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I am attempting to make a standard website layout with a header, a navigation bar a body (on the right of the navigation bar) and a footer.
Now I have so far done this:
<!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">
<head>
<title>Test</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
.header {
float: top;
width: 100%;
height: 75px;
}
.navbar {
float: left;
width: 20%;
height: 100%;
height: 100%;
min-height:100%;
overflow: scroll;
}
.body {
float: right;
width: 80%;
height: 100%;
min-height:100%;
overflow: scroll;
}
.footer {
float: bottom;
width: 100%;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="header"> Header </div>
<div class="navbar"> Nav Bar </div>
<div class="body"> Body </div>
<div class="footer"> Footer</div>
</body>
</html>
which produces this:
Now if we check the CSS:
.navbar {
float: left;
width: 20%;
height: 100%;
min-height: 100%;
overflow: scroll;
}
.body {
float: right;
width: 80%;
height: 100%;
min-height: 100%;
overflow: scroll;
}
As you can see I have tried to set the height and min-height of both the body and nav bar to fill the remaining vertical space i.e:
Yet it doesnt affect it. However if I do height: 500px it resizes like expected (of course this now wont be very good practice as different screen sizes etc would show a different portion or view of the page):
So basically I am asking how would I be able to make the divs fill the vertical space that's left over without using some hard-coded value i.e 100px rather I would want to do it in percentages thus the page will look the same on all browsers
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Use min-height: 100vh on body , then set the parent ( body in this case) to display: flex; flex-direction: column and use flex-grow: 1 on . content for it to use the available space.
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.
You want the image to fill the container's height. A good way of doing this is setting the container to position: relative; and the child image to position: absolute; with height: 100%; . That is one way for forcing the child element to fill it's parent's height.
add this code to your body,html:
body,html{
height:100%;
}
and make your navbar <div id="navbar"> instead of <div class="navbar">
then add height: 100%; to your navbar
#navbar{
height:100%
// rest of your code
}
Same to your content call it something like content, because body is already used.
#content{
height:100%
// rest of your code
}
now all the divs will have a height of 100% so the full browser height.
EDIT: your full code would look like this:
<!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">
<head>
<title>Test</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
html, body{
padding: 0;
margin: 0 auto;
height: 100%;
}
#header {
width: 100%;
height: 75px;
}
#navbar {
float: left;
width: 20%;
height: 100%;
min-height:100%;
overflow: scroll;
}
#content {
float: right;
width: 80%;
height: 100%;
min-height:100%;
overflow: scroll;
}
#footer {
width: 100%;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="header"> Header </div>
<div id="navbar"> Nav Bar </div>
<div id="content"> Body </div>
<div id="footer"> Footer</div>
</body>
</html>
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