I am developing a website which is 100% height and width. There is a panel stuck to the left and the main content area to the right, which is scrollable.
However, in the content area the last div inside is getting cut off. I cannot see why. I have tested this on Firefox and Chrome, both are doing the same.
Here's the link to see it:
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As you can see, it is cut off, adding a large margin-bottom (50px +) seems to fix it, but that just looks bad.
PS: Don't worry about the missing images, it's because I've only uploaded this page, not the entire website.
Thanks in advance
Height: 100%; is fairly inconsistent across most browsers. Try to avoid it.
I'm not entirely sure how your layouts usually work, but setting overflow: hidden; on everything in your CSS reset is going to make things wonky from the start.
Take out "overflow: hidden;" and you can see the problem. Your content pane is matching the height of your body, as such, you're losing the height of "topBar" on the bottom of the page. because the Body is hiding the overflow.
Yup -- try overflow:scroll; or overflow:visible; In addition, I'd see if you can make it work without float:right;, 'cos that takes it out of the normal flow of things and can wreak havoc with your box adjustments.
ETA: I think I see the problem; each of your little content divs has floats left and right, which is gonna render margins useless, 'cos as far as the browser is concerned, each box's content is out of the normal flow of the page.
ETA(2): You have overflow:hidden; in your big first rule, where you set default styles for like a hundred different elements. That's your main problem. Change that to overflow:visible; (or whatever you prefer) and set appropriate overflow properties elsewhere and you oughta be good. I was able to mitigate the issue by doing this. There's still tweaking required, but that solves the base problem. I would still get rid of the inline floats, too.
From main-style.css line 5:
overflow:hidden
and main-style.css line 127:
overflow-y:auto
are both causing the page to cut off the bottom. However, when you correct this, it reveals that your wrapper div isn't stretching to 100% of the window height (because the background gradient stops WAY before the page ends), and the content inside your main divs go wonky. These are things that the other posters have discussed being major obstacles in your page formatting correctly.
Please take a look at this JsFiddle here. It is working in Chrome, FF, IE 6-8 and Safari.
Not sure how to fix the 100% height problem yet, but to solve the floated div content problem, make sure you declare a width of 50% on both the left and right-floated content
(also, you can make the right-floated content text-align:right in order to make it REALLY stay to the right of the div).
<div class="centerText messageWrapper">
<div class="messgaeHeader">
<div style="float:left; width:50%">
From: 12345678<br />
</div>
<div style="float:right; width:50%; text-align:right">
Date: 123456789<br />
</div>
</div>
1234567890
</div>
Perhaps someone could chime in with a fix for the 100% height issue this is causing now. I realize this isn't a complete answer, and my solution breaks the page in a different way, but perhaps it will be a jumping off point to you or someone else who may have the solution.
Related
I ran into this issue while implementing a sticky footer solution. I have the footer working well, but my body element which encompasses everything within the tag just will not auto-extend beyond a random point further down that can only be reached by scrolling down (it's a lengthy page). My intention is for the body container (does that sound morbid or what?) to auto extend past all the div elements it contains. Isn't that what it's supposed to be doing? Right now there are still div elements sitting further down from where it ends, and the footer is sitting in the middle of my page right below it. If I can't achieve this behavior, I'll have to set the body to a fixed position in css, which I don't want to do.
Using the following CSS styling doesn't work, probably because my content extends beyond a page.
html, body {min-height: 100%; height: 100%;}
Can someone articulate what the most likely issues could be? Also, feel free to make any constructive comments on my code. This is my first web project.
Here's a link to my HTML code on CodePaste: HTML Code
And here's a link to my CSS code: CSS Code
Lastly, a link to a screenshot of my webpage showing the issue. Screenshot
The green bar is the footer, and the red border is the body element styled in css so it can be viewed. You'll see it ends right after the picture.
I'm pretty sure your main problem is setting the height of the body tag. Try not giving it a height (no max-height or height tags) or giving it height: auto to make it expand as its contents.
It could also be that you are setting child elements to positon: absolute which means that the parent will collapse to the size of whatever non-absolute elements are inside it.
Also, why the <p1> tags? They should be just <p>.
Code criticism:
It was extremely difficult to figure out what the problem was and I'm not sure that I gave the correct solution because of the way you showed your code. In future, try to give your code as a JSFiddle or a Codepen.
