CSS - Div Height Grow As Content Grows?

Hey All,

I am wondering if it is possible to make a <div> container that grows depending on the size of the other <div> inside of it. Basically the scenario that I am going for...

- I have a container <div> that centers all other <div>s on the page.
- The container <div> has a double border on it that I would like to appear all of the time.
- Depending on the content from page to page that sizes the <div>s inside the container <div> I want the container <div> to change (in height) so that the border stays and so that I can just keep the CSS definitions the same and not worry about changing them on every page.

Is this possible?

A cheesy way to do this is to just put a whole bunch of line breaks in the container <div> until the page is the height that I want it to be. That's fine, but it makes the code look sloppy and there HAS to be a better way to do this.

~darknailblue

Thanks for taking the time to read my question.

I have a container that I put text (sentences) in. Depending on what the user clicks on, the text can be long or short.

In IE, the container grows to match the amount of text required to fit into the container, but in FF, the container stays the same size and the text overflows the container.

HTML:
Code:

<p class="resultscontainer" id="ShowInfo">Read Help Text He </p>

id="ShowInfo" is for JavaScript.

CSS:
Code:

p.resultscontainer {
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 0px 8px 0px 8px;
border-style: solid;
border-color: #A6A66F black black #A6A66F;
border-width: 6px;
height: 52px;
line-height: 26px;
background-color: #EDED8E;
}

p:first-line {
font-weight: bold;
font-style: italic;
text-decoration: underline;
}

Thanks for the help,

Brad

Hello All,

I'm currently trying to finish the main design for my church's website - and I'm having a problem with the #mainbody height.

LINK TO SITE :: http:// update.gcmpg.com/

If I don't specify a height for #mainbody, it looks like this :: http:// img522.imageshack.us/img522/7663/noheight.png

If I do specify a height for #mainbody (350px in this case), it looks like this :: http:// img716.imageshack.us/img716/5158/height350px.png

Basically I'm trying to avoid having to specify a height for #mainbody on every page, it seems like a ridiculous notion to have to do so.
I've tried the clearfix, but it doesn't work. and I'm having a brain fart.

Thanks in advance for all the replies!

Cheers!

PS
-don't mind the ugly graphics - they're just placeholders

I searched for something I want but I didn't find exactly that, or maibe something is wrong but in IE the page does not look ok.

What I want is to have my page looks identical in IE as in FF or OPERA.

I will explain here how I done the code

PHP Code:
<td rowspan="2" width="600" align="left" height="100%" valign="top" >  
<div class="brand_list_big">      
<div class="box_header" style="background-color:#79B602;">CARS LISTED BY BRANDS</div>      
<div class="box_content" style="width:560px;">          
          <div class="brand_list_header"><span style="float:left;"><strong>Audi</strong></span><span style="float: right;">Total Cars : 2</span></div>
          <div class="car_list">
              <span class="fleft"><a href="#">audi tt</a></span><span class="fright"><img 1><img 2></span><br>
              <span class="fleft"><a href="#">Saturn Sky Roadster</a></span><span class="fright"><img 1><img 2></span><br>
          </div>
          ...
          <div class="brand_list_header"><span style="float:left;"><strong>Alfa-Romeo</strong></span><span style="float: right;">Total Cars : 0</span></div>
          ... 


div.box_header
{
    width: 99,5%;
    margin: 1px 1px 1px 1px;
    padding: 5px 0 5px 0;
    font-weight:bold;
    font-size: 12px;
    font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

div.box_content
{
    margin: 0 1px 1px 1px;
    padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
    height: 100%;
    scrollbar-face-color:#7098DF;
    scrollbar-highlight-color:#7098DF;
    scrollbar-3dlight-color:#FFFFFF;
    scrollbar-darkshadow-color:#FFFFFF;
    scrollbar-shadow-color:#919AA4;
    scrollbar-arrow-color:#FFCC00;
    scrollbar-track-color:#FFFFFF;
}

