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8.6

xhtml divs and page height

Asked by ncw in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Extensible HTML (XHTML)

Tags: div, page height, xhtml

Div's are hopeless compared with tables when it comes to fixing a page layout! It's a nightmare trying to get div's nested inside outer div's. I've got a main content div which has a white background, and I've set it's height so that the content on the homepage all appears in the white area. But for other pages if the content is more then it goes below and outside the white area, which suggests that the content on the homepage is not actually nested within the maincontent div; I want the content to expand the height of the maincontent div.

The html is below and the css is attached.

Can anyone advise please?

  
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en">
<head>
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow" />
<title>Some Title</title>
<meta name="Description" content="some description" />
<meta name="Keywords" content="some,key,words" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/stylesheet.css" />
</head>
<body>
  <div id="container">
    <div id="header">
      <ul class="tab">
	<li class="active"><a href="index.php"><span>Home</span></a></li>
	<li><a href="about.php"><span>About</span></a></li>
	<li><a href="coffee.php"><span>Coffee</span></a></li>
	<li><a href="tea.php"><span>Tea</span></a></li>
	<li><a href="coffee-machines.php"><span>Machines</span></a></li>
	<li><a href="other-coffee-products.php"><span>Other</span></a></li>
	<li><a href="coffee-product-list.php"><span>Product List</span></a></li>
	<li><a href="contact.php"><span>Contact</span></a></li>
      </ul>
    </div>
    <div id="mainContent">
<div id="leftColumn">
	<p class="intro">Welcome to ...</p>
 
	<div class="beans">
	  <img class="beans" src="images/coffee-beans.jpg" width="160" height="160" alt="Coffee Beans" title="Coffee Beans" />
	</div>
 
	<div class="quotes">
	  <p>some quote</p>
	  <p>some quote</p>
	</div>
 
 
	<p>some text.</p>
	<p>some text</p>
 
    <div class="features">
	<ul>
	  <li>feature1</li>
	  <li>feature2</li>
	</ul>
    </div>
 
    <div class="fairtrade">
      <img src="images/fairtrade.jpg" width="172" height="100" alt="Fair Trade" title="Fair Trade" />
    </div>
    <p class="clear"></p>
</div>
 
<div id="rightColumn">
  <img src="images/smartcar.jpg" alt="" title="">
  <div class="boxTop"></div>
  <div class="testimonials">
    <h2>What our customers say:</h2>
    <p>some quote</p>
    <p>some quote</p>
  </div>
  <div class="boxBottom"></div>
</div>
 
    </div>
	<div id="footer">
	  <div class="footerlinks">
		  <a href="coffee-beans.html" title="Coffee Beans">Coffee Beans</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;
		  <a href="ground-coffee.html" title="Ground Coffee">Ground Coffee</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;
		  <a href="tea-bags.html" title="Tea Bags">Tea Bags</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;
		  <a href="coffee-machines.html" title="Coffee Machines">Coffee Machines</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;
		  <a href="coffee-product-list.html" title="Coffee Product List">Product List</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;
		  <a href="about.html" title="About">About</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;
		  <a href="contact.html" title="Contact">Contact</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;
		  <a href="privacy-policy.html" title="Privacy Policy">Privacy Policy</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;
		  <a href="site-map.html" title="Site Map">Site Map</a>
	  </div>
	  <div class="contactdetails">
		Some address
	  </div>
	  <div class="contactdetails">
		t: 123456789 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; e: someone@domain.com
	  </div>
	</div>
  </div>
</body>
</html>
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