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I'm trying to do a seemingly simple webpage layout, but I'm hitting a wall.
I'd like to do everything purely with CSS (no tables to muck things up, and no javascript dynamically resizing things)
I'd like to have:
Put another way:
|< Total width is 100% of viewport >| +--------------------------------------------------------------+ --- | Header with a fixed height | ^ |--------+-------------------------------------------+---------+ | | | | | | | | | Left | | Right | Total | with | Center grows in height/width | with | height | fixed | and has scrollbars if necessary | fixed | is | width | | width | 100% | | | | of | | | | viewport | | | | |--------+-------------------------------------------+---------| | Footer with a fixed height | v +--------------------------------------------------------------+ ---
The parts that are giving me the most trouble are
I have no problem requiring users to have a modern browser.
I'm aware that similar questions to this have been asked before, such as
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1717564)http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1703455)http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1717564)... and the conclusion seems to be that there isn't a good solution. Those answers are somewhat old, so I'm hoping that someone knows the trick now.
Yes, I'm aware that this appears to be trivial to accomplish using a <table>, and after "banging my head against the wall" I did actually attempt to achieve the layout using a table. Unfortunately, with this approach, I have been unable to get the center section to show scroll bars (using overflow: auto) when the content grows too large.)
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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.
Another way of making a <div> fill the remaining space is to use the CSS position property. Just set the position to “absolute” to stretch the <div>.
Use the flex-grow property to make a flex item consume free space on the main axis. This property will expand the item as much as possible, adjusting the length to dynamic environments, such as screen re-sizing or the addition / removal of other items.
Using width, max-width and margin: auto; As mentioned in the previous chapter; a block-level element always takes up the full width available (stretches out to the left and right as far as it can). Setting the width of a block-level element will prevent it from stretching out to the edges of its container.
how about THIS?
it works with konqueror (KHTML), chrome (webkit) and firefox (gecko). like anything recent, it will probably barf under IE6.
<html><body style="margin: 0; padding: 0;">
<div style="position: absolute; background: #faa;
height: 100px; top: 0px; width: 100%;">header</div>
<div style="position: absolute; background: #afa;
top: 100px; bottom: 100px; left: 0; width: 100px;">left</div>
<div style="position: absolute; background: #afa;
top: 100px; bottom: 100px; right: 0; width: 100px;">right</div>
<div style="position: absolute; background: #faa;
height: 100px; bottom: 0px; width: 100%;">footer</div>
<div style="position: absolute; background: #aaf;
bottom:100px; left: 100px;top: 100px;right: 100px; overflow: auto;">
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</body></html>
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