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Velth
Velth

Reputation: 1108

Sticky header with %-height and 100% content sections

I'd like to have a sticky header with a %-height property. Sections below the header should take up the remaining height of the page, for example: header=10% all other sections are atleast 90%. This is similar to a related question: CSS Sticky Header/Footer and Fully Stretched Middle Area?, but he's using fixed px-height whereas i want %-height. I tried to use margin on my section, but that doesn't seem to work. Not does it seem to work to use a margin and 90% height on my sections.

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For the moment I was able to come up with: http://jsfiddle.net/K9m63/. But a few problems:

  1. The first section dissapears underneath the header.
  2. Because of point 1, the section div's are too high and therefore not taking the remaining size.

HTML

<header>
    <nav>Test</nav>
</header>
<section>
    <div class="container yellow">1</div>
</section>
<section>
    <div class="container pink">2</div>
</section>
<section>
    <div class="container purple">3</div>
</section>

CSS

body, html {
    height: 100%;
}
header {
    height: 10%;
    background-color: green;
    position: fixed;
    top: 0px;
    width: 100%;
}
.helper {
    display: inline-block;
    height: 100%;
    vertical-align: middle;
}
.nav-image {
    vertical-align: middle;
}
section {
    height: 100%;
    width: 100%;
    background-color: red;
}
.container {
    width: 72.8125%;
    background-color: blue;
    margin: 0px auto;
    height: 100%;
}
.yellow {
    background-color: yellow;
}
.pink {
    background-color: pink;
}
.purple {
    background-color: purple;
}

Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 7099

Answers (2)

sheriffderek
sheriffderek

Reputation: 9043

Based on your drawing, this is how you could* do it. - but there's also "fixed" / or "Sticky" positioning. - and this layout would force you to implement your own scroll below - in the page content, which is a pain.

html, body {
  height: 100vh; /* you can use vh or % - but either way... */
  height: 100%; /* they don't know their own height... how would they? */
}

body {
  margin: 0;
}

.site-header {
  background: #ff6666;
  height: 10%;
}

.page-content {
  background: #6666ff;
  height: 90%;
}
<header class="site-header">
  header
</header>

<main class="page-content">
  main
</main>

Upvotes: 0

codingrose
codingrose

Reputation: 15709

Possible solution:

I have wrapped all sections into 2 divs.

<div class="wrapper">//rest 90% of the page
    <div class="wrapper2">//100% of parent
        <section>
            <div class="container yellow">1</div>
        </section>
        <section>...
    </div>
</div>

CSS:

.wrapper {
    min-height:90%;
    height:auto !important;
    position:relative;
    top:10%;
}
.wrapper2 {
    height:100%;
    width:100%;
    position:absolute;
}

Also, add z-index:1; to header.

Updated fiddle here.

Upvotes: 1

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