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CSS - Full Height Divs.
Hi all!
After trying more then a few things I'm about to give up, so I hope someone here has the answer. The problem is the following: * A website contains 3 DIV columns and an header at the top, this is all inside a single wrapper DIV which centers the webpage. * All three columns should have the same length as the longest column. * When the content in the 3 DIV columns is shorter then the height of your browser window, the DIV elements should fill-out until the bottom of the screen. Point 2 is doable. Point 3 is doable. But the combination of point 2 and 3 seems quite hard. Hope someone has an idea . Thanks! Similar TutorialsHello 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 This seems like it should be very easy to do but something is preventing it from working. I was following the guide at http://www.alistapart.com/articles/negativemargins but with my navigation column on the left. A summary of my layout right now is: <div id="wrapper"> <div id="container"> <div id="content"> </div> </div> <div id="navigation" <div id="navlist"> </div> </div> <div id="clearing"> </div> </div> my css: #container { float: right; margin-left: -16.8em; width: 100%; background-color: #2586d7; } #navigation { float: left; width: 14em; background: #90bade url(navimage.jpg) repeat-y: right; } #wrapper { background: #90bade url(navimage.jpg) repeat-y: right; } #navlist is a div containing a styled ul for navigation. #clearing { clear: both; height: 0; } So basically the navigation div is supposed to extend to the bottom as far as the container div goes. According to the guide at AListApart it should be working but is something else in my code interfereing? If everything above should work fine, I can post a link to the test file so you can see the rest of the code. Thanks for any help! Hi, I am trying to better understand how column heights are displayed, and how to create full height columns. On this page http://tapmeister.com/layout_test/index.html, the column which drives the height of the page is <div id="main">, and the left and right columns do not span the entire column height, and the red <div id="content"> shows at the bottom of both side columns. On this page http://tapmeister.com/layout_test/index2.html, I put less stuff in the center <div id="main"> so it wouldn't drive the height of the page. The green <div id="main">, however, did cover the entire column unlike the left and right column on the earlier page. Can anyone help me understand what is going on, and why one column has full height color yet not the other one? Also, what is the best way to make the left and right column have full height color? I know I can apply a repeating background graphic to <div id="content"> which mimics the appearance of the left and right column, however, it would be nice to do differently if possible. My code is listed below (sorry about the ugly colors!) Thanks Code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Layout Test</title>
<style type="text/css">
* {margin: 0; padding: 0;}
body {background-color: olive;}
#wrapper
{
width: 100%;
background-color: blue;
margin: auto;
}
#main
{
margin: 0 180px;
background-color: green;
}
#content {background-color: red;}
#side1
{
width:180px;
float:left;
background-color:yellow;
}
#side2
{
width: 180px;
float:right;
background-color:yellow;}
#footer
{
clear:both;
background-color:lime;
border-top: 10px solid black;
}
#header {background-color: purple;}
.clear
{
clear:both;
}
</style>
</head>
<body id="page_bg">
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="header">My Header</div>
<div id="content">
<div id="side2">
<p>Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here.</p>
</div>
<div id="side1">
<p>Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here.</p>
</div>
<div id="main">
<p>Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff. Some stuff.</p>
<p><img style="margin: 5px; float: left; width: 250px;" src="lady.jpg" alt="" width="250"></p>
<p>Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff.</p>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer">My Footer</div>
</body>
</html>
I have 2 div columns on a web page, they are positioned using css... the right column is taller than the left column, but the left column does not expand to the full height of the right column... I require this, because the left column has a background color that I want to go right to the bottom of the page. I have height: 100%; in the css style for the left column, but that only makes it 1 screen high... does anyone know of a way to make it the full height of the other column, ie stretch? I have tried height: auto; but that doesnt work either. I am looking for some examples on making this layout: ----------HEADER---------- nav content - - - - - - - - - - - - ----------FOOTER0--------- The page needs to be 100% the height of the browser window with header at top, footer at bottom and the content/nav being a minimum height of enough to fill the screen vertically and should be expandable. Anyone got any pointers? Hello, In CSS is there a way to tell an object to extend the full height and width of its parameters without specifying height and using absolute positioning? Thanks, Andy Hi, I have a border around the content of my page which is limited in width but not height. Some of the pages have more content then others so the height adjusts. I also have a left column and a black background with and image in this column but I have 2 problems 1. In IE I can't seem to get this black column(div) to extend to the full height of the column so that it reaches the border. 2. In Firefox this left column extends all the way down the page and the border doesn't surround the text it sort of collapses The column is left floated and in a div and the content is right floated and in a div as well which is all surrounded by a div with a border. I would appreciate any help that you might offer. Thanks Ok I've got this... Code:
