I have a wrapper div which contans 2 divs next to each other. Above this container I have a div that contains my header. The wrapper div must be 100% minus the height of the
Here is a working css, tested under Firefox / IE7 / Safari / Chrome / Opera.
* {margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:hidden}
div {position:absolute}
div#header {top:0px;left:0px;right:0px;height:60px}
div#wrapper {top:60px;left:0px;right:0px;bottom:0px;}
div#left {top:0px;bottom:0px;left:0px;width:50%;overflow-y:auto}
div#right {top:0px;bottom:0px;right:0px;width:50%;overflow-y:auto}
"overflow-y" is not w3c-approved, but every major browser supports it. Your two divs #left and #right will display a vertical scrollbar if their content is too high.
For this to work under IE7, you have to trigger the standards-compliant mode by adding a DOCTYPE :
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<style type="text/css">
*{margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:hidden}
div{position:absolute}
div#header{top:0px;left:0px;right:0px;height:60px}
div#wrapper{top:60px;left:0px;right:0px;bottom:0px;}
div#left{top:0px;bottom:0px;left:0px;width:50%;overflow-y:auto}
div#right{top:0px;bottom:0px;right:0px;width:50%;overflow-y:auto}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="header"></div>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="left"><div style="height:1000px">high content</div></div>
<div id="right"></div>
</div>
</body>
In this example you can identify different areas:
<html>
<style>
#divContainer {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
#divHeader {
position: absolute;
left: 0px;
top: 0px;
right: 0px;
height: 28px;
background-color:blue;
}
#divContentArea {
position: absolute;
left: 0px;
top: 30px;
right: 0px;
bottom: 30px;
}
#divContentLeft {
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
width: 200px;
bottom: 0px;
background-color:red;
}
#divContentCenter {
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
left: 200px;
bottom: 0px;
right:200px;
background-color:yellow;
}
#divContentRight {
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
right: 0px;
bottom: 0px;
width:200px;
background-color:red;
}
#divFooter {
position: absolute;
height: 28px;
left: 0px;
bottom: 0px;
right: 0px;
background-color:blue;
}
</style>
<body >
<div id="divContainer">
<div id="divHeader"> top
</div>
<div id="divContentArea">
<div id="divContentLeft">left
</div>
<div id="divContentCenter">center
</div>
<div id="divContentRight">right
</div>
</div>
<div id="divFooter">bottom
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Use an outer wrapper div set to 100% and then your inner wrapper div 100% should be now relative to that.
I thought for sure this used to work for me, but apparently not:
<html>
<body>
<div id="outerwrapper" style="border : 1px solid red ; height : 100%">
<div id="header" style="border : 1px solid blue ; height : 60px"></div>
<div id="wrapper" style="border : 1px solid green ; height : 100% ; overflow : scroll ;">
<div id="left" style="height : 100% ; width : 50% ; overflow : scroll; float : left ; clear : left ;">Some text
on the left</div>
<div id="right" style="height : 100% ; width 50% ; overflow : scroll; float : left ;">Some Text on the
right</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
In CSS3 you could use
height: calc(100% - 60px);
I haven't seen anything like this posted yet, but I thought I'd put it out there.
<div class="main">
<header>Header</header>
<div class="content">Content</div>
Then CSS:
body, html {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
.main {
height: 100%;
padding-top: 50px;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
header {
height: 50px;
margin-top: -50px;
width: 100%;
background-color: #5078a5;
}
.content {
height: 100%;
background-color: #999999;
}
Here is a working jsfiddle
Note: I have no idea what the browser compatability is for this. I was just playing around with alternate solutions and this seemed to work well.