I am currently working on a web application, where I want the content to fill the height of the entire screen.
The page has a header, which contains a logo, and account information. This could be an arbitrary height. I want the content div to fill the rest of the page to the bottom.
I have a header div
and a content div
. At the moment I am using a table for the layout like so:
CSS and HTML
#page {
height: 100%; width: 100%
}
#tdcontent {
height: 100%;
}
#content {
overflow: auto; /* or overflow: hidden; */
}
<table id="page">
<tr>
<td id="tdheader">
<div id="header">...</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td id="tdcontent">
<div id="content">...</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
The entire height of the page is filled, and no scrolling is required.
For anything inside the content div, setting top: 0;
will put it right underneath the header. Sometimes the content will be a real table, with it's height set to 100%. Putting header
inside content
will not allow this to work.
Is there a way to achieve the same effect without using the table
?
Update:
Elements inside the content div
will have heights set to percentages as well. So something at 100% inside the div
will fill it to the bottom. As will two elements at 50%.
Update 2:
For instance, if the header takes up 20% of the screen's height, a table specified at 50% inside #content
would take up 40% of the screen space. So far, wrapping the entire thing in a table is the only thing that works.
There's a ton of answers now, but I found using height: 100vh; to work on the div element that needs to fill up the entire vertical space available.
In this way, I do not need to play around with display or positioning. This came in handy when using Bootstrap to make a dashboard wherein I had a sidebar and a main. I wanted the main to stretch and fill the entire vertical space so that I could apply a background colour.
Supports IE9 and up: click to see the link
For mobile app i use only VH and VW
Demo - https://jsfiddle.net/u763ck92/
The original post is more than 3 years ago. I guess many people who come to this post like me are looking for an app-like layout solution, say a somehow fixed header, footer, and full height content taking up the rest screen. If so, this post may help, it works on IE7+, etc.
http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2011/10/05/full-height-app-layouts-a-css-trick-to-make-it-easier/
And here are some snippets from that post:
Try this
Instead of using tables in the markup, you could use CSS tables.
Markup
(Relevant) CSS
FIDDLE1 and FIDDLE2
Some advantages of this method are:
1) Less markup
2) Markup is more semantic than tables, because this is not tabular data.
3) Browser support is very good: IE8+, All modern browsers and mobile devices (caniuse)
Just for completeness, here are the equivalent Html elements to css properties for the The CSS table model
solved the problem for me. In my case I applied this to the required div