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layout help needed

debra
in Website Design and UX

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I am trying to build a web site.

 

I use the following:

 

"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-CA" xml:lang="EN-CA">

<head>
<title>Some title</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

</head>

<body>

<div id="branding"> ... </div>

<div id="container">
<div id="side"> ... </div>
<div id="main"> ... </div>
</div>


</body>
</html>

 

On my home page I have cutenews in "main". The "main" div expands with the contents but the "container" div doesn't, so the "main" div goes outside the "container" div.

Can I make it so the container div expands with the main div or do I have to set a height for the container div?

  • Author

thanks that has worked.

 

my style for the div is:

 

#container {

position:relative;

width:881px;

height:1100px;

left: 11px;

top: 21px;

background-color: #FFFFFF;

overflow: auto

}

 

Once the contents has gotten to the height of the container div a scroll bar appears. How do I make it so the div expands down the page and no scroll bar appears? I've tried removing the height but then everything disappears.

 

Also I have the page background as black but it doesn't show up on the live site - here

 

I played around with the tryit editor on W3school and when I removed the height the scrollbar vanised and the content stayed. Could it be something to do with my code?

Also I have the page background as black but it doesn't show up on the live site

The problem is you have an extra dash "-" in your background declaration:

 

background-: #000000;

should be:

background: #000000;

in the css just add this:

 

body{
 background-color: #00000;
}

i didn't look at the code so im not sure if thats already what you have but have made a mistake as brandon said.

in the css just add this:

 

body{
 background-color: #00000;
}

i didn't look at the code so im not sure if thats already what you have but have made a mistake as brandon said.

 

background-color --> this is right.. i think you need use float: for #main like float:right.. and #side .use float:left.. try this

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thank you the background is now the right colour.

 

I am still having problems with the container div. Once the main div gets to the height of the container div a scroll bar appears. Is this always the case or can I have it so they just continue to extend?

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