CSS - Set The Div Element To Fill The Whole Screen?

Ok, I'm rather new to CSS and there is one thing I have always struggled with. If you have a containing div and two divs inside, is there a way to make one of the divs extend to fill the remainder of the space in the containing block. I have had times when I've wanted to do this both width-wise and height-wise.

A width example would be if you had a containing block with a width of 500px and two divs floated next to each other. The first div is 100px wide. Is there a way to have CSS automatically set the other div to 400px without manually setting it?

A height example would be if you have four divs in a containing div, stacked in two columns. The content in the left column is longer than the content in the right column. Now, is there a way to stretch the bottom div in the right column to fill the space down to the left column?

Pretty Common issue.... I think...

I need my div's background to go all the way down the page.... even on small pages!!

Here is an example...

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I have a question which I had trouble finding the answer to. I have a div with a width of 100% (which works out to be about 800px give or take), I then have several other div elements inside of that div. For example:

Code:

<div id='outer'>
  <div>1</div>
  <div>2</div>
  <div>3</div>
  <div>4</div>
  <div>5</div>
  <div>6</div>
</div>

Each inside div has an identical, fixed width. What I need is for each of those inside divs to be spaced evenly so that It fills up the entire outer div. That could mean, depending on the content, that the space between each inner div is 5px, 20px, etc.

Hope that makes sense. I am pretty close, but not quite there.

i put a div container around all my divs (so i could center them and put a bg and border) and put height at 100% but it only stretches from the top of the viewable page to the bottom. if a text content div stretches beond the page (and i have to scroll) the main content div cuts off. i set body height to 100% also. i cant figure out a way around this other than set the height in PX but since the content will be includes i have no way of know how much will be on each page. is there anyway around this, even if i have to use tables.

I'm (noobishly) developing a site and want a menubar of fixed size at the top, with the remaining area of the window filled with a div containing the scrolling content.

It's height should be effectively 100% - size of menubar.

When I tried 100% height it natually was the full screen height, but then the whole page is full screen height plus the height of the menu bar.

Does anyone know how to size a div to meet my needs?

Can anyone explain the difference between the two? For example, what is the difference between:

this:
element element {}
div p { }

and this:
element > element { }
div > p { }

I don't understand it and have not found an explanation in tireless searching. Thx!

I just can't do it!!!! I need help on this..

My header.. I can't get rid of the spaces around the image..

hmm check this out.. I can't post a link direct but its on the world wide web at
piedmontred (dot) com

firebug is telling me its an element.style margin, but for the life of me I can't find that in any CSS sheet I have.. and for some reason firebug doesn't identify a sheet either..

I did buy this wordpress template and have done quite a bit of CSS hacks, but I just can't figure this one out..

Thanks for any help!!
Todd

How do i set a font outline color as red and the fill with white using css. Does anyone know?

Here's my CSS
Code:

 #header {
        position: fixed;
        left: 0;
        width: 100%;
        height: 125px;
        top: 0;
        background-color: #ccffcc;
		background-image: url(images/topbackground2.jpg);
		}

Here's my HTML
Code:

<div id="header" >
<img src="images/spacefiller.jpg" align="left">
<a href="mainFrame.html" target="mainFrame"><img src="images/trial3.jpg" border="0" id="courseAssistant" align="left"/></a >
<img src="images/blend.gif" width="100%" height="20px" style="position: absolute;left: 122px;top:125px; ">
</div>

The problem is that I want the <img src=blend> to stretch the width of the div. The image is only 1px wide so I need it to stretch to fill up the header. The code I have works perfect for Mozilla but it won't work with IE. In IE the img stretches 122px farther than the div and causes there to be horizontal scroll bar at the bottom. I can't seem to figure this one out. Thanks in advance for the help and suggestions.

apologies if this has been asked and answered already - i did a search of the board but didn't find a clear solution.

what i'm trying to do seems simple enough, but isn't turning out that way.

lets say i have a page background of some color (e.g., orange).

then i have a main container div that is centered with auto margins, and has a white background.

i want this main container to start at 100px from the top (so 100px of orange shows above it), and the white background should expand to the bottom of the page - without scrollbars. if i set it's height to 100%, the 100px top margin is added to the 100% height of its parent (body + html), so it acts as if there's 100px of substance beneath the viewport and therefor shows scrollbars.

i had assumed a negative bottom margin set for the same amount as the top margin would work, but alas it does not.

obviously i don't want to just force-hide scrollbars by overflow:hidden or position:asbolute/fixed - if content in the container forces it to expand, it should do that. otherwise, even if there's very little content - or even none - it should expand to the bottom of the page.

