CSS - Using Css: Create Box With Minimum Height - But Expand With Content

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

God, this is really simple but I have forgotten how to get the containing box to expand

Basically the text div expands but the containing div doesn't

PHP Code:
<div style="width: 300px; min-height: 200px; border: 1px dashed red;">

    <div style="border: 0; width: 110px; height: 110px; float: left;">
        <img src="#" width="100" height="80" border="0" align="left" />
    </div>
    <div style="border: 0; width: 190px; min-height: 200px; float: right;">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. In odio nibh, interdum eget, mollis quis, imperdiet non, risus. Curabitur laoreet vehicula massa. Curabitur consequat dui vitae lectus. Nam rutrum sapien id quam. Pellentesque aliquet nulla dignissim ante. Fusce metus libero, vehicula hendrerit, condimentum id, malesuada in, elit. Nam fermentum, metus in varius scelerisque, diam purus tristique tortor, vitae suscipit elit ipsum eu dolor. Ut dictum porttitor velit. Pellentesque cursus purus elementum dui. Phasellus aliquet ante vitae pede. 

</div>

</div> 

Hi,

Is there any way to set a DIV that starts at 500px height but can grow if the content inside is longer than that? Thanks.

I have an absolutely position <div> with some content positioned within it. I do not always know the size of the inner content so my problem is getting the outer div to expand to the height of the inner div. Is there a solution for this with absolutely positioned items that wil work in IE/Firefox/Safari?

I'm attaching a simple html file which mimics what i am trying to accomplish and the code is below:

Code:

<div id="detailBlock" style="position: absolute; width: 250px; height: 35px; z-index: 3;  border: 1px solid #000; overflow: visible; background-color: #fff5d9; font-size: 8pt; top: 50px; left: 100px;">
<div id="closeBlock" style="position: absolute; width: 40px; height: 8px; left: 210px; top: 3px; font-size: 7pt;"><a href="javascript: closeDetail();">CLOSE</a></div>
<div id="detailContent" style="position: relative; width: 240px; top: 15px; left: 5px; border: 1px solid #F00;">Content whose size i do not know...So if I write anything substantial in here it will go over the edge</div>

Thanks in advance for your help.

I attached an image with an exemple of my problem, left side is from Internet explorer and right side is from Opera and Firefox.

The div in which I inserted that image does not expand in height as much as the image height .. only on how much text I insert in that div. How can I fix this in opera and firefox ?

PHP Code:
.bggrad{
    background-image:url(images/bg-gradient-b-w.gif);
    width:486px;
    text-align:left;
    height:auto;   /*  INITIALY I DID NOT USED HEIGHT BUT IT WAS THE SAME   */
}
img.img_event{
    padding:4px;
    border:1px solid #FFC91B;
    background-color:#FFF4CB;
    margin:10px;
}

<div class="bggrad">
        <img src="images/test.gif" width="117" height="148" border="0" class="img_event" align="left">
        text text text text        
</div> 





10x in advance

Hey guys. I've gotten awesome help here before, so I decided to come back.

Here is the web page I am trying to change (note-far from done. Don't laugh too hard): http://metroairvirtual.org/pilot_profile.php?pilot=1645

If you scroll down to "My Career History," you'll notice that (for example, the very first row of the table), it says "Email address updated from," and doesn't continue with the rest of the statement (gets cut off).

I want to make it so I can scroll horizontally to view the whole statement by scrolling. I was successful by using the white-space: nowrap and then overflow-x: scroll. While that allowed me to do what I wanted, the actual DIV doesn't continue with the content, as shown in the shots below.





Do you guys have any idea on how I can make the div style fill the scroll space? I can't really do a fixed width because history content varies from member to member and it is shorter/longer than others.

Thanks for any help you can offer! If you need used code below that's fine, but I assume you can just use FireBug to inspect it.

Thanks again!

Hey guys,

I have been working on this for weeks and it is driving me nuts. I am trying to get the wrapper to expand to accomodate the content, but for some reason it wont expand. Any ideas?

Here is the link: h$$p://digitallife.us/tutorials-t.html

Thanks,
Daniel

I'm trying to replicate what I had in html tables with css div. The final (I hope) problem is that as I populate cells with data retrieved from a MySQL data base there are columns that want to expand beyond the default height. When that happens, that cell overlaps the next row. If I use min-height, the cell alignment goes haywire because other cells are below the minimum. The workaround is to increase the default height, but that doesn't make me love divs. Is there a solution to this?

Here's my code (stripped down--there'e a lot more to the application, and sanitised for anonymity).

Thank you.