Also, consider using a CSS framework which will reduce the amount of CSS code you write a lot. I would suggest Bootstrap or Materialize but Bootstrap is more widely used.
Don't forget to follow CSS guidelines which will make your code more readable.
You could stretch the element to the full height of the window using vh.
.container{
height: 100vh;
}
You could then position your footer to the bottom using absolute position.
footer{
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
}
I've used this in the past for full page landing pages that aren't meant to scroll.
I don't exactly know what the question is asking, but I experimented a bit and figured that if you remove the 1 from the <p1> so you would have a normal <p> tag, it moves the text up completely. I have a very rough JS Fiddle.
Thanks to all who contributed. Based on suggestions from Sankarsh and Ori, I was able to solve the problem. Once I changed my div to just as they suggested, I noticed it began functioning as I intended and forcing the parent element down beneath it. Unfortunately, that only solved the problem for that element alone. That led to me discovering the element had a default "static" position, while most of my other elements were set to "absolute". After changing the positions of the bulk of my content to "relative" or "static", everything is working as intended!
TLDR: If you want a child element to stay within the boundaries of its parent element, you need to set the child's position to "static" or "relative". You cannot use "absolute". This way, instead of overflowing beyond the border of the parent, the child will automatically extend the parent's border to its intended position.
I have simple page using a two-column page layout that breaks on zooming. Here it is - try zooming in with cmd+:
http://jamesabbottdd.com/ems-with-max-width.html
The header breaks on the right side, causing a horizontal scrollbar to appear. Originally I thought this was due to using pixels for sizing elements and setting max-width. This article is about that very problem:
http://blog.cloudfour.com/the-ems-have-it-proportional-media-queries-ftw/
Then I overrode pixels with ems but the problem persists.
This intrigues me to no end. I’ve been using CSS for about a decade now, the last 3 years on a high level, but haven’t yet figured out why the above page breaks but this one:
http://framelessgrid.com/
does not, regardless of how closely I zoom in.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Hmmm, it looks a bit like you've inadvertently linked together two slightly unrelated observations, making it a bit more difficult to diagnose the actual problem.
Separating the Symptoms
Based on your screenshot, it does appear that your header is coming up with some visual glitches. Additionally, a horizontal scrollbar appears - but rest assured that this is not due to any property of your header. In fact, it is due to your wrapper div below the header, which has a width of 1130px. So when you zoom in that much, it can't all show on the screen, and thus creates the scrollbar.
The True Issue
Returning to the problem with your header though, the reason why the colour is disappearing is because your header div has a width of 100%. If, when you took that screenshot, you were scrolled all the way to the left, you would have seen no problem with the header's background colour, because it would have covered 100% of the browser's width. (If you're wondering where this width of 100% came from, it's due to the h1 element inside the header; an h1 generally has a default width of 100%, a style you wouldn't be able to see even with an element inspector like Firebug open.)
Note that the site you provided does not display this issue due to a few things: first, its header doesn't have a background colour, so you wouldn't see any kind of issue in that respect (if it did have one though, you'd immediately see that the div doesn't actually span the whole screen as yours does; it is only a little wider than the text within, and has a fixed width. The title is centred not through only usage of the h1 element's width of 100% and text-align:center, but is also due to the margin:0 auto applied to the header div. But now, how to fix your issue?
A Solution
With the current structure of your page, the easiest solution would be to give your header div a defined width. Well, not a width per se, but rather a min-width, one which is identical to the width of your wrapper div. If you give it the style of min-width:1130px, you should see your problem solved.
I hope this was helpful! (Sorry if it was a little long to read, though.)
No mater how much I play around with padding and margin properties I can't seem to solve an issue I have on larger screens - the bottom of the html has a "cut off" where it appears to have a margin from the bottom of the screen. I do not know which element this is but all the elements have been reset to have 0 padding or margin.
When I add the following css I find that the gap really is at the bottom - there are no elements underneath:
* {outline: solid 1px;}
Here is a url to the site if any kind person would like to take a look: http://preview.tinyurl.com/7ywoqpf
Your div.holder has a min-height of 650 pixels.
When I remove that, the gap vanishes for me.
The best thing to do in these cases is a document inspector like Firebug or Chrome's built in one. They will show you which elements in the DOM take up which space exactly.
