I have a jquery mobile page. Even I set the 100% on html and body, the height of html and body is still not the same as its content container (landing-container). For this jsfiddle example, its body's height is about 300px but landing-container's height is about 1600px. I am using Chrome. Why does it happen and is there any workaround?
html, body {
min-height: 100%;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;
}
<html>
<body>
<div id="holder" data-role="page" data-theme="none" data-ajax="false">
<div class="header">
</div>
<div class="landing-container">
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
You can check it out here.
http://jsfiddle.net/angelohuang/brbqh/4/
Its maybe because you have position: absolute on some stuff?
Absolute positioning takes the element out of the normal layout flow, and therefore it isn't affecting its parents' height.
Looks like jQuery mobile is adding many of these styles as a result of the data-role stuff. I'm not familiar with jQuery mobile personally, but perhaps you're using it in a non-standard way?
EDIT
Oh, hahah. This would do it too:
.ui-mobile, .ui-mobile body {
height: 99.9%;
}
that way it never gets more than the window height, unless I'm confused.
Related
I'm working on a website that have pages that exceed 100% browser window height and ones that do not. So, what I need is the height to be at least 100% but higher if applicable.
My current CSS looks like:
html, body {
min-height: 100%;
height: auto;
}
This initially seemed to work fine but then I realized that <body> does NOT have the same height as <html> but rather seems to use the standard height. It is like <body> does NOT respect the min-height property.
Hopefully, someone can toss some ideas or shine some light on this.
UPDATE1 It seems like HTML is acting as if it was default too..
UPDATE2 http://jsfiddle.net/rpz4rd4c/5
UPDATE3 According to the suggested comment by ( MichaelHarvey ) the body height is relative to the html height ( not min-height ) if that was true the following code should work:
html {
min-height: 100%;
height: auto;
}
body {
height: 100%;
}
However, it doesn't.
FINAL UPDATE
The solutions provided on this page "work" however they might be buggy with JS plugins. I would recommend people to use 100vh solution or the one I accepted as answer ( mainly because it requires no CSS3 ). I guess a 100% accurate solution to a problem like mine (having all dividers and elements 100% non-related to browser window) would be to simply use inline CSS and use min-height at longer pages and a height at browser fitting ones. This might require some JS.
<3
This seems to work with Chrome:
html {
height: 100%;
}
body {
min-height: 100%;
height: auto;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/rpz4rd4c/10/
Of course, this means the html element never takes the full child's height (only the viewports). Hopefully that's not an issue.
Viewport units to the rescue! The vh unit in CSS works relative to viewport height regardless of parent elements and all that fuss. Here's the CSS you should put on the body:
body{
min-height:100vh;
margin:0;
}
See http://jsfiddle.net/rpz4rd4c/3/ for my working example
EDIT: for your other elements that also need to be at least 100% height, just add min-height:100vh to their CSS styling as well. Thanks #misterManSam!
Without really understanding the why, perhaps this is what you're looking for?
html:
<html>
<body>
<div class='wrapper'>
<div class='inner'>
<!-- your content here -->
</div>
</div>
</body>
<html>
css:
html,body{
height:100%;
overflow:hidden;
}
.wrapper{
height:100%;
overflow:scroll;
background:#f9f9f9;
}
The html and body are always 100% height, and no matter what the content length it will still scroll. Not sure on the side effects of locking the html/body scrolling (lots of potential issues) however, so I'd be wary.
Example: http://codepen.io/jessekernaghan/pen/GocHg
I am using this website as an example. http://imgur.com/xyswjQH Here I have a screenshot of the website in fullscreen. However when I resize the page http://imgur.com/ZAKtsR9 you can see that the page almost cuts off elements instead of jumbling them all around. Is there a way I can achive this cutting off affect in html and css only? If you need my code just ask in the comments.
If your goal is to create a fixed width, you can create a wrapper div and set its width to 800px (just as an example) and it's margin to 0 and auto to Center the div if you would like.
