I'm looking to create a flexible width/height page layout with no window scrollbars!
Any content that will not fit on the page should be scrollable independently with the overflow property.
I've seen plenty of ways to construct flexible width layouts using just HTML and CSS.
The following site does a pretty good job on that front: http://ago.tanfa.co.uk/css/layouts/css-3-column-layout-v1.html
I wish to implement scrollable content within the 3 centre columns. The content should be scrollable not the column div.
e.g.
<div class="column">
<h4>Title</h4>
<ul>
<li>These</li>
<li>Items</li>
<li>Should</li>
<li>Be</li>
<li>Scrollable</li>
<li>If</li>
<li>They</li>
<li>Exceed</li>
<li>The</li>
<li>Column</li>
<li>Height</li>
</ul>
</div>
So far if the list exceeds the window height it pushes the footer off page.
I'm not to bothered about it working on old versions of IE, although that would score bonus points!
You mean like this?
JSFiddle scrollable li.
Not sure if you can effectively hide the scrollbar just with CSS and HTML.
Related
Is it possible with CSS to have two fixed headers which when made responsive affect the content of the scrollable element. I.e. has the headers gets bigger it pushes down the content below.
I am trying to do it with flex boxes, but stuck on having a second fixed header within and scroll element.
http://codepen.io/labithiotis/pen/tkAlB
Want to avoid using lots of media query or js. feel like there must be a solution with flex box.
*This is just a general question prior to the development, hence no code provided.
I want a div in the middle of my site to have a background width of 100% in order to go all the way across the screen, but this div is INSIDE the wrapper/container (of which has a 980px width) so it's restricted as normal to the regular content width.
How can this happen without ending wrapper and container, creating the full width div, then making a new set of wrapper/container divs? As w3 validator states to me I should have these particular div's more than once.
Im not sure exactly what you want without examples, but you may want to try something like this:
<style>
#width980{width:980px;height:200px;margin:0 auto;background:#aaa;}
#fullwidth{height:100px;background:#000;position:absolute;left:0;top:50px;right:0;color:#fff;}
</style>
<div id="width980">
width980
<div id="fullwidth">
fullwidth
</div>
</div>
Here, I made you a fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/Wde8W/
I was looking for a sticky footer with a full height sidebar solution and partially found it here:
yet another HTML/CSS layout challenge - full height sidebar with sticky footer
The post marked as the correct answer explains a neat solution, but I was wondering whether it's possible to turn that fluid content div in a fixed one, same with the footer. (By fixed i mean fixed width).
The content div and footer should cover the entire visible width of the screen, and when resized, they should not resize with the window. They should stay the same and have a scrollbar appear instead.
Also, another particular thing I'm after is to have the sidebar with some additional left-margin. Here's the fiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/2NbMg/
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="content">
<div id="sidebar">Sidebar<br/>Sidebar<br/>Sidebar<br/></div>
<div id="main">
Content
</div>
</div>
<div class="push"></div>
</div>
<div id="footer"><div id="footer-content">Footer</div></div>
(the CSS can be found on fiddle in order to keep this post uncluttered).
Oh, and if there is a way to make the content span from the right of the sidebar, not from the the window, it would be awesome!
I've been searching and trying to achieve this for two days with no success. I'd really appreciate if someone could help..
Later edit #toninoj:
Thanks again for the input and I apologize for not being so explicit. Basically, I want the footer to take full width especially on widescreens and laptops. The reason why I would like to stay away from 100% width is that I want my footer to still be large when the window is resized (made smaller), not adjust itself on resize or according to the window's size. The footer will have some serious amount of data contained within it, and it would look bad on resize.
I could throw in a high amount of pixels in order to keep its width fixed, but wouldn't that create problems on laptops, for example? (scrollbar appearing although not necessary)
You need to specify exact width of an element, e.g. width:200px; and you should give it position:fixed to make it sticky. also you should give it overflow:scroll;
If you want a fixed width footer without a scrollbar, you just specify something like
width:1600px;
overflow:hidden;
I am trying to build up a website with a Navigation bar on top of the page. It should be fixed on top of the browser when we scroll the page (like facebook or twitter), but not scroll with the page(like google search??). see Fig like:
seems like we should set the css attribute position of this navigation bar like
#nav_bar {
postion:fixed;
}
but why all those websites use a whole bunch of div to do this? Does all these divs make any sence? Like twitter:
where topbar js-topbar is the outmost div which size is 1583*40px, but I didnt find the definition of its size. And then it goes to global-nav->global-nav-inner->container, finally...container, which is acutually hold the navgation items like a list, a search bar so on and so forth. something Weired is that the size of it is 865*0px. For more information, you can view source of the home page of twitter.
