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CSS - 3 Column Fluid Layout
Hi all,
I have a three column fluid layout that works reasonably well. However, I'm running into situations where people want to use these ridiculous tables that are way too big. What happens in those cases is that the middle column tends to just write itself on top of the right column. 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" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Three columns</title>
<style type="text/css">
body { font-size:1.1em; background: #0081b3; padding-bottom: 2em; text-align: center; }
.clearfix:after { content: "."; display: block; height: 0; font-size: 0; clear: both; visibility: hidden; }
.clearfix { display: block; }
* html .clearfix { height: 1px; }
.clearfix { display: block; }
#base { border-top: 1px solid #ffffff; border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff; background: #DFDFDF; }
#main_block { margin: auto; text-align: left; }
#content { padding: 10px; padding-top: 2em; clear: both; }
#container_1, #container_2 { margin: 0; padding: 0; }
.three_column #middle_content_template { margin: 0 210px; }
#left_content { padding: 25px 10px 25px 10px; float: left; width: 185px; }
#right_content_template { float: right; width: 200px; margin: 0; padding: 0; }
#left_content, #middle_content_template, #right_content_template { padding: 10px; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="base">
<div id="main_block">
<div id="content">
<div id="container_1">
<div id="container_2" class="three_column">
<div class="clearfix">
<div id="left_content">
<p>Left box o' content.</p>
</div>
<div id="right_content_template">
<p>Right box o' content.</p>
</div>
<div id="middle_content_template">
<table>
<tr>
<td><p>Header</p></td>
<td><p>Header</p></td>
<td><p>Header</p></td>
<td><p>Header</p></td>
<td><p>Header</p></td>
<td><p>Header</p></td>
<td><p>Header</p></td>
<td><p>Header</p></td>
<td><p>Header</p></td>
<td><p>Header</p></td>
<td><p>Header</p></td>
<td><p>Header</p></td>
<td><p>Header</p></td>
<td><p>Header</p></td>
<td><p>Header</p></td>
<td><p>Header</p></td>
<td><p>Header</p></td>
<td><p>Header</p></td>
<td><p>Header</p></td>
<td><p>Header</p></td>
<td><p>Header</p></td>
<td><p>Header</p></td>
<td><p>Header</p></td>
<td><p>Header</p></td>
<td><p>Header</p></td>
<td><p>Header</p></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
What I'd like is for the middle column to just expand as wide as it needs to be and have the whole page expand as a result, pushing the right column properly to the right. Additionally, I'd like the gray box to expand with it. Is this possible? Similar TutorialsI have an issue with a 2 column CSS layout. Here is my code: Code:
<style>
#container1 {
float:left;
width:100%;
}
#col1 {
float:left;
width:30%;
background:red;
}
#col2 {
float:left;
width:70%;
background:yellow;
}
</style>
<div id="container1">
<div id="col1">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Morbi turpis augue, elementum nec euismod vel, ultricies a lorem. Duis ac posuere sem. In feugiat ante in orci ultricies non sagittis felis consectetur. </div>
<div id="col2"><p> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Morbi turpis augue, elementum nec euismod vel, ultricies a lorem. Duis ac posuere sem. In feugiat ante in orci ultricies non sagittis felis consectetur. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Etiam urna magna, tincidunt eu venenatis ac, imperdiet fermentum arcu. Pellentesque vehicula sollicitudin bibendum. Donec eu eros nibh. Phasellus ultricies aliquet mollis. Morbi vel ipsum vitae tellus porta accumsan quis quis ligula. Proin nulla tellus, mattis et interdum non, convallis ac ipsum. Morbi tellus nisl, tempor condimentum tincidunt a, tincidunt sed tellus. Sed cursus posuere erat a venenatis. Donec vel velit felis, sit amet posuere tortor. Etiam tincidunt orci ut est tincidunt bibendum vel in erat. Nunc dignissim faucibus enim sed rhoncus. Duis quam tellus, iaculis feugiat elementum eu, fermentum malesuada mauris. In metus nibh, sodales eget facilisis a, sollicitudin id lorem. </p>
