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Maysam
Maysam

Reputation: 7367

CSS: Auto resize div to fit container width

I have two <div>: left and contents. These two are inside wrapper div that has min-width:960px;. left has fixed width, but I want to make content flexible with min width of 700px and if screen is wider, stick it to the right bound of screen.
screenshot

CSS:

#wrapper
{
    min-width:960px;
    margin-left:auto;
    margin-right:auto;
}
#left
{
    width:200px;
    float:left;
    background-color:antiquewhite;
    margin-left:10px;
}
#content
{
    min-width:700px;
    margin-left:10px;
    width:auto;
    float:left;
    background-color:AppWorkspace;
}

JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/Zvt2j/

Upvotes: 18

Views: 186659

Answers (6)

David Spector
David Spector

Reputation: 1671

If what you want is to set the width of a div to whatever the width of its container block would be if the div did not exist, simply use width: 100%;. Here, 100% means "the same as the container's full width".

Example:

<div id=container>
  <div id=itemWithWidth></div>
  <div id=itemToGrow></div>
</div

#container {display:inline-block}
#itemWithWidth {width:333px; height:20px; background-color: #00f;}
#itemToGrow {width:100%; height:20px; background-color: #0ff;}

ItemToGrow is a bar displayed with the same width as its sibling, itemWithWidth.

Upvotes: 0

Serj Sagan
Serj Sagan

Reputation: 30208

#wrapper
{
    min-width:960px;
    margin-left:auto;
    margin-right:auto;
    position-relative;
}
#left
{
    width:200px;
    position: absolute;
    background-color:antiquewhite;
    margin-left:10px;
    z-index: 2;
}
#content
{
    padding-left:210px;
    width:100%;
    background-color:AppWorkspace;
    position: relative;
    z-index: 1;
}

If you need the whitespace on the right of #left, then add a border-right: 10px solid #FFF; to #left and add 10px to the padding-left in #content

Upvotes: 2

Lucas Lazaro
Lucas Lazaro

Reputation: 1526

You could use css3 flexible box, it would go like this:

First your wrapper is wrapping a lot of things so you need a wrapper just for the 2 horizontal floated boxes:

 <div id="hor-box"> 
    <div id="left">
        left
      </div>
    <div id="content">
       content
    </div>
</div>

And your css3 should be:

#hor-box{   
  display: -webkit-box;
  display: -moz-box;
  display: box;

 -moz-box-orient: horizontal;
 box-orient: horizontal; 
 -webkit-box-orient: horizontal;

}  
#left   {
      width:200px;
      background-color:antiquewhite;
      margin-left:10px;

     -webkit-box-flex: 0;
     -moz-box-flex: 0;
     box-flex: 0;  
}  
#content   {
      min-width:700px;
      margin-left:10px;
      background-color:AppWorkspace;

     -webkit-box-flex: 1;
     -moz-box-flex: 1;
      box-flex: 1; 
}

Upvotes: 5

Morpheus
Morpheus

Reputation: 9065

I have updated your jsfiddle and here is CSS changes you need to do:

#content
{
    min-width:700px;
    margin-right: -210px;
    width:100%;
    float:left;
    background-color:AppWorkspace;
}

Upvotes: 1

sandeep
sandeep

Reputation: 92803

You can overflow:hidden to your #content. Write like this: 

#content
{
    min-width:700px;
    margin-left:10px;
    overflow:hidden;
    background-color:AppWorkspace;
}

Check this http://jsfiddle.net/Zvt2j/1/

Upvotes: 10

Maysam
Maysam

Reputation: 7367

CSS auto-fit container between float:left & float:right divs solved my problem, thanks for your comments.

#left
{
    width:200px;
    float:left;
    background-color:antiquewhite;
    margin-left:10px;
}
#content
{
    overflow:hidden;
    margin-left:10px;
    background-color:AppWorkspace;
}

Upvotes: 1

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