CSS - Css: Expand Parent Beyond Viewport?

is it possible?

its the banner...

the content spans around 1000 pixels wide so with 100% width i miss a piece when i scroll to right of page

just making the body around 1000 pixels seems to get a horizontal scrollbar when its not needed for the content....either that or its just missing some pixels...

cant a div be 100% of the page?

I have created a CSS site that has a footer spanning the bottom of the viewport and whilst I have managed to glue it to the bottom I have another div that is behind it even though I think I have set-up the container
properly.

The troublesome page is http://www.cimbian.co.uk/BognorArchers/recurve.htm
and you will see that the bottom of the text in the main pane is obscured by the footer.

Basically I have a meta-wrapper for the whole page: and then have the main content within it. Following on from the content I have the footer and then I close the meta-wrapper. Something like this:

<div id="meta_wrapper">
<div id="BA_main_content_area" class="clearfix">
<div id="BA_Main_Full_Width">
</div>
<div id="footer">
</div>
</div>

My CSS for this is:

div#meta_wrapper { width: 760px;
margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;
background-color: yellowgreen;
text-align: left;
position: relative;
min-height: 100%;
height: 100%;
voice-family: "\"}\"";
voice-family: inherit; }

html>body #meta_wrapper { height: auto; }

div#BA_main_content_area {width:760px;
align: center;
margin-top: 0;
margin-right: 0;
margin-bottom: 0;

margin-left: 0;
font-size: 0.85em }

div#BA_Main_Full_Width { border:3px inset yellow;
font-family: Verdana; font-size: 0.85em;
text-align: justify;
position: relative;
width: 500px;
margin: 10px 30px 0px 10px;
padding: 3px;
background-color: #FFFFCC;
float: left; }

div#footer { position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
width:760px;
padding:4px 0;
font-size: 0.6em;
text-align: center;
background-color: white; /* Blue */
border-top:1px solid yellow; border-bottom:2px solid
yellow; margin-top:1.5em;} /* orange border */

The problem occurs in IE and in Netscape so although I have box-model problems due to IE in Firefox the problem is not limited to IE.

As far as I can tell from much web-reading and a couple of books this should
do it.

Any thoughts?

PS: I also posted this in the MS FP forum as I built the page in FP but have not yet found a solution so please don't yell if you have seen the post there too ;-)

I'm trying to get the footer to dynamically expand with the content in the box 1, 2, 3. How can i do this?

The HTML
Code:

<div id="footer">
    <div id="box1">Content</div>
    <div id="box2">Content</div>
    <div id="box3">Content</div>
</div>

The CSS
Code:

#footer {
 min-height:150px
 height:auto;
}
#box1 {
 float:left; 
 min-height:150px
 height:auto;
}
#box2 {
 float:left; 
 min-height:150px
 height:auto;
}
#box3 {
 float:left; 
 min-height:150px
 height:auto;
}

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 a page that uses CSS to handle layout. I also use a combination of CSS and javascript to create an expandable menu. I have a simplified version of this page he

http://www.stringersites.com/csstest/index.htm

Users of Dreamweaver will recognize this as being based on the HaloNavLeft template.

As you can see, the page displays fine until you start expanding the menu items contained in <div id="mainMenu">. If you expand enough, the mainMenu box extends beyond the borders of the <div id="pagecell1"> in which it's contained.

My primary question to the group is how to get the pagecell div to autoexpand along with the mainMenu div.

My secondary question is how to stretch a vertical column to the height of the containing div. Specifically, this is <div class="relatedLinks">, which is contained in pageNav, which, in turn, is contained in pagecell1.

The relevant pieces of CSS are included below, but you can link to the entire CSS sheet from the test doc above.

Thanks in advance for the help.

-Steve Stringer


Code:

#pagecell1{
 position:absolute;
 top: 112px;
 left: 2%;
 right: 2%;
 width:95.6%;
 background-color: #ffffff;
}
 
#mainMenu {
 background-color: #EEE;
 border: 1px solid #CCC;
 color: #000;
 width: 350px;
 position: absolute;
 margin-left: 10px;
 margin-top: 20px;
}

#pageNav{
 float: left;
 width:178px;
 padding: 0px;
 background-color: #F5f7f7;
 border-right: 1px solid #cccccc;
 border-bottom: 1px solid #cccccc;
 font: small Verdana,sans-serif;
}

.relatedLinks{
 margin: 0px;
 padding: 0px 0px 10px 10px;
 border-bottom: 1px solid #cccccc;
}

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> 

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 have a div that has a table inside of it. Even though the table expands with content added, the div does not.

