <div id="mainnavigation"> </div> <!--close of mainnavigation --> </div> <!--close of header --> <div id="main"> <p>test</p> <p>test</p> <p>test</p> <p>test</p> <p>test</p> <p>test</p> <div id="leftColumn"> </div> <!--close of leftColumn --> <div id="rightColumnPartners"> <div id="mainContentPartners"> <h2 class="darkHeader"> Partners </h2><br /> <h2 class="darkDescriptionBold">Filler Partner </h2> <h2 class="darkDescriptionPartners">This would be the first partner and the information that pertains to them. Fill this spot with appropriate descriptive content and possibly contact information for the partner.</h2> <br /> <h2 class="darkDescriptionBold">Filler Partner Two</h2> <h2 class="darkDescriptionPartners">This would be the first partner and the information that pertains to them. Fill this spot with appropriate descriptive content and possibly contact information for the partner.</h2> <br /> <h2 class="darkDescriptionBold">Filler Partner Three</h2> <h2 class="darkDescriptionPartners">This would be the first partner and the information that pertains to them. Fill this spot with appropriate descriptive content and possibly contact information for the partner.</h2> <br /> <h2 class="darkDescriptionBold">Filler Partner Four</h2> <h2 class="darkDescriptionPartners">This would be the first partner and the information that pertains to them. Fill this spot with appropriate descriptive content and possibly contact information for the partner.</h2> <br /> <h2 class="darkDescriptionBold">Filler Partner Five</h2> <h2 class="darkDescriptionPartners">This would be the first partner and the information that pertains to them. Fill this spot with appropriate descriptive content and possibly contact information for the partner.</h2> <br /> <h2 class="darkDescriptionBold">Filler Partner </h2> <h2 class="darkDescriptionPartners">This would be the first partner and the information that pertains to them. Fill this spot with appropriate descriptive content and possibly contact information for the partner.</h2> <br /> <h2 class="darkDescriptionBold">Filler Partner Two</h2> <h2 class="darkDescriptionPartners">This would be the first partner and the information that pertains to them. Fill this spot with appropriate descriptive content and possibly contact information for the partner.</h2> <br /> <h2 class="darkDescriptionBold">Filler Partner Three</h2> <h2 class="darkDescriptionPartners">This would be the first partner and the information that pertains to them. Fill this spot with appropriate descriptive content and possibly contact information for the partner.</h2> <br /> <h2 class="darkDescriptionBold">Filler Partner Four</h2> <h2 class="darkDescriptionPartners">This would be the first partner and the information that pertains to them. Fill this spot with appropriate descriptive content and possibly contact information for the partner.</h2> <br /> <h2 class="darkDescriptionBold">Filler Partner Five</h2> <h2 class="darkDescriptionPartners">This would be the first partner and the information that pertains to them. Fill this spot with appropriate descriptive content and possibly contact information for the partner.</h2> <br /> </div><!--close of mainContentPartners --> </div> <!--close of rightColumnPartners --> </div> <!--close of main --> <div id="footer"> </div> <!--close of footer --> </body> </html> ---------------- @charset "UTF-8"; /* CSS Document */ /**********************/ /* CONSISTENCY CODE */ /**********************/ * { margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 24px; } /**********************/ /* POSITIONING CODE */ /**********************/ #mainnavigation { background: #1E0F08; height: 36px; width: 100%; } body { height:100%; background: url(bg_gradient.jpg) SaddleBrown repeat-x; } #homecontainer { width: 100%; height: 100%; /*height: auto;*/ position:relative; } #topSection { width: 1000px; height: 30px; background: #754221; margin: auto auto; border-width: medium; border-color: #432306; border-left-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; } #header { background: url(header_bg.jpg) repeat-x bottom; height: 123px; border-width: thin; border-color: #d29553; border-top-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; } #titleimage { margin-top: 0px; padding-left:0px; float: left; left: 0; position: absolute; } #main { width: 1000px; /*background: #703b1b;*/ background: red; margin: 0 auto; border-width: medium; border-color: #432306; border-left-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; clear:both; } #leftColumn { width: 20%; margin-left: 0px; position: relative; background: black; height: 100%; height:600px; border-width: medium; border-color: #432306; border-right-style: solid; float: left; } #rightColumnPartners { width: 70%; float: left; background: white; } #mainContent { margin: 40px auto 0; background: url(../images/solutionsProven.jpg) no-repeat; width: 