Tuesday, February 12, 2013

CSS and Filling the Full Height of your Page

I'd posted on Stack Overflow on this topic a while ago and wanted to address it again. My initial post wasn't very good, so I've used JSBin to correct this.

http://jsbin.com/onubed/1/


In case that link dies... 

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset=utf-8 />
<title>JS Bin</title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="heading">
<h1>My Heading</h1>
</div>
<div class="content"><div class="height-third">
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</div>
<div class="height-third">
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</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>


CSS

*{
  box-sizing: border-box;
}

.heading{
  background-color: #FDD;
  position: relative;
}
.content{
  top: 100px;
  background-color: #DFD;
  bottom: 0px;
  position: absolute;
  min-height: 200px;
}

.height-third{
  position: relative;
  height: 33%;
  overflow: hidden;
  background-color: #DDF;
}