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
body {
height: 100%;
background-color: blue;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
.container {
height: 100%;
width: 300px;
margin: 90px auto 50px auto;
background-color: green;
}
.footer {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0%;
width: 100%;
background-color: yellow;
height: 50px;
}
.menubar {
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
width: 100%;
background-color: red;
height: 95px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="menubar">
MENUBAR
</div>
<div class="container">
a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>
a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>
a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>
a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>
a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>
a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>
a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>z<br>
<!-- footer -->
<div class="footer">
FOOTER
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Which works beautifully in opera, the green part is the full size of the document with all those a<br> in there (or without), and the footer is perfectly placed at the bottom. But both IE (testing on version 6) & NS (testing on version 7.1) display the footer at the bottom of the window when it loads, not after the container div is finished... Also in NS the container divs background colour finishes once you scroll down a little. Now I've tried many different ways around this. I know what its like when I spend too long looking at one thing, I end up missing the obvious - so I thought I'd throw it out to a wider group for observations... I thank you in advance. -D I'd like to make a 2-column layout where each column fills the height of the container div, and the container div's height is determined by the longest div within it... this is getting a bit confusing, because I can't have one being determined by the other one with that one being determined by the first, if that makes sense? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks Hey I am developing a site for our band, and I'm having trouble getting the nav bar to look right. The page is http://www.mattbray.curvedspaces.co..._beta/index.php and I don't want the left hand section to stop halfway down the page. The stylesheet is called style.css in the same directory. Code: /* page defaults */
body {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
text-align:center;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
background-color: #EAEAEA;
}
/* Layout divs */
#container {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #666666;
position: static;
left: 40px;
top: 12px;
padding: 0px;
width: 800px;
border-right: #003366 1px solid;
border-left: #003366 1px solid;
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
height: auto;
text-align:left;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
}
#title {
background-image: url(images/saved_title.gif);
margin-top: 10px;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
height: 150px;
border-top-color: #000000;
border-top-style: solid;
border-top-width: 1px;
border-bottom-color: #000000;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-bottom-width: 1px;
border-color: #000000;
}
#navbar {
background-image: url(images/navbar.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
border-bottom-color: #000000;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-bottom-width: 1px;
padding: 5px;
height: 20px;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
#navwin {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
border-right: 1px solid black;
padding: 5px;
background-color: #CCCFFF;
width: 230px;
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
float: left;
font-size: medium;
}
#content {
float: left;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
padding: 10px;
padding-top: 40px;
background-image: url(images/content.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: -239px 0px;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
height: auto;
width: 539px;
}
#footer {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
background-color: #CCCCCC;
margin-bottom: 10px;
padding: 10px;
border-top: solid 1px black;
border-bottom: solid 1px black;
width: 780px;
height: 25px;
text-align: center;
}
/* Links */
a:link {
color: #006699;
}
a:visited {
color: #006699;
}
a:hover {
color: #006699;
text-decoration: none;
}
a:active {
color: #006699;
}
/* elements */
#navwin h2 {
font-size: large;
display: block;
}
#navwin ul {}
