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I have a header div and a div underneath it. I need the div underneath the header div to adjust depending on the height of the browser window size.
In CSS, when I add height:100% it creates a scroll bar at the side of the page. When I adjust the percentage of the width, spacing at the bottom of the page constantly changes because it is done with percentages.
I would like the div below the header to always adjust with the window size in height with no spacing at the bottom.
How do I do this?
Here is the Fiddle
JS Fiddle
I am not sure why but in JSFiddle the bottom div is not extending height: 100%
here is the code:
HTML
<div class = "main">
Header
</div>
<div class="left">
Bottom Div
</div>
CSS
.main {
width:100%;
height:60px;
border: solid;
}
.left {
height: 100%;
width: 300px;
border:solid;
}
try to use something like this code
html:
<div class = "main">
Header
</div>
<div class="left">
Bottom Div
</div>
css:
* {
-webkit-box-sizing:border-box;
-moz-box-sizing:border-box;
box-sizing:border-box;
}
html, body {
height:100%;
}
body {
padding:60px 0 0 0; /* 60 — header height*/
margin:0;
}
.main,
.left {
border:1px solid #000;
}
.main {
width:100%;
height:60px;
margin-top: -60px; /* 60 — header height*/
}
.left {
height: 100%;
width: 300px;
}
You have a few options to achieve the layout you would like.
There are plenty of answers that address your problem from this similar question:
Make a div fill the height of the remaining screen space
However, here is my solution:
Just change your CSS a bit
body, html {
height: 100%;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
.main {
width:100%;
height:60px;
border: solid;
position: absolute;
background-color: #fff;
-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
.left {
height: 100%;
width: 300px;
border:solid;
-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
box-sizing: border-box;
padding-top: 60px;
}
The box-sizing will prevent the padding-top and the borders from pushing the dimensions outside the browser window. The body,html height: 100%; is needed to allow other items to be 100% height (why your fiddle wouldn't work).
CSS allows you to do some basic math, so the following would help you:
Given that your header has a fixed height of 60px:
.left {
height: calc(100% - 60px);
}
Edit: you also have some extra padding and borders that you might want to take into consideration while calculating. Although I'm not a big fan of hard-coding values like that.
Try this in your style sheet
CSS
.left {
height: 100vh;
width: 100%;
border:solid;
}
Refer link
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1622027/percentage-height-html-5-css
I want to split up the view in four parts. A header at the top, using full page width and fixed height.
The remaining page is split up in two blocks of the same height, the upper of them contains two same-sized blocks next to each other.
What I tried is (without the header):
#wrap {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
#block12 {
width: 100%;
max-height: 49%;
}
#block1,
#block2 {
width: 50%;
height: 100%;
float: left;
overflow-y: scroll;
}
#block3 {
width: 100%;
height: 49%;
overflow: auto;
/*background: blue;*/
}
.clear {
clear: both;
}
<div id="wrap">
<div id="block12">
<div id="block1"></div>
<div id="block2"></div>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>
<div id="block3"></div>
</div>
Apparently, using a percentage value for the height won't work that way. Why is that so?
add this to you CSS:
html, body
{
height: 100%;
}
working Fiddle
when you say to wrap to be 100%, 100% of what? of its parent (body), so his parent has to have some height.
and the same goes for body, his parent his html. html parent his the viewport..
so, by setting them both to 100%, wrap can also have a percentage height.
also:
the elements have some default padding/margin, that causes them to span a little more then the height you applied to them. (causing a scroll bar)
you can use
*
{
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
to disable that.
Look at That Fiddle
When you set a percentage height on an element who's parent elements don't have heights set, the parent elements have a default
height: auto;
You are asking the browser to calculate a height from an undefined value. Since that would equal a null-value, the result is that the browser does nothing with the height of child elements.
Besides using a JavaScript solution you could use this deadly easy table method:
#parent3 {
display: table;
width: 100%;
}
#parent3 .between {
display: table-row;
}
#parent3 .child {
display: table-cell;
}
Preview on http://jsbin.com/IkEqAfi/1
Example 1: Not working
Example 2: Fix height
Example 3: Table method
But: Bare in mind, that the table method only works properly in all modern Browsers and the Internet Explorer 8 and higher. As Fallback you could use JavaScript.
add this to your css:
html, body{height: 100%}
and change the max-height of #block12 to height
Explanation:
Basically #wrap was 100% height (relative measure) but when you use relative measures it looks for its parent element's measure, and it's normally undefined because it's also relative. The only element(s) being able to use a relative heights are body and or html themselves depending on the browser, the rest of the elements need a parent element with absolute height.