<p> Donec at eros tortor. Quisque et tellus ipsum, id sodales erat. Ut commodo ornare nisl, ut rhoncus arcu sagittis vel. Aliquam erat volutpat. Nulla non facilisis nunc. Suspendisse potenti. Suspendisse nulla massa, consequat nec tincidunt id, aliquam quis lacus. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Aliquam sit amet pharetra magna. Praesent nibh est, consequat vitae congue nec, ullamcorper sit amet magna. Etiam sagittis dignissim mauris, eu dapibus leo fringilla eu. Morbi in ipsum lorem. Morbi pharetra sem at justo dictum non imperdiet libero convallis. Etiam sed arcu arcu. Maecenas vulputate, lorem at dignissim consequat, felis mauris pharetra ipsum, in condimentum urna ipsum sit amet lacus. Quisque facilisis fringilla felis et feugiat. Donec vel tincidunt dolor. Praesent congue nunc nec augue ornare vehicula. </p></div>
</div>
Which produces this: Basically, I need a set up on the columns so that if there is no content in the left column (col1) col 2 will fill up the missing area. It doesn't work with the above code, specifically because of this part of the CSS Code: #col2 {
float:left;
width:70%;
background:yellow;
}
Which makes col2 move to the left, but retains the 70% width If i change the width to 100% or auto, then the col2 appears below col1 if I have content in col1. If I put no width or float in col2, the content in col2 wraps around col1: Help greatly appreciated At the moment I have a css layout nearly done. It works fine in IE and Firefox except for that the left navbar does not push the footer down. Instead it jumps out the parent div. The 2nd (maincontent) and 3rd (right column) do push the footer down. This wouldn't be such a problem if the navbar would contain static content, but it is dynamic and database driven. A simple solution would be to move the navigate thing to the right bar, but sadly I'm not allowed to do that. Layout CSS code Code: #body {
position:relative;
margin:0 auto;
width:94%;
min-width:50em;
max-width:70em;
border: 15px solid #ffffff;
}
#header {
/* border: 1px solid #000000;*/
height: 185px;
background-color:#ffffff;
background-image: url(../images/design/test3.jpg);
}
#outer_wrapper {
background: #ffffff url(../images/design/background_3.gif) repeat-y left;
border-top:none;
border-bottom:none;
}
#wrapper {
background: url(../images/design/background_2.gif) repeat-y right;
}
#container {
width: 100%;
float: left;
margin-right: -200px;
background: #ffffff url(../images/design/background_2.gif) repeat-y right;
/*border:1px solid #000000;*/
}
#content {
margin-right: 200px;
/*background: url(../images/design/background_3.gif) repeat-y left;*/
}
#main {
/*border:1px solid #000000;*/
margin-left: 150px;
/* background-color:#bbbbbb;*/
}
#left {
position: absolute;
top:189px;
width: 140px;
/* height: 100%;*/
float: left;
text-align: left;
/* border-left: 2px solid #bbbbbb;*/
font:normal normal normal 12px Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
#sidebar {
width: 200px;
float: right;
clear:right;
}
#footer {
/* border: 1px solid #000000;*/
background: #304773;
height: 30px;
}
.last {
margin-bottom: 0;
}
.clearing {
height: 0;
clear: both;
}
Div structu Code: <div id="body">
<div id="header"><h1>Welkom bij Overeem de Haas</h1>
</div>
<div id="outer_wrapper">
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="container">
<div id="content">
<div id="main">
</div>
<div id="left">
<? include ("../include/navigatie.inc"); ?>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="sidebar">
<? include ("../include/uitloggen.inc");?>
<? include ("../include/winkelmand.inc"); ?>
</div>
<div class="clearing"> </div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer"><p class="content"></p></div>
</div>
navigatie.inc code Code: <div id="navigatie">
<ul>
<li class="menu">Navigatie menu</li>
<li><a href="index.php">Home pagina</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Wat is Overeem?</a></li>
<? ...
