*This is just a general question prior to the development, hence no code provided.
I want a div in the middle of my site to have a background width of 100% in order to go all the way across the screen, but this div is INSIDE the wrapper/container (of which has a 980px width) so it's restricted as normal to the regular content width.
How can this happen without ending wrapper and container, creating the full width div, then making a new set of wrapper/container divs? As w3 validator states to me I should have these particular div's more than once.
Im not sure exactly what you want without examples, but you may want to try something like this:
<style>
#width980{width:980px;height:200px;margin:0 auto;background:#aaa;}
#fullwidth{height:100px;background:#000;position:absolute;left:0;top:50px;right:0;color:#fff;}
</style>
<div id="width980">
width980
<div id="fullwidth">
fullwidth
</div>
</div>
Here, I made you a fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/Wde8W/
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I have one main div covering the 100% of the available space in webpage, and it contains three others divs, like this:
<div id="container">
<div id="header"/>
<div id="content"/>
<div id="footer"/>
</div>
I need two of them (the yellow ones) to be resizable, because their content is dynamic and sometimes need more than a single line of text. So, what I need is they cover the 20% of the available space but if they need more to resize and make the center div smaller. What should I read about? I don't find the keywords to google it. Thanks a lot!
This is a "not-working demo" haha:
Use the CSS min-height property on the header and footer divs, and remove the height property from the content div.
#header, #footer {
min-height: 20%;
}
I don't believe these answers are understanding the question.
If I get you correctly, you want to have the top and bottom be some minimum height (say 20% each), and the center fill the rest.
In that case you will have to use JavaScript. Find the height of window and set top and bot to have a min-height. This will allow them to scale. From there you will get the height of the head and the foot, subtract them from the height of window, and set the content area to be that height.
I would write you out an example but it sounds like you want to do it yourself, which I commend.
So my problem is this - I have a div with fixed size of 970px. Inside it I want to create a horizontal menu where the first element will be a link to the home page with the logo of the company and the others will be standard links to different parts of the page.
What I want is to make the link with the logo wider than the other links and let the other links occupy the space left equally. Due to the fact that in near future the width of the container div may be changed even though I know the number of links I would like to use percentages to determine their width so the width of one link will be = (width of the div - width of the logo link)/5 (the number of link I'll have.
I tried with something like this
<div id="main-container">
<div id="logo-container">
</div>
<div id="standard-menu-container">
</div>
</div>
But I couldn't make it work (In fact all this is wrapped in one other div that I haven't shown here). So googling about this I get to the understanding that maybe using some sort of table may solve my problem. To be honest I have never used table this way but I followed an example and I got this result : JSFiddle Example where the red rectangle is meant to be my Logo link and the problem is that everything else is stacking under. In this particular example the logo link is excluded from the <ul> but I played around with that case too and simply trying to set one width in pixels and other - in percentage seems to be not what I need to do.
I would appreciate any help, just bare in mind that I tried a lot of styling with divs and display: inline-block and it breaks other parts of my structure so I would prefer a solution where the normal flow is not disturbed (like using a table for example)
You're on the right lines with the display: table-cell. I've made a few changes where you had extra code that wasn't needed, and set the <ul> to display: table, rather than the container. Adding table-layout: fixed will make items in the list (the cells) occupy an equal width.
Then, float the logo left, don't specify a width for #main-menu-navigation because then it will fill remaining space, and give it margin-left: 150px to cater for width of logo.
So that won't make much sense when read. Take a look here:
http://jsfiddle.net/LREbC/1/
Try resizing, the cells will adapt to the width.
Note: When using table-cell you don't need to define a width, the behaviour is the same as actual table cells.
I have an absolute div as the main content area on my page design. I have another div that occupies the top portion and which is 450px in height. I cannot know the height of absolute div before page load, so will only be able to find it out after page load has happened.
Now the problem is that my body also occupies 450px (height), so if I want to display something after the absolute div has ended I am unable to do so.
Summary :
Absolute Div : 600px (for example, don't know the actual height) Has position:absolute.