If you'd like to make it responsive you can change width to max-width.
<html>
<head>
<style>
.wrapper {
width: 800px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="wrapper">
<p>Content here!</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
You probably didn't need to come here for that question haha. All you need to do is set a width on the body or a div.
Cheers!
I have a variable-height header. I want the content div below it to extend the full height of the window. But if I set the content div to height 100%, the content div goes off screen (because of the header height) and introduces a scroll bar.
I know that this can be done for fixed headers, see (http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2011/10/05/full-height-app-layouts-a-css-trick-to-make-it-easier/) but I think his method (absolute positioning with top and bottom set) won't work for a variable height header.
There is a solution using table display (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8555820/) but I want to support IE7.
So to sum up:
Header is variable height
I want the content div to extend to the bottom of the window
I don't want a scroll bar unless it's actually required
I already know how to do this in JQuery if there isn't any pure css solution
Below is example code that shows the problem:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
html, body { height: 100%; }
#header { background-color: yellow; }
#content {
background-color: gray;
height: 100%;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="header">
<h1>A Heading</h1>
</div>
<div id="content">
<p>A paragraph.</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
This might be an over-simplification, but you could fake the content area's height by setting the background-color of the body to the same colour, i.e.: gray.
That way,
Even though the content doesn't stretch to the bottom of the page, it would seem like it does.
When the content does go beyond the vertical limit, the body will stretch with it.
You can use overflow property to remove scroll bar. But your content has to fit one page.
html, body { height: 100%; overflow: hidden;}
Otherwise I think you'll need JavaScript to do that.
Whenever I come across a problem like this, I try to re-factor the page so that the <body> ends up being the full-height element with all the scrolling.
You could position:fixed the header to keep it on top, then allow the body to scroll with the content. You could do the same with a sidebar or other elements.
Have you thought about refactoring your html so that the header is within the "content" div? That way the header will still be variable height and the content div will still fill the page. The only issue would arise if you need to style the borders of your content div. Would something about your intended layout prevent this from being a good solution?
e.g.
<body>
<div id="content">
<div id="header">
<h1>A Heading</h1>
</div>
<p>A paragraph.</p>
</div>
</body>
...and if you're going that far, you could always just remove the content div altogether and place everything within the body, which is 100% height anyway :
<body>
<div id="header">
<h1>A Heading</h1>
</div>
<p>A paragraph.</p>
</body>
I am looking for a css way to hav this layout sport a 100% height div, meaning that the white will trail down to the bottom of the document not the window. I would like to do this without images and without javascript.
I've tried html,body{height:100%} which only applied to the window not the doc.
I've also tried to put a 900px body background image and it was not centered with the container div.
Looking at the live site because the URL is conveniently visible inside your image..
Add this CSS:
html, body {
height: 100%
}
#container {
min-height: 100%
}
You'd need something like
<html>
<body style="height: 100%; overflow: hidden">
<div id="realbody" style="height: 100%: overflow: auto">
... page goes here ...
</div>
</body>
</html>
This way you disable scroll bars on the actual page body, and all the scrolling tags place "inside" the document on the "realbody" div. With suitable styling on #realbody, you can make the backgrounds stretch as you need them.
You can actually force the containing div to continue behind your other divs by using special separator divs with a clear: both; set in them. Like this:
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="left">
Left
</div>
<div id="right">
Right
</div>
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
<div id="footer">
Footer
</div>
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
</div>
Use the where ever you want your wrapper to continue going down.
NOTE: I'm not sure whether W3c says that's good or bad practice, probably bad, BUT it works.
A sticky footer should accomplish this: http://ryanfait.com/resources/footer-stick-to-bottom-of-page/
the question is a bit old, but, if you don't want to change body and html, and need an element with 100% height without scrollbar you can use this on the div:
#fullHeightDiv{
position: absolute;
height: 100%;
bottom: 0;
}
Hope this can help someone.