But be careful, it's tricky playing around with relative heights, you have to calculate properly your header's height so you can substract it from the other element's percentages.
Percentage in width works but percentage in height will not work unless you specify a specific height for any parent in the dependent loop...
See this :
percentage in height doesn’t work?
The div take the height of its parent, but since it has no content (expecpt for your divs) it will only be as height as its content.
You need to set the height of the body and html:
HTML:
<div class="block12">
<div class="block1">1</div>
<div class="block2">2</div>
</div>
<div class="block3">3</div>
CSS:
body, html {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
.block12 {
width: 100%;
height: 50%;
background: yellow;
overflow: auto;
}
.block1, .block2 {
width: 50%;
height: 100%;
display: inline-block;
margin-right: -4px;
background: lightgreen;
}
.block2 { background: lightgray }
.block3 {
width: 100%;
height: 50%;
background: lightblue;
}
And a JSFiddle
Basically, the problem lies in block12. for the block1/2 to take up the total height of the block12, it must have a defined height. This stack overflow post explains that in really good detail.
So setting a defined height for block12 will allow you to set a proper height. I have created an example on JSfiddle that will show you the the blocks can be floated next to one another if the block12 div is set to a standard height through out the page.
Here is an example including a header and block3 div with some content in for examples.
#header{
position:absolute;
top:0;
left:0;
width:100%;
height:20%;
}
#block12{
position:absolute;
top:20%;
width:100%;
left:0;
height:40%;
}
#block1,#block2{
float:left;
overflow-y: scroll;
text-align:center;
color:red;
width:50%;
height:100%;
}
#clear{clear:both;}
#block3{
position:absolute;
bottom:0;
color:blue;
height:40%;
}
I want to create three, stacked divs. The top and the bottom ones will be of fixed height, whereas the one in the middle will have a dynamic height that expands to fill the remaining space:
I've tried numerous things, such as setting the height to auto. I do have a solution, but it involves JavaScript (i.e., calculating the remaining height) but I was wondering if there was a pure CSS solution.
There's a CSS solution, but it won't work in older browsers. You need to use the calc "function" that is new to CSS, combined with height: 100%. If you've never used height: 100% before, you know that every parent element of the one you want to be 100% tall must also be set to height:100%. calc can take a percentage value and subtract pixels from it, so you just need to set it to be 100% minus however tall the top and bottom divs are.
Supported by: IE9+, Firefox 4+, Chrome 19+, Safari 6+
http://caniuse.com/calc
HTML
<div id='top'></div>
<div id='mid'></div>
<div id='bot'></div>
CSS
html, body
{
height: 100%;
}
#top, #bot
{
height: 50px;
background: red;
}
#mid
{
height: calc(100% - 100px);
}
FIDDLE: http://jsfiddle.net/jakelauer/9cYUB/
One solution is to do it with position absolute.
The downside of this approach is that if the total height of surrounding is smaller then the sum of the fixed heights the container will not be visible anymore.
Another thing to be noted is that this is probably a bad solution if you want to target mobile devices. It always depends on the exact situation if this solution is suitable.
If i remember right you will only have problems with IE 6 (on desktop) which does not support the top bottom combination for the position absolute.
HTML
<div class="header"></div>
<div class="container"></div>
<div class="footer"></div>
CSS
.header, .container, .footer{
position: absolute;
outline: 1px solid black;
}
.header {
left: 0px;
top: 0px;
right : 0px;
height: 50px;
}
.container {
left: 0px;
top: 50px;
right : 0px;
bottom: 50px;
}
.footer {
left: 0px;
bottom: 0px;
right : 0px;
height: 50px;
}
JSFiddle
You can do it with a HTML table if you need older browser support, or if you need to support IE8+ or higher you could use the CSS table layout.
Here's a jsFiddle using CSS table layout.
HTML
<div>
<div>
<div>Fixed Height</div>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<div>Variable Height</div>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<div>Fixed Height</div>
</div>
</div>
CSS
html, body {
height:100%;
width: 100%;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
text-align: center;
font-size: 20pt;
font-family: Verdana;
}
body > div {
display:table;
width: 100%;
height:100%;
}
body > div > div {
display: table-row;
}
body > div > div > div {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
}
body > div > div:nth-child(odd) {
background: grey;
color: #FFF;
height: 100px;
}
body > div > div:nth-child(even) {
height:100%;
width:100%;
}
body > div > div:nth-child(even) >div {
height:100%;
width:100%;
overflow:hidden;
}
If i understand you request you need to use wrap div: http://www.cssstickyfooter.com/using-sticky-footer-code.html
I have a layout with two columns - a left div and a right div.