echo "<li><a href=\"#\">Contact</a></li>";
echo "</ul>";
echo "</div>";
?>
Live example Can anyone (dev)shed some light on this? I just can't get it to work without messing up the 3rd column. I'm attempting to get a page that has a header, footer, left navigation bar with a fixed width, with a right "fluid" content section. I can get it to work by giving the main content a "margin-left" of the width of the navigation panel, and absolutely positioning the navigation. Problem is, with the navigation being absolutely positioned, it takes it out of the flow and doesn't push the container to fit its contents. I've trying playing with using floated divs, which is I'm sure the way I'll have to go, but I want the navigation bar to always be a fixed width of 175px, and I want the content section to stretch to fill the remaining space. I'd also like to make sure the content portion appears BEFORE the navigation panel in the order it appears on the HTML for SEO purposes. I'm sure it's easy using Javascript, but I'd like to do a pure CSS solution, if possible. How do I do that? Here is the link if you want to have a look: http://www.chcs-ut.com/support.php?section=technical I'm trying to construct a complex 3-column CSS layout. I would like the center column to be fixed-width, and the outer columns to split the remainder of the document's width. All 3 columns should be able to contain centered or floated block elements and accept mouse events. Currently, I have approached this problem two nearly-successful ways. The first was to float the outer columns, but then I have no way to make them fill out. The second was to float the outer columns, then set them both to 50% with the appropriate margin set to half the width of the center column, but then I lose mouse event support in the center column because of the margins. The relevant CSS follows: Code: html { height: 100%; width: 100%; }
body { margin: 0; height: 100%; width: 100%; }
#left {
float: left;
height: 100%;
/* 2nd attempt
width: 50%;
margin-right: 305px; */
}
#right {
float: right;
height: 100%;
/* 2nd attempt
width: 50%;
margin-left: 305px; */
}
#center {
margin: auto;
height: 100%;
width: 610px;
}
HTML-wise, the div order is #left, #right, #center. Does anyone know of a way to work around this? Link he rpisolution dot com/test/ Ok, the fixed-fluid-fixed part of the layout seems to work ok in the latest firefox and IE7 but it's broken in IE6 and possibly other versions. Could you guys take a look at the css? rpisolution dot com/test/css/style.css and see if you see what is breaking it in IE6, i thought I had put a hack that was supposed to fix the issues. btw, i know the CSS is probably ugly. sorry about that. thanks hi all, right have got a problem which has been bugging me for days now. i have 4 columns in a row (inside a wapper div)which all will have different content image, text other divs/classes etc. now one of these columns will be quite fluid as it will have different text on each page meaning it will be quite long on some pages not on others. the problem i am getting is in the good browsers firefox etc its ok in IE6+. the wapper does'nt seem to see the divs in the content meaning it does not get filled, meaning that the footer flys to the top and not where it should be, i dont have a live version but heres the code: mainly thanks Dan <!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>Untitled Document</title> <style type="text/css"> <!-- #con { width:940px; height:400px; background-color:#00FFFF; } #wapper { width:940px; background-color:#006666; } #box { width:940px; background-color:#000033; height:40px; } #menu-pronuptia { width:185px; background-color:#6633CC; float:left; display:inline; } #menu-pronuptia1 { width:185px; background-color:#009900; display:inline; float:left; } #menu-pronuptia2 { width:385px; background-color:#0033CC; display:inline; float:left; clear:inherit; } #menu-pronuptia3 { width:185px; background-color:#CCCC33; display:inline; float:left; } --> </style> </head> <body> <div id="wapper"> <div id="menu-pronuptia"> <p>test</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> <div id="menu-pronuptia1"> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> <div id="menu-pronuptia2"> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> <div id="menu-pronuptia3"> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> </div> <div id="box"> <p><br /> </div> </body> </html> I'm having problems with a fluid three column layout. I started with the layout from Realworldstyle and ended up with this. The strange thing is that it seems to stay wider than the window, no matter what size the window is. There's also the right end of the top border in the right DIV, which is a few pixels short. Any suggestions? http://midnighttweaker.50megs.com/test.htm I need to create a layout that is 100% width. 