thanks Matt 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? I'm trying to get a table inside another table which completely fills the parent table, but I cannot get it to work. The simple piece of code illustrates my problem. The red table is inside the blue table but does not cover the entire cell from top to bottom, but only the centre. I want this table to be streched. Obviously height: 100% doesn't work. Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<body>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
1<br>2<br>3<br>4<br>5<br>
</td>
<td style="background: blue;">
<table style="height: 100%; background: red;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="vertical-align: bottom">
Test
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>
What I have: I have a <div id="content"> that contains the main content of the site. In this <div> I have two other <div>s that are arranged in columns, using float. The left column forms the Navigation for the site and is surrounded by a black border. Here is the problem: If the content on the right is small, the border on the left stretches from top to bottom (since the left div controls the height). However, when there is a lot of content on the right, the border on the left only surrounds the content of the left div and leaves space underneath the bottom border-line. My question: Is there a way to "stretch" the left div so the border touches the top of its parent div on top and the bottom of its parent div on the bottom? Or in other words: Can I force the left div to have the same height as the right div? Here is an example of what I have right now (before tackling the problem): CSS: Code:
#content {
width: 800px;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#contentNav {
width: 140px;
float: left;
border: thin solid black;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#contentMain {
width: 600px;
float: right;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
HTML: Code: <div id="content"> <div id="contentNav"> <a href="">Link1</a><br /> <a href="">Link2</a><br /> <a href="">Link3</a><br /> </div> <div id="contentMain"> <p>Here comes a lot of text that spans over many lines. </div> </div> I have a 3 column layout. Each column may contain one or two articles with a border at the bottom of each article. The There are two borders between the three columns. I'm trying to use floated divs as containers for each of the columns, with a left-hand border in the center and right columns. You can see a non-css example at: http://www.sananselmopreschool.org/pilot/ Well, no matter what I do, I haven't been able to get the column containers to extend to the bottom of the page in IE. If I set them to height:100%, they seem to shoot out to 150% or so. body { height:100%; padding:0; margin:0; background-color:#ECF6DD; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 11px; color: #707070; text-align:center; border: 1px solid purple; } .body_container { position: relative; height:100%; width:100%; left: 0px; border: 1px groove darkred; } .body_position_center { height:100%; position:relative; width:780px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border: 1px solid #999 ; } .header { padding:0; margin:0; position:relative; width:766px; height:195px; } .leftblock { position: relative; height:100%; border-left:3px dotted #228B22; float:left; width:250px; } .centerblock { position: relative; height:100%; border-left:3px dotted #228B22; float:left; width:250px; } .rightblock { position: relative; height:100%; border-left:3px dotted #228B22; float:left; width:250px; } .blockcontents { padding-top:14px; padding-bottom:14px; border-bottom : 3px dotted #228B22; text-align:left; } Any suggestions would be appreciated. I haven't used much javascript, so unless I can see an example, it might be tough to work out a javascript solution. Hey guys, so I've cleaned up my code a bit. Read up on semantic coding. I think it's a bit better. Anyways, I'm trying to make my right and left content div's the same height. I've tried the faux technique, and it doesn't seem to work. Anyways, I was wondering if it's worth the 5 hours of headache to avoid using tables to setup the layout? I think it would be nice to have it in DIV's, that way if I want to switch left to right, and vice versa, it would be a breeze. Also, for the content, I'd like the left (main) side to be the remainder of the page width, and I'd like the right side to be 260px. If it works better, I wouldn't mind having the main part 77% of the width and the right side be 23%. Anyways, here's my code: html4strict Code: Original - html4strict 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"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Beta</title> <style type="text/css"> <!-- @import url("layout.css"); --> </style> </head> <body> <div id="container"> <!-- Site Head --> <div id="header"> <div id="banner"></div> <div id="head_user_container"> <div id="head_avatar"><img src="img/layout/avatar_test.jpg" alt="User Avatar" /></div> <div id="head_user_info">Welcome <a href="">Mike Jensen</a> (<a href="">Sign Out</a>)<br /><a href="">Edit Profile</a><br /><a href="">Message Center</a></div> </div> </div> <!-- End Site Head --> <!-- Menu --> <div id="menu"> </div> <!-- End Menu --> <!-- Start Top Ad Banner --> <div id="top_ad"> </div> <!-- End Top Ad Banner --> <!-- Main Content Container --> <div id="content_container"> <div id="main_content"> eh... </div> <div id="right_content">right content <br />yes sir</div> </div> <!-- End Main Content Container --> </div> </body> </html> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> and heres my css: Code:
/*Basic Elements*/
body {
font-family: "trebuchet MS", calibri, verdana, arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px;
color: #303030;
margin-left: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
padding: 0 20px;
background-color: #d8d8d8;
}
p {
margin-top: 10px;
text-align: justify;
font-family: "trebuchet MS", calibri, verdana, arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 13pt;
line-height: 10pt;
}
a:link {
text-decoration: underline;
color: #417cb3;
}
a:visited {
text-decoration: underline;
color: #417cb3;
}
a:hover, a:active {
text-decoration: underline;
color: #5e9cd5;
}
acronym {
font-weight: bold;
border-bottom: 1px dotted #417cb3;
}
/*Specific DIVs*/
#container {
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: auto;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-left: auto;
padding: 0px;
max-width: 1204px;
min-width: 950px;
height: 100%;
clear: both;
text-align: left;
position: relative;
}
/*- Banner -*/
#header{
background-color: #417cb3;
height: 74px;
width: 100%;
clear: both;
float: left;
border-left: solid 1px #496986;
border-right: solid 1px #496986;
}
#banner{
background-image: url(img/layout/not_yet.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
float: left;
width: 284px;
height: 74px;
}
/*End Banner*/
/*Head User Info*/
#head_user_container{
background-image: url(img/layout/logged_info_bg.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
clear: both;
height: 66px;
position: absolute;
right: 4px;
top: 4px;
}
#head_avatar{
background-image: url(img/layout/ban_avatar_bg.jpg);
height: 66px;
width: 64px;
float: left;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
padding-top: 1px;
padding-left: 1px;
}
#head_user_info {
background-image: url(img/layout/logged_info_end.jpg);
background-position: right 0;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
min-width: 225px;
max-width: 500px;
float: left;
height: 66px;
margin-left: -1px;
font-family: "trebuchet MS", calibri, verdana, arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px;
color: #FFFFFF;
padding-top: 4px;
padding-right: 3px;
padding-bottom: 0px;
padding-left: 5px;
}
#head_user_info a:link {
text-decoration: none;
color: #5dbdfa;
}
#head_user_info a:visited {
text-decoration: none;
color: #5dbdfa;
}
#head_user_info a:hover, a:active {
text-decoration: none;
color: #7fc9f8;
}
#head_user_end {
float: left;
background-image: url(img/layout/logged_info_end.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
height: 66px;
width: 3px;
}
/*End Head User Info*/
/*Menu*/
#menu{
background-color: #417cb3;
background-image: url(img/layout/menu_bg.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
height: 34px;
width: 100%;
clear: both;
border-left: solid 1px #94aec5;
border-right: solid 1px #94aec5;
}
/*End Menu*/
/* Top Ad Banner*/
#top_ad{
background-color: #ededed;
height: 109px;
width: 100%;
clear: both;
border-left: solid 1px #94aec5;
border-right: solid 1px #94aec5;
}
/*End Top Ad Banner*/
/* Main Content */
#content_container{
width: 100%;
overflow: hidden;
clear: both;
border-left: solid 1px #94aec5;
border-right: solid 1px #94aec5;
}
#main_content{
background-color: #fff;
clear: both;
margin-right: 260px;
}
#right_content{
width: 260px;
background-color: #ffead1;
position: absolute;
right: -1px;
top: 217px;
}
/* End Main Content */
Here's the site, and what it looks like right now: http://24.16.238.252/sd_beta/working/layout2/ Anyways, thanks for all your help guys! If you need more info, let me know! Hey everyone, I'm having troubles with some DIVs. I'm trying to divide a page into 4 equal sections. If I remove the doctype declaration, it looks right in Firefox 3.5.2 In ie it is all sorts of crazy. 100% height of the inner objects seems to be referencing the window height and not the parent elements height. I'm more concerned about Firefox anyway. I expect IE to require some hacks. If I set an absolute size to the body, in px, everything works fine. But if I have the body set to %, things shrink. I tried creating a wrapper div and setting it's height/width to 50% but that didn't work either. I tried to find a solution on kravvitz and bon rouge's sites but I didn't find anything that was 100% fluid. Any ideas? HTML4Strict Code: Original - HTML4Strict Code <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <style> body{ width:100%; height:100%; padding:0; margin:0; color:#ffffff; background-color:#000000; } object{ float:left; clear:both; width:80%; height:100%; background-color:#cccccc; } .section{ float:left; clear:none; width:48%; height:48%; margin:1%; background-color:#333333; display:block; position:relative; } .panel{ float:left; clear:none; width: 16%; height:96%; margin:2% 2%; background-color:#cccccc; } #container{ float:left; clear:both; width:100%; height:100%; min-height:100%; background } </style> </head> <body> <div id="container"> <div class="section"> <object data="http://www.google.ca"> </object> <div class="panel"> <a href="#"> test </a> </div> </div> <div class="section"> <object data="http://www.google.ca"> </object> <div class="panel"> <a href="#"> test </a> </div> </div> <div class="section"> <object data="http://www.google.ca"> </object> <div class="panel"> <a href="#"> test </a> </div> </div> <div class="section"> <object data="http://www.google.ca"> </object> <div class="panel"> <a href="#"> test </a> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>