619px; } #mainContentPartners { margin: 40px auto 0px; /*background: url(emptybackground.jpg) no-repeat #FFDFB9;*/ width: 611px; background: blue; } #footer { background: #190B08 ; height:67px; border-width: thin; border-color: #d29553; border-top-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; position:relative; clear:both; } .darkHeader { color: #edbb8a; font-size: 90%; font-family: "Arial","Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; padding-left: 15px; padding-top: 10px; } .darkDescriptionBold { color: white; font-size: 14px; font-family: "arial","helvetica",sans-serif; font-weight: 800; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 15px; width: 90%; } .darkDescriptionPartners { color: white; font-size: 12px; font-family: "arial","helvetica",sans-serif; font-weight: 200; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 15px; width: 70%; } ----------------- Thanks again. ~SS Pretty much what the title says. I have a parent div that I fill up up floating div's using javascript, but the parent won't grow. Only ie7 is a problem. To see the problem... Link is here... http://esteemforthehome.stealthwd.c...electedPageID=7 Add a couple products to the cart, click on "View Cart"... Filling in shipping info and click "Calculate Shipping". Its the "viewCartShippingOptions" div that doesn't expand. Thanks in advance hello, this will perhaps sound like a crazy thing to do, but i am trying to style my nested list(s) in order for the 'category' to appear below its children. so rather than having, for example sport football cricket formula one i have football cricket formula one sport the reason for trying this is that i am hoping to display my lists at various positions along a base line (over a bg image) and certain positions within the image require the category name to be under the 'children'. is it possible though? i tried making the inner list's position to be relative and adjusting the top position to -20 etc but of course this brings the children up rather than push the category down. here is an example of my nested list Code: <ul> <li>sport <ul class="up"> <li>football</li> <li>f1</li> </ul> </li> <li>music <ul class="up"> <li>stuff</li> <li>stuff2</li> </ul> </li> </ul> it probably isn't possible but i thought i would ask before giving up on the idea completely. thank you for your time Greetings, friends! I have a quick question about CSS. I am fairly versed in CSS 2.0 and the selectors that are used within. However, I am not sure if any specific type of selector is available to help me do what I want. I am looking for a selector that will define styles for an element that contains specific children. To give you an example, let's say that I have an image on my page. That image is assigned the class of "alignleft". Now, let's say that I make that image into a link. I would like to find a CSS selector that allows me to assign style definitions to that link. Let's say my code looks like: Code: <a href="http://www.example.com/"><img src="example-pic.png" class="alignleft" alt="Example Picture" /></a> Now, I know if it was the other way around: Code: <a class="alignleft" href="http://www.example.com/"><img src="example-pic.png" alt="Example Picture" /></a> I could use something like: Code: .alignleft > img However, I am not sure if there is any way to go up a level in CSS. I would envision it looking something like: Code: a < img.alignleft but I can't find anything in the CSS spec that refers to instances like that. Does anyone know of anything? For instance, I would want a spec that looks something like: Quote: E < F - Matches any E element that is the parent of an element F. The specific reason I'm looking for something like this is that I am using the class of "external" to assign a background image to all of my links that lead away from our Web site. However, if that link is an image rather than text, I want to set the background of my link to "none" so that the background image does not interfere with the image itself. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Hi all, I am trying to automate everything on my test website and I have one more angle to cover. In effect, I want to adjust the line-height property (which I can do) based on the number of files within a specific folder (PHP and already done). The more files in the folder, the lower the line-height value must be. This is to ensure if I copy additional files into the folder, then the navigation menu (which is PHP reading files in this particular folder) will alter the CSS line-height property accordingly to ensure it can never exceed a certain height. Sounds wierd? go to www.re3.org.uk (next to the RE3 image, I have a list of hyperlinks which are obtained from files within the folder) My problem, when adjusting the CSS property (which is set as cm in *.css file) in javascript, it doesn't