Dynamic minimum height for body? - javascript

I have a centred fixed width content div, and if there isnt enough content (ie, an small error page) the height of it is smaller than the height of my web-browser.
This leaves the footer in the middle of the screen, the and the background of the content div not continued to the bottom. Just looking like shit.
Is there a way to force the content div to always fill the screen, if it's contents are smaller than the current screen?
I realize this might have to use javascript, but I'm not very acquainted with it.
edit: If the user re-sizes the window, I'll want it to update as-well.
edit: It looks like I can use the window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight properties

Sounds like what you want is a sticky footer, not a resize of the body.
Check out Ryan Fait's great tutorial on how to do this: http://ryanfait.com/resources/footer-stick-to-bottom-of-page/
Here's a demo of it in action: http://ryanfait.com/sticky-footer/

Check out Ryan Fait's Sticky Footer. It sounds like what you need, and is implemented in CSS. I've used a variation for several projects and it Just Works.

Use can use this,
<style>
html,body{
height:100%;
margin:0;
}
#wrapper {
min-height:80%;
}
</style>
<div id='wrapper'>
hello
</div>
<div id='footer'>
my footer
</div>

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Full background image initially fixed, then scrolls when DIV content ends

I'm trying to figure out how to have a full background image (background-size: cover) be fixed initially (the text over the image scrolls while the image stays put), but, at the moment when the user scrolls down to the end of the content (like a tall block of text), the background then scrolls up revealing a new section/div below.
For example:
<section id="top-section-with-fixed-bg">
<div class="tall-content-1500px">
<p>Text that's really tall</p>
</div>
</section>
<section id="next-section">
...
</section>
But, again, the background image is fixed until the user has scrolled down 1500px and the content for that section/div is done. At that point, the user continues to scroll and the background image scrolls up.
Not, as with parallax solutions, with the background image being covered by the next section. But the background image going up with the scroll.
I'm thinking this takes some javascript, jQuery fixing, but I'm still a bit novice with it. I'm a designer just wanting a site to look and act this certain way. I'm guessing I have to recognize the height of the content, where that ends, and then either tell the CSS to switch from fixed to scroll (without effecting the position of the image), or having the js move the image up with the scroll action.
Update: Here's a quickly tossed together jsfiddle
UPDATED UPDATE:
I think I've found the solution!
With the pointers provided in responses here, then some digging around, I have it kind of working.
I started with trying to figure out how to detect the window height. I plug that into the text/content DIV, using that value for the DIVs height. This is important, to set the container for the text to the height of the user's window, not to a specific height. Then, I set that DIV to overflow: auto (and hide the scrollbar, for aesthetics). That allowed me to set a trigger so when the end of the content in that DIV is reached, the background-attachment is changed from fixed to scroll.
And, voila! It's not perfect, and I'm sure some real javascript/jQuery experts will right my wrongs on it, but I like how far I've gotten with this so far.
I realize that the swtich from fixed to scroll is probably unnecessary. At the moment, when the switch happens, the image jumps a little to adjust to the window size and its own position, now being set to scroll. If I set the CSS originally to fixed, and make sure the content of the DIV (using padding wisely) to cover the window, as the user scrolls with the mouse the correct action will occur: text scrolls until there is no more text, then the image scrolls up.
Check it out and look forward to help and comments.
jsfiddle
have you set background-attachment:fixed;? This makes background images 'move' with the browser scroll. Be careful when it comes to devices though as this method can cause 'laggy looking sites' because there's too much render for the device (depending on image).
I personally target 'large' and 'modern' browsers with this:
#media query and (max-width:600px){
.top-section-with-fixed-bg{background-attachment:fixed;}
}
EDIT:
sorry I didn't fully understand the question. Here's some CSS to get you going
window.addEventListener('scroll',function(){
//document.body.scrollTop would be the windows scroll position.
if(document.body.scrollTop==1500px)
document.getElementById('top-section-with-fixed-bg').style.backgroundAttachment='static';
}else document.getElementById('top-section-with-fixed-bg').style.backgroundAttachment='fixed';
});
I'm very sorry but this is very basic. I'm about to finish work. The function could use a bit of sprucing up a bit like making it dynamic. This is also only native JS. So it's not all that fancy but you get the idea. When the document.body.scrollTop is at the bottom of your element. Which I'm guessing is 1500px tall? IF not use offsetHeight(). That'll give you the complete height of the element including padding and margins and I think borders as well?
I'd set your background images to background-position: fixed; then put the next background image at the bottom of the text so it overlays on top of the first div. Problem is you can't have the nice <section> structure you had going before.
<style type="text/css">
.section-with-fixed-bg {
min-height: 100%;
background-size: cover;
background-attachment: fixed;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center center;
}
#bg-1 {
background-image: url("./background-1.jpg");
}
#bg-2 {
background-image: url("./background-2.jpg");
}
#bg-2 {
background-image: url("./background-3.jpg");
}
</style>
...
<body>
<div id="bg-1" class="section-with-fixed-bg">
<p>Text that's really tall</p>
<div id="bg-2" class="section-with-fixed-bg">
<p>Next section of text that's really tall.</p>
<div id="bg-3" class="section-with-fixed-bg">
<p>Next section of text that's really tall.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
I haven't tested this but it should cause the new image to overlap the old one, at least in theory.