Remember that block level elements will fill their container widthways but not in height. So maybe it's the case that divs and containers within your page aren't tall enough to reach the bottom. There's something called a "push divs", "sticky footers" where that div will stay at the bottom. Maybe you'd put your background image within that and it'd stay at the bottom. There are several errors in your css though, and you can't have .5 of a pixel.
I fiddled with firebug and noticed that setting:
html {height: 100%;}
has solved the problem, will update the site later this evening
I'm trying to follow CSS How to set div height 100% minus nPx but for some reason it is not working.
I'm new to web development, so I apologize if I am doing everything in the most horrible way imaginable.
Here is the page: http://glados.cc/chat/layout.htm
The sidebar should be at the right, not sure what I'm doing wrong as I'm following the stackoverflow question I linked to at the top.
The text does wrap if it is too long, which is good! But the height that is taken doesn't increase, which makes it overlap the next line.
Also there are no vertical scroll bars (unlike the stackoverflow answer I linked) when the content gets too long..
Thank you!
The scroll bars can only appear if there is a height or maximum height set. If that is not the case, they simply expand.
Add something like height: 300px;
As for the wrapping of the chat text. This text is positioned absolute, so it is taken out of the flow of the document and cannot push other elements lower. You maybe want to consider using margin-left instead of position:absolute and left on .chatText.
And, as DrStrangeLove pointed out, your sidebar is missing the absolute positioning.
Here is an example:
http://jsfiddle.net/3YrZT/1/
try position:absolute for sidebar and middlePart
I have been trying for 2 hours to get my footer to stay at the bottom.
I have been trying "Matthew James Taylors" technique, but no luck.
Anyone see what I am missing or doing wrong?
Here is a Live Example : http://glustik.com/essex/index.html
Any help would be GREAT!
I would attached the CSS Code with the { } but it always breaks for me.
I feel like the CSS to fix this will still be problematic, I would be tempted to rewrite the whole thing: HTML markup and CSS, otherwise I suspect there will be more trouble down the road.
Here are some things that are most likely giving you trouble:
Duplicate id values (as mentioned)
Unnecessary absolute positioning
Hard-coded height values on several divs
Unnecessary use of "clearfix" divs
Overuse of negative margins to compensate for padding on other elements (always problematic)
Minor but relevant: use of classes like floatRight, just as bad as using inline styles.
I think in general, instead of trying to control the positioning and height of everything - just let the normal content flow dictate it. Naturally, the last element in your markup (footer) should be on the bottom without all these over-thought restrictions.
Best of luck!
EDIT: Apparently I've come off as unhelpful, so I felt I should add a direct response: For a quick fix, to simply get the footer on the bottom:
Remove the height and bottom padding from #mainBody
(tested in FF4 and IE8). There will still be some padding issues within the footer, but that can be resolved in a number of ways depending on how you'd like to approach it. Once again, good luck with your project.
You have the footer positioned absolutely in #container, which is positioned relatively. therefore, its being positioned at the bottom of #container.
try moving it out of #container, or remove the relative positioning from #container
Because all of the content inside your main container (#mainBody) is floated, the container's only way to determine it's height is via the "height" property, which is set to 100px;. The footer is correctly rendering right below the 100 pixel height of the main container.
You have three options:
you can either properly clear your main container so that its height is dynamic based on its content using a clearfix like this
or you can set the height of the main container to something larger. I changed it to 700px and the footer rendered well below the main body.
or you can remove the height altogether, which will probably be the best solution in the long-run. Thanks to #Gaby aka G. Petrioli for pointing this out.
I've been doing this a long time and have never heard of this method. That doesn't make it bad, but the currently accepted version in my circles comes from Ryan Fait (http://ryanfait.com/resources/footer-stick-to-bottom-of-page/)
If you load this up in Chrome and disable the position:relative from the container it does properly glue the footer to the bottom of the page. That signals a problem to me, because it's contrary to what the tutorial says. Regardless, it accomplishes your goal.
You should take at least a look at Compass. It makes CSS so much easier. For your particular question, take a look at:
http://compass-style.org/reference/compass/layout/sticky_footer/
Make the following changes and it rendered fine in Chrome for me:
remove bottom:0; from #footer
change padding-bottom:167px; in #mainBody to the desired location (I used 455px and it looked pretty good)