I'm trying to achieve the below layout.
I have a region that, ideally, fills most of browser's height; I want it all within view, with a potential minimum height. On the left is an image that stretches to fill the area, with the aspect retained, but will not go beyond a maximum width. On the right is a div that takes up the remaining space.
I can't figure out the HTML and CSS flex-box styles that would achieve it.
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I have the following layout I need to solve
I understand that the whole idea of the responsive design is to leave the height to adjust to the content, but for this particular work the customer wants it this way no matter how I have to figure it out but I'm struggling hard to achieve it
In my mockup I have a 100% height and weight body, and then a container taking 85% height of the body size.
Inside that container there are the following elements:
A Top div container with the company logo
A Progress bar with a step number
A small div with some instructions for the current step
A Div containing the form elements that the user has to fill
A bottom div with 2 navigation buttons
The content should be always visible no matter the device used (see image below)
Number 4. has a inner scrollbar with overflow-y because that content will change
In order to do this i set heights in percentage (%) for each div within the container, however I need some padding for the elements, but when the browser resizes or the device changes height and width the elements overlap each other
I don't want to rely on a bunch of media queries to fix this. I wonder if anyone can find an approach or some reference for this since i can't seem to find it
Thanks
If you don't want to use many media queries, I think you should use Jquery (or Javascript) like this:
Fixed height of all div except FORM CONTENT (include padding, margin, border with box-sizing: border-box). You can use some media queries for best style.
Use Jquery to calculate height of FORM CONTENT (this is scrollable content)
Example:
$('#form-content').height($(window).height() - X);
// With X = total height of other divs includes margin, padding, border
Call this script in $(document).ready(...) and $(window).resize(...)
Hope this help.
So my issue is that I am trying to decrease the amount of wasted black space in my websites header, now currently there is an image in the bottom right hand corner of the header and if I increase it's dimensions by 100px it will take up the space perfectly however when I do so, it increases the size of the header to fit the image but the blank space has just gotten bigger by the same amount.
How can I simply increase the amount of space the image will take up within the container?
Would adding sizing using CSS perhaps overwrite the HTML and make the image larger without increasing the size of the header? Please help, I'm new to all this.
If increasing the size of the image also increases the size of the container: Check your padding on the outer element.
Use element{ padding:0; } in your CSS to prevent this.
You shouldn't be "overwriting the HTML" with CSS. All styling should be done with CSS. If you set the dimensions of the container with CSS the image will fill up max space if height is set to 100%. Distortion would occur if the container is not the same aspect ratio as the image and the image takes up 100% height and width of container.
Maybe you can set the image position:absolute and set the container position:relative
I hope the title was clear enough to get the general idea. The problem itself is a little bit trickier. To help with the understanding see my illustration below.
Since I don't have enough reputation points to include the illustration directly, here is a link to it on flickr.com: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cumbrowski/12009919663/
Or link to image here at Stackoverflow.com: http://i.stack.imgur.com/1Kswi.png
Phrasing it out in full-text.
The outer-most container should always be vertically and
horizontally centered in the available browser window. Both Width
and Height are dynamic, but the height cannot exceed 90% of the
available window height.
The inside of the container has 3 containers.
The top-most container has a fixed height but the width should span
the entire outer container width.
The bottom-most container should also span the entire width of the
outer container, but it's height can vary, based on it's content.
Preferably, If the container is empty, the height should shrink to 0
(if possible).
The center-most container controls the width and height of the
outer-container, except, if the total height of the outer container
would exceed the maximum of 90% of the available window height. In
that case the center-container should show scroll bars.
NOTE:
If there is no pure CSS based solution possible and the help of JavaScript needed, okay, sad, but if necessary, what can I do?! jQuery would be okay in that case as well.
I know this is a common problem and I feel really stupid for not being able to figure it out, but I have a 3 column layout in HTML, and I seriously cannot figure this out for the life of me.
Here is the basic layout of my site:
fixed header,
1 sidebar on each side,
middle area with content.
Here is a mockup of the site that I'm speaking about: http://eitanrosenberg.com/tests/pop/bootstrap/
It looks ok at first, but when the browser is resized, the sidebars get really small and there is a ton of white space. Why is this? Thank you so much in advance.
Look at it this way.
The height:100% of the container div (and the column divs) gets their height from the body-element (100% of that), and the height of the body element is calculated as 100% of the height of the html element
The height of the html element is then (in practice) calculated from the current height of the browser window (100% of that).
So the height of your boxes will all be set to match the heigth of the browser window...
and this is exactly what you see when you shrink the browser window heigth!
Because:
Once your content no longer fits within the height of its container (ie. when you shrink the browser window you also shrink the calculated heights of all your containers and eventually the headroom will be too small) - overflow happens. The content of the "highest" box will then be the first to overflow, and parts of its content will then spill out of it to be visible below the boxes (since you don't use overflow: hidden).
The browser will then allow you to scroll past the bottom of the boxes (so to speak) in order for you to be able to see the content that "overflows the box", but it doesn't adjust the height of container - the boxes will still keep the same height as the browser window while you scroll...
So the background patterns will always be the height of 100% of the browser window in this example (an not match the height of the highest content when the height shrinks below that)...
One way to remedy this - is to adjust the height of the boxes with Javascript (calculate the height of the highest column and set that as an absolute value for height on the container and the boxes - every time the page resizes)
... or you could use "display: table" and "display: table-cell" on the container and the columns respectively as a workaround (overriding the Bootstrap grid CSS) for this particular layout width/media queries...
Hope this helps!
Good luck!
How do I make a div that has a variable width? So I want a div to span a certain width inside a container and if there is another element in it, the div will automatically fill a portion of the of the width.
Don't give the div a width and it will fill 100% of the horizontal space. Add margins to it (as either % or px) and it will shrink accordingly.
It sounds like you may be asking how to have something inside the div force it to grow wider with its content. I don't think that's possible without javascript.