I have built a template to layout what I intend to accomplish. Everything seems to work well with what I have learned from the stackoverflow community.
However, the Footer which is its own container and has "section7" as another DIV is not displaying as 150 pixels in height. Basically all sections have fixed height except for Section 5 and Section 6 which have to scale in height depending on the browser window size or content that will be placed inside the section. So if content is sparse, I just want the height to be 100% of the remaining browser space so that the website is top to bottom. However if there is content that is lengthy obviously I want the middle section to adapt and continue as required. Hope I am making sense.
The challenge is I don't know where I am wrong and thus do not know how to pose the question in the search function as I imagine it is an easy task for those with experience. Any help is appreciated.
The HTML:
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Sample Website</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="header">
<div class="section1">section 1</div>
<div class="section2">section 2</div>
<div class="section3">section 3</div>
<div class="section4">section 4</div>
</div>
<div class="middle">
<div class="section5">section 5</div>
<div class="section6">section 6</div>
</div>
<div class="footer">
<div class="section7">section 7</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
The CSS:
#charset "utf-8";
/* CSS Document */
body {
margin-left: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
padding: 0px;
background-color:#DBDBDB
}
div.container {
width: 1200px;
background-color:#FFFFFF;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
}
div.header {
height: 100px;
}
div.middle {
min-height: 400;
}
div.footer {
height: 150px;
}
div.section1 {
background-color:#FF0004;
height: 100px;
width: 275px;
float:left;
position:relative;
}
div.section2 {
background-color:#FFA600;
height: 100px;
width: 100px;
float:left;
position:relative;
}
div.section3 {
background-color:#00C304;
height: 50px;
}
div.section4 {
background-color:#DFDD00;
height: 50px;
}
div.section5 {
background-color:#0A00FF;
width: 275px;
height: 400px;
float:left;
height: 100vh;
}
div.section6 {
background-color:#CB05B1;
width: 925px;
height: 400px;
float:right;
height: 100vh;
}
div.section7 {
background-color:#9E9E9E;
height: 150px;
}
Floating elements need to be cleared so that elements following align correctly and do not move into the elements you have floated. Section 5 and Section 6.
Add the following class definition to your stylesheet
.clearfix:before, .clearfix:after {
content: " ";
display: table;
}
Change the following tag <div class="middle"> to <div class="middle clearfix">
HTML5 also includes <header> and <footer> elements, as well as <article> tags to make the document language more semantic. So for HTML5 you can use
<header>
<div class="section1">section 1</div>
<div class="section2">section 2</div>
<div class="section3">section 3</div>
<div class="section4">section 4</div>
</header>
And
<footer>
<div class="section7">section 7</div>
</footer>
https://jsfiddle.net/raythcael/s49o4rjz/2/
To make .section7 have a height of 150px add display: inline-block;
div.section7 {
background-color: #9E9E9E;
height: 150px;
display: inline-block;
}
See: https://jsfiddle.net/zvkxj6v8/
The reason why the height isn't working as it should is because the Div's above it is set to "float". Add "clear: both;" to div.section7 to clear the floats.
https://jsfiddle.net/2L55g0f9/1/
because section 5 and 6 are floated, you're not seeing the height of section 7. All i did was clearfix it, and you got your height :)
.clearfix:after {
clear: both;
content: ".";
display: block;
height: 0;
visibility: hidden;
}
.clearfix {
display: inline-block;
}
Related
I am just trying to create a basic website using Material Design Light that responds to the size of the screen and I am having trouble making the grid fill all of the available height. I have tried to look for solutions to this problem online but I cant find any that work.