correspond correctly, the line-height property in javascript doesn't appear to be work in cm but some other measurement. Does anyone know how to change what unit of measurement Javascript works in? Or does anyone know what unit of measurement javascript uses when adjusting line-height / line-width values? I want to create a mini-algorithm that works out the appropriate line-height based on the image height (got that already) and the number of files in the folder (got that too) so the menu automatically adjusts to fit. Whew! I've never done much CSS work, but I know this has to be an easy fix. Each DIV appears to be 10px higher when viewed in IE. I want them to be 8px high and they end up being 18px high. In Firefox, Netscape, and Opera it works fine. Anyone mind correcting this imbarrassing little problem? Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" >
<head>
<title>IE 10px Padding Problem</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<style type="text/css">
body {
margin:0px; }
#container {
position:relative;
margin:auto;
width:730px; }
#header {
height:110px; }
.textualtop {
border:1px solid #000000;
height:8px; }
.textualbottom {
border:1px solid #000000;
height:8px; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="header"></div>
<div class="textualtop"></div>
<div class="textualbottom"></div>
<div class="textualtop"></div>
<div class="textualbottom"></div>
<p>Notice how in IE6 each DIV is 10px higher then in FF. Why is it doing this?</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
It seem that everytime I added the image tag, the div'x area get bigger in IE but not in Mozilla/Firefox browser. So, I thought by added the "margin-bottom:-360px;" to the div would fix it but it had an opposite effect. Meaning it worked in IE but Mozilla show a vertical scrollbar. So, does anyone know how can I make the <img> overlap one another without being stacked on one after another in height for IE if I take out the "margin-bottom: -360px;"? Thanks... Code:
div.divBox1
{
width: 286px;
height: 359px;
float: left;
}
div.divClearFloat
{
clear: both;
height: 0px; /* For IE Stupidity (it added some spaces after clearing the float) */
font-size: 1pt; /* For IE Stupidity (minimum height only work with current font-size somewhere) */
}
div.divDottedLineAdvertisementSeperator1
{
width: 575px;
height: 3px;
background-color: #ff0000;
font-size: 1pt; /* For IE Stupidity (minimum height only work with current font-size somewhere) */
}
Code: <div class="divBox1"> <div style="margin-bottom:-360px;"> <img src="images/doctor.jpg" style="position:relative;top:0px;left:0px;z-index:2;"> <img src="images/we_help.jpg" style="position:relative;top:-360px;left:0px;z-index:1;"> </div> </div> <div class="divClearFloat"></div> <div class="divDottedLineAdvertisementSeperator1"></div> Hello everybody! I have been having a big problem with my webpage for a long time now and hope I can find an answer to my problem with your help. I want a div that contains the content of my pages (which varies in length depending on the individual page) to stretch the length of my page, but it only stretches the length of the window. Here's the HTML and CSS: HTML (I only included the very basic structure): <html> <body> <div class="container"> <div id="content"> <div id="..."></div> <div id="..."></div> <div id="..."></div> <div id="..."></div> </div> </div> </body> </html>` CSS: html, body { height: 100%; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; color: #000000; background: #FFF url(../../images/body.png) no-repeat center 40px; margin: 0; position: relative;} .container { height: 100%; width: 960px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; position: relative;} #content { width: 939px; min-height: 100%; position: relative; top: 210px; left: 6px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 8px #666; -moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 8px #666; -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 8px #666; background-color: #FFF;} I tried to set the content div to overflow: auto, but that includes a scroll bar for the content div that I do not want. It does, however, create the desired effect of the shadow and background of the #content div all the way to the end of the page. Am I missing anything? I thought min-height would work, but it doesn't! It only stretches the content div to page height and everything else is overflow, but without the content div's background color and shadow. Does anybody maybe see where the problem lies? Thank you so much in advance for your help. Hello Just recently I had an idea for a page I wanted to make, the design is basically a 3-column layout with no traditional header or footer, the height of all three columns should run the length of the window/page height the left and rightmost column would have a fixed width or a width in em, the