It's important to me that the div extend with the table because this div in question has a background shadow border for the table.

Here is the CSS:

Code:

#right {
  float: right;
  width: 80%;
  height: 100%;
}

#rt_brdr {
 height: 100%;
 width: 100%;
 padding-bottom:5px;
 padding-right: 10px;
 margin-bottom: 5px;
 vertical-align: bottom;
 background: url(img/r_brdr.gif) repeat-y right;
}

My HTML:

Code:

<div id="right">
   <div id="rt_brdr">
    <table border="0" align="left" width="100%" style="height: 93%; margin-top: 2px;"  cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
       <tr>
         <td class="top" style="background: url(img/w_tl.jpg) no-repeat top left #FFFFFF;"></td>
         <td class="white_fill"></td>
         <td class="top" style="background: url(img/w_tr.jpg) no-repeat top right #FFFFFF;"></td>
       </tr>
       <tr class="white_fill">
         <td></td>
         <td></td>
         <td></td>
       </tr>
       <tr>
         <td class="bottom" style="background: url(img/w_bl.jpg) no-repeat bottom left #FFFFFF;"></td>
         <td class="white_fill"></td>
         <td class="bottom" style="background: url(img/w_br.jpg) no-repeat bottom right #FFFFFF;"></td>
      </tr>
    </table>
  </div>
  </div>

I have attached a screenshot. Note that I took the content out of the table in the post so that the code doesn't extend forever. I have put a black border around the right border to make it stand out in the screenshot.

I searched for something I want but I didn't find exactly that, or maibe something is wrong but in IE the page does not look ok.

What I want is to have my page looks identical in IE as in FF or OPERA.

I will explain here how I done the code

PHP Code:
<td rowspan="2" width="600" align="left" height="100%" valign="top" >  
<div class="brand_list_big">      
<div class="box_header" style="background-color:#79B602;">CARS LISTED BY BRANDS</div>      
<div class="box_content" style="width:560px;">          
          <div class="brand_list_header"><span style="float:left;"><strong>Audi</strong></span><span style="float: right;">Total Cars : 2</span></div>
          <div class="car_list">
              <span class="fleft"><a href="#">audi tt</a></span><span class="fright"><img 1><img 2></span><br>
              <span class="fleft"><a href="#">Saturn Sky Roadster</a></span><span class="fright"><img 1><img 2></span><br>
          </div>
          ...
          <div class="brand_list_header"><span style="float:left;"><strong>Alfa-Romeo</strong></span><span style="float: right;">Total Cars : 0</span></div>
          ... 


div.box_header
{
    width: 99,5%;
    margin: 1px 1px 1px 1px;
    padding: 5px 0 5px 0;
    font-weight:bold;
    font-size: 12px;
    font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

div.box_content
{
    margin: 0 1px 1px 1px;
    padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
    height: 100%;
    scrollbar-face-color:#7098DF;
    scrollbar-highlight-color:#7098DF;
    scrollbar-3dlight-color:#FFFFFF;
    scrollbar-darkshadow-color:#FFFFFF;
    scrollbar-shadow-color:#919AA4;
    scrollbar-arrow-color:#FFCC00;
    scrollbar-track-color:#FFFFFF;
}

.brand_list_header
{
    width: 99,5%;
    padding: 2px 0 2px 5px;
    background-color:#E3FEB1;
    border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
    border-bottom: 0 solid #CCCCCC;
    margin-top: 10px;
    overflow:auto; /* I added this now and in ff and Opera everithing is ok, but not in IE*/
}

.car_list
{
    border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
    background-color:#FFFFFF;
    clear:both;
    overflow:auto;
}

.fleft
{
    float: left;
    margin: 2px 2px 2px 10px;
    clear:left;
}

.fright
{
    float: right;
}

img.new_img
{
    margin: 2px 10px 0 0 ;
/*the img from my code( <img 1>, <img 2> ) have this class*/
} 






Any Ideea why in IE the divs are not ok ?

First I tried to list the cars from a brand using <li> elements but I didn't know how to align the images ( icons ) at the right side, like are now.