.brand_list_header
{
    width: 99,5%;
    padding: 2px 0 2px 5px;
    background-color:#E3FEB1;
    border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
    border-bottom: 0 solid #CCCCCC;
    margin-top: 10px;
    overflow:auto; /* I added this now and in ff and Opera everithing is ok, but not in IE*/
}

.car_list
{
    border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
    background-color:#FFFFFF;
    clear:both;
    overflow:auto;
}

.fleft
{
    float: left;
    margin: 2px 2px 2px 10px;
    clear:left;
}

.fright
{
    float: right;
}

img.new_img
{
    margin: 2px 10px 0 0 ;
/*the img from my code( <img 1>, <img 2> ) have this class*/
} 






Any Ideea why in IE the divs are not ok ?

First I tried to list the cars from a brand using <li> elements but I didn't know how to align the images ( icons ) at the right side, like are now.

10x in advance, waiting for a response

see ya

Hi,

I'm working on a website with a header and footer. I want the footer to sit at the bottom of the page even when the content is shorter than the page. I got that to work but can't seem to get the content div to stretch to meet the footer. The background color is different so I need it to stretch down the page.

The website is here http://www.tcglv.com/3dgweb/index2.html

Here's the css... I'd appreciate it if anyone can see what i'm missing here...

Code:

* {
	padding:0;
	margin:0;
	}
html,body {
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: .8em;
	background-image:url(../images/gradient.jpg);
	background-attachment: fixed;
	color:#4F4F4F;
	margin:0;
	padding:0;
	height:100%;
}
a {
	color: #0A2A57; text-decoration:none;
}
a:visited {
	color: #000; text-decoration:none;
}
a:active, a:focus { border-style: none; text-decoration:none; }

#wrapper {
	background-image: url(../images/gradient_interior.jpg);
	width: 955px;
	text-align:center;
	margin: 0 auto -88px;
	position:relative;
	
	height:auto !important; /* real browsers */
	height:100%; /* IE6: treaded as min-height*/

	min-height:100%; /* real browsers */
}

#header {
	background-image: url(../images/header.png);
	background-repeat:no-repeat;
	width:907px;
	height:215px;
	margin:0 auto;
	font-size:0.85em;
	color:#ffffff;
	text-align:right;
}
#header_interior.interior {
		margin-top:27px;
}
#header.interior {
	height:136px;
}
#header ul {
	padding-top:2px;
	}
#header li {
	display:inline;
	padding-left: 10px;
	padding-right:15px;
  	background: url(../images/bullet.jpg) no-repeat left center;
}
#header li.end {
	padding-right:36px;
	}
#header a:link, #header a:visited, #header a:active {
	color:#ffffff;
	text-decoration:none;
	font-weight:normal;
	}
#header a:hover {
	text-decoration:underline;
}
#header_interior {
	float:left;
	text-align:left;
	height: 210px;
	position: absolute;
	left: auto;
	top: 0;
}
#logo {
	float:left;
	position: relative;
	z-index: 10;
}
#topnav {
	padding-top:5px;
	position: relative;
	z-index: 10;
	float: right;
	left: auto;
	}
#main {
	width:901px;
	background-image:url(../images/main_back.png);
	background-repeat:repeat-y;
	background-position:left;
	margin:0 auto;
	padding-left:4px;
	padding-right:3px;
	}
#main_interior, #main_interior2 {
	background-image:url(../images/gradient_grey.jpg);
	background-color: #fff;
	background-repeat: repeat-x;
	text-align:left;
	padding:25px 25px 25px 25px;
	background-position: left -20px;
	}

#menu {
	width:908px;
	background-image:url(../images/menu_back.png);
	background-position:left;
	margin:auto;
    text-align: center;
	}
#menu a { margin-left: -4px; }

#footer a {
	color:#4F4F4F;
	text-decoration:none;	
	font-weight:normal;
}

#content {
	padding-bottom:98px;
	}
#logos {
	text-align:center;
	}
#footer {
	width:843px;
	height:73px;
	background-image:url(../images/footer_back.png);
	background-repeat:no-repeat;
	margin:0 auto;
	text-align:left;
	padding:15px 30px 30px;
	color:#6D6D6D;
	font-size:0.8em;
	position:absolute;
	bottom:0;
	left:20px;
	}
#footer a {
	color:#888888;
	}
#footer ul {
  list-style: none;
  margin-bottom:7px;
}
 
