I have two divs as follows:
fluid width content
fixed width content
I'm trying to make it so that when the available screen width is > 600px, they'll appear side by side. When the screen is resized below that, the second div needs to drop down below the first one. In either scenario, they need to take up all available width (so when the second one drops down I can't have a 200px padding/space on the right of the first one).
I believe it's possible to do this with JS and/or css3/media queries, but I'm wondering if there's a simpler solution?
To put it in context, I need to design a fluid page that will be displayed via an iframe. I will not be able to control the width of the iframe, so need my two column content to be fluid.
Apply a min-width to the div that's not floating. If the browser can't satify the min-width with the floating box to the side, it'll drop the floating box down and the fluid width box will fill the entire width, until it gets shrunk to its min-width again in which case it overflows the body.
Try this:
div
{
min-width:100px;
max-width: 150px;
background-color:yellow;
float:left;
}
min-width and max-width
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I am trying to get a div to expand to fill its container without causing that container to expand beyond the browser window's width, as in this page. Click "Expand" next to "Stack Trace in the last entry.
What it's supposed to do is show a horizontal scrollbar.
What it's actually doing is expanding beyond the width of the window.
I can get it to sort of work if I give the <div class="stack"> element a max-width in pixels, but I want it to expand to fill no matter how wide the window is, without expanding beyond it.
How can I fix this layout? What's a general way with css to get an element to expand horizontally to fill its container while not going beyond the window's edge?
The Page is back on now!
I cann't get your table stuff sorted. There are some invalid width Parameters.
You should use div-Containers rather then tables to layout your page!
The workaround solution I came up with was adding a max-width to the expand/collapse div. It doesn't really prevent the table being wider than the window, but it solves 95% of the cases.
Don't use tables, use DIV's and for full width use
width: 100%;
This will always use up 100% of the browser window width.
You can provide you outer Div width:100% so it will take browser width. Or else you can calculate browser width with Jquery $(document).width(); and store this in variable and provide to your outer div.
i have a div inside its parent div and code is shown below
<div style="width:100%;height:400px;"><!--main_div-->
<div id="left_container" style="width:float:left;width:220px;height:1000px;"></div>
<div id="middler" style="float:left;width:800px;height:800px;background-color:#333;"></div>
</div><!--end_of_main_div-->
this code is perfectly HTMLized in browser
But when i resize browser(change the width of the browser window) the div(middler) is weirdly pushed below the main div .. why is it happening
like this page is perfectly spread even when the browser is re-sized
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcpwaeP11pY
Because of this:
float:left;
What it's telling the browser is: Put these on the same line if there is enough room. If there isn't, drop it a line.
You're giving it set pixel widths, so it will always drop to the next line when changing window size.
Instead of using widths set by pixel, try using percentages instead.
Because float:left will only try and hug the adjacent div if it can. It's is no guarantee that the div will align to the right of the first div. It will only do so if it has enough space within the browser window.
If you want to keep the div entitled 'middler' to the right of your other div, you'll have to either use percentages or used fixed/absolute positioning.
The question alone is none-too specific, in my opinion.
You also have an error in your syntax on line 2:
This:
width:float:left;
Should really be this:
float:left;
But this probably won't solve your issue.
Because if the browser width is ess than 1020px, there is no longer enough room to fit both boxes side-by-side, so one of them has to give.
Try setting the size in percentages.
Like someone already said, if you set it to pixels the size is static and if the browser doesn't have space to fit both horizontally it will try to fit them vertically.
You could set a static min-width for your main div:
<div style="width:100%; min-width: 1020px; height:400px;">
Note: when you add a padding, margin or border to #left-container or #middler you should add that number to the min-width from your main div.
I know this is a common problem and I feel really stupid for not being able to figure it out, but I have a 3 column layout in HTML, and I seriously cannot figure this out for the life of me.
Here is the basic layout of my site:
fixed header,
1 sidebar on each side,
middle area with content.
Here is a mockup of the site that I'm speaking about: http://eitanrosenberg.com/tests/pop/bootstrap/
It looks ok at first, but when the browser is resized, the sidebars get really small and there is a ton of white space. Why is this? Thank you so much in advance.
Look at it this way.
The height:100% of the container div (and the column divs) gets their height from the body-element (100% of that), and the height of the body element is calculated as 100% of the height of the html element
The height of the html element is then (in practice) calculated from the current height of the browser window (100% of that).
