Trouble in river city with CSS
-
19-09-2019 - |
Question
Ok here is the site:
If you view the source for the HTML and CSS you can see that I have set the height of the div in the middle to 100% and given it an overflow property value of hidden, it is called "main_content". I realized that the height value is having no effect on what is displayed, the overflow value of hidden is allowing the background color of the main_content div to extend down to the footer. I guess I am wondering what the best way for me to achieve a variable div height on each page or "main_content" while maintaining the background color. Am I doing this the right way or am I using some kind of css hack that is not the proper way to do it. All insight is welcome. Make sure to take a look at the source HTML and CSS before giving me an answer.
Solution
The easiest solution would be to assign the background color to your body
element. Something like this:
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
width:100%;
height:100%;
background-color:#cccccc;
}
This will also eliminate the few pixel white border around the edges, if you want to maintain that, take out the margin
and padding
declarations.
OTHER TIPS
I might have misunderstood what you want, but try this:
Replace div#intro_container with:
div#intro_container {
width:830px;
margin:auto;
overflow: hidden;
background-color:#333333;
}
And remove the height property from div#messagebox.
I prefer to do in this way:
In the content of div 'main-content', add
In your case it was
<div id="main_content">
<div id="navigation">..</div>
<div id="intro_container">..</div>
</div>
It cam be rewritten as
<div id="main_content">
<div id="navigation">..</div>
<div id="intro_container">..</div>
<div style="clear:both"></div>
</div>
AFAIK This is a standard way to achieve what are you doing.