I have a problem with fixing the footer to the bottom of the browser .. The problem is when resolution changes or windows resizes the footer content overlaps the content of the website, here is the current css for footer div
div.footer {
position:absolute;
bottom:0px;
}
Does anybody knows how can I fix this? Thank you
UPDATE:
This is what I need exactly but for some reason it doesn't work for my web page, it does work when I cut paste code to the blank page, but since my page is full with content and everything, what are the important elements to include? Hereis the url.
The above trick works only if my website has filled content if I have some lets say few lines the above trick doesn't work.
UPDATE II
My website has dynamic content so I think can't use this sort of CSS Sticky footers because sometimes the website will just have few lines sometimes be packed with content. Thats why the footer is not sticking to the bottom of the webpage.. its not problem to stick the footer if there is plenty content on the website the problem is without.
What you have here is a common problem for which there is no common answer, but what I would try if I were you since all these above suggestions apparently aren't working, I'd try to set my page container background to any color let say white (#FFFFFF) and I'd set background color of body to any other then white let say grey (#CCCCCC). And finaly set footer position to relative and of course it must be placed after everything if you want it alway to be at the bottom. This way you'll get what you need 100 % sure if you follow step by step instructions.
Checkout CSS Sticky Footer for an excellent cross-browser compatible method.
What that site essentially does is make the footer stick BENEATH the browser edge, and gives it a negative margin that has the same value as the footer's height. This way, the footer is sure to stick to the bottom.
You can add a push div to the last element before the footer in order to always assure that the footer doesn't overlap the content.
Given this example:
<html>
<body>
<div class="header" />
<div class="content" />
<div class="footer_push" />
<div class="footer" />
</body>
</html>
If <div class="footer" /> is always 75px high, use the following CSS:
html, body { height: 100%; } /* Take all available vertical space */
/* Push the bottom of the page 75px.
This will not make scrollbars appear
if the content fits already. */
.footer_push { height: 75px; }
/* Position the footer */
.footer { position: absolute; bottom: 0; height: 75px; }
Basically you need to give the footer a fixed height and to push the footer with another div of the same height to the bottom. There's however more browser specific stuff which you need to take into account:
The html and body must besides having a height of 100% no (default) margin to avoid the footer being pushed further to below that amount of margin.
The p and div elements throughout the page must have no margin-top to avoid the footer being pushed further to below that amount of top-margins in under each Firefox.
The "container" div must use min-height of 100% instead of height to avoid the footer to overlap the remaining of the content. IE6 which doesn't know min-height just works fine with height, so you'll need to add a * html hack for this.
All with all, here's an SSCCE, just copy'n'paste'n'run it:
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7">
<title>SO question 1900813</title>
<style>
html, body {
margin: 0;
height: 100%;
}
p, div {
margin-top: 0; /* Fix margin collapsing behaviour in FF. Use padding-top if necessary. */
}
#container {
position: relative;
min-height: 100%;
}
* html #container {
height: 100%; /* This is actually "min-height" for IE6 and older. */
}
#pushfooter {
height: 50px; /* Must be the same as footer height. */
}
#footer {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
height: 50px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<p>Some content</p>
<div id="pushfooter"></div>
<div id="footer">Footer</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Edit: after more testing I realized that this indeed does not work in IE8 (I still consider it as a beta so I didn't really use/test it, sorry about that), unless you let it render in IE7 compatibility modus (insert sad smilie here) by adding the following meta tag to the <head> (which I already added to the SSCCE here above):
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7">
or to let it render in quirks mode by using a "wrong" doctype (either remove the <!doctype> or pick one of the doctypes associated with painfully red Q boxes in IE here). But I wouldn't do that, that has more negative side-effects as well.
And, surprisingly, the http://www.cssstickyfooter.com site as someone else here mentioned here which used an entirely different approach also did not work in IE8 here (try to resize browser window in y-axis, the footer won't move along it as opposed to other browsers, including IE6/7). That browser keeps astonishing me. Really.