center column width should fill the space in between. If the content is short all columns should extend to the height of the page window, but if the content in any of the columns is longer than the window height they should all extend to reach the bottom of the page and accommodate the content length In my first attempt things didn't go so well, results varied wildly across browsers so I decided to start from scratch bit by bit Bellow is the point at which I reach consistent but undesired behaviour, I have validated and tested the code in Firefox 3/Pale Moon, Internet Explorer 8, Chromium 9, and Opera 11 I would like the end result to work in the above browsers as well as IE7 if possible I should point out now that im not interested in using faux-columns, the layout should not require images, I also wish to have absolute-positioned elements in the columns some time later Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Three Columns</title>
<style type="text/css">
*, html, body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
font-size: 100%;
}
html, body {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
#maincontainer {
position: relative;
height: 100%;
background: #eee;
}
#left {
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
width: 200px;
background: #fbb;
height: 100%;
}
#mid {
position: relative;
margin: 0 200px 0 200px;
background: #efe;
height: 100%;
}
#right {
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
right: 0px;
width: 200px;
background: #bbf;
height: 100%;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="maincontainer">
<div id="left">
left start<br />
left<br />
left<br />
left<br />
left<br />
left<br />
left<br />
left<br />
left<br />
left<br />
left<br />
left<br />
left<br />
left<br />
left end<br />
</div>
<div id="mid">
mid start<br />
mid<br />
mid<br />
mid<br />
mid<br />
mid<br />
mid end<br />
</div>
<div id="right">
right start<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right end<br />
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
In the above example it works as long as the content within the columns is shorter than the window height, but if you re-size the window so that the text in the right or left column goes beyond the page, and then scroll to the bottom, the columns do not extend to the bottom of the page so there is a large gap where the content overflows beyond the column What I would like to do from this point is make the columns extend to the bottom of the page when this happens, but I'm not sure how best to proceed I also have a version of the above code which uses floated left and right columns instead of absolute positioned ones, would it be better to work from that? or does it not really matter Thanks in advance If you look at the bottom of the page at www.res-technologies_DOT_com/index.php?jos_change_template=restech2 in both IE and FF, you will see that it looks fine in IE, but in FF the page length is extended by exactly the height of the header image at the top of the page. Trying to figure out what's causing this is driving me nuts! Can anyone help? thx dh My web page has a display bug in IE 5+ on Windows. Specifically, I have a DIV within which I wish to place two images. The two images are the same height and width, and I want to layer them (the top one is a PNG with transparency, but I have already solved that problem, this is a positioning problem) exactly on top of each other. I have done this by positioning them relatively within the DIV. The first image is top:0;left:0 and the second is top:-150;left:0 (the images are 150 px tall). They layer fine, but the DIV is twice the height (as if the second image were still following the first, making he DIV 300 px tall). I have tried many things and am stumped. Here is the site: URL Here is the relevant CSS: Code: #bannerPhoto {
border-bottom-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-bottom-color: #000000;
height: 150px;
width: 750px;
}
#bannerPic {
position: relative;
z-index: 1;
left: 0px;
top: 0px;
}
#bannerText {
position: relative;
z-index: 2;
left: 0px;
top: -150px;
}
And the HTML: Code: <div id="bannerPhoto"> <div id="bannerPic"><img src="../images/bannerPhotos/image.jpg" height="150" width="750" /></div> <div id="bannerText"><img src="../images/text-cover.png" height="150" width="750" /></div> </div> Anyone? Thanks, Denver. I am having a problem trying to get one column match the height of another. Within a large DIV box, I created two columns separated by about 20 px. I floated one to the left, then pushed one over to the right. Both boxes will expand depending on the amount of content, but I would like them to match the same height. The boxes will be used throughout the entire website, so it would not make sense to create a background image to try and trick it into being the same height.. or actually specifying the height. Is there any way to tell the left box to be the same height as the right box?? I tried to link to my site but it won't let a new member link to a website. i came across a solution for this a while ago and can't repeat the result i have 3 columns, div format with a left left right float. 