2 columns. The right column is 300px and and left column (content) takes up the rest. I need content to be first in the code because of float clearing. Thanks for any help! Hi, noob here, I am making a site that will have a GUI skin. Greetings header, one column content body, navigation footer. My layout idea is fairly basic. Fixed width-fluid height. One column with a <div> block element with "overflow: auto" so my lengthy text content can be scrolled within the skin. What I need to figure out is how to allow the skin's graphics, with its block element body to vertically expand or contract, depending upon the user's resolution. I have considered using % values, but I don't know how to apply them to the skin's graphics properly. jbonham I need a combination of this: http://bonrouge.com/3c-hf-fixed.php and this: http://bonrouge.com/3c-hf-fluid.php I need the middle column to be a fixed width and the outer two to be fluid. I also need to maintain the 100% with header and footer at top and bottom respectively. Any ideas how to do this? Thanks. Hi all, I'm trying to achieve the following: <div id="left">This column is of blue background, and stretches all the way to the left.</div> <div id="center"> THIS COLUMN IS FIXED WIDTH, 760px </div> <div id="right">This column is of red background, and stretches all the way to the right.</div> Hope that is self explanatory.. I've Googled all this but can only find solutions for fluid "center" columns with fixed width right/left columns. I'm trying to do the opposite. Could anyone let me know how I can do this? I've got some messy CSS that definitely needs to be corrected, I'm trying out different things so here's my 'trial& error' code: Code:
#left {
background-color: blue;
float: left;
margin: auto;
position: absolute;
}
#center {
background: #DFDFEB url(../images/body/top.jpg) no-repeat;
width: 760px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
#right {
background-color: red;
}
Thanks in advance! Hey, I'm creating a 2-column fluid layout and find myself with a problem regarding word wrapping (at least I think that's the problem). For some reason I can't seem to get my content text to behave properly, namely the text gets hidden behind the right column as I decrease the browser-window. The columns are set to 70% (left column) and 30%(right column), with the combined width varying from 760px to 960px. The text I am having problems with is located in the left column, 150px from the far left side. I want this text to stretch from that position up until the right column begins. This have proven quite difficult. The main problem is, I suppose, that the necessery width of the div element that the text is placed within changes as the overall width change. I have tried experimented with specifying the width in percentages, however the correct value for that changes aswell.. So I'm stuck. Hope I made myself clear enough, kind of difficult to explain it to be honest. Does anyone have any idea how I can fix this (without abandoning my overall fluid layout)? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Cheers. This code produces what i want in IE. I'd like to know how to achieve the same result in firefox. The important parts of this layout is the fixed height for the footer and the testdiv completely filling the top td regardless of what else is in it. Code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>TEST</TITLE>
<style>
body
{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
table
{
border-collapse: collapse;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
background: gray;
}
.top
{
background: aqua;
}
.bottom
{
background: yellow;
height: 50px;
}
.testdiv
{
background: red;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
}
</style>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0>
<tr>
<td class='top'>
other stuff
<div class='testdiv'>test div</div>
other stuff
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class='bottom'>
bottom bit
</td>
</td>
