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I'm having a hard time with what I thought would be a dead simple issue.
I'm trying to create a div that spans 100% of the width of a browser window. The div is filled with several child divs that expand to fill that entire space with alternating colors like a football field. These divs would expand to fit the full width of a given space that has individual 1% stripes that fill that space fully.
This seems to work fine in Firefox, but in Safari (and Chrome) the calculation seems to be too strict, and leaves some extra leftover space on the right-most div.
Is there any way to avoid this leftover space? I've encountered the same issue in Safari and Chrome even when placing it in a fixed width div... there is always space left over on the right. I wonder if I'm just asking it to do too much math?
Here is the code I am using, with alternate versions dividing the space into divisions of 5% and divisions of 1%. Sorry, it's long and redundant code.
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
font-size: 100%;
font: inherit;
vertical-align: baseline;
}
.clearfix {
visibility: hidden;
display: block;
font-size: 0;
content: " ";
clear: both;
height: 0;
}
#field {
width: 100%;
background: #009900;
height: 100px;
margin: 0;
margin-bottom: 25px;
padding: 0;
}
.singleyard {
width: 1%;
float: left;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
background: #009900;
}
.fiveyards {
width: 5%;
float: left;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
.alt {
background: rgba(0,0,0,0.25);
}
.oneyard {
width: 20%;
float: left;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="field">
<div class="fiveyards">5</div>
<div class="fiveyards alt">10</div>
<div class="fiveyards">15</div>
<div class="fiveyards alt">20</div>
<div class="fiveyards">25</div>
<div class="fiveyards alt">30</div>
<div class="fiveyards">35</div>
<div class="fiveyards alt">40</div>
<div class="fiveyards">45</div>
<div class="fiveyards alt">50</div>
<div class="fiveyards">55</div>
<div class="fiveyards alt">60</div>
<div class="fiveyards">65</div>
<div class="fiveyards alt">70</div>
<div class="fiveyards">75</div>
<div class="fiveyards alt">80</div>
<div class="fiveyards">85</div>
<div class="fiveyards alt">90</div>
<div class="fiveyards">95</div>
<div class="fiveyards alt">100</div>
</div>
<div id="field">
<!--below section is repeated 10 times -->
<div class="singleyard">1</div>
<div class="singleyard">2</div>
<div class="singleyard">3</div>
<div class="singleyard">4</div>
<div class="singleyard">5</div>
<div class="singleyard">6</div>
<div class="singleyard">7</div>
<div class="singleyard">8</div>
<div class="singleyard">9</div>
<div class="singleyard alt">10</div>
<!--end repeated section-->
</div>
</body>
</html>
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The width property is used to fill a div remaining horizontal space using CSS. By setting the width to 100% it takes the whole width available of its parent. Example 1: This example use width property to fill the horizontal space. It set width to 100% to fill it completely.
It seems like this should be one of the easiest things to understand in CSS. If you want a block-level element to fill any remaining space inside of its parent, then it's simple — just add width: 100% in your CSS declaration for that element, and your problem is solved.
if you specify width:100%, the element's total width will be 100% of its containing block plus any horizontal margin, padding and border. So, next time you find yourself setting the width of a block level element to 100% to make it occupy all available width, consider if what you really want is setting it to auto.
I had the same problem, this is what I discovered: somewhere in your CSS you have another div that has a width of 100% and ALSO has padding. Since the padding value is added to the width, the value of that div becomes greater than 100%. The solution is to make sure not to use padding on any div that is set to 100% width. If you need padding, try adding the padding to the element inside the div instead.
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Only thing I can think of is to add:
html, body
{
width: 100%;
}
Just to make sure safari knows the parent container of field is also 100%;
Another thing to try is to add:
html { overflow-y: scroll; }
That should force a side scrollbar, even if it's grayed out. I wonder if some webkit rendering temporarily flashes a scrollbar, but fails to give the space back. Any of that work?
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