The right div has a grey background-color, and I need it to expand vertically depending on the height of the user's browser window. Right now, the background-color ends at the last piece of content in that div.
I've tried height:100%, min-height:100%;, etc.
There are a couple of CSS 3 measurement units called:
Viewport-Percentage (or Viewport-Relative) Lengths
What are Viewport-Percentage Lengths?
From the linked W3 Candidate Recommendation above:
The viewport-percentage lengths are relative to the size of the initial containing block. When the height or width of the initial containing block is changed, they are scaled accordingly.
These units are vh (viewport height), vw (viewport width), vmin (viewport minimum length) and vmax (viewport maximum length).
How can this be used to make a divider fill the height of the browser?
For this question, we can make use of vh: 1vh is equal to 1% of the viewport's height. That is to say, 100vh is equal to the height of the browser window, regardless of where the element is situated in the DOM tree:
HTML
<div></div>
CSS
div {
height: 100vh;
}
This is literally all that's needed. Here is a JSFiddle example of this in use.
What browsers support these new units?
This is currently supported on all up-to-date major browsers apart from Opera Mini. Check out Can I use... for further support.
How can this be used with multiple columns?
In the case of the question at hand, featuring a left and a right divider, here is a JSFiddle example showing a two-column layout involving both vh and vw.
How is 100vh different from 100%?
Take this layout for example:
<body style="height: 100%">
<div style="height: 200px">
<p style="height: 100%; display: block;">Hello, world!</p>
</div>
</body>
The p tag here is set to 100% height, but because its containing div has 200 pixels height, 100% of 200 pixels becomes 200 pixels, not 100% of the body height. Using 100vh instead means that the p tag will be 100% height of the body regardless of the div height. Take a look at this accompanying JSFiddle to easily see the difference!
If you want to set the height of a <div> or any element, you should set the height of <body> and <html> to 100% too. Then you can set the height of element with 100% :)
Here is an example:
body, html {
height: 100%;
}
#right {
height: 100%;
}
If you’re able to absolutely position your elements,
position: absolute;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
would do it.
You can use the view-port unit in CSS:
HTML:
<div id="my-div">Hello World!</div>
CSS:
#my-div {
height: 100vh; /* vh stands for view-port height, and 1vh is 1% of screen height */
}
You can use vh in this case which is relative to 1% of the height of the viewport...
That means if you want to cover off the height, just simply use 100vh.
Look at the image below I draw for you here:
Try the snippet I created for you as below:
.left {
height: 100vh;
width: 50%;
background-color: grey;
float: left;
}
.right {
height: 100vh;
width: 50%;
background-color: red;
float: right;
}
<div class="left"></div>
<div class="right"></div>
All the other solutions, including the top-voted one with vh are sub-optimal when compared to the flex model solution.
With the advent of the CSS flex model, solving the 100% height problem becomes very, very easy: use height: 100%; display: flex on the parent, and flex: 1 on the child elements. They'll automatically take up all the available space in their container.
Note how simple the markup and the CSS are. No table hacks or anything.
The flex model is supported by all major browsers as well as IE11+.
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
body {
display: flex;
}
.left, .right {
flex: 1;
}
.left {
background: orange;
}
.right {
background: cyan;
}
<div class="left">left</div>
<div class="right">right</div>
Learn more about the flex model here.
You don't mention a few important details like:
Is the layout fixed width?
Are either or both of the columns fixed width?
Here's one possibility:
body,
div {
margin: 0;
border: 0 none;
padding: 0;
}
html,
body,
#wrapper,
#left,
#right {
height: 100%;
min-height: 100%;
}
#wrapper {
margin: 0 auto;
overflow: hidden;
width: 960px; /* Width optional */
}
#left {
background: yellow;
float: left;
width: 360px; /* Width optional, but recommended */
}
#right {
background: grey;
margin-left: 360px; /* Must agree with previous width */
}
<html>
<head>
<title>Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="left">
Left
</div>
<div id="right"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
There are many variations on this depending on which columns need to be fixed and which are liquid. You can do this with absolute positioning too but I've generally found better results (particularly in terms of cross-browser) using floats instead.
This is what worked for me:
<div style="position:fixed; top:0px; left:0px; bottom:0px; right:0px; background: red;"> </div>
Use position:fixed instead of position:absolute, that way even if you scroll down the division will expand to the end of the screen.
Here's a fix for the height.
