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pfried
pfried

Reputation: 5079

CSS 100% divs side by side, Horizontal flow

I am trying to do some step by step (4 steps in total) checkout. I thought about having a kind of a horizontal slider setup.

I created a container with a width of 400% containing 4 containers. These containers should be side by side and fill 100% of the Window. This is kind of a horizontal slider but i want to use it as a form.

[[[Container 1][Container 2][Container 3][Container 4]]]

My html:

    <div class="container fullWidth">

        <div id="checkoutContainer">

            <div class="checkout" id="cart">Cart</div>
            <div class="checkout" id="contact">Contact</div>
            <div class="checkout" id="address">Addresse</div>
            <div class="checkout" id="overview">Übersicht</div>
            <div class="checkout" id="thankyou">Danke</div>

        </div>

    </div>

My CSS:

.container.fullWidth {
    width : 100%;
    overflow-x: hidden;
}

div#checkoutContainer {
    background-image: url(../img/background.jpg);
    background-repeat : repeat-x;
    width : 500%;
    height : 657px;
}

div#checkoutContainer div.checkout {
    float : left;
    width : 900px;
    height : 657px;
}

The question is now: Can i somehow make the single divs fill the width of the page without using javascript (I know i can detect the page width and set the width)? Setting div.checkout { width : 100% }does not work as they will stack on each other then.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4532

Answers (2)

omma2289
omma2289

Reputation: 54629

Check out my approach, divs will fill the container so no need to 'fine tune', plus it is responsive and not dependent on the number of divs

HTML

<div id="checkoutContainer">
    <div class="checkout" id="cart">Cart</div>
    <div class="checkout" id="contact">Contact</div>
    <div class="checkout" id="address">Addresse</div>
    <div class="checkout" id="overview">Übersicht</div>
    <div class="checkout" id="thankyou">Danke</div>
</div>

CSS

#checkoutContainer {
    overflow: hidden;
    white-space: nowrap;
    width: 100%;
}
.checkout {
    display:inline-block;
    width : 100%;
    height : 200px;
    vertical-align: top;
}

See working example

Upvotes: 6

LazerSharks
LazerSharks

Reputation: 3155

Quick Example: http://jsfiddle.net/DTTnB/

You can fine-tune this how you want

I took off overflow-x: hidden so you can see that they lie horizontally . you were on the right track

Key differences:

I made each of the containers only a proportion of their wrapping container:

.checkout: width : 20%;

Their wrapping container I made it wide enough to accommodate all containers so that each container would take up at least the page width.

checkoutContainer:

width : 1000%; you can fine tune this

Upvotes: 4

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