HTML - Spanning Entire Height Of A Page

Hello,

I want to understand the best way to make the height of my page change depending on the content. I know that I can partly accomplish this with tables, but tables have an even number of rows and columns.

My page looks like this...

.................Title...................
______________________
|.....|..............................|
|Nav|...........Content........|
|.....|..............................|
|.....|..............................|
|___|_________________|
.............FOOTER...............


Its very basic, but this is my current road block. What is the best way to accomplish this?

Thank you in advance!

the page is displayed well in IE6, IE7, firfox 3, but not in firefox 2
no matter wht is the height of the page it only shows part of it (about 800px height)
how can i solve that????? (i'm working locally)

thnx in advance :hat:

Is there anyway to make a container DIV LAYER that contains multiple other layers to extend just as far as its contained layers vertically? By this I mean, can you set the height of a div layer to extend to the bottom of the page instead of stopping exactly at where that layer's content stops? I know I could always set the height to a fixed high number, but I don't want all that extra scroll space at the bottom.

I've made an example page to better explain what I mean:

http://www.willamette.edu/~nsawir/tester222.html


See how the white background with black side borders (this is my container div layer) only goes as far as the black text? This black text is the content of that one div layer. The white background and black borders do not extend down to where the red text reading "THIRD LAYER OF ITEMS" (this would be my third div layer) is.

I would like the white background/black border of my container layer to extend to the very bottom of the page, where ever it may be (and no further). Is there any way around this???

PLEASE HELP!!!!!!

Hi im aware how to fit the width of a page so it fills the browser window but im curious on how to set the height of the page?

the width works perfectly and just the height im stuck with

hello Every can any one tellme How can i make a webpage open in Fixed height and Width which is to be opened by a Hyperlink

Example : like when you click On MORE link From The Smilies in this Forum it open a Small Window Resizeble Window

The layout of this page I'm making requires a centered table, 800 pixels wide and 100% high. I am having huge problems making it fill the entire height of the page though, it just stops rather than going right to the bottom of the page.

It's a 4.01 transistional compliant page if that's relevant. Here's a link to the page.

Here's a link to the page (apologies for the file size)
link to page

I want the dark green center section, and the two side cells with tiled graphics to extend right down to the bottom of the page, regardless of height. The center table with the graphics can stay where it is or vertically center, I don't mind about that. I also need it to have no vertical scrollbar when it's viewed fullscreen. If I remove the doctype, it works fine, but I'm wondering if there's a way to have it vaild for that doctype and still look ok?

I've tried everything I can think of and am not turning up anything useful with web searches, if anyone can tell me where I've gone wrong and if this is possible to fix in html, I'd really appreciate it. I can't use CSS, and the doctype has to be as it is, because that's what the specs say (it's for an html class).

Thanks for any help.

Hello,

I'm working on my 3d portfoliosite and seem to have a problem with the centering of the entire site.

www.gerhardvanderhoek.nl


The header image is 1440 px in lenght. The middle of the site always has to be in the middle even if the display size is 1024 X768. So this would mean that some of the green gradients on the left and right and some of the header image wouldn't be seen on screen if it's a relative low resolution.

Can someone give me advice?

Thanks!

I'm trying to center my entire website. Also, I'm trying to make my website XHTML 1.0 strict. Every element I try to use to center it is either deprecated or has had the align attribute deprecated. On w3schools.com they say to use CSS, but I can't find any CSS that could center my entire site.

Any ideas?

Ok I am having some issues with my webpage. I first should say I am relatively new to page designs but I think I know the basics of HTML. However when I posted what I thought was my code in another post, I was told umm that it wasn't my code. I am using share point designer. So before I post what I think my code is, can someone tell me ahh, how I get the code to post lol.

Anyway my issue is on my 22" monitor the page looks fine and I can see everything. When I look at the same page on my lap top, well that is a different story. #1, I am not able to see the bottom half of my picture or what is in the bottom half of my left frame.

The reason I do not post the page is because it is not finished and I dont want anyone to see it yet lol.....

Looking for help, thank you

I am putting together a website for a student group and realized a big problem. The site is a 3 column style, and the bottom half of the left column is "Latest News". I just realized that in my current setup everytime I make a change to the "latest news", I will have to make the change on all of the many pages it is on. Is there a way to make a "latest news" text file and just have that content accessed from each page so that I will only have to make changes to the one file and have it show up on all pages? I have tried searching for this for an hour but just can't seem to hit the correct keyword that explains how to do it.

Thanks!!!

