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.
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I have overflow-x:hidden placed on the body tag of my page so that any content extending beyond the window will not be visible. No scroll bars show up, however, I can still scroll to the left / right to see the content (kinda defeats the purpose of overflow-x).
-ms-overflow-x: doesn't fix the problem either.
There is a wrapper 900px;
Inside the wrapper, there is a div inside:
width:100%;
padding-right:300px;
position:absolute;
left:200px;
I would like the inner div to hang over the right side of the window without causing it to scroll (and leaving a 200px space the its left).
Any help? Thanks!
Since the width of the div is 100%, there should never be an overflow, since the div will always fit 100% of the viewport (assuming you haven't changed the size of your body tag).
As for the padding, the padding is added on after the width, so you're saying the div is 100% of the width of it's container (the body tag), and the padding is an additional 300px to the right, which will be invisible as it's out of the viewport.
You might want to try giving the div an explicit size width and experiment that way.
It may help to see an example of your markup as well, to get an idea of what you're trying to achieve.
More HTML/CSS would be useful, but given what you have right now, my first thought is that your wrapper is still set to position: static (the default for HTML elements).
If you add position: relative to your wrapper, it will contain the absolutely-positioned element within it, and should constrain it to the overflow restrictions.
Additionally, you may want to look into the box-sizing property and how the W3C box model works. In short, your padding is adding to the width of the element, so it's actually (100% + 300px), which results in a size that is larger than the container.
If you don't want to mess with box-sizing, you can also add max-width: 100% to your absolute div to force it to not grow out of its container.
I've been trying to make a horizontal web page. However I don't want to keep setting the width to a certain width to accommodate the content that is floated is there a way to have the Div automatically re-size to the content that it contains? This way all the content is floated or "horizontally" scrolling? I'm using width:"specific size" but as soon as I have too much content it overflows is there a way to not have that happen and also where I don't have to specify a specific width size?
EDIT:
What I want is the whole website to be horizontally scrolling. I don't want just the specific div itself to have scrollbars, but I want the div to be able to adjust it's width to accommodate the content no matter if I have 3 divs within it or if I decide to add 6 divs later into the div.
For example what I want is like this. (Where even if I have more content it won't drop to the next line) I mean can this be achieved with css alone?) I specifically want that effect where the whole website is scrolling not just the div I don't know exactly if that website is doing that. Basically I want the whole website to scroll horizontally not just a scroll bar on the specific div itself.
For example vertically if you have more content you can keep scrolling down that is what I want, but I want that in a horizontal scroll of the website is that even possible?
Here is my code Jfiddle Code which is for tumblr but I want this for more than just tumblr. As I'm thinking of doing this for a regular website but where I manually will add more list items or Divs. I just want to see if there is a way to have the width adjust to the content so the floated content doesn't drop to the next line.
I think what you need is display: inline-block;
Like this: http://jsfiddle.net/ZDJbH/
Check this fiddle , is that what you need
div{
width:auto;
overflow:auto;
white-space:nowrap;
}
Set the css width property to auto
#yourDiv {width : auto;}
1.display:inline-block
2.float:left or float:right Because it will destroy line box.
3.position:absolute；（and without top, left or position:absolute) May be need to know information to use it.
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 have multiple divs with text and what not in them. When the page is made smaller horizontally all of the elements shift. However,if you resize this page, elements disappear and nothing moves. How do I fix this problem so it is like this page?
Thanks!
If you view the source of this Stackoverflow page, then you will notice that all of the content on the page is wrapped inside of a container div with the width set to 100%, and the margin and padding both set to 0. If you want to have a fixed width, then do not use percentages, but instead specify your page to be a specific width in pixels.
If you want to center all you content, wrap it in a div like so:
<div class="wrapper">
<!-- Your Content !-->
</div>
And then add the following to your stylesheet:
.wrapper {margin:0 auto;width:960px;} /* Change 960 to desired width */
I hope this helps!
Predefined sizes make the elements do not move when you resize the screen, that will keep their size in different screen resolutions also, that is to take into account. Also you must use margins and padding fixed.
In short ... not more percentages, but don't abuse fixing everything
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