Make div fixed only inside another scrollable div

I have the page with structure something like this:
<div id="header"></div>
<div id="messages"></div>
<div class="content">
<div id="sidebar"></div>
<div id="content"></div>
<div id="other_stuff"></div>
</div>
Header is the header of the page.
Messages div is the place where I push messages. Sometimes it filled, sometimes it empty.
Sidebar is navigation menu.
Content is a long scrollable div.
And other stuff is other stuff.
I need to make sidebar be fixed in the page on the left side when content are scrolled. But sidebar should never overlay messages and header.
In other words, when I scroll down the page, header and messages are scrolled with content normally. But when I scroll up the page, sidebar should't overlay messages and header div's.
I've used CSS property position: fixed; for this but with this property sidebar overlays messages. How can I fix this with CSS and javascript/jQuery?
If I got you right, you want the sidebar to be fixed starting from a particular point.
This can be achieved through the jQuery. There are many ways, at least 3 I know. Here is the pure jQuery version i use in the cases like that (if you don't want to embed other external JS libraries)
jQuery(document).ready(function ($) {
$fixed_id = $('#Mod128, #Mod190'); //classess or IDs of the modules you want to stick
$(window).scroll(function(){
if($(window).scrollTop()>254) //amount of pixels from the top of the viewport when the sticky styles applied
{
$fixed_id.css({position:"fixed", top:0, width:"18%"}); //sticky styles items when scroll to a particular place
}
});
});
Other ways of doing that are using other JS libraries, I know 2 of them:
1) jQuery Waypoints
2) stickyjs.com
Hope that helps.
Its good if you can make jsfiddle of it or else I think something like below code can help you.
Fix height of your header and messages and give margin to the sidebar with total height of you header and messages.
#header, #messages {
height:3em;
}
.content #sidebar {
position:fixed;
margin-top:3em;
width:5em;
}
.content #content,.content #other_stuff{
width:3em;
margin-left:5em;
}

How to Automatically adjust width in CSS so horizontal scrollbars would adjust automatically without taking so much space?

I'm looking for a way to adjust width of a list inside a container (500px, 200px) automatically. What I want to achieve is something like this
fiddle
But the problem with it is that you need to set the width of the list so that horizontal scrollbars would appear. Is there a work around for it so that the scrollbars would only take enough space?
try this:
#container ul {white-space: nowrap;}

How do I know if my content takes up the whole page vertically?

I have a site that I've been working on the the past couple of weeks. I have a very nice footer on it, problem is, it doesn't stay at the bottom. I've come up with a simple solution.
If the page isn't completely filled (i.e. the content only goes half way down), absolute position the footer to the bottom.
If the page is overflowing (vertically), leave the footer as just another element.
Problem is, I don't know how to check if my content is overfilled. Is there a way to check if the document fills up all the space vertically? The only thing I can think of is to check to see if the vertical scroll-bar is enabled, however, I don't know how to check for that either.
I'm using jQuery, answers with it are fine. Thanks!
EDIT
OK, my question was apparently misunderstood. Sorry guys, I don't need solutions on how to keep my footer at the bottom. I need ways of determining if data overflows on the y-axis. I happened to mention my reason why I needed to know this. Don't make me regret this guys :p
I've used this successfully many times over: http://cssstickyfooter.com. No JavaScript needed at all.
Using jQuery, $(window).height() is how you get the height of the viewport. You can check this value against your content's height:
if($("#content").height() > $(window).height()) {
// absolute position my footer
}
Use the Sticky Footer technique like Matt posted.
The basic idea of it is that you set a static height for your footer. Make your webpage take up the full height of the browser. Push the footer off the screen from the #content div, and then move the footer back onto the page with a negative margin value.
It's hard to answer without seeing your HTML, but if you are using jquery just use outerHeight to get the vertical size of the elements on your page and compare it to window.height
You could apply the css clearfix trick. As stated it is hard with out seeing your code. Even still this could work.
Example:
<html>
<style>
.clearfix:after {
content: ".";
display: block;
height: 0;
clear: both;
visibility: hidden;
}
</style>
<body>
<div id="content" class="clearfix">
</div>
<div id="footer">
</div>
</body>
</html>
This helps to keep content from overflowing and should keep your footer at the bottom or below your content.

Relative Positioning at bottom of the screen issue with Flex and different browsers

I have a flex component like this:
<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
...
width="100%"
height="100%"
creationComplete="init()">
.......
<components:NavigationBar id="nagivationBar"
left="0" bottom="0" />
This is supposed to show at the bottom left of the screen considering that parent container fills the screen.
The behaviour I just described shows perfectly with Safari
with Chrome it shows correctly if the download bar beneath is not visible but as soon as the download bar has something it covers the bottom part of it.
and FireFox seems to always hide like 50 pixels or so from the bottom of the screen.
It seems like every browser renders the 100% height in its own way.
What is your recommended best way to overcome this? I can add a 100 pixel margin at the bottom but it's not something I want to do in this application.
Try something like this in the <head></head> section of the HTML page that loads your Flex Application:
<style type="text/css">
html, body{
width: 100%; /* make the body expand to fill the visible window */
height: 100%;
padding: 0 0 0 0;
margin: 0 0 0 0;
overflow: hidden;
}
</style>
Not sure it will help in your case but it's easy to try.
You could wrap the output in a containing <div>, then using YUI's getClientRegion, and a resize event for good measure, set the containing div's CSS height property to the value which YUI has determined the available viewport vertical space.
Sorry the solution is an outside-of-Flex one, but it'll work.
Edit: I meant 'getViewportHeight()' not 'getClientRegion()', sorry, check out the APi docs though, there's plenty of goodies in there for this sort of stuff.
Flex is just a flash component in a web page. Its size depends of what is outside of flex. I don't think you'll get a proper answer unless you post HTML/JS code surrounding flex app.
PS. From my experience working with browser height may be very troublesome.
this normally happens when you have one or more positioning elements in a page. Check your code to see if you have used the position element anywhere else in your code, if so are they different, i.e one relative and the other absolute, if so this could be your problem, its reccomended that they are all the same, ie all relative

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