I am trying to get a div to expand to fill its container without causing that container to expand beyond the browser window's width, as in this page. Click "Expand" next to "Stack Trace in the last entry.
What it's supposed to do is show a horizontal scrollbar.
What it's actually doing is expanding beyond the width of the window.
I can get it to sort of work if I give the <div class="stack"> element a max-width in pixels, but I want it to expand to fill no matter how wide the window is, without expanding beyond it.
How can I fix this layout? What's a general way with css to get an element to expand horizontally to fill its container while not going beyond the window's edge?
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I cann't get your table stuff sorted. There are some invalid width Parameters.
You should use div-Containers rather then tables to layout your page!
The workaround solution I came up with was adding a max-width to the expand/collapse div. It doesn't really prevent the table being wider than the window, but it solves 95% of the cases.
Don't use tables, use DIV's and for full width use
width: 100%;
This will always use up 100% of the browser window width.
You can provide you outer Div width:100% so it will take browser width. Or else you can calculate browser width with Jquery $(document).width(); and store this in variable and provide to your outer div.
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I'm trying to scroll some single-line labels in a single-line fixed-width container.
What I've tried so far is:
Create a container with fixed dimensions.
Place a scrollable container inside and attach the animation.
Place the labels.
The animation partially works, but the scrolling doesn't go all the way to what is configured (translateX(-100%)).
The overflowing part (green color in codepen) that exceeds the fixed container width is ignored.
I've tried various display and flex field combinations, but noting.
Here is a codepen sample.
https://codepen.io/efthymiosks/pen/QWQGVGg
The issue is that 100% is the size of the element, not the content. What I mean by this is because the content overflows the element, 100% only refers to the visible width of the container.
You need to change 100% to something else such as 150%. Unfortunately, this means that you need to know the width of the contents before. The only other way that I know of is using JavaScript to calculate the width of the contents.
Codepen
I have a div that I want to not resize with the browser window. I can't set the width or give it a min-width because it does need to resize with its contents. I simply want it to ignore the browser size completely and size normally to its contents. Seems pretty simple but I've been searching for days and been unable to find a solution to this.
Any ideas? I'm looking for an html/css solution not javascript. I already have a javascript hack that works but I'd rather not do this.
A div full of content won't be wider than the browser width by default unless, for example, there is an image in there that is wider. That will cause horizontal scroll. If you want it to be wider, you can give a width like 150%.
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!
I'm trying to stretch an image vertically in a parent container of my site (not the full body), it is the div with the id "imagen-fondo"
I have tried either backstretch plugin and also just css background-image with background-size to do it.
But the problem in both cases is that the calculated height of the parent container is smaller that the immediate child height, so, the background image looks smaller than the content itself.
How can I make it to be the same height as his immediate child or at least bigger?
You can see the live demo here:
http://50.21.181.12:3001/plantillas/mba
UPDATE:
I think the problem is that div#imagen-fondo is getting the height of the window and not of his content, that is the reason that when the screen is big, the problem doesn't happen, but when the height of the window is smaller than the content it happens, you can check it with this two screenshots, just as you start scrolling vertical the background image ends:
Something with overflows?
UPDATE 2:
For now I introduced some javascript to make it work,
Getting the footer offset position and stretching the height of the ".backstretch" div to that height.
But, if you resize the window to make the vertical scroll bar appear and inspect the page, you can still see that the parent container "#imagen-fondo" (from where backstretch should automatically get his height) is still getting the height of the visible viewport and not from the content itself.
If anyone finds a better way to do it CSS only will use that approach instead of this dirty one.
Clear floats in parent div using clear: both;
Or use clearfix on parent div.
For now I introduced some javascript to make it work,
Reading the footer position and stretching the height of the ".backstretch" div to that height.
But, if you resize the window to make the vertical scroll bar appear and inspect the page, you can still see that the parent container "#imagen-fondo" (from where backstretch should automatically get his height) is still getting the height of the visible viewport and not from the content itself.
If anyone finds a better way to do it CSS only will use that approach instead of this dirty one.