Here's the template I'm working on: http://dhost.info/justusvizslas/template.php Here's my problem: I'm trying to create a centered, two-column layout with a header and a footer, sort of like the tutorial he http://nemesis1.f2o.org/aarchive?id=7 I've got everything working correctly and it looks fine in IE. However, in FireFox, the container div doesn't automatically adjust its height to be the same as the height of the divs inside. Instead, I have to set the height at a certain number of pixils to even get the container div to show up. When I do that, in IE the container div defaults to the same height as the larger of the two inner divs, but in FireFox the container div just stays at whatever pixil height I specified. That becomes problematic because I don't plan on having all my pagecontent divs with the same height. Any insight will be greatly appreciated. I've been looking at this for hours and haven't gotten it to work like it should. Here's the relevant code too: CSS Code: #container {
width:792px;
height:50px;
margin: auto auto;
color:#000000;
background-color:#FFFFFF;
background-image:url(design/menuimage.gif);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
}
#navigation {
width:125px;
height:auto;
padding:0px;
float:left;
margin-top:auto;
vertical-align:top
}
#pagecontent {
width:667px;
height:auto;
padding:0px;
float:left;
margin-top:auto;
color:#000000;
background-color:#FFFFFF;
text-align:center
}
PHP Code: <div id="container"> <div id="navigation"><?php include "nav.php"; ?></div> <div id="pagecontent"> <br />Some more content here<br /> </div> </div> Again, thank you in advance for any help with this. If you're stumped and think it should work as-is, go ahead and go to the actual template I'm working on (first http link in this post) and look at it in IE and in FireFox to note the difference. I had my css working fine and then I decided to change the layout and I almost have the new style sheet finished. However, I am trying to divide my header field into 2 columns (each 50% of the width), the left most column will have my banner and the right most column will be split in half (each half being 50% of total height), with 2 rows, one for a search field and the other for my main site navigation. However, the 2 rows are not taking up the 50% of the height that I would like for them to take up. Any ideas as to why? I tried defining min and max height, but that didn't work... Here's my css: Code:
/* CSS Document */
h1 {
font-family: Geneva, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 20px;
color:#000000;
}
h2{
font-family: Geneva, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 16px;
color:#000000;
}
h4{
font-family: Geneva, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
color:#000000;
}
/*============================ Begin Layout Structure ============================*/
#wrapper { /* main container for everything */
width: 1024px;
min-height: 748px;
margin: 0 auto;
background: #ffffff;
overflow: hidden; /* contain inner floats */
position: relative; /* establish the containing block */
}
#accounttypeselector { /* select personal or business to affect page display */
height: 25px;
background: #0000FF;
}
#servicesbar { /* container for user services */
height: 30px; /* 30px should be adequate height */
width: 100%;
}
#servicesbar-services { /* container for user services once logged in */
float: left; /* push this to left side */
width: 75%; /* want it to be 75% of the servicesbar width */
height: 100%; /* since servicesbar container height is 30px should be 100% of this */
background: #ff00ff;
}
#servicesbar-login { /* for user login and logout - contained inside servicesbar */
float: left; /* should push this just beside services */
width: 25%;
height: 100%; /* since servicesbar container height is 30px should be 100% of this */
background: #8B2323;
}
#header { /*header for the site - will contain logo, search, and main navigation */
float: left;
width: 1024px;
height: 100px;
}
#header-logo { /* will include site banner/logo - will be located on left side */
background: #ff0000;
width: 50%;
float: left;
}
#header-rightcol { /* column for search and main nav */
width: 50%;
float: left;
}
#header-rightcol-search {
min-height: 50%;
max-height: 50%;
background: #7FFFD4;
}
#header-rightcol-navmain { /* navbar that will be located below header */
min-height: 50%;
max-height:-50%;
background: #21ee00;
}
#bodywrapper { /* wrapper for main content - will have 3 columns here */
width: 1024px;
height: 100%;
padding-top: 10;
}
#bodywrapper-navleft { /* sub nav to be lcoated in left column of bodywrapper */
width: 15%;
background: #8B8378;
float: left;
}
#bodywrapper-main { /* main content to be located in middle column of bodywrapper */
width: 60%;
background: #66CDAA;
float: left;
}
#bodywrapper-news { /* news column to be located in right column of bodywrapper */
width: 25%;
background: #8A2BE2;
float: left;
}
#footer { /* footer to be located at bottom of wrapper */
margin: 0 auto;
position: relative;
width: 1014px; /* will be 1024 with padding */
height: 20px;
padding-right: 10px;
}