#footer li {
	display:inline;
	background-image:url(../images/border.jpg);
	background-position:right 3px;
	background-repeat:no-repeat;
	padding-right:18px;
	margin-right:17px;

}
#footer li.end {
		padding: 0;
		margin:0;
		background-image:url(../blank.gif);
	}	
#iii {
	float:right;
	margin-right:-20px;
	padding-top:12px;
	height:30px;
	}

.learn {
	margin-top:30px;
	}
.padding {
	margin-right:50px;
	}
.padding_2 {
	padding-right:15px;
	}
.padding_3 {
	padding-bottom:16px;
	}
.padding_4 {
	padding-top:10px;
	padding-bottom:10px;
	}
.padding_5 {
	padding-top:10px;
	padding-bottom:5px;
	}
.clear {
	clear:both;
	height:0;
	}

p { margin-bottom:15px;margin-top:15px; }
h1 {font-size:16px;}

.topnavul {
	float: left;
	margin-left: 195px;
	width: 250px;
}

.style3 {font-size: 12px}
.style5 {
	font-size: 16px;
	color: #FF0000;
	font-weight: bold;
}
body,td,th {
	font-size: 0.8em;
}

I have been struggling with this problem since i first started creating this layout (ages ago, but for development reasons, i stuck static width/heights in, just to work on my screen).

I have searched google numerous times, but with no avail, as sites go on about something which is irrelevant to what im wanting (so maybe vague/bad use of keywords in search). any way i did a quick search on here, and any help given, does not seem to fix up my layout.

My first basic problem is having a side navigation bar to fill the height of the screen, plus the header which is a static height. All this without creating scroll bars for the browser

My second problem, which may be more or less the same as the above (miss-understanding of css), having a 100% height which includes padding.

Link: http://dlym.net/testing/css_help.php

Source (html)
Code:

<html>
<body>
<div id="container">
	<div id="top">header</div>
	<div id="sidebar">laaa<br>laaa<br>laaa<br>laaa<br>laaa<br>laaa<br>laaa<br>laaa<br>laaa<br>laaa<br>laaa<br>laaa<br>laaa<br>laaa<br></div>
	<div id="content">
		<div id="childcontainer">
			<div id="paddedbox">
				<div id="test1">title</div>
				<div id="test2">
					<div id="myElement"><a onclick="">main content</a></div>
				</div>
			</div>
		</div>	
	</div>
</div>

</div>
</body></html>

CSS
Code:

html, body
{
	margin:0px;
	padding:0px;
	width:100%;
	height:100%;
}

#container
{
	width: 100%;
	
	height:auto !important; /* real browsers */
	height:100%; /* IE6: treaded as min-height*/

	max-height:100%; /* real browsers */

	background-color:grey;
	position: relative;
}

#top
{
	width: 100%;
	height: 100px;
	background-color:pink;	
}

#main
{
	width:100%;
	height:100%;
}

#sidebar
{
	background-color:red;
	width: 150px;
	height: 100%;
	float: left;
}

#content
{
	background-color:blue;

	overflow:hidden;	
	padding:10px;	
		height:auto !important; /* real browsers */
	height:100%; /* IE6: treaded as min-height*/

	max-height:100%; /* real browsers */
}

#childcontainer
{

	background-color:white;
	padding:10px;
}
#paddedbox
{
	background-color:green;
	margin-bottom:0px;
	margin-top:0px;
		overflow:hidden;
}

#test1
{
	width:100%;
	height:20px;
	background-color:yellow;	
}
#test2
{
	width:100%;
	height:100%;
	background-color:lime;
}

The above is a simplified version of my site's layout, but they are the core div containers which i am trying to get positioned correctly.

