CSS position absolute and full width problem

Question

i have 2 divs and a dl:

<div id="wrap">  <div id="header">   <dl id="site_nav_global_primary"> 

and this is my style:

#wrap {     margin:0 auto;     width:100%;     min-width:760px;     max-width:1003px;     overflow:hidden; }  #header {     width:100%;     position:relative;     float:left;     padding-top:18px;     margin-bottom:29px; }  #site_nav_global_primary {         float:right;     margin-right:18px;     margin-bottom:11px;     margin-left:18px; } 

Now i want to change site_nav_global_primary to have a full screen width without changing the wrap and the header. but when i try:

#site_nav_global_primary {         position: absolute;     width:100%;     top:0px;     left:0px; } 

The navigation gets the 100% of the wrapper which is max 1003px width. i want it to stretch to the maximum without changing the wrap and header divs.

Is this possible?

Answer 1

You could set both left and right property to 0. This will make the div stretch to the document width, but requires that no parent element is positioned (which is not the case, seeing as #header is position: relative;)

#site_nav_global_primary {         position: absolute;     top: 0;     left: 0;     right: 0; } 

Demo at: http://jsfiddle.net/xWnq2/, where I removed position:relative; from #header

Answer 2

You need to add position:relative to #wrap element.

When you add this, all child elements will be positioned in this element, not browser window.