html or body size - padding/height/margin/something - html

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

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How to set the height of the body to avoid white spaces

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.

CSS height property not working

I have been trying to solve this for days but can't solve it. (I'm usually quite okay with css). The website is www.auralaid.com.
On the homepage, there is a white spacing which I want removed. The class that is causing this issue is flex-viewport whose height is always slightly more than the "gray fabric image" it contains, leaving a white space at the bottom.
How do I remove the white space?
P.S. I can't set a fixed height otherwise the contained image will be cropped when minimising the browser.
white spacing http://auralaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Screen-Shot-2013-11-09-at-9.34.02-pm.png
you should post your code to get the perfect answer but i guess there is a problem of positioning of the div in which these two images are and also set height of image according to the div positioning.
Perhaps you should check your margins? We need the code to answer your question definitively.
For me it seems the h1-tag is responsible as with
.slide-content h1 {
display:none;
}
the white-space will disappear.

Div won't auto size completely with auto height and inner Image

I have a big absolute div that holds a smaller relative div. The smaller div wraps an Image (png) and auto sizes with height:auto. All works fine. But on one particular site, I get 5px of extra spacing at the bottom of the smaller div after the resize, like it over calculated the height needed? I assume I'm somehow inheriting something from the site that is impacting my resize and div container.
I reworked everything, clear floats, overflow, alternate positioning, removed auto option, flow, etc, but I can't seem to get rid of that 5px extra at the bottom, and its only on that site?
My question - how do you debug your height or auto height issues, and any idea what could be causing this?
Thanx,
Chris
on the container div:
line-height: 0px; will eliminate any height increase caused by white space.
padding: 0px; will eliminate an padding along the inside of the container div.
on the image
margin: 0px will eliminate any space added around the outside of the image.
Could you point us to the site or a jsfiddle so we can get a better idea of what's going on?
As #RyanMcDonough mentioned, Chrome's Inspector is awesome. In IE, you have the IE developer toolbar. In FF you can use Firebug (which is a classic!).
Try
font-size:0;
line-height:0
for smaller div
Example http://jsfiddle.net/U9z5K/14/
Or use
display:block;
for an image
I'd use something like Chrome's Inspect Element, and have a look at the css rules that are affecting it.
You can then go through all the elements and enable/disable on the fly to see what is affecting it.
https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/

Page breaks on zooming in - HTML / CSS / browser issue

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.)

100% height div cutting off div inside

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:
removed
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.