In your CSS use:
#your-object: height: 100vh;
For browser that don't support vh-units, use modernizr.
Add this script (to add detection for vh-units)
// https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/issues/572
// Similar to http://jsfiddle.net/FWeinb/etnYC/
Modernizr.addTest('cssvhunit', function() {
var bool;
Modernizr.testStyles("#modernizr { height: 50vh; }", function(elem, rule) {
var height = parseInt(window.innerHeight/2, 10),
compStyle = parseInt((window.getComputedStyle ?
getComputedStyle(elem, null) :
elem.currentStyle)["height"], 10);
bool = !!(compStyle == height);
});
return bool;
});
Finally use this function to add the height of the viewport to #your-object if the browser doesn't support vh-units:
$(function() {
if (!Modernizr.cssvhunit) {
var windowH = $(window).height();
$('#your-object').css({'height':($(window).height()) + 'px'});
}
});
Even with all of the answers here, I was surprised to find that none really solved the problem. If I used 100vh height/min-height, the layout broke when the content was longer than a page. If I instead used 100% height/min-height, the layout broke when the content was less than the page height.
The solution I found, which solved both cases, was to combine the top two answers:
html, body, #mydiv {
height: 100%;
min-height: 100vh;
}
100vw = 100% of the width of the viewport.
100vh = 100% of the height of the viewport.
If you want to set the div width or height 100% of browser-window-size you should use:
For width: 100vw
For height: 100vh
Or if you want to set it smaller size, use the CSS calc function. Example:
#example {
width: calc(100vw - 32px)
}
Try this - tested:
body {
min-height: 100%;
}
#right, #left {
height: 100%;
}
In later versions, you can use vh:
#right, #left {
height: 100vh
}
100% works differently for width and height.
When you specify width: 100%, it means "take up 100% of the available width from the parent element or width of the window."
When you specify height: 100%, it only means "take up 100% of available height from the parent element." This means if you don't specify a height at a top level element, the height of all the children will be either 0 or height of the parent, and that is why you need to set the topmost element to have a min-height of window height.
I always specify the body to have a min-height of 100vh and it makes positioning and calculations easy,
body {
min-height: 100vh;
}
If you set the html and body_ height to 100%, it will cover the whole page.
And if you set any particular div minimum height to 100%, so it will cover the whole window like this:
CSS
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
div#some-div {
min-height: 100%;
}
Remember
This will only work if the div's direct parent is body, as percentage always inherited from the direct parent and by doing the above CSS code you are telling the div to inherit the height 100% from the direct parent (body) and make it your min-height: 100%.
Another way
Simply set the div height to 100vh. It means 100 viewport height.
CSS
div#some-div {
height: 100vh
}
A full page is called a 'viewport' and you can design an element according to its viewport in CSS 3.
Such units are called viewport-percentage lengths and are relative to the size of the initial containing block.
Viewport-Height is called vh. The complete height of a page is
100vh.
Viewport-Width is called vw. The complete height of a page is
100vw.
There also exist vmin (viewport minimum length) and vmax (viewport
maximum length).
So now, your problem can easily be solved by adding the following to your CSS:
.classname-for-right-div /* You could also use an ID */ {
height: 100vh;
}
Here is information about the Viewport-relative lengths.
Add min-height: 100% and don't specify a height (or put it on auto). It totally did the job for me:
.container{
margin: auto;
background-color: #909090;
width: 60%;
padding: none;
min-height: 100%;
}
The simplest way is to do it like this.
div {
background: red;
height: 100vh;
}
body {
margin: 0px;
}
<div></div>
There are several methods available for setting the height of a <div> to 100%.
Method (A):
html,
body {
height: 100%;
min-height: 100%;
}
.div-left {
height: 100%;
width: 50%;
background: green;
}
.div-right {
height: 100%;
width: 50%;
background: gray;
}
<div class="div-left"></div>
<div class="div-right"></div>
Method (B) using vh:
html,
body {
height: 100%;
min-height: 100%;
}
.div-left {
height: 100vh;
width: 50%;
background: green;
float: left;
}
.div-right {
height: 100vh;
width: 50%;
background: gray;
float: right;
}
<div class="div-left"></div>
<div class="div-right"></div>
Method (c) using flex box:
html,
body {
height: 100%;
min-height: 100%;
}
.wrapper {
height: 100%;
min-height: 100%;
display: flex;
}
.div-left {
width: 50%;
background: green;
}
.div-right {
width: 50%;
background: gray;
}
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="div-left"></div>
<div class="div-right"></div>
</div>
Try to set height:100% in html & body
html,
body {
height: 100%;
}
And if you want to 2 div height same use or set the parent element display:flex property.
