Question

CSS overflow problem

Asked by: mms_master

Hi,

I have a div with "max-height: 800px; overflow: auto;". It's contents are less than 800px high but it's still showing a scroll bar and clipping the bottom of it's contents.

In the attached picture the green outline is the div with max height and overflow set. The green dashed line is a ruler I've used to measure the current height of the div (which is 684px... why? max is 800px...). You can see that the bottom of the red outline on the second row has been clipped and the scroll bar is visible.

The contents of the div are using margins and floats, don't know if this has anything to do with it.

Thanks in advance,

mms_master

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CSS
==============================================================================
div#PicContainer {
			margin: 0;
			padding: 0 61px;
			text-align: center;
			max-height: 800px;
			overflow: auto;
			
		}
		
		div.AlbumPic {
			float: left;
			margin: 10px 10px 0px 0px;
			text-align: center;
			border: solid 1px #999999;
			
			width: 200px;
			height: 200px;
		}
		
		img.AlbumPic {
			border: none;
			max-height: 200px;
			max-width: 200px;
			
		}
 
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HTML
==============================================================================
<div id='AlbumContainer'>
	<a href='album.php?id=2'>
		<div class='Album'>
			<a href='album.php?id=2'>
				<img class='AlbumThumb' src='images/albums/2/thumb.jpg' />
			</a>
		</div>
	</a>
	<a href='album.php?id=3'>
		<div class='Album'>
			<a href='album.php?id=3'>
				<img class='AlbumThumb' src='images/albums/3/thumb.jpg' />
			</a>
		</div>
	</a>
	<a href='album.php?id=4'>
		<div class='Album'>
			<a href='album.php?id=4'>
				<img class='AlbumThumb' src='images/albums/4/thumb.jpg' />
			</a>
		</div>
	</a>
	<div class='Clear'></div>
	<a href='album.php?id=5'>
		<div class='Album'>
			<a href='album.php?id=5'>
				<img class='AlbumThumb' src='images/albums/5/thumb.jpg' />
			</a>
		</div>
	</a>
	<div class='Clear'></div>
</div>

                                  
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Asked On
2009-06-03 at 14:28:48ID24461770
Tags

css

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overflow

,

scroll

,

scrollbar

Topics

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

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Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

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Answers

 

by: ITGaWDPosted on 2009-06-03 at 14:32:24ID: 24541578

change overflow to hidden or visible and maybe change height to auto so that the div will extend with content, this would work best with overflow: visible

 

by: KravimirPosted on 2009-06-03 at 16:32:28ID: 24542438

The code you posted doesn't seem to show the problem you described.

By the way, your code has errors. A <div> may not be placed inside a <a> and neither is an <a> allowed inside another <a>.

 

by: mms_masterPosted on 2009-06-04 at 01:18:15ID: 24544541

@ITGaWD

The example given doesn't contain many albums. But when it's finished it will. The site is written with PHP, I usually create pages with x albums per page. But I wanted to try to create a similar effect to the image search at bing.com.

@Kravimir

Maybe the error is caused by something else on the page. I will have to post the rest of the page when I get home. Thanks for the info regarding the links. What I'm attempting to do is set a background on the div's with red outlines, then I'm going to put another div below the image which will contain the album title. I want to make the div and everything inside it clickable, so the user can click anywhere and not just on the image and title. Is there any way I can do this?

I'm in work at the moment, I will post the rest of the source code later.

Thanks,

mms_master

 

by: mms_masterPosted on 2009-06-04 at 11:20:18ID: 24549801

I've uploaded my css file along with the full html for the album page.

Rename problem.txt to problem.html
Rename style.txt to style.css

Thanks,

mms_master

 

by: KravimirPosted on 2009-06-08 at 23:41:18ID: 24578629

I see the problem in IE7 now.  Giving div#AlbumContainer padding-bottom:20px is the only thing that seems to fix it.


P.S. IDs should be unique. The same ID should not be used for multiple elements in the same document. Use a class instead.

 

by: mms_masterPosted on 2009-06-09 at 11:53:30ID: 24584356

Thanks for getting back to me. The padding does fix it, although there must be something causing it; margins on something else maybe?

As for the ID's, which one have I used for multiple elements? I didn't realise I had.

Thanks,

mms_master

 

by: mms_masterPosted on 2009-06-11 at 15:14:43ID: 31588535

Thanks

 

by: KravimirPosted on 2009-06-13 at 23:26:27ID: 24622048

You're welcome.

You gave 11 elements the ID of "NavButton".

It turns out the problem was caused by the div.Clear rule. Use this one instead:

div.Clear {
	clear: both;
	float: none;
	/* some older browsers require the element to have a height of at least 1px */
	height: 1px;
	margin: -1px 0 0;
	padding: 0;
	overflow:hidden; /* for IE5-7 */
}

                                              
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