Here is the source code for one the grids I will use:
<main class="mdl-layout__content">
<div class="mdl-grid">
<div class="mdl-cell mdl-cell--4-col" style="text-align:center; background-color:gray;">size 4</div>
<div class="mdl-cell mdl-cell--4-col" style="text-align:center; background-color:gray;">size 4</div>
<div class="mdl-cell mdl-cell--4-col" style="text-align:center; background-color:gray;">size 4</div>
</div>
</main>
Here is a link to the full Html page: Example MDL Page
Here is an image of the problem: Page Example
I'm assuming that your page height is the view height, which you can only use w/ modern browsers. See view height
Basically what we're doing here is we already know how high our footer and header are going to be (in the fiddle i just set it to 50px each). Then we use the calc CSS property to set the view height (vh) to 100% - 100px (meaning the footer and header's height put together (50+50 = 100)
Check the fiddle
<div id="main-body">
<div class="header"></div>
<div class="content clearfix">
<div class="a">1</div>
<div class="a">2</div>
<div class="a">3</div>
<div class="a">4</div>
</div>
<div class="footer"></div>
</div>
* {
box-sizing: border-box; /* add for browser prefixes */
}
#main-body {
height: 100%;
overflow: hidden;
}
.header, .footer {
background-color: blue;
height: 50px;
}
.content .a {
height: calc(100vh - 100px);
background-color: red;
width: 25%;
float: left;
}
.clearfix:after {
content: "";
clear:both;
display:table;
}
Note that you'll also need the viewport meta tag in your <head> for this to work.
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
OP added the he would like the ability to center the text within these content divs
<div id="main-body">
<div class="header"></div>
<div class="content clearfix">
<div class="a"><p>1</p></div>
<div class="a"><p>2</p></div>
<div class="a"><p>3</p></div>
<div class="a"><p>4</p></div>
</div>
<div class="footer"></div>
</div>
#main-body {
height: 100%;
overflow: hidden;
}
.header, .footer {
background-color: blue;
height: 50px;
}
.content .a {
height: calc(100vh - 100px);
background-color: red;
width: 25%;
float: left;
position: relative;
}
.content .a p {
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
margin: 0;
}
.clearfix:after {
content: "";
clear:both;
display:table;
}
Th way I did it was to over-ride a couple of the mdl styles, notably to make main display as flex rather than inline-block. It would probably make sense to add an Id to restrict the impact of this override across the rest of your site
.mdl-layout__content {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
.mdl-grid {
width: 100%;
flex-grow: 2;
}
}
Try to fool around with the CSS height attribute. Like so:
<div class="mdl-cell mdl-cell--4-col" style="text-align:center; background-color:gray; height:100%;">size 4</div>
<div class="mdl-cell mdl-cell--4-col" style="text-align:center; background-color:gray; height:100%;">size 4</div>
<div class="mdl-cell mdl-cell--4-col" style="text-align:center; background-color:gray; height:100%;">size 4</div>
More information here: http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_dim_height.asp
First question so sorry if this is a bit squiffy.
I'm trying to get a full (100%) width fixed header with content within, such as logo and navigation links, that is aligned to the main container. I'd like to do this without the use of margining left or right on the logo/nav content as that doesn't seem particularly flexible.
I tried putting the header div within the container block, that fixes the alignment issue but then I can no longer go full width.
So basically how do I get content in a full width fixed header to align with content in the main content of the page?
Here is my html (sorry if its messy, I've only been at this a week or so):
<body>
<div id="header">
<div id="logo">
</div>
<div id="nav">
</div>
</div>
<div id="container">
<div id="content">
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer">
</div>
</body>
Here is my CSS, I left the logo image out and in place is just a beige block:
body {
margin: 0px;
background-color: darkgray;
}
#header{
width: 100%;
height: 100px;
position: fixed;
top: 0px;
background-image: url("images/bg-header.jpg");
opacity: 0.9;
}
#logo {
height: 100%;
width: 300px;
background-color: beige;
}
#container {
width: 960px;
margin: 0px auto;
height: 1000px;
background-color:gray;
}
#footer{
width: 100%;
height: 100px;
background-image: url("images/bg-header.jpg");
}
Any advice?
