I know there are many questions about this and I have looked at all of them. I have a site where I need the left <td> to extend by 100%. I have all the containing blocks set to 100% and this works great in chrome and safari. However it does not extend to the base of the screen in IE or Firefox. I have a rough sketch of it here since the code is too long to paste. I have also included the css in the page to make it easier to view.
I used these two posts but neither has fixed my issue.
CSS 100% height in ie
Div 100% height works on Firefox but not in IE
Am I missing a container or is there a special way to make this happen in IE and Firefox? This is my first time messing with 100% height in css.
It's because of this line of css in td.left:
display:inline-block;
Remove it so it stays the default: display:table-cell. Then it works in IE.
I strongly encourage you not to use tables for this sort of layout though. Here's a good tutorial that will show you how to do this using divs+css: http://learnlayout.com/
The best way I can think of is wrapping both panels with a bigger absolute DIV and that way you can give the inner div a (working) style like this:
height: 100%;
I've made an example here:
Result - http://fiddle.jshell.net/E8SK6/1/show/
Code - http://jsfiddle.net/E8SK6/1/
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I am trying to set the height of a DIV inside a TD to fill the height of the TD with a bit of padding for good measure.
Here is a jsfiddle showing how it should be, (good browsers)
Strangely enough it works fine in IE7/8 but totally bombs in IE9.
Anyone have any CSS based solutions?
It's currently a problem with IE9. Tables are buggy at the moment. Should look fine in previous versions, Chrome, or Firefox.
You could apply a height to the div and the table cell will adapt to it if it is taller than the cell.
i have a nested display table in a display table cell and i doesnt seem to apply the 100% height to IE 8 or 9 (even a extra containing div wont work), works fine in all other major browsers, here the jsfiddle it should explain everything.
http://jsfiddle.net/bDm4d/12/
try that in firefox/chrome/safari to see how it should look and check in ie8/9 youll understand the issue. Both columns should be equal height, since they are both with in a display table cell. The center (green in the right, pink in the left) have height to auto so it "should expand" like it does in webkit/ff.
A work around for ie would be great conditional or not.
Unfortunately, display: table-cell isn't supported by IE. Luckily, there are several workarounds to get divs with display: block to fill the height of their parents, creating the 'equal height' effect. I found this article to be very helpful when I was faced with a similar layout challenge. Good luck!
How can I wrap the text displayed in the browser to either the width of the browser or a specified width, whichever is less?
I have been putting text inside <table width='850'> to wrap at a specific point, so if the user maximizes their browser on a gigantic monitor a whole paragraph doesn't fit in a single line. But when the user makes the browser super narrow, the above method causes text to carry over the edge of the viewable area. Not what I want exactly.
So, I'm looking for a better approach.
Oh, maybe I should add that my pages are extremely simple. There aren't banners up and down the left or right sides of them. Just text and images occupy the space from the left border of the browser to the right. Boring stuff.
EDIT - I accepted an answer, but I did find an issue (and a solution that seems to work) with the accepted answer when used with Internet Explorer. I spent half an hour trying to get max-width to work, but just couldn't. Every other style property worked fine though. Then I discovered this http://svendtofte.com/code/max_width_in_ie which said I had to use the following for max-width to work in IE, and it did: p { width:expression(400 + "px"); }. I don't understand why the fiddle example worked with max-width on IE, but not my page. Maybe it's cuz I include my css in my html page?
You could set the max-width property in your css.
That way, the page will expand until a certain point and then no more.
Example:
.mainDiv{
max-width:700px;
}
Working example: http://jsfiddle.net/Pa5JG/
More info on max-width: http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/max-width
Just use max-width. See this fiddle.
My current layout is based on this:
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/layouts/body5.html
It involves three columns which are each independently scrollable and fluid. However my web app can only shrink in width so much, and at a certain point I would like for something like a min-width (where they will have to scroll horizontally to experience the site)
I tried putting a min-width on the body, but that did absolutely nothing. I also tried wrapping the columns in a containing div and giving it a min-width, this also did not work.
Does anyone else have any ideas on how to approach this.
Thanks
I'm basing my answer on the link you provided.
On html and body, remove overflow:hidden.
On body, add position:relative; min-width:960px.
Tested in recent versions of Chrome, Safari, Firefox.
This also works in IE7+ if you remove the comment at the top <!-- IE into quirks mode -->.
I've got three columns inside of a div that is the full page width. The two on either side are 25% width and the one in the center is 50% width. This layout is working fine except in IE6 where at certain page widths it bumps the right column to the next line. Is there a fix for this? Maybe an alternate way to layout a page like this?
Edit: I'm using a cross browser inline-block hack that works great in FF, IE, S, Chrome. I'm pretty sure this quirk has to do with the way IE calculates widths on fluid content, and happens due to miscalculation (rounding maybe?). I've put up an example here. Try slowly adjusting the window width in IE6 (maybe later versions too) and watch as the green DIV gets bumped down at certain widths.
Thanks,
Brendan
It's a rounding problem in IE6's box model. Generally, you can't have a combination equal 100%. Try making your values sum to 99% of total width, and it should work fine. This solution has always worked for me.
It sounds like a piece of content in that column might have a defined width which is more than what the 25% of page width it is given. Can you provide CSS examples?
EDIT: IE6 does not support inline-block which could also be the issue.
EDIT 2: I looked at it on a 1680x1050 screen in IE6 in a virtual machine. When I drag the width slowly over time from about 800px to 1600px, it randomly moves the right column around. I suspect it's an issue with the hack that you're trying to use. Your code is so simple that I think you should consider researching an alternate hack instead. I've also never seen the *<property>: <value> hack. What's the * do, all compliant browsers?