I'm currently using React and I'm having issues getting a div to equal 100% of the height of the page. Originally, I had an issue with there always being about 24px of empty space above the body. I couldn't fit it no matter what. I eventually used this on my app.css (a reset)
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
outline: 0;
font-size: 100%;
vertical-align: baseline;
background: transparent;
}
It fixed the issue, but still, a measurement of 100% or 100vh doesn't actually equal 100% of the total view. Here's a screenshot of the page:
https://gyazo.com/3407b6bd0032f402f3bb97acdb725e40
The blue div is a div that fills 100vh. Yet, it doesn't fully fill the page. I tried 100% as well.
Blue div:
.loginWrapper {
margin-left: 260px;
height: 100vh;
background-color: #29B6F6;
}
I noticed that the html had this styling on it, yet even when removed no changes were noticeable:
html {
box-sizing: border-box;
}
If someone could please explain this phenomenon, I would be very grateful. If you need any extra information, just let me know. Thanks!
You will have to reset the basics margin and padding if applied from html and other top level tags.
body, html {margin: 0;padding: 0;}
Or just use something like reset.css
http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/
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Ok, so I have a mobile application with Cordova and AngularJS. For the styling I use Less and Bootstrap.
Problem
In the mobile app I have tried to size my divs with percentage (%). But this does not seem to work. I cannot seem to change the following behavior: The divs are as big as the content inside of them. This problem sounds quite easy and I have tried many options on here (stackoverflow) aswell as on the web. Yet I have not found the solution to fix it and it is getting quite annoying.
I have tried
Adding html, body { height: 100% },
Adding html, body, #canvas { height: 100%}
Adding #canvas { min-height: 100% }
Adding html { height: 100% } body { min-height: 100% }
And a lot of other variations. Using px works, but I don't know how big my mobile device is, so that isn't realy handy.. (I also use bootstrap and some media queries for styling).
Example
When I add elements to my div I get the following behavior:
I want to remove that white empty space, but I can only achieve that when using px instead of %.
Less example:
html, body {
background: transparent;
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#canvas {
min-height: 100%;
}
body {
-webkit-touch-callout: none; //prevent callout to copy image, etc when tap to hold
-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; //prevent webkit from resizing text to fit
-webkit-user-select: node; //prevent copy paste, to allow, change 'none' to 'text'
min-height: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
background-color: #cgiColor;
}
.header {
top: 0px;
width: 100%;
height: 5%;
background: #companyColor;
color: #textColor;
}
.incidentContainer {
background: #appBodyColor;
width: 100%;
height: 70%;
}
.footer {
position: absolute;
color: #textColor;
bottom: 0px;
height: 15%;
width: 100%;
background: #companyColor;
}
Extra information
I am using AngularJS, so my application is a single page application. My index.html looks as follows:
<body oncontextmenu="return false" >
<div class="{{ pageClass}}" ng-view ></div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="cordova.js"></script>
<script data-main="main" src="lib/require.js"></script>
</body>
With of course the standard links to my CSS sheets, and so on.
All the other pages are includes in the 'ng-view' and don't have any or tags. This because they are included.
Solution
The solution was to add the following CSS rule:
div[ng-view]{
height: 100%;
}
This worked, because all divs (except for html & body) are children of this item. Adding the 100% made the div space span to 100% of the screen and thus provides a space for percentage to work.
Credits go to Jai for this answer!
Have you tried to add the following css and set Important attribute
html, body { height: 100% !important }
What seems to me, the directive ng-view is the parent of your application and header, content, footer are loaded in this div. So you have your header div at correct place, your footer is also placed correctly as it is absolutely positioned.
But in case of your content area, that is relative to the ng-view div.
I would recommend you to make it 100% height. Something like:
div[ng-view]{
height: 100%;
}
This most likely is because of the fact that in CSS the 100% is a relative value.
With width the default 100% is the width of the screen, or whatever you are looking at.
Height however does not take the height of the screen as 100%. It needs a solid value.
I think that if you change
html, body {
background: transparent;
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
with
html, body {
background: transparent;
height: 100vh;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
it should work.
The 100vh should set the height of the html to the height of the viewport.
I guess this way works, I have to say though that I myself have not used something to get my page to have a height that is 100% of the screen.
Yay, rendered HTML!
class="incident" is only expanded as large as it needs to be. I believe your fix should be to make that element have a height of 70% (because it will be relative to the whole-page) and then incidentContainer should have a height of 100%.
Percentage heights are relative to the parent element, not the root, so you need to be very aware of any containers, even ones stealthily added by a framework.
Also, if it helps, Jelmergu suggested the vh unit type. This could fit your use case - one "Viewport Height" is equivalent to "1% of the browser's content area". So, 100vh would take up the whole screen. This is true even on deep-level children.
Why does this white border always appear around the box? How can I get it to fit the whole page (horizontally) without using 'position:absolute' ?
http://jsfiddle.net/yag79aLt/
.footer-block {
height: 250px;
width: 100%;
background: #000;
}
<div class="footer-block">
Add the following to your CSS:
body {
margin: 0;
}
This will set the page's margin to zero, thus removing the white border around your JSFiddle.