Thank-you
Add an inner wrapper to your header HTML
<body>
<div id="header">
<div id="header_inner"><!-- inner div -->
<div id="logo">
</div>
<div id="nav">
</div>
</div><!-- end inner div-->
</div>
<div id="container">
<div id="content">
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer">
</div>
</body>
Then add the same width styling as your container to the wrapper:
#header_inner{
width: 960px;
margin: 0px auto;
}
Then the main content and your header content will align.
Some side notes:
classes are always better than IDs for styling
fixed width are generally not a great idea if you're going for a responsive solution
For Fixed Header or Footer you can use
.header_class {
width: 100vw;
float: left;
position: fixed !important;
top: 0px;
background: url: ('images/img.png') no-repeat;
height: 100%;
}
another better suggestion you can follow facebook header css means upper blue section css (css class name: .fixed_elem, .fixed_always)
I had a little trouble understanding what exactly you were looking to do so I made this example which shows a full page with header and one contained within the middle content area. The main problem I saw was that when you do things like width:100% it doesnt do 100% it is allowed.. but the full width of the parent element. You can use width:inherit to get the max width allowed. Here is the example with a full white header width and one contained using black. Its all in how you structure the parent child DOM relationship structure
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<style>body {margin: 0px;background-color: darkgray;}
header{background-color: white;height:100px;width:100%;}
#header{width: inherit;height: 100px;position: fixed;top: 0px;background-image:url("images/bg-header.jpg");opacity: 0.9;background-color: black;}
#logo {height: 100%;width: 300px;background-color: beige;}
#container {width: 960px;margin: 0px auto;height: 1000px;background-color:gray;}
#footer{width: 100%;height: 100px;background-image: url("images/bg-header.jpg");}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<header><div></div></header>
<div id="container">
<div id="header">
<div id="logo"></div>
<div id="nav"></div>
</div>
<div id="content"></div>
<div id="footer"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
The easiest solution is to add a container inside the #header. Create a class .container that has the properties shared by the #container and this container. Also make sure that the container inside the #header gets 100% height.
.container {
width: 960px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
#header .container {
height: 100%;
}
body {
margin: 0;
background-color: darkgray;
}
#header {
width: 100%;
height: 100px;
position: fixed;
top: 0;
background-image: url("http://placehold.it/100x100");
opacity: 0.9;
}
#logo {
height: 100%;
width: 300px;
background-color: beige;
}
#container {
height: 1000px;
background-color: gray;
}
#footer {
height: 100px;
background-image: url("http://placehold.it/100x100");
}
.container {
width: 960px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
#header .container {
height: 100%;
}
<div id="header">
<div class="container">
<div id="logo">
</div>
<div id="nav">
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="container" class="container">
<div id="content">
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer">
</div>
Basically you want to have a full width 100px header and footer which are fixed to top 0 and bottom 0. but at the same time you want the content to not exactly roll under the header and footer. I hope I understood the question here.
To achieve that obviously give position fixed to header and footer but now to get your content aligned right, you have to give a margin of the height of header and footer ( 100px)
Here is the code snippet... I have added different colors and some filler content to see the difference.
body {
margin: 0px;
background-color: darkgray;
}
#header,
#footer {
width: 100%;
height: 100px;
position: fixed;
left: 0;
background: blue;
opacity: 0.5;
text-align: center;
color: red;
}
#header {
top: 0;
}
#footer {
bottom: 0;
}
#logo {
height: 100%;
width: 300px;
background-color: beige;
float: left;
}
#nav {
height: 100%;
width: 450px;
background: cyan;
opacity: 0.5;
float: right;
}
#container {
width: 960px;
margin: 100px auto;
height: 1000px;
background-color: orange;
}
<div id="header">
<div id="logo">logo</div>
<div id="nav">nav</div>
</div>
<div id="container">
<div id="content">
content
<br>content
<br>content
<br>content
<br>content
<br>content
<br>content
<br>content
<br>content
<br>content
<br>content
<br>content
<br>
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer">footer</div>
Hope this was what you were looking for.