And my question is : but why all those websites use a whole bunch of div to do this? Does all these divs make any sence? Why is a div which height is 0px can hold those navigation items?
why the 'many' divs?
The general idea is the more wrapping elements you have the more flexibility you have with regards to what you can achieve in styling with css. Obviously there is a limit, as you should also try to keep your markup readable and semantic. I would say many important or segregated regions in a site would benefit from three wrapping elements:
<div class="positioner">
<div class="padder">
<div class="alignment">
Menu Here
</div>
</div>
</div>
Obviously with the more semantic HTML5 elements you can make this more readable:
<header class="positioner">
<div class="padding>
<nav class="alignment">
Menu Here
</nav>
</div>
</header>
The reason for keeping a seperate element for padding is so that you can set specific dimensions to your positioner (i.e. header) and not have that calculation messed up on certain browsers (with old box modles) by the addition of padding.
The reason for keeping alignment seperate is because it will give you greater flexibility on the alignment tricks you can use.
The reason for using the header element is because this content will act as a header imo.
The example you give above, each element will most definitely have it's reason for existing and they will most probably all be used to achieve the layout the designer wanted with regard to css. Some times extra wrapping divs are also used as placeholders for content that may be AJAXed, this is probably quite likely when dealing with the likes of Twitter.
You can of course get away with using only a single wrapping element, but you will be limiting what styling and positioning you can achieve later on down the line.
why the height 0px?
There is a trick often used with positioning absolute layers in a relative location (rather than an absolute location) - and I believe this is the reason why you are seeing this, but the trick in itself isn't the actual cause of the height:0px. The trick uses the following construction:
<div style="position: relative;">
<div style="position: absolute;">
The content here will float outside of the document flow,
but remain in the correct location within the document flow
- in all viable browsers.
</div>
</div>
If you inspect the above construction, using any browser debug method, you will notice that the position: absolute; layer has collapsed to have no height (in modern browsers). This is the default behaviour of position absolute outside of the old Internet Explorer world (with no other positioning or dimensions settings), because an absolutely position element is taken out of the document flow and by default doesn't calculate anything to do with it's children.
If you wish to override this behaviour you can simply use overflow:hidden; (as long as the height has NOT been specifically set to 0px by some other class or by JavaScript) - this will force the element to calculate the dimensions of it's children and wrap them.
First of all use position:absolute; if you don't want it move with you when scrolling. position:fixed; if you do.
Second of all when you build a website the first thing you're going to have to do is decide how the structure of your website is going to look like. So the menu at the top will be
<div id="Menu"> </div>
Now you may want to create a header under it
<div id="Header"> </div>
Under that you want to share content, since thats what website do.
<div id="Content"> </div>
Under that you may want a footer, that says 2012 Copyright etc.
<div id="Footer">2012 Copyright zoujyjs © </div>
Now you may want to center everything. Why not just put all these previous divs inside a wrapper div. Then all we have to do is center the wrapper div.
<div id="Wrapper">
<div id="Menu"> </div>
<div id="Header"> </div>
<div id="Content"> </div>
<div id="Footer"> </div>
</div>
You could also add stuff like a logo inside the header, etc.
I think you get the idea. But isn't it obvious you're going to get "divception" then?
Also: When no height is specified on a div, the div will automatically resize with the content within.
<div style="background-color:black;">
<!-- Nothing will be seen on your page, because the div is 0 height, 0 width by default -->
</div>
<div style="background-color:black;">
Height of the div will now be the same height as the height of this line. (15 px by default I believe
</div>
I've got this layout that i want to cut into html/css, but i'm struggling with picking best way to strcture html/css for major content (like diffrent bg block in the middle that is under 960 content block, and covers whole wideness etc.). I've attached a structure of the layout:
So my main quesions are:
How to handle custom bg block that is ,,outside'' of grid, or should
it be inside, and then make content block be inside contenbg, and
outside the container, that logo and menu is?
How to handle custom png shadows (i wanna avoid css3 in this case) that should be outside the content
slider (as on image)
Same question applies to footer, should it be outside the main 960
container? Should i use ,,main container'' at all in this case? I'm
not sure whats the best practise here.
Thanks
I'm unable to see the attached file but I'll try to give you some guidelines:
You should have a main content which is centred on the screen and is 960px wide.
If the header/footer are the same width (i.e. their Background doesn't span more than 960px), they should be in the container div. On the other hand, if their BG is wider than 960 put each in a separate div which spans as wide as you need and inside this div put another div which is 960 wide and centered.
example:
<div id="headerWrapper">
<div id="header">...</div>
</div>
<div id="content">...</div>
<div id="footerWrapper">
<div id="footer">...</div>
</div>
if you want png shadows without using CSS3 your only option is slicing the image with the shadow.
I hope that answers your questions.