I seriously will thank any one who gives any help which leads me to fix this problem, as i am not too skilled with css, and this has been troubling me for some time. Thank you

Hello,

I'm working on a website for a client:

http://evoxdesigns.com/rimlox/
http://evoxdesigns.com/rimlox/rimlox.css

My current problem is getting the body to scale to 100% height. At the moment, it stretches to 100% of the browser window, which is great, but if if the content within all the nested divs expands to a height larger than that of the screen, the background does expand with it. In my troubleshooting, I gave the body a 1px border and found out that the body remains at the fixed size of the window even though the content within it expands. I tried messing with the overflow property, all to no avail.

I'd appreciate any help I can get on this one.

Is there a way that this can be done, basically I have a div hidden based on certain JS logic, but the amount of space of the content in the div is still taken up on the screen. I would like to make the div say 0xp and discard content.

Is there any code that can help me, I've looked but can't find.
Thanks

This is my first completely css site and I am having troubles with my main content areas and some other small minor things.

My design requires that the sidebar be the same height as my content area. What do I need to do to get them the same heights. The main content area changes on each page so my sidebar needs to do the same.

Here is the website. I guess I cannot post url's so I hope I made sense.

Also an example of what the site is going to look is here. Once again cannot post urls.

Also, I need help with lists. In the example image I have the lists side-by-side. Normally I would use a table for this. Is there a way to do this with css?

Any help would greatly be appreciated.

Thanks,

Shaun

Hey,
I have been looking EVERYWHERE for a solution and there seems to be none just quite yet.
I've searched google and all sorts of help forums... and still zip, nothing.

What I want to do is vertically-align the text in this example: http://www.tri-m.com/test.html in the middle of the white space. The problem though is that there is an unknown height of the whitespace because I want it to be that no matter what size you size the window, the content will always be vertically aligned... so I'm pretty stuck on how to do this.

I'm needing the solution for this desperatly and I have been searching and trying everything for weeks. If anyone could help that would be VERY VERY apperciated.
Thank you sooo much to everyone that tries this out.

Once again here is the Example: http://www.tri-m.com/test.html

Here is my code:
Code:

 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Tri-M Systems INC.</title>

<style type="text/css">
* 
{
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
html, body 
{
height:100%;
}
body 
{
color:#000;
}
#container-page {
background:#fff;
width:100%;
min-height:100%; /* For Modern Browsers */
height:auto !important; /* For Modern Browsers */
height:100%; /* For IE */
position:relative;
text-align:left;
margin:0 auto;
}
#container-head 
{
background:#fff;
}
#header 
{
background-color:#0000FF;
min-width:830px;
width:expression(document.body.clientWidth < 832 ? "830px" : "auto" );
height:81px;
position:relative;
}
#container-content 
{
min-width:830px;
width:expression(document.body.clientWidth < 832 ? "830px" : "auto" );
text-align:center;
position:relative;
padding: 0 0 162px 0;
}
#container-content:after 
{
height:0;
clear:both;
display:block;
content:".";
visibility:hidden;
}
#content-sec ul,#content-sec ul li {
list-style: none none;
}
#container-foot
{
background-color:#ff0000;
width:100%;
min-width:830px;
width:expression(document.body.clientWidth < 832 ? "830px" : "auto" );
height:162px;
position:absolute;
bottom:0 !important;
bottom:-1px; /* For Certain IE widths */
}
#foot 
{
height:162px;
}
</style>

</head>
<body>
<div id="container-page">
  <div id="container-head">
    <div id="header">
    </div><!-- END "header" -->
  </div><!-- END "container-head" -->
  <div id="container-content">
	<center>
    <div id="box">VERTICAL ALIGN THIS IN WHITE SPACE</div> <!-- END "box" -->
    </center>
  </div><!-- END "container-content" -->
  <div id="container-foot">
    <div id="foot">
    </div><!-- END "foot" -->
  </div><!-- END "container-foot" -->
</div><!-- END "container-page" -->
</body>
</html> 

- Jacenta

I'm a newbie to css. I'm trying to convert tables to css and having a bit of a tough time.

Latest problem - create a window or container with a one line border with minimum height, say 600px, but the height will expand as the content grows.

Any help? Thank you kindly!