I've had this problem many times before, where you want full width images, but they're in containers at a fixed width. At any rate there's a few things you can do here. You can add a container class to every section you want in a container; You put a mini-container in divs you want to break the rules, (this also requires taking said div / #header out of the main #container)
#header {
width: 100%;
height: 100px;
position: fixed;
top: 0px;
background-image: url("images/bg-header.jpg");
opacity: 0.9;
}
Than put a div inside of that called content, and set content up like this.
.content {
width: 960px;
margin:0 auto;
display:block;
}
So your markup/html should look like
<div id="header">
<div class="content">
<ul>
<li><a>Home</a></li>
<li><a>Other</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
There are more options, but these seem to make sense for this issue.
Hope This Helps,
-Alex
I created a sample of the situation in JSFiddle
I updated JSFiddle Here: http://jsfiddle.net/x11joex11/r5spu85z/8/ (this shows in more detail how the sticky footer works so well, just height issue).
I want the table to take up the remaining height, for some reason the height: 100% is not working?
From my tests it appears to be related to min-height: 100%. I need that to make the sticky footer work.
So a solution for me is another way to do the sticky footer, or a way to still give 100% height to the elements within.
HTML
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="wrapper_content">
<!--Header-->
<div class="header">Header</div>
<div class="content table">
<div class="row">
<div class="l_cell">left</div>
<div class="r_cell">right</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="push"></div>
</div>
</div>
<!--Footer-->
<div class="footer">Footer</div>
CSS
body, html {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
height: 100%;
}
.wrapper {
min-height: 100%;
margin: 0 auto -50px;
background-color: black;
}
.container {
}
.table {
display: table;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
background-color: yellow;
}
.row {
display: table-row;
}
.l_cell {
display: table-cell;
width: 265px;
background-color: orange;
}
.r_cell {
display: table-cell;
background-color: purple;
}
.header {
background-color: red;
width: 100%;
}
.footer {
height: 50px;
background-color: green;
}
.push {
height: 50px;
}
Here is one solution, http://jsfiddle.net/7t4RT/
This question has been asked many times before. I recommend viewing some of the answers already provided here at StackOverflow.
The reason that we're unable to use height: 100% in your example is because no height has defined. The CSS is wondering... well how high is 100%? There are many ways to get our elements to fill their containers in either HTML or CSS. Simply choose one you feel works better for you.
The following is one of many ways to solve this problem.
HTML:
<div class="fill-height">
<p>Filled</p>
</div>
<div class="cant-fill-height">
<p>Not Filled</p>
</div>
CSS:
body {
background-color: #ccc;
}
.fill-height {
background-color: #0ff;
width: 200px;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
}
.cant-fill-height {
background-color: #ff0;
width: 200px;
height: 100%;
margin-left: 200px;
}
I found an answer to my problem for now, but it requires the use of display:table which I recall causes other errors down the road, but it does appear to work right now to create the layout I had in mind.
http://jsfiddle.net/x11joex11/r5spu85z/10/
CSS
body,html{margin:0;padding:0;height:100%;}
.wrapper{}
.table{
height:100%;
width:100%;
display:table;
background-color:yellow;
}
.row{display:table-row;}
.cell{display:table-cell;}
.footer{background-color:green;height:50px;}
.header{background-color:red;height:30px;}
.left{background-color:purple;}
.right{background-color:orange;}
HTML
<div class="wrapper table">
<div class="header row">
Header<br/>
Header2
</div>
<div class="content table">
<div class="row">
<div class="cell left">leftt<br/>left2</div>
<div class="cell right">right<br/>right2</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="footer row">
Footer
<br/>
Footer2
</div>
</div>
An answer not requiring the use of display:table or table tags is preferred.
Notice the sticky footer effect remains.
Sorry if this is dumb but it is my first day learning CSS and I am following a course and creating a sample layout and I seem to have made some kind of mistake or got carried away adding my own little mods. I desperately want to fix this as I am enjoying learning and worry that if I get stuck on this I wont feel like proceeding.