1 2 3 #2 contains content that varies with the page, #1 and #3 contain background elements. i need 1 and 3 to extend the full height of 2, even tho the actual content is much less. thanks for the help! Hi Guys, Consider the following box: PHP Code: <div style=border: 1mm black Solid; width: 148mm; height: 98mm;'> </div> 148mm + 1mm + 1mm = width of 150mm 98mm + 1mm + 1mm = width of 100mm Now why does neither firefox or ie manage to get it? Firefox is about 2mm out and ie is about 3mm out? Any ideas or is it some quirk? Charlie So I'm in the process of converting an old Frontpage-developed layout into a nice XHTML/PHP website. The problem I'm running into is this: The original designer found it necessary to use 100% height frames to achieve the layout they were after. As I am not looking to use frames any longer, I am in a bit of a pickle. I've read some articles that suggest setting the height property of the body element to 100%, then all other elements that I wish to fill the screen to the same height of 100%. Unfortunately, this isn't working out for me. Are there any known methods that work across browsers? I want to stay away from JavaScript as much as possible, so please keep that in mind. Thanks in advance! Has anyone seen something like this before? I'm using Javascript to render a table of items. In IE8, the #footer seems to be taken out of the document flow - the page doesn't expand/contract with the table. I put borders around my divs so I could see their edges better and they look right - so I don't get it. I attached some screens. The problem does NOT occur in FF3, IE7 or IE6. Here is the relevant code: html Code: Original - html Code <div> <img class="vtop" src="images/curve_top_wide.gif" width="900" height="6" alt="" /> <div id="jscontent" class="inner"> {{COUPLES_LIST_ITEMS_TABLE}} <div class="cl"></div></div> <img class="vbot" src="images/curve_bot_wide.gif" width="900" height="6" alt="" /> </div>
<div>
<img class="vtop" src="images/curve_top_wide.gif" width="900" height="6" alt="" />
<div id="jscontent" class="inner">
{{COUPLES_LIST_ITEMS_TABLE}}
<div class="cl"></div></div>
<img class="vbot" src="images/curve_bot_wide.gif" width="900" height="6" alt="" />
</div>
css Code: Original - css Code #content { background: url('/images/bg.png') top left repeat-x; border:1px solid #00F; color:#000; margin:0 auto; min-height:560px; padding:5px 20px 20px 20px; position:relative; text-align:left; width:900px; } #footer { border-top:1px solid #DDD; border:1px solid #666; height:54px; margin:0 auto 25px auto; padding:20px; position:relative; text-align:center; width:900px; clear:both; } .vtop {vertical-align:bottom} .vbot {vertical-align:top; margin-bottom: 10px;} .cl { clear:both; display:block; height:0; visibility:hidden; }
Hi I've read through some of the recent posts for min:height problems but didn't spot the fix for my problem so I apologise if this is now a frustrating topic. I have used min:height before and had it successfully working in IE7 FF etc. (I know it doesnt work in IE6) I have the following CSS: Code: body {
text-align:center;
background:#FFF999;
}
/* The main surrounding div */
div.page_wrapper {
min-height:750px;
width: 950px;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
background:#FFFFFF;
}
This works in Firefox but not IE7. Can anyone spot anything straight away? This CSS is generated from a PHP file with its header content set to CSS. Not sure if that makes any difference....most likely not but thought i'd mention anyway. is it possible to set a height (vertical) value for a <p> element? if so how? thanks for the help... Hi all, I'm in the middle of creating a web app and i'm trying to get 2 columns to fill the height of the screen, i can do this if i know the height of the top div (see diagram below), but i'd prefer to keep that flexible because the content's of it will change. i've tried using javascript to get the remaining height, but again this'll only work if i know the height of the top div (i'd get the column height by subtracting the top div height from the browser's screen height) ... plus i'd prefer not to rely on javascript to do this thought i'd ask if anyone else has been suffering from this problem and has managed to find a fix? thanks for any help Hey folks, k...this site is doing what it is supposed to in IE, but I think i'm missing something or messed something up, cause in FF, the white background stops in the top of the viewport. Here's the css. They both validate. Any help'd be appreciated. Thanks! |
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