So the height of your boxes will all be set to match the heigth of the browser window...
and this is exactly what you see when you shrink the browser window heigth!
Because:
Once your content no longer fits within the height of its container (ie. when you shrink the browser window you also shrink the calculated heights of all your containers and eventually the headroom will be too small) - overflow happens. The content of the "highest" box will then be the first to overflow, and parts of its content will then spill out of it to be visible below the boxes (since you don't use overflow: hidden).
The browser will then allow you to scroll past the bottom of the boxes (so to speak) in order for you to be able to see the content that "overflows the box", but it doesn't adjust the height of container - the boxes will still keep the same height as the browser window while you scroll...
So the background patterns will always be the height of 100% of the browser window in this example (an not match the height of the highest content when the height shrinks below that)...
One way to remedy this - is to adjust the height of the boxes with Javascript (calculate the height of the highest column and set that as an absolute value for height on the container and the boxes - every time the page resizes)
... or you could use "display: table" and "display: table-cell" on the container and the columns respectively as a workaround (overriding the Bootstrap grid CSS) for this particular layout width/media queries...
Hope this helps!
Good luck!
Here is my site, first of all.
You'll notice that underneath the divider bar in the middle of the page, there are three columns, one with a form, one with text, one with links.
Now, resize the window to slightly smaller, and the right div will drop down to the next line.
Is there anyway to just not display that? So, the divs will adjust (I have a liquid layout) up to the point where they won't fit, then, instead of wrapping the div down to the next line, it just won't be displayed?
You can also achieve that with CSS only.
Just assign the following CSS attributes to #row4:
#row4 {
min-width:1202px; /* the exact value depends on the sum of the width of your 3 column boxes */
overflow:hidden;
}
This differs slightly from your intended solution, since the right box will stay partly visible when sizing down the window and will not immediately disappear completely.
Please be aware that min-width won't work in IE6. However, there are several ways to emulate the min-width property, if you need to support old IEs:
http://www.thecssninja.com/xhtml/ie6-min-width-solutions
You can give them a wrapper div with a min-width set and force it to use a horizontal scrollbar if it gets too small. The nice thing about a wrapper div is you can give it a max-width as well and keep things from getting wonky on super huge monitors.
I'm not a fan of horizontal scrollbars, but it beats completely removing content.
Ok here is what you should do
Wrap all three floated division on a parent div, something like this
<div id="parent">
<div class="form">......</div>
<div class="text">......</div>
<div class="links">.....</div>
</div>
Now to solve your problem give a fixed height to the parent div like
#parent { height:400px;clear:both; }
You would have to use Javascript to get the width of the viewport, then change the display property of the div that is wrapping to display:none so that it doesn't show up when the browser width is too small.
I have a page with two divs on it which should fill the entire screen.
Both of them have width = 100%
The upper one's height should be defined by its content (the minimal possible height that fits all content) and never show any scrollbars.
The lower one should fill the rest of the screen. However, if its content does not fit the div, it should display the vertical scrollbar.
Like this:
<div id="header">This block should not display the scrollbars</div>
<div id="content">This block should fill the rest of the screen and show the vertical scrollbar if the content does not fit</div>
How do I do it with CSS?
Update:
I'm looking for a solution that would not require me to set the fixed height for the upper div.
Is that possible?
this should fix your problem
#header{ overflow: hidden }
#content{ overflow-y: auto }
edit: you have to define the height of the divs aswell
In order to do it with CSS you need to define a height on the bottom div, and then add overflow:auto.
.content {
height:90%;
overflow:auto;
}
Unfortunately, this means that your top div will need a height defined as well, because content will have to take up a predefined amount of space on the page. If you use percentages for height, then you will need to define a height for your header div so stretching and shrinking the browser window doesn't cause issues.
The only way I can see you achieving this is through Javascript. I know you didn't tag/ask for JS but I can't think of a straightforward, elegant CSS solution.
With JS you could capture the onpropertychange event of the header div, check to see if the property changed was offsetHeight/clientHeight and adjust the top style property of the content div. The content div would also need to have position:absolute; and bottom:0px;.
Sorry if you're not interested in a JS solution, I just don't think there is a CSS one without accepting a user experience below what you're trying to achieve.
You should define fixed width for second div and use overflow css property to define scrollbars.