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Get div to take up 100% body height, minus fixed-height header and footer [duplicate]
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Wrapped in a pageWrapper
container, I have 3 divs in a column. First (header) and last (navWrapper) have fixed heights. I need the middle one (contentWrapper
) to stretch in height until the parent div pageWrapper reaches the maximum height (according to the browser's viewport).
I draw the schema of this problem.
Here is a fiddle of my current solution.
http://jsfiddle.net/xp6tG/
and here the code
CSS and HTML
html, body{
height: 100%;
}
body{
background-color: #E3E3E3;
}
#pageWrapper{
margin: 0 auto;
position: relative;
width: 600px;
height: 100%;
}
header{
display:block;
width: 100%;
height: 100px;
background: yellow;
}
#contentWrapper{
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
background: blue;
}
#navWrapper{
width: 100%;
height: 100px;
background: green;
}
<div id="pageWrapper">
<header>
Header
</header>
<div id="contentWrapper">
Content
</div>
<div id="navWrapper">
Nav
</div>
</div>
It is almost working, but it results in too high height, which causes that a vertical scrollbar appears.
Here is one way of doing it.
Apply the following CSS:
html, body{ height: 100%; margin: 0;}
body{ background-color: #e3e3e3;}
#pagewrapper{
margin: 0 auto;
position: relative;
width: 600px;
height: 100%;
}
header{
display:block;
width: 100%;
height: 100px;
background: yellow;
}
#contentwrapper{
width: 100%;
position: absolute;
top: 100px;
bottom: 100px;
left: 0;
background: blue;
}
#navwrapper{
width: 100%;
position: absolute;
height: 100px;
bottom: 0px;
left: 0;
background: green;
}
Since you specified heights for the header
and #navwrapper
block elements,
you can use absolute positioning with respect to the parent #pagewrapper
block
to set the bottom and top offsets for #contentwrapper
and the bottom offset for
#navwrapper
.
If you see a scroll bar, you may need to set margin: 0
for either the html
and/or body
tags.
Demo fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/audetwebdesign/yUs6r/
You can try adding this script in your section after your CSS is called. It will find the heights of your head/foot elements and make the height in the center div fill the screen. This is good because if you decide to make your header/footer elements heights dynamic this script will still work.
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.1.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
var totalHeight = $('#pageWrapper').height();
totalHeight -= $('header').height();
totalHeight -= $('#navWrapper').height();
// Remove an extra 20px for good measure
totalHeight -= 10;
$('#contentWrapper').css('height', 'auto');
$('#contentWrapper').css('min-height', totalHeight);
});
</script>