<style type="text/css" media="screen, print, projection">
body,
html {
margin:0;
padding:0;
color:#000;
background:LightBlue;
}
#wrap {
width:99.5%;
margin:0 auto;
background:LightBlue;
padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;
border: none;
}
#p {
float:left;
width:72.5%;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
border: 3px solid navy;
}
# li {
border-bottom: 1px solid navy;
height: 36px;
font-size:small;
}
#p li.header {
border-bottom: 1px solid navy;
font-weight:bold;
font-size:medium;
height: 24px;
padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;
}
#p ul {
margin:0;
padding:0px;
list-style:none;
}
#p p {
font-weight:bold;
font-size: medium:
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
}
#title {
border-bottom: 1px solid navy;
width:100%;
}
#button {
float:left;
border-bottom: 1px solid navy;
border-right: 1px solid navy;
width:10%;
}
#pt {
float:left;
border-bottom: 1px solid navy;
border-right: 1px solid navy;
width:20%;
}
#c {
float:left;
border-bottom: 1px solid navy;
border-right: 1px solid navy;
width:30%;
}
#ex {
float:left;
border-bottom: 1px solid navy;
border-right: 1px solid navy;
width:19%;
}
#az {
float:left;
border-bottom: 1px solid navy;
border-right: 1px solid navy;
width:9%;
}
#ep {
float:left;
border-bottom: 1px solid navy;

width:11%;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<?php
// code to connect to mysql and do do some other stuff goes here
$cl=field_already_retrieved_from db;
echo "<div id=wrap>"; //wrapper for entire page (the real application does a lot more than this section
$result = mysql_query
//sql select statment goes here
$num_rows = mysql_num_rows($result);
echo "<div id='p'>"; //wrapper for p's
echo "<div id='title'>";
echo "<ul><li class=header>Lines</li></ul>";
echo "</div>"; //end title
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
$p=$row['p'];
$v=$row['V'];
echo "<form action='detail.php' method='post'> ";
echo "<div id='button'>"; //button to display line detail
echo "<ul><li>";
echo "<input type='submit' class='btn' name='line' value ='Detail'><input type='hidden' name='p' value ='$p'><input type='hidden' name='v' value ='$v'><input type='hidden' name='cl' value ='$cl'>";
echo "</li></ul>";
echo "</div>"; //end button
echo "</form>";
echo "<div id='pt'>";
echo "<ul><li>";
echo $row['pt'];
echo "</li></ul>";
echo "</div>"; //end pt
echo "<div id='c'>";
echo "<ul><li>";
echo $row['c'] . "/" . $row['PN'];
echo "</li></ul>";
echo "</div>";//end c
echo "<div id='ex'>";
echo "<ul><li>";
echo $row['Ex'];
echo "</li></ul>";
echo "</div>"; //end ex
echo "<div id='az'>";
echo "<ul><li>";
echo $row['az'];
echo "</li></ul>";
echo "</div>"; //end az
echo "<div id='ep'>";
echo "<ul><li>";
echo $row['ep'];
echo "</li></ul>";
echo "</div>"; //end ep
echo "</form>";
} // end while (select lines from database)
echo "</div>"; //end p--wrap for lines
echo "</div>"; //end wrap--entire page
mysql_close($con);
?>
</body>
</html>

I've looked over a couple of answers and they didn't seem to help me.

I have a css "container" box defined like so, containing another "content" box. I'd like the container's height to stretch to contain whatever is in the content box.

#container {
width: 720px;
height:????????????????;
margin: auto;
text-align: left;
position: relative;
}

#content {
position: relative;
left:125px;
top: 105px;
width:500px;
border:0px solid #000;
}

with html like so:

<div id="container">
<div id="content">
</div>
</div>

The content always spills over, unless I set overflow, but that does not solve the problem.

I have nested my content divs within a centered wrapper div. the wrapper div is controlled by an external css file. when content is added to the nested divs they grow outside of the wrapper div. is there a way to force the wrapper to grow with the content like tables do?

The CSS:

#wrapper {
margin-top: 20px;
margin-right: auto;
margin-bottom: 20px;
margin-left: auto;
border-top-width: 2px;
border-right-width: 2px;
border-bottom-width: 2px;
border-left-width: 2px;
border-top-style: solid;
border-right-style: solid;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-left-style: solid;
border-top-color: #000000;
border-right-color: #000000;
border-bottom-color: #000000;
border-left-color: #000000;
position: relative;
width: 760px;
background-color: #FFFFCC;
left: auto;
right: auto;
height: 400px;
z-index: 1;
}


The HTML:
(attached)

Hi,

I'm looking for a tut on how to create tabs for content, not tabs for navigation/menu. Yes, kinda confusing, but here's an example of what I'm after:

http://landflip.com/land.asp?listing_id=23028&hfeature=1

If you scroll down mid way, you will see a tabbed area where it provides the options to check out: Photos, Location, Aeriel and Street View. This is what I want to mimic (not the tabbed navigation up top in the menu bar).

Can you recommend any tutorials that would teach me how to do this?

Thanks.

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

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;
}