Often there is a small margin around the body by default. In most major browsers, the default margin is 8px on all sides. It is defined in pixels by the user-agent-stylesheet your browser provides. Some browsers add padding too.
I start by adding this in all of my projects to override that:
body {
margin: 0;
padding:0;
}
If you have a large project you could consider using normalize.css. It resets a lot of default values to be consistent across browsers.
http://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/
You should always make margin and padding 0 of body before design.It will make your design perfect..good luck...:)
CSS CODE:
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
.footer-block {
height: 250px;
width: 100%;
background: #000;
}
Take this simple example... something I never noticed before now.
HTML:
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="sidebar">
</div>
</div>
</body>
CSS:
*, *:before, *:after {
box-sizing: border-box;
}
html, body, div {
background: rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);
margin: 0;
padding: 20px;
height: 100%;
border: 1px solid #000;
}
.container {
height: 250px;
}
.sidebar {
width: 20%;
}
setting the height of body to 100% seems to work fine in this fiddle.
however, if you change the size of .container so that it expands beyond the initial window size... you will notice the div breaks out of the body container (it even appears to break out of the html container too)?
Reformatted Question
Is it possible to set height of the body to 100% of browser window initially but also allow the parent containers to expand with its children if it expands beyond the initial window size?
Typically, when you want to have html and body take on the height of the viewport but also allow them to expand with the content, you set height: 100% on html only, and min-height: 100% instead of height on body. Further explanation can be found in my answers to the following questions:
height: 100% or min-height: 100% for html and body elements?
Applying a background to <html> and/or <body>
Unfortunately, because html is the root element, you cannot set min-height on it alone, or everything will fall apart. You need height: 100% because otherwise there is no parent height on which to base body and its contents; the height of html itself is based on the height of the viewport, which as you may have guessed is pre-determined.
This will be problematic if your actual layout has borders on all these elements, so instead I'm going to assume the borders aren't actually needed. You do not need to worry about the background because it will automatically be transferred to the viewport allowing it to cover the entire painting area (details in the second link).
Given your CSS, you can simply set height: auto on body to cancel out the height: 100% in your previous rule, along with min-height: 100%:
html, body, div {
background: rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);
margin: 0;
padding: 20px;
height: 100%;
}
body {
height: auto;
min-height: 100%;
}
Note that I've also removed the borders, again based on my assumption that they're not needed.
Now we have another problem: once the content grows beyond the browser height, the padding on html disappears, since html doesn't expand along with the other content due to height: 100% (scroll to the bottom to see this).
You can't remove height: 100% since it's required, but you can still change the padding on html to margins around body instead because the margins will continue to take effect even once body overflows html, resulting in the following (again, scroll to the bottom):
html, body, div {
background: rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);
margin: 0;
padding: 20px;
height: 100%;
}
html {
padding: 0;
}
body {
height: auto;
min-height: 100%;
margin: 20px;
}
The default behavior when an element is set to 100% height is to fill its parent entirely, minus the parent's padding value.
Its your padding. I put your code in Dreamweaver and began to check to see why it was doing that. You're right, it works just fine until it smacks out of the viewport by changing the height. I fixed the issue by removing the padding. I suggest reworking how you organized your padding or try using something fill space without using padding. (Such as margin: 5px; for example on the outer layers instead using padding on the inside of the layers. You can even just using a blank fixed height div, afix your inner divs to a percent, and rinse and repeat. Its a dirty method.)
I have a main container in CSS that contains all divs for the page. However, there is a white space of 8px pushing the entire container to the left. Any idea how I can get rid of it, and have the container fit the entire window without white space? If I use "margin-left: -8px" it just creates 8 pixels of white space on the right. Heres the code for the container:
#container {
height: 100%;
width: auto;
position: relative;
background-color: #E6E6E6;
min-width: 960px;
}
Just set margin: 0px; on #container, if that does not work you can set
body {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
This is because of the default styles being applied by the browser stylesheet.
There are a few ways you can solve you're problem:
Apply this css rule, which effectively get's rid of any default padding or margin applied to elements.
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
Or you could use a css reset stylesheet, which I recommend the most because different browsers handle elements somewhat differently and you want to even the field out so you don't run into any problems later. I recommend Eric Mayers css reset stylesheet it can be found here: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/ and I use it for my own projects.
html, body, #container {margin:0; min-height:100%;}
I have a very short (in height) page here: http://www.problemio.com/auth/forgot_password.php and it looks extremely awkward since the background color only goes down until the page ends.
I thought about making a set height to extend below the screen, but don't really want to do that because it will make my css more messy.
Is there a simple way to make that kind of a page extend all the way down?
here is my css that sets the general layout:
body, html
{
#padding: 5px;
}
body
{
font-family: "Century Gothic",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
font-size: 1em;
background-color: #5C5957;
#background:url(/img/ui/background_image.png) top left no-repeat;
#background-size: 100%;
}
/* makes the background of the top bar gray */
.container
{
position: relative;
background-color: white;
overflow:hidden;
width:1000px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
Thanks!
Place the background-color rule to the html element also as:
html { background-color: #5C5957; }
Give the page a minimum height of 100%?
You Can also give min-height to layout div say 500px.