</table>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Hi, I hope someone can help. I have a blog with a fluid design (as best I can) layout. Images are floated in the main post, with width and height specified as a %. Quite often when I first load a page with an image, the image is very small and anchored to the top left of a box (defined by a border) that is the correct dimensions. When I resize the window containing the blog, the images fill out the defined box and everything is fine. Can anyone help me avoid the erratic behavior when I first open a blog page? I'm using IE7 and IE8 and see the same thing in both browsers. I'd post the URL for the blog so anyone interested in helping could see what I mean, but as a relatively new member here, I am not allowed to do so. Thx in advance for any help that can offered. Bill Hello, I came to this forum for help a couple months ago and was very impressed with how my questions were answered, so I hope nobody minds me coming around again. I've begun to create a stylesheet for my website that is completely fluid, rather than the 500px wide container my old stylesheet has. I've run into a couple problems that may or may not be related: 1) In my header div, I have an <h1> element and a <ul> that I'd like to be on the same line, but they're on different ones. 2) Both Firefox and Safari draw unnecessary scroll bars (both vertical and horizontal). 3) Sometimes my footer div will inch up from the bottom of the screen, where I'd hoped to leave it anchored. Here is a test html: http://www.bsuto.com/test.html and here is the css: http://www.bsuto.com/fluid.css Thanks! -Brian Hi, I have a background image that I want to incorporate into the header div of a fixed width layout. The header is of a gradient style - on the left it is a solid color and as you move along towards the right it fades to white. The image is 981x76. If I bring it into Gimp, I can scale it to 1920 x 76 and it looks the same. I would like to be able to do that in a div tag, with the image as a background. I would like the image to scale horizontally just like I can do using Gimp. Is this possible? Basically, I want the browser to manage the scaling of the image. Whenever I work on a liquid layout, I have been setting the Max-Width to 1280px. Is this still the normal setting? Or designers do go wider these days? Thank you Hey, So I have a three column layout being implemented as such: html: Code:
<div class="content">
<div class="col1 column"></div>
<div class="col3 column"></div>
<div class="col2 column">
<div class="header">Header</div>
</div>
</div>
CSS: Code:
.column {
padding: 10px;
position:relative;
}
.header {
background:#cfe6f5;
color:#416383;
font-size:11px;
font-family:Arial;
font-weight:300;
padding-left:15px;
}
.col1 {
float: left;
width:250px;
}
.col2 {
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
.col3 {
float:right;
width:250px;
}
The problem is that the width of the header div extends all the way to the left and right of the page when it's in the middle column, but behaves the way I want it to (extends to the left and right of the column) when it's in the left or right column. Any ideas? Thanks. --Surgery Question title: A 2 column layout, let only the second column scroll horizontally and let them both scroll vertically Hello I did try several idea's, but all failed. Then I did search the web but found a list of > 400.000 in google. If someone is willing to tell me if it is possible and give me some directions, please do. Everything is welcome. I got a list with 3 columns ( basically you could say I have only two columns because 2-3 could be concatenated to together, but they have a different style and justification, but I could live to start with a two column sample) f.e line 1 : value_one - ( some_text - value_two (right justified) ) line 2 : value_one - ( some_text - value_two (right justified) ) line 99:.... e.t.c Column one has a fixed width of 32px. 'some text' can be longer then the wide available and value_two is with 3 spaces appended to column 2. I want that column one is fixed horizontal and that the second and the third column can scroll horizontally. Of course when there are more line's then the height of the container is should be posable to scroll vertically. Finally I need the color behind column one be different then the column 2 and 3. So what I did create is a container with two containers where the left one has a different colour then the right one and above those a container with the list. I have overflow on auto, so I get scroll-bars when necessarily. But my problem is that when I scroll horizontally that my first column scrolls away to the left. Basically my question is. How can I get a 2 column layout, let only the second column scroll horizontally ( first is locked in horizontal place ) and let them scroll both vertically? Hello, I am having difficulty with the center column on the following page: http://cbo4edu.org/index2.html I want to widen the center column so that the CBO NEWS heading touches the blue line which divides the center and right column. When I try to add width to the style sheet the left column moves out of alignment. Any help is much appreciated, thanks! |
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