and here's my basic html Code: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title></title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="test2.css" /> </head> <body> <div id= "wrapper" > <div id= "accounttypeselector" > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet </div> <div id= "servicesbar" > <div id= "servicesbar-services" > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.</div> <div id= "servicesbar-login" > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet</div> </div> <div id= "header" > <div id= "header-logo" > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Cras volutpat, purus ac pellentesque adipiscing, mauris ligula convallis metus, vitae scelerisque nibh orci quis mi. *** sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Curabitur porttitor aliquam libero. Quisque molestie ornare sem. Nam euismod sem lacinia ipsum. In pharetra metus ut dolor cursus aliquam. Maecenas eu ante quis enim tincidunt laoreet. Pellentesque varius nunc in ipsum pulvinar sollicitudin. Nunc et mi. Donec auctor dignissim orci. Aliquam sed magna. Pellentesque in dui. In eget elit. Praesent eu lorem.</div> <div id= "header-rightcol" > <div id= "header-rightcol-search" > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. </div> <div id= "header-rightcol-navmain" > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. </div> </div> </div> <div id= "bodywrapper" > <div id= "bodywrapper-navleft" > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Cras volutpat, purus ac pellentesque adipiscing, mauris ligula convallis metus, vitae scelerisque nibh orci quis mi. *** sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Curabitur porttitor aliquam libero. Quisque molestie ornare sem. Nam euismod sem lacinia ipsum. In pharetra metus ut dolor cursus aliquam. Maecenas eu ante quis enim tincidunt laoreet. Pellentesque varius nunc in ipsum pulvinar sollicitudin. Nunc et mi. Donec auctor dignissim orci. Aliquam sed magna. Pellentesque in dui. In eget elit. Praesent eu lorem. </div> <div id= "bodywrapper-main" > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Cras volutpat, purus ac pellentesque adipiscing, mauris ligula convallis metus, vitae scelerisque nibh orci quis mi. *** sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Curabitur porttitor aliquam libero. Quisque molestie ornare sem. Nam euismod sem lacinia ipsum. In pharetra metus ut dolor cursus aliquam. Maecenas eu ante quis enim tincidunt laoreet. Pellentesque varius nunc in ipsum pulvinar sollicitudin. Nunc et mi. Donec auctor dignissim orci. Aliquam sed magna. Pellentesque in dui. In eget elit. Praesent eu lorem. </div> <div id= "bodywrapper-news" > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Cras volutpat, purus ac pellentesque adipiscing, mauris ligula convallis metus, vitae scelerisque nibh orci quis mi. *** sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Curabitur porttitor aliquam libero. Quisque molestie ornare sem. Nam euismod sem lacinia ipsum. In pharetra metus ut dolor cursus aliquam. Maecenas eu ante quis enim tincidunt laoreet. Pellentesque varius nunc in ipsum pulvinar sollicitudin. Nunc et mi. Donec auctor dignissim orci. Aliquam sed magna. Pellentesque in dui. In eget elit. Praesent eu lorem. </div> </div> </div> <div id= "footer" > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. </div> </body> </html> Thanks in advance and any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I was experimenting this weekend with some CSS 'page-sculpting', using small divs to make shapes, etc. I used FireFox as my testbed and of course everything went smoothly. I switched over to IE6 and saw that every div had a minimum height-it looked like 1em. I specified height and width on all <div>. Some used borders, some did not. An example would be: PHP Code: <div style="height:2px; width:3px; background:green" ></div> Has anyone else come across this or know of a fix? I haven't tried <span> or other tags (I will...just thought of that), tho I suspect they'll behave the same. Any help appreciated. NotGoddess Hello, not sure I know how to explain this. I have a page that I want to divide in two parts. To do so I am using floats. The problem is that the content in one div is not the same as the content in the other div and therefore the height of the two floated div is different from one another. However, I want that the div's have a border that seperates them and I would like this border to be from top to bottom of the containing div regardless of which of the two floated div is the highest. I could do this with javascript but I would like to know if there is some pure html/css option. Here is my example; Code:
<html>
<head>
<style>
.main {
margin: 0px auto;
width: 800px;
border: 2px solid red;
}
.wrap:after{
content: ".";
display: block;
position:relative;
height: 0;
clear: both;
visibility: hidden;
}
.wrap{
display: inline-block;
}
/* Hides from IE-mac \*/
* html .wrap{height: 1%;}
div.wrap{display: block;}
/* End hide from IE-mac */
.left {
float: left;
width: 100px;
}
.right {
float: left;
width: 680px;
border: 10px solid blue;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="main">
<div class="wrap">
<div class="left">My left div has more.<br/>more..<br /><br />more...<br /><br /><br />lines then the right one</div>
<div class="right">My Right div has only one line but need border till down there ...</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
As you can see in the example the border of the right div does not go down till the bottom border of the main div. |
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