Question

Div is getting pushed at the bottom when resizing winodw

Asked by: matthew016

Hi,

I have a menu on the left,
then I placed a content next to this menu (#content div) with a left margin to put it next to it.

When the window is maximized  there is no problem,
but when u resize the window in smaller window,
the content is pushed at the bottom,
Try my sample code :

<html><head><title>Test</title></head>
<style>
      *{margin:0px;padding:0px;}
      #container {
            background-color:red;
      }
      #menu {
            width:180 px;
            height:800px;
            background-color:blue;
            float:left;
      }
      #content {
            background-color:yellow;
      }
</style>
<body>
<div id="container">
      
      <div id="menu">aaaa</div>
      
      <div id="content">
            <form method="post" action="myAction.php"">
                  <p>
                  <select size="5" name="collection" style="width: 500px" id="idCollectionSelect">
                        <option value="test 1">Test 1
                        <option value="test 2">Test 2
                        <option value="test 3">Test 3
                  </select>
                  <br/>
                  <input value="Test" type="submit"/>
                  </p>
            </form>
      </div>
      
</div></body></html>

So this is not very ergonomic ....

Related to the question, why can't I see the red background color of #container ?

(TName told me a div parent doesn't fit its children divs if they are all floated,
but in my case the #content div isn't floated)


Thank u for any help .

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2007-03-30 at 07:13:33ID22482787
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Answers

 

by: ArgblatPosted on 2007-03-30 at 07:43:21ID: 18823737

To stop your elements from getting pushed to the bottom add white-space: nowrap to your #container element

#container {
     background-color:red;
     white-space: nowrap;
}

You can't see the red background of #container because #menu and #content have their own colors and are sitting on top of (blocking out) #container

Try removing the background color from #content and you will see that the red shines through

 

by: klykkenPosted on 2007-03-30 at 07:45:45ID: 18823762

Hi matthew,
If you float elements like this you can stop elements from being pushed down by setting width on the main control div (container). You can change the width of #container of this to suite your taste.

You couldn't see the red background because one of the elements was floated. To fix this I added a div with style to clear the floats.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Test Matthew</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<style type="text/css">
<!--
* { margin:0px; padding:0px; }
#container { background-color:red; width: 760px; }
#menu { width: 180px; height: 800px; background-color: blue; float: left; }
#content { background-color:yellow; }
.clearer {
 height:1px;
 overflow:hidden;
 margin-top:-1px;
 clear:both;
 display: block;
}      
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
      <div id="menu">aaaa</div>
  <div id="content">
        <form method="post" action="myAction.php"">
          <p>
            <select size="5" name="collection" style="width: 500px" id="idCollectionSelect">
              <option value="test 1">Test 1
          <option value="test 2">Test 2
          <option value="test 3">Test 3
         </select>
                        <br>
                        <input value="Test" type="submit"/>
                  </p>
            </form>
      </div>
      <div class="clearer"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

-klykken

 

by: TNamePosted on 2007-03-30 at 07:58:15ID: 18823876

>You couldn't see the red background because one of the elements was floated

Yes, and the solution is indeed to clear the float at the bottom.
But let me explain the problem with the red background in greater detail, because it's important and it doesn't seem to be clear yet.

You have a wrapper containing a tall floated element and a short non-floated one. The parent will expand to hold the non-floated element, but not one single pixel more. And there the red background of the container is hidden by the yellow background of content (as Argblat correctly stated). If you want the parent to hold both, then you have to clear the float at the bottom.
Remember, in order for the parent to atretch to contain all it's children, the last/tallest/highest has to be non-floated...

 

by: TNamePosted on 2007-03-30 at 07:59:17ID: 18823883

atretch = stretch

 

by: matthew016Posted on 2007-04-03 at 02:56:59ID: 18842167

Hi,
sorry for the late response,
I justed tested it :

@Argblat:
 white-space: nowrap; in #container   doesn't work,
my content is getting pushed at the bottom.

@klykken:
but I want the #container to be stretched for the viewport's width.

@TName
Thank u for the nice explanations on the background

 

by: klykkenPosted on 2007-04-03 at 04:21:36ID: 18842450

>but I want the #container to be stretched for the viewport's width.
You did not mention that. I'll see what I can do.

 

by: TNamePosted on 2007-04-03 at 08:19:34ID: 18843988

Guess I should have posted this 4 days ago, but I thought klykken's solution is identical to mine, so I didn't. Try this:


<html><head><title>Test</title></head>
<style>
      *{margin:0px;padding:0px;}
      #container {
            background-color:red;
      }
      #menu {
            width:180 px;
            height:800px;
            background-color:blue;
            float:left;
      }
      #content {
            background-color:yellow;
      }
</style>
<body>
<div id="container">
     
      <div id="menu">aaaa</div>
     
      <div id="content">
            <form method="post" action="myAction.php"">
                  <p>
                  <select size="5" name="collection" style="width: 500px" id="idCollectionSelect">
                        <option value="test 1">Test 1
                        <option value="test 2">Test 2
                        <option value="test 3">Test 3
                  </select>
                  <br/>
                  <input value="Test" type="submit"/>
                  </p>
            </form>
      </div>
<div style="clear:both"></div>
     
</div></body></html>

 

by: TNamePosted on 2007-04-03 at 09:23:38ID: 18844625


Sorry, that was the wrong one.
This is what I meant, it only works in FF - but the reason I wanted to post it is that the original post states:

"then I placed a content next to this menu (#content div) with a left margin to put it next to it."

I couldn't find that margin, and that margin is exactly what's missing for FF!


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

<html><head><title>Test</title></head>
<style>
      *{margin:0px;padding:0px;}
      #container {
            background-color:red;
      }
      #menu {
            width:180px;     /*  corrected typo, space before "px"  */
            height:800px;
            background-color:blue;
            float:left;
      }
      #content {
            background-color:yellow;
            margin-left:180px;              /*  added margin  */
      }
</style>
<body>
<div id="container">
     
      <div id="menu">aaaa</div>
     
      <div id="content">
            <form method="post" action="myAction.php"">
                  <p>
                  <select size="5" name="collection" style="width: 500px" id="idCollectionSelect">
                        <option value="test 1">Test 1
                        <option value="test 2">Test 2
                        <option value="test 3">Test 3
                  </select>
                  <br/>
                  <input value="Test" type="submit"/>
                  </p>
            </form>
      </div>
<div style="clear:both"></div>
     
</div></body></html>

 

by: TNamePosted on 2007-04-03 at 09:26:28ID: 18844648

Another possibility - works in FF and IE6 -  position the menu absolutely instead of floating it:


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

<html><head><title>Test</title>
<style>
html,body{width:100%;}

      *{margin:0px;padding:0px;}
      #container {
            background-color:red;
            height:800px;
      }
      #menu {
            width:180px;
            height:800px;
            background-color:blue;            
            position:absolute;
            top:0;
      }
      #content {
            background-color:yellow;            
            margin-left:180px;
      }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">            
      <div id="content">
            <form method="post" action="myAction.php"">
                  <p>
                  <select size="5" name="collection" style="width: 500px" id="idCollectionSelect">
                        <option value="test 1">Test 1
                        <option value="test 2">Test 2
                        <option value="test 3">Test 3
                  </select>
                  <br/>
                  <input value="Test" type="submit"/>
                  </p>
            </form>
      </div>
<div id="menu">aaaa</div>  
</div></body></html>

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