Top Div : 450px (No position:absolute)
Body Becomes 450 px as expected
How do I place a div below the absolute div. Currently the only thing I can think of is jQuery.
Here is a jsfiddle I made to the illustrate the problem. Even though the whole body displays blue, if you fire up the developer tool and inspect, you'll see that the html and body both occupy
UPDATE : Linky I'm trying to display the main content area above a few elements. Those circles that you see are seperate elements. And they need to stay that way.
I think you need to learn more about the positions!
Anyhow the current problem you are referring to will be solve if you change the position to relative!
<div id="First Div" style="height:100px;width:50px;position:relative;background-color:green;">
</div>
<div id="BelowDiv" style="height:100px;width:50px;position:relative;background-color:pink;">
</div>
But if you really need to place it somewhere static or in another word "absolute", then you need to place a container div and set the position to absolute, then place the other two or even more or inside the container Div.
<div id="container" style="position:absolute; top:y; left:x">
<div id="FirstDiv" style="position:relative;></div>
<div id="SecondDiv" style="position:relative;></div>
</div>
You can use jquery to append tags to your container. here is the sample link to do it!
If it didn't help try the height:auto and also overflow:visible for your container!
I have a web page that contains a few <section>s that should be laid out horizontally. All are 85% of the screen width, with an automatic margin both sides. The problem is that the sections seem to ignore float:left for some reason.
I also don't want to set a fixed width on the body, as the same CSS will be used on many pages. Is there a way that this can be done?
Here's a jsbin of the code. I also tried this with display:box.
What you can do is to use JS to "resize" a container. here's a short example:
<div id="container">
<div class="section"></div>
<div class="section"></div>
<div class="section"></div>
<div class="section"></div>
</div>
what you do is float:left all the sections (additionally add overflow:hidden;zoom:1 for the container for wrapping). pretty easy. however, they are constrained by the width of the container (or if it's directly the children of the body, they are constrained by the html body).
from here, you use JS to do the trick. I prefer jQuery (but people may criticize for not using pure JS so i will only describe the procedure). What you do is to get the "outer width" of the sections (that is the width, including padding, border AND margins), multiply by how many sections you have, and then apply this to the direct parent/container (or whatever parent that is constraining your horizontal items).
The effect is that the parent of your sections will have an explicit width, that will force the browser to make it fit, thus be scrollable horizontally. also, make the container fit the sections as well.
these methods are currently done by JS "sliders" which have a specified width for the the outer container (like 900px) but have an inner container which has like 3 sections (2700px). this, with added overflow:scroll to the outer container makes everything in it "horizontally scrollable"
I have been working on a project using Compass with the 960.gs plugin. It's worked quite well so far, giving results that look nearly identical across browsers with little effort. I've run into a small problem, however.
The div I am using as 960's main grid container has a vertically tiled background in CSS. I need this background to extend all the way to the bottom of the browser's viewport, but it would seem that 960's use of floats is somehow conflicting with this.
Despite the container's height being set to 100%, the background only extends part of the way down the screen when overflow is unspecified. Setting overflow to hidden fixes it, but hides the scrollbars!
How can this be dealt with? I've used Webkit's inspector look through the code and DOM for problems and as far as I can see there's nothing that should cause this behavior.
It's not online and the code is too large to copy and paste here, but I will recreate the structure in abbreviated psuedocode:
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<primary background div>
<960 container div>
<header div>Stuff</div>
<main content div>More Stuff</div>
<footer div></div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I've scanned the CSS is there is nothing problematic. I'm not floating anything and the most I'm doing is small padding and margins...
It's hard to tell without the actual code, but the prerequisite for block to stretch at 100% is one of these:
It's parent have an absolute set height (like 100px etc.).
Or all parent of this block till HTML tag must have height: 100%.
So, look at this example: http://jsfiddle.net/kizu/UvAxV/ — there on frame hover HTML and BODY get height: 100% and the wrapper stretches to 100% too.
So, in your case, you must to make sure that HTML, BODY and “primary background div” all have height: 100%