CSS - Div Height Expandable
Hello, i am having run into a problem with a div. And im not sure if this is even possible.
I have a <div id="content"></div> which has all my pages content in it. and below that i have my footer <div id="footer"></div>. Well i need the "content" div's height to be at least 400px, and if there is a lot of text in the "content" div, i need it to stretch longer. But currently, when i have more text in the "content" div that is longer than 400 px, it goes ontop and over the "footer" div. because i have "content" set to overflow:visible. So is there any way to make the "content" div at least 400px height, and still stretch if there is more text in it? Similar TutorialsI was wondering... how can i make divs expandable so like when there is text that goes over the height limit.. now can i make the div move down abit.. along with the rest of the divs? I have never done this.. and im searching as i go.. so hopefully i can find some results. html Code: Original - html Code <form action="memo.read.php" method="post"> <div class="memo_container"> <div class="memo_userinfo"> <span class="info"> <b />From:</b> <?php print $username; ?></span> <span class="userdata"><?php print $icq . $aim; ?></span> </div> <div class="memo_subject"><span class="span" valign="bottom"><i>Subject: <?php print "{$rtv_memo['subject']} - {$rtv_memo['date']}"; ?></i></span></div> <div class="memo_contents"><span class="message"><?php print $rtv_memo['message']; ?></span></div> <div class="memo_buttons" align="right"><input type="submit" name="delete" value="Delete"><input type="submit" name="reply" value="Reply"> </div> </div> </form> <form action="memo.read.php" method="post"> <div class="memo_container"> <div class="memo_userinfo"> <span class="info"> <b />From:</b> <?php print $username; ?></span> <span class="userdata"><?php print $icq . $aim; ?></span> </div> <div class="memo_subject"><span class="span" valign="bottom"><i>Subject: <?php print "{$rtv_memo['subject']} - {$rtv_memo['date']}"; ?></i></span></div> <div class="memo_contents"><span class="message"><?php print $rtv_memo['message']; ?></span></div> <div class="memo_buttons" align="right"><input type="submit" name="delete" value="Delete"><input type="submit" name="reply" value="Reply"> </div> </div> </form> css Code: Original - css Code /* Starting Memo Div Classes */ div.memo_container { position: relative; margin-left: 20px; width: 580px; height: 432px; } div.memo_subject { position: absolute; border-top: 1px solid #cccccc; border-right: 1px solid #cccccc; left: 152px; width: 425px; height: 20px; background: #ffffff; } div.memo_subject .span { position: absolute; padding-left: 8px; margin-top: 8px; height: 10px; word-wrap: break-word; font-family: arial,helvetica; color: #00000c; font-size: 72%; } div.memo_userinfo { position: absolute; float: left; border: 1px solid #cccccc; width: 150px; height: 150px; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: wrap; background: #d8d9d7; } div.memo_userinfo .info { position: absolute; padding-left: 2px; margin-top: 8px; font-size: 88%; } div.memo_userinfo .userdata { position: absolute; top: 130px; padding-left: 2px; font-size: 88%; } div.memo_contents { position: absolute; float right; border-right: 1px solid #cccccc; border-bottom: 1px solid #cccccc; border-top: 1px solid #cccccc; left: 150px; top: 20px; width: 427px; height: 130px; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: wrap; } div.memo_contents .message { position: absolute; padding-left: 10px; margin-top: 2px; } div.memo_buttons { position: absolute; top: 152px; width: 577px; height: 25px; border-right: 1px solid #cccccc; border-left: 1px solid #cccccc; border-bottom: 1px solid #cccccc; background: #ffffff; } div.memo_buttons input { height: 22px; margin-top: 2px; }
So far everything here works.. but just needed to know if it is possiable what i am asking. hmm i cant get this to work... i have the left side of the banner that needs to be expandable wich is a long picture.....and the right side is 10px wide. how can i get this 2 in a div wich get width by % and center aligned on the page? and also on a layer above other stuff 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> 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 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. 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> 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 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. 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 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 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! If I try and set a div to 1px height then it just gives me a standard line height div. If I set it to 100px it goes that height (so I know the height command is working). Is the following code not possible? PHP Code: #strapline1 { position: relative; top: 10px; left: 0px; width: 760px; height: 1px; background-color: #74C2A8; background-image: url(/gfx/spacer.gif); } PHP Code: <div id="strapline1"></div> hello! site: http://www.westernbands.net/?theme=xWB06 I'm creating a new theme for my site. The nav bar at the top is what I am working on right now. The problem is that the nav bar looks great in Safari and Firefox, but there is a problem in IE. In IE, the height of the divs that make the navbar seems to be extended vertically creating "artifacts" or remnants of the background color just below the navbar. Difficult to describe - just look at the site and you should see an 'unused' brown bar just below the navbar at the top. Any suggestions? [and yes, the site design is inspired by my new favorite news source ] can anyone tell me if it is possible to have a css box with 100% height i tried this but as i am still new to css i am not so sure that it is correct as it dose not display the full length #box { position:absolute; top:100px; left:10px; width:10px; height:100%; background-color:red; } 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 have a container Div with this style Code: #searchHintContainer { position:absolute; top:110px; left:655px; width:167px; max-height:208px; border-bottom:1px solid #CCCCCC; overflow-x:hidden; overflow-y:auto; display:none; } This is then filled by a succession of Divs from an Ajax call. As you can see the container is set to reach a max-height then add a scrollbar. This all works in FF as you would have thought, but in IE8 max-height is not recognised. How can I resolve this? What is the hack for this? I've tried a few including, "!important" etc. but nothing seems to work. Or is there something in the style that is stopping it work? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Take a look at this page: http://www.pocketfives.com/profiles/the-maven/ The Coaching Block is making me specify a height in order to display correctly. Unfortunately the text display is dynamic so I can't easily specify what the height needs to be. It seems strange that I have to set a height here, I'm sure I'm missing something obvious. Solutions? i tryed create a little spacer off 1px high but when iview what ive done the height looks around 20px? div#space {width:248px;height:1px;background-color:#f1d4f0;} please help :] |