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Vertically position three elements: flexible box, scroll box & fixed box

Tags:

html

css

flexbox

Is the following even possible with css? If not, what javascript events would be used even if the green box changes content?

I'd like to vertically position three boxes:

  1. The first one (the green one) can have some variable amount of content, and the box should expand to fit the content. This box should be flush with the top of the browser.
  2. The last one, the yellow one, will have a fixed amount of content (meaning I know what the content is at 'compile time'). This box should be flush with the bottom of the browser.
  3. The middle one, the red one, will have a flexible amount of content, and should extend from the bottom of the green box to the top of the yellow box, and internally it needs to be scrollable if its content is larger than the box size.

This is what I've got so far, and it doesn't quite work - I can't seem to make the bottom of the yellow box flush with the bottom of the viewport in such a way as to let the red box take up all the extra space (i.e. position: absolute doesn't seem to help).

#container {
    float: left;
    height: 100%;
    background-color:gray;
}

#header {
    background-color: green;
}

#main {
    overflow: auto;
    background-color: red;
    height: 70%;
}

#footer {
    background-color:yellow;
}

<div id="container">
  <div id="header">START OF HEADER CONTENT...</div>
  <div id="main">Craft beer jean shorts...</div>
  <div id="footer">footer some stuff goes here</div>
</div>

And this is what it looks like:

Screenshot of the above

Here's a jsfiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/n6cmdcj3/, but note it might not help, as the html box doesn't obey the viewport size - not sure how to make it so

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Colin Avatar asked Sep 25 '22 18:09

Colin


1 Answers

This can be done fairly easily with flexbox. Check out the support tables for compatibility.

html,
body {
	width: 100%;
	height: 100%;
}

#container {
    float: left;
    height: 100%;
    background-color: purple;
    position: relative;
	display: flex;
	flex-direction: column;
}

#header {
    background-color: green;
}

#main {
    overflow: hidden;
	overflow-y: scroll;
	-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;
    background-color: red;
	flex: 1;
	flex-grow: 1;
}

#footer {
    background-color:yellow;
}
    <body>
        <div id="container">
            <div id="header">
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            </div>
            <div id="main">
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            </div>
            <div id="footer">
                footer some stuff goes here
            </div>
        </div>

    </body>
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Josh Rutherford Avatar answered Oct 11 '22 05:10

Josh Rutherford