This worked for me:
html, body {
height: 100%; /* IMPORTANT!!! Stretches viewport to 100% */
}
#wrapper {
min-height: 100%; /* Minimum height for a modern browser */
height:auto !important; /* Important rule for a modern browser */
height:100%; /* Minimum height for Internet Explorer */
overflow: hidden !important; /* Firefox scroll-bar */
}
Taken from this page.
Here is something that is not exactly like what you had in previous answers, but it could be helpful to some:
body {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
height: 100vh;
margin: 0px;
}
#one {
background-color: red;
}
#two {
margin-top: 0px;
background-color: black;
color: white;
overflow-y: scroll;
}
https://jsfiddle.net/newdark/qyxkk558/10/
Block elements consume the full width of their parent, by default.
This is how they meet their design requirement, which is to stack vertically.
9.4.1 Block formatting
contexts
In a block formatting context, boxes are laid out one after the other,
vertically, beginning at the top of a containing block.
This behavior, however, does not extend to height.
By default, most elements are the height of their content (height: auto).
Unlike with width, you need to specify a height if you want extra space.
Therefore, keep these two things in mind:
unless you want full width, you need to define the width of a block element
unless you want content height, you need to define the height of an element
.Contact {
display: flex; /* full width by default */
min-height: 100vh; /* use full height of viewport, at a minimum */
}
.left {
flex: 0 0 60%;
background-color: tomato;
}
.right {
flex: 1;
background-color: pink;
}
body { margin: 0; } /* remove default margins */
<div class="Contact">
<section class="left">
<div class="">
<h1>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.</h1>
</div>
</section>
<section class="right">
<img />
</section>
</div>
One of the options is using CSS table. It has great browser support and even works in Internet Explorer 8.
JSFiddle Example
html, body {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
}
.container {
display: table;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
.left, .right {
display: table-cell;
width: 50%;
}
.right {
background: grey;
}
<div class="container">
<div class="left"></div>
<div class="right"></div>
</div>
Try this once...
* {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
.parent_div {
overflow: hidden;
clear: both;
color: #FFF;
text-align: center;
}
.left_div {
float: left;
height: 100vh;
width: 50%;
background-color: blue;
}
.right_div {
float: right;
height: 100vh;
width: 50%;
background-color: green;
}
<div class=" parent_div">
<div class="left_div">Left</div>
<div class="right_div">Right</div>
</div>
Just use the "vh" unit instead of "px", which means view-port height.
height: 100vh;
Use FlexBox CSS
Flexbox is a perfect fit for this type of problem. While mostly known for laying out content in the horizontal direction, Flexbox actually works just as well for vertical layout problems. All you have to do is wrap the vertical sections in a flex container and choose which ones you want to expand. They’ll automatically take up all the available space in their container.
You can use display: flex and height: 100vh
html, body {
height: 100%;
margin: 0px;
}
body {
display: flex;
}
.left, .right {
flex: 1;
}
.left {
background: orange;
}
.right {
background: cyan;
}
<div class="left">left</div>
<div class="right">right</div>
You need to do two things, one is to set the height to 100% which you already did. Second is set the position to absolute. That should do the trick.
html,
body {
height: 100%;
min-height: 100%;
position: absolute;
}
Source
Now use height: 100vh; for a fixed window height:
<style>
.header-top {
height: 100vh;
background: #000;
color: #FFF;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
padding: 10px;
justify-content: space-around;
}
.header-top ul {
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
}
.header-top ul li {
padding:0px 10px;
}
</style>
<div class="header-top">
<div class="logo">Hello</div>
<ul>
<li>Menu</li>
<li>About Us</li>
<li>Contact US</li>
<li>Login</li>
</ul>
</div>
.wrapper {
display: -webkit-box;
display: -ms-flexbox;
display: flex;
-ms-flex-wrap: wrap;
flex-wrap: wrap;
height: 100vh; /* Height window (vh) */
}
.wrapper .left{
width: 80%; /* Width optional, but recommended */
}
.wrapper .right{
width: 20%; /* Width optional, but recommended */
background-color: #DD1F26;
}
<!--
vw: hundredths of the viewport width.
vh: hundredths of the viewport height.
vmin: hundredths of whichever is smaller, the viewport width or height.
vmax: hundredths of whichever is larger, the viewport width or height.
-->
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="left">
Left
</div>
<div class="right">
Right
</div>
</div>