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Sowmya
Sowmya

Reputation: 26969

Filling the available space with display:table-cell

Is it possible to avail the second div to occupy the available space of the parent div without specifying manual width?

Here is the Fiddle for the tried demo.

.right_cnt {
    display: table-cell;
    background:#FFC;
}

NOTE: I need yellow box to occupy the available right space.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 17764

Answers (4)

kbro
kbro

Reputation: 4991

It appears to me that, while display:table-cell on the last div in a row with no width will cause it to stretch to fill the enclosing parent display:table div, the table-cell has an implicit 'min-width' behaviour that can't be turned off, forcing it to be the width of its child.

I had to resort to absolute-positioning the left cell on top of a wide padding on a 100% wide right cell. With this, the 100% wide inner div shrinks as required when the window is narrowed and the content scrolls.

http://jsfiddle.net/kmbro/cqkzbc4a/

Upvotes: 0

Danield
Danield

Reputation: 125521

This post might might be what you are looking for.

In particular look at Xanthir's answer:

The solution to this is actually very easy, but not at all obvious. You have to trigger something called a "block formatting context", which interacts with floats in a specific way. ... ...

Upvotes: 1

Barney
Barney

Reputation: 16456

It is possible to use table layout to do this, but it's not necessarily the easiest way: forked your fiddle to demonstrate.

An easier way is to modify the second cell to remove all table display properties and set the second element's overflow to hidden: another fork demonstrating this. zoom: 1 allows the technique to work in old IE. This might be simpler for your purposes, if you're happy with the side-effects of the overflow

Upvotes: 1

Tetaxa
Tetaxa

Reputation: 4403

Set display:table; width: 100%; on the parent element, remove float: left from the sibling. http://jsfiddle.net/byNpM/2/

Upvotes: 7

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