I have 3 divs at the bottom on my page with the class .Featurebox within which are nested 3 other divs with a class .Boximage
For the life of me I cannot get them to line up horizontally despite floating them. I suspect it is because I have used margin-left:auto and margin-right:auto in a parent nav. I have played with this solution for a full hour LOL and so I am asking for help here as my first time.
Here is my CSS:
#maincontent {
width: 960px;
margin-left: auto; margin-right:auto;
}
body {
background-color: lightgrey;
}
h1 {
color: orange; font-family: ubuntu; padding-top: 10px;
}
header {
margin-top: 2;
width:100%;
height: 100px;
background: url(grey.png) repeat;
}
#headercontainer {
width: 960px; height: 100px;
margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;
background-color: olive;
}
#navbar {
width: 960px; height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; background-color: red;
}
#logo {
background-color: lightgrey; height: 100px; width: 100px;
}
nav {
width: 100%; height: 20px; background-color: #f0f0f0; float:left;
}
article {
width: 960px; height: 500px; background-color: orange;
}
.Featurebox {
background-color: darkgrey;
width: 310px;
height: 200px;
float: left;
}
.Boximage {
background-color:blue; width:285px; height: 130px;
float:left;
}
footer {
width: 100%; height: 80; background-color: 000000; clear: left;
}
.center {
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
Here is my HTML:
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" />
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
</head>
<body>
<header>
<div id="headercontainer">
<div id="logo">logo</div>
</div>
<nav>
<div id="navbar">navigation bar</div>
</nav>
</header>
<div id="maincontent">
<article>article here
</article>
<div class="Featurebox">
<div class="Boximage"</div>
</div>
<div class="Featurebox">
<div class="Boximage"</div>
</div>
<div class="Featurebox">
<div class="Boximage"</div>
</div>
</div>
<footer>
</footer>
</body>
</html>
<div class="Featurebox">
<div class="Boximage"</div>
I suspect your issue is the above. Look carefully, and you will see a syntax error. It should be:
<div class="Featurebox">
<div class="Boximage"></div>
For further testing purposes I suggest putting in some inline content in the box to ensure it renders. (if no height or width is specific it will be empty, this is not a problem if a width and height is specified, but I like to cover my bases.) My suggestion would be to simpyl add a paragraph with text.
<div class="Featurebox">
<div class="Boximage"><p>Box 1</p></div>
It should also be noted that if you are floating Featurebox to the left, then it's child does NOT also need to be floated. So you can remove the float: left; on .Boximage
Further more I would suggest you find a good editor to write your code in, something that will color code your elements and highlight the ends of your tags when you are clicked within an element. I personally use notepad++ and dreamweaver, though a lot of people paint a bad picture of dreamweaver, as long as you stay strictly within Code view, then it is a great application to write code with and it features a build in FTP manager.
You're missing the > after the opening part of the .Boximage tag:
<div class="Boximage"</div>
It seems to work if you correct that.
http://jsfiddle.net/CLUTP/1/
I am creating a sample website which has three divisions horizontally.
I want the left most div to be 25% width, the middle one to be 50% width, and right to be 25% width so that the divisions fill all the 100% space horizontally.
<html>
<title>
Website Title
</title>
<div id="the whole thing" style="height:100%; width:100%" >
<div id="leftThing" style="position: relative; width:25%; background-color:blue;">
Left Side Menu
</div>
<div id="content" style="position: relative; width:50%; background-color:green;">
Random Content
</div>
<div id="rightThing" style="position: relative; width:25%; background-color:yellow;">
Right Side Menu
</div>
</div>
</html>
http://imgur.com/j4cJu
When I execute this code, the divs appear over each other. I want them to appear beside each other!
How can i do this?
I'd refrain from using floats for this sort of thing; I'd rather use inline-block.
