Create a scrolling div between two fixed div elements

Question

I\'m kind of new to positioning divs how I want them in a website, so I hope someone can help here. What I\'m trying to get is a sandwich-type set up with a scrolling content i

Answer 1

If you set your header and footer divs to fixed, you can make a main div for your content which will scroll the way you want it to.

Answer 2

Simply set the height of the consecutive elements to equal 100% and set your content DIV to scroll on the Y-axis:

<header>
    <h1>Sandwich Layout</h1>
</header>
<div id="main" role="main">

</div>
<footer>
    Footer stuff here
</footer>

html,
body { height: 100%; margin: 0; padding: 0; } /* This is important */

header,
footer { background: #ccc; height:20%; }

#main { height: 60%; overflow-y:scroll; }

Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/kboucher/3E8Gg/

2020 UPDATE:

HTML:

<header>
    <h1>Sandwich Layout</h1>
</header>
<div class="main" role="main">
  <div class="fake-height">Content here</div>
</div>
<footer>
    Footer stuff here
</footer>

CSS:

body,
html {
  height: 100vh;
  overflow: hidden;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

body {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
}

header,
footer {
  background: #eee;
  padding: 1rem;
}

.main {
  flex: 1 0 auto;
  height: 0; // prevents flex box expanding out of view-height
  overflow-y: auto;
  padding: 1rem;

  .fake-height {
    height: 1000px;
  }
}

https://codepen.io/kboucher/pen/dyomxWN