Hi.

I'm having a funny problem where using 100% height makes the content div scrollable, even when there's no actual content in it.

I am trying to make my content div be 100% height of the window size, so I have the following css:
Code:

html, body
{
	background: #FFFFFF;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	height: 100%;
	font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

#wrapper
{
	background: #FFFFFF;
	position: relative;
	width: 100%;
	height: 100%;
	margin: 0px auto;
}

#header
{
	background-image: url("images/h-bg.png");
	background-repeat: repeat-x;
	margin: 0px auto;
	padding: 0px;
	width: 960px;
	height: 107px;
}

#header .logo
{
	margin-left: 10px;
}

#header .bg_l
{
	float: left;
}

#header .bg_r
{
	float: right;
}

#nav
{
	background-image: url("images/n-bg.png");
	position: relative;
	margin: 0px;
	width: 100%;
	height: 143px;
	text-align: center;
}

#nav a
{
	float: left;
	outline-style: none;
	width: 240px;
	height: 156px;
}

#nav_btn_wrapper
{
	width: 960px;
	margin: 0px auto;
}

#content
{
	position: relative;
	background-image: url("images/c-bg.png");
	background-repeat: repeat-y;
	width: 930px;
	height: 100%;
	margin: 10px auto 0px auto;
	padding: 10px 15px 0px 15px;
	font-size: 12pt;
}

As you can see I have height: 100% in every parent element from container up.
Without the height set to 100%, the container div just cuts off, which is bad because I'm using a glowy background on it, and it just cuts off abruptly.
I have used this method before on another design, but it worked only cos the wrapper and the container were both white, so when the container chopped off, the wrapper would continue, and it would look seemless.

See www.landmarkmeds.com to see the problem in action.
I have tried to remove the margin on the content div, but that only moved it up a bit.
Also, looking at it in firebug, it reports the height as the correct value, and even shows the ruler down to the bottom of the browser window. Why then it allows me to scroll I don't know!

I'm sure it's something stupid I've missed, but please help!

I want to do this design:
http://hermann.sonyextreme.com/upload/design.png
* means it should be "the rest". Just like when working with frames. So the sites height is 100% and width is 800px.

I've set it up like this:
Code:

<div id="container">
  <div id="header">
  </div>
  <div id="main">
    <div id="menu">
    </div>
    <div id="content">
    </div>
  </div>
  <div id="footer">
  </div>
</div>

But no matter what I try, the css just keeps ****ing with me
So do you have any tricks/know any sites who have done this succesfully... or just anything to help me, then I'd love to hear from you

Thanks in advance
Hermann

Hi,

I have a site with a left navigation bar (which is fixed width, and has a background colour that must stretch full screen from top to bottom of the page).

The site is:
http://67.18.220.222/~duoboots/2005/z.html

Stylesheet:
http://67.18.220.222/~duoboots/2005...s/style2005.css

As you can see, the left navigation menu stops once the content within the div is displayed. It does not stretch to the bottom of the screen. (say if you're on 1024 x 768 resolution)

Note: this varies according to the main (right) content. If the main content was shorter than the menu bar - it would work fine. The menu bar has a min-height of 100% which means the background applies to the size of your screen.

However, if the main content height is greater than that of the menu bar - then the menu bar will not adapt, but the background simply stops.

Is there a workaround for this? With tables, this could easily be achieved because the background colour of one cell is stretch until the end of the table, and not the content within the cell. However, I'd like to do this with CSS.

Here's some CSS:

Code:

body, p {

	color:#666666 ; 
	font-family: Verdana, Arial ; 
	font-size:7.5pt ; 
	font-weight:normal; 
}
body {
	height:100%;
	margin: 0px;
	background-color: #2F201E;
}

#container {  
 	width: 968px;
	height:100%;
}


#nav {
	width: 201px;
	border-right: 3px solid #FFFFFF;
	background: #8D603B;
	float: left;
	min-height:100%;
}

I've tried switching "min-height" and "height" but they don't seem to do what I want.... if anyone could help me out it would be MUCH appreciated!

Thanks a lot!