Some more points to consider:
Inline styles are bad for maintainability
You shouldn't have spaces in selector names
You missed some important HTML tags, like <head> and <body>
You didn't include a doctype
Here's a better way to format your document:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Website Title</title>
<style type="text/css">
* {margin: 0; padding: 0;}
#container {height: 100%; width:100%; font-size: 0;}
#left, #middle, #right {display: inline-block; *display: inline; zoom: 1; vertical-align: top; font-size: 12px;}
#left {width: 25%; background: blue;}
#middle {width: 50%; background: green;}
#right {width: 25%; background: yellow;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="left">Left Side Menu</div>
<div id="middle">Random Content</div>
<div id="right">Right Side Menu</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Here's a jsFiddle for good measure.
I know this is a very old question. Just posting this here as I solved this problem using FlexBox. Here is the solution
#container {
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
display: flex;
}
#leftThing {
width: 25%;
background-color: blue;
}
#content {
width: 50%;
background-color: green;
}
#rightThing {
width: 25%;
background-color: yellow;
}
<div id="container">
<div id="leftThing">
Left Side Menu
</div>
<div id="content">
Random Content
</div>
<div id="rightThing">
Right Side Menu
</div>
</div>
Just had to add display:flex to the container! No floats required.
You can use floating elements like so:
<div id="the whole thing" style="height:100%; width:100%; overflow: hidden;">
<div id="leftThing" style="float: left; width:25%; background-color:blue;">Left Side Menu</div>
<div id="content" style="float: left; width:50%; background-color:green;">Random Content</div>
<div id="rightThing" style="float: left; width:25%; background-color:yellow;">Right Side Menu</div>
</div>
Note the overflow: hidden; on the parent container, this is to make the parent grow to have the same dimensions as the child elements (otherwise it will have a height of 0).
Easiest way
I can see the question is answered , I'm giving this answer for the ones who is having this question in future
It's not good practise to code inline css , and also ID for all inner div's , always try to use class for styling .Using inline css is a very bad practise if you are trying to be a professional web designer.
Here in your question
I have given a wrapper class for the parent div and all the inside div's are child div's in css you can call inner div's using nth-child selector.
I want to point few things here
Do not use inline css ( it is very bad practise )
Try to use classes instead of id's because if you give an id you can use it only once, but if you use a class you can use it many times and also you can style of them using that class so you write less code.
Codepen link for my answer
https://codepen.io/feizel/pen/JELGyB
.wrapper {
width: 100%;
}
.box {
float: left;
height: 100px;
}
.box:nth-child(1) {
width: 25%;
background-color: red;
}
.box:nth-child(2) {
width: 50%;
background-color: green;
}
.box:nth-child(3) {
width: 25%;
background-color: yellow;
}
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="box">
Left Side Menu
</div>
<div class="box">
Random Content
</div>
<div class="box">
Right Side Menu
</div>
</div>
You add a
float: left;
to the style of the 3 elements and make sure the parent container has
overflow: hidden; position: relative;
this makes sure the floats take up actual space.
<html>
<head>
<title>Website Title </title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="the-whole-thing" style="position: relative; overflow: hidden;">
<div id="leftThing" style="position: relative; width: 25%; background-color: blue; float: left;">
Left Side Menu
</div>
<div id="content" style="position: relative; width: 50%; background-color: green; float: left;">
Random Content
</div>
<div id="rightThing" style="position: relative; width: 25%; background-color: yellow; float: left;">
Right Side Menu
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Also please note that the width: 100% and height: 100% need to be removed from the container, otherwise the 3rd block will wrap to a 2nd line.
Get rid of the position:relative; and replace it with float:left; and float:right;.
Example in jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/d9fHP/1/
<html>
<title>
Website Title </title>
<div id="the whole thing" style="float:left; height:100%; width:100%">
<div id="leftThing" style="float:left; width:25%; background-color:blue;">
Left Side Menu
</div>
<div id="content" style="float:left; width:50%; background-color:green;">
Random Content
</div>
<div id="rightThing" style="float:right; width:25%; background-color:yellow;">
Right Side Menu
</div>
</div>
</html>