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I've been playing with this code for almost half of the day and I finally decided to pass it on to you. I would like to place three div elements next to each other with the left and right ones surrounding the main one. I would like both of the outer divs to contain only a background image and hence take on the same height as the middle div. I've been playing with solutions from other posts like this, but all of my tries were unsuccessful.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="pl" lang="pl">
<head>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="left"></div>
<div id="content">
<p> Lorem ipsum dolor<br/><br/>sit amet<br/><br/>consectetur adipiscing elit</p>
</div>
<div id="right"></div>
</div>
</body>
CSS:
body {
text-align: center;
}
div#container {
width: 954px;
margin: 0px auto;
height: 100%;
border: 1px solid lime;
overflow: hidden;
position: relative;
}
div#left {
margin: 0px auto;
width: 5px;
border: 1px solid red;
float: left;
display: block;
}
div#right {
margin: 0px auto;
width: 5px;
float: left;
border: 1px solid blue;
}
div#content {
width: 920px;
margin: 0px auto;
text-align: left;
background: #ffffff;
padding: 0px 10px;
float: left;
}
p {
font: normal 16px/18px 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;
margin: 20px 0px;
}
Thanks in advance for your help.
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You'll need to add height: 100% to your body and html tags, as well as your div classes:
html {
height: 100%; /* <------------ */
}
body {
text-align: center;
height: 100%; /* <------------ */
}
div#container {
width: 954px;
margin: 0px auto;
height: 100%;
border: 1px solid lime;
overflow: hidden;
position: relative;
}
div#left {
margin: 0px auto;
width: 5px;
border: 1px solid red;
float: left;
display: block;
height: 100%; /* <------------ */
}
div#right {
margin: 0px auto;
width: 5px;
float: left;
border: 1px solid blue;
height: 100%; /* <------------ */
}
div#content {
width: 920px;
margin: 0px auto;
text-align: left;
background: #ffffff;
padding: 0px 10px;
float: left;
height: 100%; /* <------------ */
}
I know this doesn't really answer your question, but I tend to prefer a method that uses position:relative on the parent and position:absolute on the capping elements. This guarantees that a dynamically changing box will not throw off your layout. I also like to use the :before :after attributes (IE 8+) because of semantic reasons, but you can use child elements instead. Works just as fine. I also threw in box-sizing (FF needs -moz syntax) so the borders don't look fugly. (probably not necessary in a production setting as your would be using a background instead).
And now, the code!
div#container:before {
content:"";
width: 5px;
border: 1px solid red;
display: block;
position:absolute;
height:100%;
left:0px;
top:0px;
box-sizing:border-box; /* careful... FF needs -moz if you need that compatibility */
}
div#container:after {
content:"";
width: 5px;
border: 1px solid blue;
display: block;
position:absolute;
height:100%;
right:0px;
top:0px;
box-sizing:border-box;
}
<div id="container">
<div id="content">
<p> Lorem ipsum dolor<br/><br/>sit amet<br/><br/>consectetur adipiscing elit</p>
</div>
</div>
http://jsfiddle.net/f7yL6/
http://jsfiddle.net/f7yL6/show
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