Have Isotope resize height of container after layout - html

I have a site with a bunch of objects (DIVs), and I'm using Isotope and the fitColumns mode to fit them on the page. I'd like to have Isotope fit as many objects as it can in the height of the container (as it always does), and then shrink the container height down to the bottom of the tallest column.
For example: if I have a bunch of objects that are each 400px tall and my container is set at 1000px tall, Isotope will only be able to put two objects in each column (which is fine). But the container height will be set at 1000px, which leaves me with 200px of extra space at the bottom that I don't want. Instead, I want Isotope to shrink the container height down to 800px. It should do the best job it can fitting the objects in the columns, and then bring the overall container height up to hug the bottom of the objects. Make sense?
I can't figure out a way to do this, since the fitColumns layout method requires that I specify the height of the enclosing container (thus setting a fixed height). How can I accomplish this?

Found a solution- switched to masonry mode and made sure resizesContainer: true was in there.

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Cap element size to grid area when using align-item: start

I have a CSS grid with a scrollable element placed in one of the grid's areas.
What'd I'd like is for the item to shrink if the content is too small to fit the area. I did this by setting align-self to start.
This works great, until the content grows. The element resizes past the end of the grid area it's assigned to.
How can I use align-start but still cap the height to the height of the grid area? I would have expected this to be the default behavior.
One solution is to have the element stretch but then have a child element inside it that contains the actual content. The parent would have overflow: auto and the child would simply grow until it's too large for the container. Unfortunately, this kills the box-shadow.
I could put the box-shadow on the outer element in this case, but then it'll be too large when the content is small.
Any ideas what I can do here? I considered using some Javascript shinnanigans but I'm not even sure how I'd grab the height of the grid area from JS.
JSFiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/1kLenm5a/2/
Apparently max-height: 100% works. I could have sworn I tried that but I was messing with so many other settings at the same time I must have missed it.
Thanks.

Form page fixed height and responsiveness

I have the following layout I need to solve
I understand that the whole idea of the responsive design is to leave the height to adjust to the content, but for this particular work the customer wants it this way no matter how I have to figure it out but I'm struggling hard to achieve it
In my mockup I have a 100% height and weight body, and then a container taking 85% height of the body size.
Inside that container there are the following elements:
A Top div container with the company logo
A Progress bar with a step number
A small div with some instructions for the current step
A Div containing the form elements that the user has to fill
A bottom div with 2 navigation buttons
The content should be always visible no matter the device used (see image below)
Number 4. has a inner scrollbar with overflow-y because that content will change
In order to do this i set heights in percentage (%) for each div within the container, however I need some padding for the elements, but when the browser resizes or the device changes height and width the elements overlap each other
I don't want to rely on a bunch of media queries to fix this. I wonder if anyone can find an approach or some reference for this since i can't seem to find it
Thanks
If you don't want to use many media queries, I think you should use Jquery (or Javascript) like this:
Fixed height of all div except FORM CONTENT (include padding, margin, border with box-sizing: border-box). You can use some media queries for best style.
Use Jquery to calculate height of FORM CONTENT (this is scrollable content)
Example:
$('#form-content').height($(window).height() - X);
// With X = total height of other divs includes margin, padding, border
Call this script in $(document).ready(...) and $(window).resize(...)
Hope this help.

How can I get an element to stay within the browser's window width when its content is wider?

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?
The Page is back on now!
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.

CSS Auto-Sizing and Positioning of stacked divs

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.

Bootstrap 3 Column Site {height: 100%;} not working

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!