10x in advance, waiting for a response

see ya

hi...

if you look here - http://www.outlawz.frihost.net/fula/test2.php

you can see i have written to much text...

here is my code

Quote:
<?php require("header.php"); ?>

<div id="content">
<br><br>
<b>Welcome to Kadafi Legacy.</b><br><br>

<img src="image/yaki1.jpg" alt="Yaki Kadafi" align="left">

Here at Kadafi Legacy we aim to bring you the latest and most in depth information on Yaki Kadafi, such information will include the family and friends of Yaki Kadafi, Kadafi's childhood years, the records Kadafi featured upon and all this and much more can be found in our <a href="/history.php" alt="Yaki Kadafi History">Kadafi history</a> section.<br><br>

The latest news and information regarding projects from the official Kadafi site - <a href="http://www.yakikadafi.com" target="_blank" alt="YakiKadafi.com">YakiKadafi.com</a>, will also be reported and updated daily in our <a href="/news.php" alt="Yaki Kadafi News">Kadafi News</a> section.<br><br>

Also available on Kadafi Legacy is the <a href="/music.php" alt="Yaki Kadafi Music">music</a> section, you will find information, images and lyrics about previous releases such as 'Son Rize: Volume 1'.<br><br>

In our <a href="/links.php" alt="Yaki Kadafi Links">links</a> section you will be able to find direct links to official sites that are related to Yaki Kadafi in one way or another also in our links section is a 'support the real' area of links which will link to sites we support, i.e - Sekou Odinga, Assata Shakur.<br><br>

Our ultimate goal is to honour Yaki Kadafi, his family and his music in the correct way, this means there will be no illegal downloads available on this site and nothing will be used without permission from Yaasmyn Fula.<br><br>

Last and not least, Kadafi Legacy would like to thank the following people -<br><br>

Yaasmyn Fula<br>
Cory Caudill<br><br>



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</div>

<br>

<div id="foot">Graphics & Design by "NO NAMED DESIGNS" - Copyright 2006 "KLSOON2BE"</div>

</body>
</html>


and heres the css -

Quote:
a:link {color:white}
a:visited {color:white}
a:hover {color:black}
a:active {color:white}

body {background-color: #666666}

#head img { display: block; }

#head{

position: relative;
top: 7px;
left: 140px;
width: 707px;
font-family: verdana;
font-size: 12px;
color:white;
background-color: #666666;
background-image: url(wavy.jpg);

}

#box1{

position: relative;
top: 7px;
left: 140px;
width: 345px;
font-family: verdana;
font-size: 12px;
color:white;
background-color: #666666;
background-image: url(wavy.jpg);

}

#content {

position: relative;
top: 7px;
left: 140px;
width: 697px;
height: 500px;
font-family: verdana;
font-size: 12px;
color:white;
text-aligh: justify;
background-color: #666666;
background-image: url(image/back.jpg);
padding: 5px;

}


#foot{

position: relative;
left: 140px;
width: 707px;
font-family: verdana;
font-size: 9px;
text-align: center;
color:white;
background-color: 666666;
background-image: url(wavy.jpg);

}



on the page the text goes out side the blue box.. how do i make it so the when it does that the blue box stretches down... thanks!

also it works in IE but not in FIREFOX!

Hi, what I'm trying to do is get two divs next to each other. That much I can do if I give them both a style of 'float:left;', but the problem with that is that they will overflow out of the div that they both sit in. Is there anyway to get two divs to sit next to each other, but to also expand the parent div if necessary? Thanks!

Hey all, the test page is here. Notice when you expand the "view more details" in IE8 to the point where it is supposed to push the page down, it doesn't! But it does in FF/Safari.

HTML

CSS

Potentially relevant CSS:

Code:

body {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	min-height:0;
}
div.container {
	width:100px;
	
}
div.outerBody {
	width:100%;
	min-height:0;
}
div.innerBody {
	width:100%;
	background-image:url("../../images/artist_center/body_bg.jpg");
	background-repeat:repeat-x;
	min-height:0px;
 	height:auto !important;
	
	background-color:#cedce5;
	text-align:center;
	margin: 0;
	position:absolute;
}

div.tabContent {
	width:945px;
	min-height:596px;
	border:solid 1px #cccccc;
	float:left;
	position:relative;
	margin-left:14px;
	padding-bottom:14px;
	margin-bottom:14px;
	
}

I'm using clearfix to make things work in IE7, but clearly there's some kind of other problem going on.

Thanks for any help!

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!