100% height for body and its child elements - html

I am specifying a background color for the body which displays up to a certain distance only. I need it to be full height and for its child elements too. One of its child elements has border-right which also needs to show over the full screen height.
My CSS looks like(sample one) better check my demo
demo page
html,body {
height: 100%;
background-color: #fefefe;
}
.cover {
height: 100%;
}
.left_side {
float: left;
height: 100%;
border-left: 1px solid #ccc;
width: 31%;
}
and html is
<body>
<div class="cover">
<div class="left_side">
</div>
</div>
</body>
and the bgcolor and childs border seems up-to some limited distance only like
what is that problem guys i need that background and border as 100% height.

Remove height:100% from your body and html style.
Instead of having a border set to the left container, try setting the border on the content container instead.
your css would be something like:
.large-9 .columns .right_side{border-left:1px solid #333;}
the left column is currently set to 100% and renders correctly. the problem is that it doesnt take into account the overflow content you cannot see, until you scroll. The other solution would be to absolute or fixed position the left container, and set its top and bottom values to 0.
css for that would be something like:
.left_side .full_height{position:fixed;top:0;bottom:0;width:200px;}
Here's a really basic layout with a fixed left column - http://jsfiddle.net/WAJtk/
and a version with a fixed header too - http://jsfiddle.net/WAJtk/1/
you might also like this pen - http://codepen.io/lukeocom/pen/KqAfG

You could use absolute position and setting top and bottom:
body {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
}

Related

CSS :: footer alignment and overflow issue

In image above you can footer top border is not aligned with the login box.I want to restrict border width equal to login container width.
and also I dont want x axis to scroll as in image.
To solve overflow issue I used,
html {
overflow:hidden !important;
}
But it does not seems promising to me,
I want something like this ,
footer top border should be aligned with red lines
Fiddle
You are using position: absolute; so you need to use left: 0; for the .google-footer-bar
Demo
.google-footer-bar {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
left: 0; /* Add this here */
height: 35px;
width: 100%;
border-top: 1px solid #ebebeb;
overflow: hidden;
}
Also, it will be better if you wrap up the elements, say a maximum 1000px in width and than use margin: auto; to center them, having no wrapper element will just spoil your layout. As far as 100% width element goes, you can use width: 100%; for the container and then nest 1000px; of another child element with margin: auto;, this way your layout will be stable.
You might want to start by removing width and min-width and also height and min-height.

How do I lock a sidebar to the height of a window even when a user scrolls?

I'm running into a minor issue with one of the elements on my page. I have a sidebar which I am attempting to have span the height of the page by using the following CSS:
#sidebar {
width: 180px;
padding: 10px;
position: absolute;
top: 50px;
bottom: 0;
float: left;
background: #eee;
color: #666;
}
The corresponding CSS is pretty much what you'd expect:
<div id="header">
The header which takes up 50px in height
</div>
<div id="main-container">
<div id="sidebar">
The sidebar in question
</div>
<div id="main-content">
The rest of my page
</div>
</div>
The code works as expected for the most part. When the page renders it spans 100% of the height (minus the 50px from the top). The problem is that it essentially assigns the box to the exact height of the window so as I scroll down the box scrolls away instead of staying locked to the bottom of the window. Any ideas how to resolve this?
You have to use position:fixed if you want for the sidebar to be fixed on some position:
#sidebar {
width: 180px;
padding: 10px;
position: fixed;
top: 50px;
bottom: 0;
background: #eee;
color: #666;
}
JSFiddle
Another way would be to give to the parent container position:relative, and on his child position:absolute - but then the parent must have some height so the child element takes its height.
html,body{
position:relative;
height:100%; /* some height */
}
#sidebar{
width: 180px;
padding: 10px;
position: absolute;
top: 50px;
bottom: 0;
background: #eee;
color: #666;
}
JSFiddle
Check learnlayout to read more about positioning.
use css position:fixed to make the sidebar fixed.
in order to lock the height according to screen height i would use javascript/jquery:
$(function(){
// assign to resize
$(window).resize(set_height);
});
function set_height() {
$('#sidebar_id').height($(window).height());
}
hope that helps
First of all, I don't understand how it's spanning 100% of the height when no height has been defined.
Secondly use position: fixed instead of absolute.
On a second note, I'd like to recommend what seems a more proper way of going about positioning this. At the end of the main-container div, before it's closing tag, put this
<div style="clear: both;"></div>
and make the main container also float left, or float right if that doesnt give you what you want. It's suprising how such a common layout can feel tricky to do properly. (at least for newbies like us). I might be wrong, this might not be a better way, but it's the way I'd do it. The extra div you add is so that floated divs take up space, apart from that if it doesn't work, give the sidebar a height of 100%, or if you think it will overflow, tell me I'll add to my answer.

