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user2488275

Reputation: 87

Parent DIV not expanding to fit height of child div content

I have a problem with my CSS where the height of the parent div (#cotentWrapper) is not expanding to fit the height of the child div (#bodyContent) once its content overflows. We are using percentages for our heights. We have tried various solutions found here on stack overflow but none resolved this problem. We have tried setting height to auto on #contentWrapper which solved our problem specified above it caused our nav bar to disappear which is also encapsulated in the #contentWrapper div. We have set min-heights on all DIVs it should work.

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HTML:

 <!DOCTYPE html>

<html lang="en">
<head>
    <title>  </title>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />

    <link href="~/Content/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" /> 
    <link href="~/Content/AccountDetailsStyles.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="~/Content/Site1.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <script src="~/Scripts/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <script src="~/Scripts/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>

</head>

<body>

    <div id="contentWrapper">

        <div id="header">
            <div id="logoWrapper">
                <div id="logoImg"></div>
            </div>
        </div>

        <div id="contentBoxShadow">
            <div id="navigation">

            </div>

            <div id="bodyContent">
                @RenderBody()
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            </div>
        </div>

    </div>

</body>

CSS: * { padding: 0; margin: 0; }

html, body {
    width: 100%;
    height:100%;
    min-height: 100%;
    position: relative;
}

body
{
    background-image: url("Images/textured_background.png");
    background-repeat: repeat;
    background-attachment: fixed;
}

#contentWrapper
{
    width: 88%;
    height: 100%;
    //height: auto;
    min-height: 100%;
    margin: 0 auto;
}

#contentBoxShadow
{
    width: 100%;
    min-height: 85%;
    height: 85%;
    background-color: #EFEFEF;
    background-color: pink;
    position: relative;
}

#bodyContent
{
    width: 90%;
    height: 93%;
    height: auto;
    min-height: 93%;
    padding-left: 30px;
    padding-right: 30px;
    background-color: white;
    margin: 0 auto;
}

#header
{
    height: 15%;
    width: 100%;
}

#logoWrapper
{
    padding-top: 1.5%;
    padding-bottom: 1.5%;
    height: 97%;
    width: 100%;
}

#logoImg
{
    background-image:url("Images/logo.png");
    background-size: contain;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    height: 100%;
    width: auto;
}

#contentBoxShadow:before {
    box-shadow: -15px 0 15px -15px inset;
    content: "";
    height: 100%;
    left: -15px;
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    width: 15px;
}

#contentBoxShadow:after {
    box-shadow: 15px 0 15px -15px inset;
    content: "";
    height: 100%;
    position: absolute;
    right: -15px;
    width: 15px;
    top: 0;
}

#navigation 
{
    height: 7%;
    width: 100%;
    background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #004A94 0%, #003366 100%);
    background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #004A94 0%, #003366 100%);
    background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #004A94 0%, #003366 100%);
    background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0, #004A94), color-stop(1, #003366));
    background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #004A94 0%, #003366 100%);
    background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #004A94 0%, #003366 100%);
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1260

Answers (1)

Jonathan
Jonathan

Reputation: 6537

Your post is lacking a little bit of the HTML, but if I have correctly understood the question, removing the height and min-height on #contentBoxShadow the solves the problem. You may have to remove the height from and min-height from #contentWrapper as well, but that part of the HTML is missing.

#contentBoxShadow
{
  width: 100%;
  background-color: #EFEFEF;
  background-color: pink;
  position: relative;
}

http://jsfiddle.net/32x50fdv/

Edit: also note that in your CSS you have tried to comment out a line using a double-forward-slash, which in CSS will not work. You need to use /**/ instead:

//height: auto;

should be

/*height: auto;*/

Upvotes: 1

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