i've attached a very basic (non-working) example - any insight would be appreciate.

not looking for a hack - i'm looking for the best way to handle this with best-practices.

tyia

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" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" > 
<head>
	
	<style type="text/css">
		html {
			height : 100%;
		}		
		body {
			margin : 0;
			background : #F90;
			height : 100%;
		}		
		div.wrapper {
			margin : 100px auto -100px auto;
			width : 500px;
			background : #FFF;
			height : 100%;
		}
	</style>
	
</head>

<body>

	<div class="wrapper">
		
	</div>
	
</body>

</html>

I've exhausted my own knowledge toolbox and cannot get this to work. I'm trying to get a div to expand to the end of the parent div.

http://www.pictouunited.com/?s=null

You'll see what I mean. I've done all the logical troubleshooting, or so I thought.

I appreciate any help in advance!

Hi there,
I'm making a CakePHP application to display my friend's artwork. I'm having trouble with the style sheet though. The header and footer are made of two fading images. I've used the background image property to stretch these images to fill the divs and have made the divs stretch to fill the width of the page.

At this point it's probably easiest to see what I mean by taking a look for yourself-

http://www.seb.webege.com/paintings/gallery

If you view this page in Chrome or Firefox then you'll see the desired effect with the image filling the width of the page. The problem comes with Safari and IE. In these browsers the image does not stretch to fill the screen.

I am not an expert at HTML/CSS and can't for the life of me work out what has gone wrong or what I can do to fix it, after numerous google searches I'm still none the wiser and I'm just not seeing the problem.

Can anyone advise me how to get the images to stretch to the browser width in Safari and Explorer? Any help would really be appreciated.

Many thanks,

Nick

I have read and read through the CSS2 spec and I am unable to figure out if this is possible. Hopefully I can describe it well enough for somebody to help out.

Okay, what I want to accomplish seems simple. I want a div, lets call this one "container", with a calculated height/width relative to the document (in terms of percentage). Inside this div will be another div, lets call it "header", whos width will span the length of the containing div (100%) and height is fixed, lets say 30px. Now here comes the tricky part... a third div, lets call it "content" should sit right underneath "header" and its width will also be 100% of the containing div, but the height should fill the remainder of the containing div. I can't seem to get the "content" div to fill the remainder of "container" and scroll when needed. If I specify a calculated height, the offset of the "header" div is not taken into account so "content" div does not fit properly.

Thanks a ton if you can help me out. Please let me know if this doesn't make sense.

if you didnt understand the subject i'll try and explain it a bit better here!

This is my problem in IE my page looks like this
http://www.readyflowers.com.au/div-fill.gif

But what i want is when there is no content for those divs not to appear so it would look like this (In firefox it works!)
http://www.readyflowers.com.au/div-fill-firefox.gif

Page set up is as folows:
1)At the top is a panel 750x200 to hold an image
2)under that is a panel.
3)Followed by a container that contains the Lnav div and the data div which are to be next to each other. How can I these two to stretch to fill the browser? and stretch further together when the data exceeds.
4)Under this are 2 more panels one below the other.

Code:

html, body {
    height: 100%;
}

body {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    text-align: center;
    min-height: 400px; /* For Mozilla/Opera/Safari */
}

#Container {
    position: relative;
    margin: 0 auto;
    text-align: left;
    width: 750px;
    height: 100%;
    background: #ccc;
}


#Content {
    margin: 0 auto;
    text-align: left;
    width: 750px;
    min-height: 100%;
    height: auto;
    background: #666;
}



#top {text-align: left; width: 750px; height: 250px;  background: red;}
#page {text-align: right; width: 750px; background: green; }
#lNav {text-align: left; float: left; width: 150px; min-height: 100%; height: auto; background: orange; position: relative; margin: 0 auto;}
#data {text-align: left; float: left; width: 600px; min-height: 100%; height: auto; background: yellow; position: relative; margin: 0 auto;}
#bNav {text-align: center; width: 750px; background: blue;}
#bottom {text-align: right; width: 750px; background: purple;}

/* Hack for IE */
* html #Content{
    height: 100%;
}
/* End IE Hack */

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<LINK REL=stylesheet HREF="container.css" TYPE="text/css">
</head>
<body>

  <div id="Container">
    <div id="top">top</div>
    <div id="page">page</div>
    <div id="Content">
      <div id="lNav">lNav</div>
      <div id="data">data</div>
    </div>
    <div id="bNav">bNav</div>
    <div id="bottom">bottom</div>
  </div>

</body>
</html>