Hi there, well, the title basically says it all.

I have a site that consists of like, 8 .php pages... and I need to play this ambient sound at the background. ( I know, but well.. orders from above)

So I was wondering if there is a way to manage this, without having to hear the song all over again when you click on a link.

Thanks

Hi Everyone,

I'm slightly confused by this one. But i'm sure theres a hack out there to fix it.

Basically, in firefox and konqueror, running on kubuntu, the top navigation bar at http://www.tendervendors.com/dev/payroll.html displays correctly, and when you hover over it, it fills the li with a semi-opaque background.

This is correct.

Its done, by filling the a element, with a background-color and then applying opaque: 0.5;

The a element also has padding, which makes it fill out to the size of the li element, so the a element fills its portion of the ul, and looks like the li has the affect applied to it.

However, in opera, the right and left padding is correct, but the height padding doesn't work.

Does anyone know of a bug in opera that would be causing this problem, and possibly a code fix for it?

TIA

Matthew Millar

Hi,

I have a table and I need a background in one cell to extend down to the bottom of the cell (which is also the bottom of the page) from a certain point (below the content of that cell).

I figured I would just use a div to do that... like this

<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
.divbg {
background:url(tree.jpg);
height: 100%;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<p>Content</p>
<div class="divbg">&nbsp;</div>
</td>
<td>
<p>Content takes up a lot of space here and continues down the page a bit, so that is why the background in the cell to the left has to continue down the page.</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Unfortunately, that didn't do anything. It just left me with a strip of my background image right under the content. So... I discovered online that you have to set the parent to 100% as well. I made the td <td height="100%"> and with no luck, I made the table <table height="100">.

This just did really weird stuff and I realized what the problem was. This was making the div 100% height of the window itself.

All I want is for the div to go from top to bottom (not including the content at the top of the cell). Is this even possible?

Let me know if my explanation is unclear...

Thanks!

P.S. In the real site I am using XHTML 1.0 Transitional if that makes a difference. I might be able to change that though, if I need to. It was just the default that Dreamweaver put there. I'm not sure what the rest of the site would look like if I changed that now.

Ok I have been racking my brain on this one for two weeks and I still cannot find an answer to this, which I know I will kick myself when I find out. I have this sidebar in a table and the sidebar spans 4 Rows the problem is that each cell does not condense down to the smallest size possible and I don't know what to do to fix it. The page in question is at http://wentworthatdraper.com/test/ The page renders great in Chrome but not FF and IE

I'll put all the code I think is relevant here.


<tr>
<td width="77" height="160" class="sidebar" >

<div class="title">
Main
</div>
<div class="subtitle3">
<ul>
<li>
<a href="index.html">Home</a>
<a href="contact.html">Contact Us</a>
<a href="calendar.html">Calendar</a>
<a href="news.html">News</a>
</li>
</ul>
</div>

</td>
<td width="721" colspan="2" rowspan="4" class="content">
<p> Edited </p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="272" class="sidebar" >

<div class="title">
Our Community
</div>
<div class="subtitle3">
<ul>
<li>
<a href="index.html">Living With Us</a>
<a href="contact.html">Meet The Staff</a>
<a href="calendar.html">Testimonials</a>
<a href="news.html">Photo Gallery</a>
<a href="index.html">Apartment Deals</a>
<a href="contact.html">Dining Services</a>
<a href="calendar.html">Amenities</a>
<a href="news.html">Location</a>
</li>
</ul>
</div>

</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="20px" class="sidebar">
<div class="title">
Gallery
</div>
<div align="center">
<img src="../test/Images/photos/happy-home.jpg" width="131" height="86" />
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="100%" class="sidebar">
<div class="title">
Our Location
</div>
<div class="sidewriting">
11631 S 700 E <br />
Draper, UT 8402
<p>
<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=11631+S+700+E++Draper,+UT+8402&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=42.360237,93.076172&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=11631+S+700+E,+Draper,+Salt+Lak e,+Utah+84020&amp;ll=40.540906,-111.870153&amp;spn=0.009963,0.022724&amp;z=16&amp;iwloc=A" target="_blank">Get Directions </a></p>
</div>
</td>
</tr>

.sidebar {
width:175px;
background:url(../images/sidebar.jpg) repeat-y;
vertical-align:top;
margin:auto;
}


.title {
background:url(../images/title.jpg) left no-repeat ;
height:30px;
padding:10px 0px 0 15px;
color:#FFF;
font-weight:bold;
vertical-align:top;
}

Thank you so much for looking at this