Try setting the footers Position to relative and playing around with a negative top margin to get it how you want it.
What you're looking for is a Sticky Footer, you can find a lot of resources like this one: http://ryanfait.com/resources/footer-stick-to-bottom-of-page/
try this:
#wpr{
display: table;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
}
.dsp-tr{
display: table-row;
}
.dsp-tc{
display: table-cell;
}
#ftr-cnr{
text-align: center;
vertical-align: middle;
}
#ftr{
background-color: red;
padding: 10px 0px;
font-size: 24px;
}
<div id="wpr">
<div class="dsp-tr">
<div class="dsp-tc">
body
</div>
</div>
<div class="dsp-tr">
<div class="dsp-tc" id="ftr-cnr">
<div id="ftr">
footer
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
display: table does not make it a table, a <div> is still a <div>, it just tells the browser to display it as table.
i tested it in chrome and firefox
let me know if it works for you.
We had this problem a few times. We could not find any cross browser CSS only solution. We finally resorted to JQuery. We wrote our own (i can't publish) but this one http://www.hardcode.nl/archives_139/article_244-jquery-sticky-footer.htm looks promising:
$(function(){
positionFooter();
function positionFooter(){
if($(document.body).height() < $(window).height()){
$("#pageFooterOuter").css({position: "absolute",top:($(window).scrollTop()+$(window).height()-$("#pageFooterOuter").height())+"px"})
}
}
$(window)
.scroll(positionFooter)
.resize(positionFooter)
});
Do you have a DOCTYPE declaration in the top of your HTML?
If so, there is a good chance I have a solution for you.
I was trying to do a height:100% table or div (assuming this is a basic cornerstone to the expanding footer feature)
No matter what I did, the 100% height didn't work! the elements just didn't stretch...
I narrowed it down to a very basic HTML
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Test1</title>
</head>
<body>
<div style="border: 2px solid red; height: 100%">Hello
World</div>
</body>
</html>
but the DIV didn't stretch all the way down (the 100% was ignored). This was true also for tables with plain height="100%" attribute.
As a desperate last result guess, I removed the DOCTYPE row, resulting in this code
<html>
<head>
<title>Test1</title>
</head>
<body>
<div style="border: 2px solid red; height: 100%">Hello
World</div>
</body>
</html>
And it worked!
I'm sure there is a good explanation, but I really didn't care since it solved the problem
Update
See related question (asked by me)
Depends on what you want to do. I you want it to be always visible on the bottom of your screen, you should use
div.footer{
position: fixed;
bottom: 0;
}
Be sure to get some padding on the bottom of your body (or container, so that people can actually scroll to the bottom of the text). The main problem here is that when resizing everything it will overlap.
If you just want to have a footer that has a background-image / colour that stretches all the way till the end (for pages that are not fullpage height) you could try to use a faux column principle or even try to give your body the background colour of your footer and fix the header / content background.
Today I stumbled across this page:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~peterned/examples/csslayout1.html
Could be helpfull
I came up with a fairly simple solution that doesn't use any CSS height hacks or any of that.
You just set your <body> with the background you want the footer to have, and then put everything besides the footer in a <div> with the properties you would normally give to the body tag.
This gets the footer to "extend" its color to the bottom of the page when there is short dynamic content without expanding it needlessly when there is a lot of dynamic content. The "virtual body" div can still have a gradient followed by a solid color, and the footer's background is hiding in the body tag, only showing up on short pages. (Works great if you need a solid color to continue after your footer gradient ends, or if you just need the background to match the footer color)
CSS
body {background-color: #000; }
#primary_container { background: #FFF url('/images/bgvert.png'); background-repeat: repeat-x; }
#footer { background: #000; }
HTML
<body>
<div id="primary_container">
<!-- most content, can be short or long -->
</div>
<div id="footer">
<!-- if primary content + footer is less than browser height, body background color
displays below this. If it is more, you get normal scroll behavior to the end
of footer and body background color is never seen -->
</div>
</body>