Website layout advice

I'm working on a website that fits perfectly in the browser window. Below is a basic blueprint of the website layout:
So far, the Red area is just display:block. The Green area is also display:block with margin-right:200px. The Blue areas(nested in a div) is float:right.
So I've got the width sorted. It's the height I need advice on. The Red and Dark Blue areas are a set height, but I need the Green and Light Blue areas to fit the height of the browser window view.
I'm trying to use box-sizing, but it exceeds the height of the window view because it's extending to the max height of the window. Sorry for my poor explanation. Any advice if would be excellent. Thank you!
For green div set height: calc(100%-{red-div-height}); and for the light blue div set height: calc(100%-{dark-blue-div-height}-{red-div-height});
This is kinda the legacy version of C-Link's answer.
jsFiddle and fullscreen
This has the limitation of any content falling below one page-full falling outside of its container (you can see if you scroll down in the fiddle, but not on the fullscreen).
Make sure our page stretches to its full height.
body, html { height: 100%; width: 100%; margin: 0; padding: 0;}
Set a static-height header.
header {
height: 101px;
background: red;
}
Create a box for everything under the header. You were on the right track with the box-sizing. We can add padding to it, in the same amount as our header. Then percentages inside it work nicely.
.content {
position: absolute;
box-sizing: border-box;
padding-top: 111px;
padding-bottom: 10px;
top: 0; left: 0;
height: 100%; width: 100%;
}
We float our aside (may or may not be the correct element, depending on contents) and set some styles on it.
aside {
float: right;
width: 20%;
height: 100%;
padding-bottom: 111px;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
.top {
height: 100px;
background: blue;
}
.bottom {
margin-top: 10px;
height: 100%;
background: skyblue;
}
This is our main, large, content area, which we float to the left. The width could be specified exactly if we wanted exact padding at the cost of additional HTML.
[role="main"] {
width: 78%;
background: limegreen;
height: 100%;
float: left;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
You can also set overflow-y: auto on our main or aside elements, to have them scroll when they run out of space. There should also be mobile styles for this page that remove the floating, absolute positioning, absolute styling, and widths should be nearly 100%.
you can always set the green box height to the window height minus the red box height.
accordingly the light box height to the window height minus the (red box height + the dark blue box height)
Edit 1: I haven't mentioned that has to be done with javascript.
Edit 2: Consider any paddings and margins too.
Could you not just give the divs a max or min height depending on their purpose?
I use a main container or wrapper div that the others would be contained in, that div is then my effective page or screen area.
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="content">
<div id="sidebar">
</div>
</div>
</div>
#wrapper{
min-height: Whatever value you want here;
max-height: Whatever value you want here;
}
It might be a good idea to set up your page using main container divs, hot only for the content but for the header and footer as well.
As an example, I have a main wrapper that is the whole page, within that is the header div, the content div, the nav div and the footer div. These are the main ones. Everything else can then be contained within them.
So, you can set the layout out using percentages so you have a fluid design that'll react to each browser size. The other elements will then 'fit' inside the main divs and be constrained to them. You may need to look into positioning etc but this is certainly the direction you should head towards.
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="header">Header Here including any divs to be contained within this space</div>
<div id="content">All content etc here</div>
<div id="nav">This is your sidebar</div>
<div id="footer">Footer, as per header</div>
</div>
Then use the css to re deisgn the above layout focusing only on those main divs. Use % instead of px to maintain fluidity.
#wrapper{
width: 100%;
height: 100%
}
#header{
width: 100%;
height: 20%
}
#content{
width: 70%;
height: 60%;
float:left;
}
#nav{
width: 30%;
height: 60%;
float:left;
}
#footer{
width: 100%;
height: 20%
}
A pretty common trick is to give the green (and light blue) box absolute positioning, a padding AND a negative margin. Because 100% width is relative to the containing box (could be a parent div, or just the window itself) this is not suitable. When the header was a relative height, say 10%, it would've been easy. The padding makes sure the content will not disappear behind the header, the negative margin puts the box back in place. Don't forget the z-index (otherwise the content (green part) will overlap the header).
The css looks like this:
.header { position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100px; background: red; z-index: 1; }
.content { position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; padding: 100px 0 0; margin-top: -100px; background: green; z-index: 0; }
The fiddle looks like this: http://jsfiddle.net/2L7VU/

