Question
I'd like the CSS background texture for my content area to begin immediately after a variable-height header. The texture has a natural height of 900px and is graduated to a flat color, so if it fits in the available space between content-start and body-end, the whole texture should be displayed. The texture shouldn't artificially expand the content area or cause unnecessary scroll, but scroll should still appear when content is longer than fits in the page.
JSFiddle
On request, here's a JSFiddle of my issue. Since there's really only one DOM element in the question, I think the fiddle doesn't clarify much. http://jsfiddle.net/AbEUe/5/
What doesn't work
#contentAndBackground {
padding-bottom: 900px;
margin-bottom: -900px;
background: url('my900pxHighImage.png') repeat-x;
}
The above ensures the whole image is shown, but the negative margin doesn't keep the unnecessary scrollbars away as I'd hoped.
#contentAndBackground {
min-height: 900px;
background: url('my900pxHighImage.png') repeat-x;
}
Same problem. The whole image is shown, but scrollbars are always showing.
I'd like to avoid using JavaScript that needs to handle screen resizing.
I think I did it: http://jsfiddle.net/AbEUe/7/
I have created 2 container divs, both have a height of 100%.
The first contains header and background, and has overflow:hidden so the background is stopped at the bottom.
The second contains header and content, and because of use of positioning this one is on top of the first container, and it can stretch to more than 100% (if the amount of text requires that).
You can see you have to render the header twice, but that won't matter because the first isnt visible.
Edit:
Solved the last problem (see comment) by also setting the background to the content div. See http://jsfiddle.net/AbEUe/8/
Your question is not very clear, but this prevents your kitties from being chopped up.
#content {background: url('http://placekitten.com/g/200/300') repeat-x; min-height:300px;}
Related
I was having problems whit this for a while, and I know that some other people were too
image problem
As you can see in the image, there is an excessive white empty space in the bottom of the page, it's because there was a component just there, but it was moved up with "position: relative;" and of course, the element moved up but it's still taking its original space at the bottom
I was trying to define the height of the body, as well as to center the components and set a margin:auto; but it doesnt work
Any idea?? THANKS!
give your plans a margin at the bottom and you decrease the margin-bottom to reach that space that you want for example:
.image-plans-hosting{
margin-bottom: 200px;
}
You can use the inspector in your browser to find the values you like the most.
How do I get rid of the white space on either side of my website?
I want the backgound to be flexible to fit the browser window for whatever size it is. I think I need to resize the div container but I'm having lots of trouble.
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Your website was built using a fixed width and a margin that aligns it in the middle of the page using this rule in your css.
margin:0 auto;
Everything within your site has been built to within the specification of your wrapper width. Most responsive sites still have a page wrapper and a maximum width. If it's the white space that bothers set a background to the body element
body{background:color;}
or for an image
body{background-image:url('background_image_url')}
While im not the biggest fan of W3C refer to this for more information if you get stuck - http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_background.asp
If you are concerned that your site doesn't respond to different screen sizes and browser resizing then consider hiring a professional to redesign your site for responsive design.
Is this fiddle more or less what you're looking for?
I removed the hard-coded width on global_container_ and set width: 100%; on the header, along with repeat-x for the header background. I removed float: left; from the header and it's child elements, and made sure the child elements had left- and right-margins of auto. I also removed the hard-coded width from the headline, but you'll have to move the bottomline outside of it's container if you want that full-width as well (or remove the hard-coded width from the container).
Also, I don't think I had to change this in the fiddle, but you may need to remove the clearfix class from global_container_, or set it to display: block; in order for the full width to take effect.
It's the same idea for the footer - set it to width: 100%; and adjust the footer and child elements' padding and margin until they're placed where you want them.
jsfiddle link: http://jsfiddle.net/djDWF/84/
The problem is, the inner container (text-padding) margin/width for the text/images is affecting the center background image. The repeated image that touches the footer does not extend to full height, and cuts off so the center and footer images do not match up (it is kind of hard to tell, but if you add or remove text in my jfiddle example you can see the center image change where it meets the footer.).
This is for a school project, and though I did not need to actually do this type of image background, I got this far so might as well continue. I don't want to use javaScript if possible because that is not part of the course yet.
I tried removing the text wrapper and styling each p tag individually but the same effect occurs.
I also tried mathematical combinations using line-height and margins. If I set the line-height to equal the right and bottom margins, and the left margin to equal the height of the footer then the effect works, but because my footer image is so large this is not a workable solution.
Mathematically I tried to keep the same ratios with the footer height but this did not work either (or else I did this wrong. I tried dividing each by the same amount.)
Is there any way to do this using only CSS and and not having to resort to tables?
So in short the problem is: You can see a line showing up at the footer separation because the repeated centre background isn't fully showing it's last repeat as the container isn't big enough.
The solution: If it doesn't need to be variable and you know how much content you will be putting in you can just set a height: Live example - http://jsfiddle.net/djDWF/85.
div#background-center{
background:url(http://i.imgur.com/gsNFa.png) repeat-y;
float:left;
width:700px;
height: 1604px; /* add this */
}
Obviously, pick whatever height is right to fit your final text.
With your current images there is no way to do this automatically without using JavaScript.
Whenever my website is viewed with a resolution that is insufficient to display the full page, a horizontal scrollbar is added. The problem is that my 100% width div with background image does not apply this background image to the portion that extends beyond the scroll bar.
This same issue is actually appears here on Stack Overflow as well. If you shrink your window small enough that you have a horizontal scrollbar, you can see that both the header and footer div areas do not extend the background image/color.
One way I have figured to resolve this is to set the header/footer div to fixed but then the content past the end of the div is lost :-(
Anyone have any suggestions or a workaround? ty!
When you set an element to 100% width it will have the same width as its parent element. The body tag's width defaults to the width of the viewport. According to the standard, when an elements contents is to big to fit in it, it will overflow. This is what you're seeing.
To get around this, set the min-width on the body tag. Something like the following, obviously change the width to whatever works for you:
body {
min-width: 960px;
}
Surly if you used something along the lines of
body{
background: url("yourdir/yourimage.jpg") repeat repeat;
}
Instead of having a background div? It'd be helpful if you also added the code for the background div
This margin is a browser scrollbar that appears during resizing and makes viewport smaller. This can be easily fixed by adding hidden overflow to body. Check #242684
I'm using http://ryanfait.com/sticky-footer/ to make footers stay at the bottom. I was previously using height: 100%; on html and body to make it fill the whole page when the page was smaller than the viewport. However, this makes the body stop (no background) after the viewport, but the rest of the page continues. Stocky Footer doesn't have much to do with it, but it's an example of the code.
I've tried using min-height: 100%;, but that's not working either. Can't figure this one out, any help would be great.
Edit
The website is http://www.markduffymusic.com/index.php
To ensure that the footer is always at the absolute bottom of the page you can use the answer provided in this question: Make div stay at bottom of page's content all the time even when there are scrollbars
For this to work with background images, you must place the background-image on a single element that takes the full height of your page, which in this case is your #holder div.
You also have two floating elements in #pagecontainer which are not being cleared, meaning the browser will not assign a set height to #pagecontainer. To resolve this you need to as overflow: hidden to the #pagecontainer element.
Here is a useful CSS Tricks article about The How and Why of Clearing Floats.