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Jacob Brunson
Jacob Brunson

Reputation: 1492

Converting to tableless layout

I'm currently using 1 table to align 2 main portions of the site. It's causing problems for me now, so I'd like to use pure CSS.

I have a 205px wide navbar column on the left. Occupying the rest of the space on the right, I'd like to have a container (So on the right side of the screen, taking up screen width - 200 pixels) This container would not have a fixed height, but I want its top to be aligned with the top of the navbar.

Here's a demo of what I currently have .

I would like the solution to be similar to that, but not use tables, and have the top of the container aligned with the top of the sidebar.

I've made several attempts at doing this (before I started using the table, and after) but none of them even remotely worked. I've come here as a last resort, so I hope that someone could help.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 219

Answers (2)

Viktor
Viktor

Reputation: 507

I would do something like this:

. HTML:

<div id="container">
    <aside id="sidebar">Links and whatnot</aside>
    <section id="content">Content and whatnot</section>
</div>

. CSS:

html, body {
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
}

div#container {
    height: 100%;
}

aside#sidebar {
    background-color: #f00;
    width: 205px;
    min-height: 100%;
    float: left;
}

section#content {
    background-color: #0f0;
    min-height: 100%;
}

You can see it working in this fiddle.

Upvotes: 0

Dipak
Dipak

Reputation: 12190

Fiddle 

.container{height: 100%; border: 1px solid #0f0; display: table;}
#sidebar{
    width:40%; height: 100%; display: table-cell; background: #ccc;    
}
#sidebar2{
    width:60%; height: 100%; display: table-cell; background: #f00;    
}
body, html {
    height:100%;
}

HTML

<div class="container">
  <div id="sidebar">links and whatnot go here</div>
  <div id="sidebar2">this is the container (but its top is not aligned with the sidebar as I would like)</div>    
</div>

Note: table-cell property is supported by supports IE8+

EDIT: If you can't use table-cell then you have to use some jquery to calculate height. Check this Fiddle

Upvotes: 1

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