Keeping margin around div with 100% height

The final ancestor div in my page needs a margin on all four sides, to give it a panel effect. Here is my code:
CSS:
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
#wrapper {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
#bibletree {
width: 20%;
float: left;
height: 100%;
}
.inner { /*this is the div that I need a margin around, so it is by 10px of the #bibletree div on all sides, including the bottom.*/
overflow: auto;
}
HTML:
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="bibletree">
<div class="inner">my content here, both short and long</div>
</div>
</div>
As you probably guessed, there is a lot more going on here than what is written. I have several columns with divs that all need this margin for the panel effect on the .inner div. Thanks for any help.
BTW, I have tried absolute positioning and it only positions based on the window, not on the parent element, even if I set the parent to position: relative.
If you set .inner to width 100% and add a margin, it will be wider than its container. You can set a padding or a border instead. For example, you can add a white or transparent border of 10px.
Another option is to make #bibletree position relative, then make .inner position absolute and specify top, bottom, right and left:
.inner {
bottom: 10px;
top: 10px;
left: 10px;
right: 10px;
position: absolute;
}
This will make it the same size as #bibletree, minus 10px on every side.
Margin:10px is working right?? you need not no specify the width for inner div, as div is already has block option. check here updated demo http://jsfiddle.net/QShRZ/5/

how to make div use 100% of available height?

I have next html:
<div class="left">
<div style="margin: 32px 0;">
<div class="border"></div>
</div>
</div>
and css:
.left {
position:absolute;
background: red;
height: 50%;
width: 32px;
}
.border {
background: green;
height: 100%;
}
but I don't see green box :(
UPD: I want to see red squares over and under green box.
UPD2: height of green box should be red.height - 32px*2
Your problem is that you have 3 empty div's here and not one of them has a set height. So even if you do min-height: 100% its not going to work unless some outer container has a height that your not showing. You will need to put some content in there or give one of the 3 div's (assuming they are the only containers on the page) an actual height. Like .left{ height: #px; } (# = the height you want it to have). Otherwise the browser does not know how to render percentages because it has nothing to relate them too.
Div's are block level elements which means they will assume the size of content put in them but if there is no content in them they will assume a height of 0px by 0px.
http://jsfiddle.net/X6qkL/5/ updated
The second div is not assigned a height, so the innermost div cannot be assigned a relative height. Try adding the following CSS rule:
.left div {
height: 100%;
}
Or, assign explicit heights to the inner divs.
http://jsfiddle.net/B9z92/1/
Use min-height: 100%; in .border{...}. and add a class
.middle {
height: 100%;
} and assign it to the parent div of .border{...} div.