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Reputation: 419
CSS Layout Conundrum
I'm having to knock up a web page with a very specific layout.
- There's a fixed container, which is the entire browser window with an effective margin of 20px, and then two panels within that container.
- Both panels must consume the entire width of the container.
- Panel 2 must be positioned at the bottom of the container, and needs to grow upwards depending on its content.
- Panel 1 should occupy the entire remaining empty content of the container, albeit with a bottom margin of 20px, and a scroll bar should appear when content within it overflows (ie overflow: auto).
Here's an example, complete with eye-gougingly ugly colours: (The container and Panel 2 work as they should do - it's Panel 1 that's wrong.)
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Test</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
background-color: gray;
}
#container {
position: fixed;
top: 20px;
right: 20px;
bottom: 20px;
left: 20px;
border: dashed red;
overflow: hidden;
}
#panel1 {
background-color: green;
color: white;
margin-bottom: 20px;
padding: 20px;
overflow: auto;
}
#panel2 {
background-color: blue;
color: white;
padding: 20px;
position: absolute;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="panel1">
<h2>Panel 1</h2>
<p>This panel should occupy all space in the container not occupied by Panel 2, with a scrollbar appearing when content overflows (ie overflow: auto) and a 20px bottom margin.</p>
</div>
<div id="panel2">
<h2>Panel 2</h2>
<p>This panel should be positioned at the bottom of the container and grow upwards depending on its content.</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Does anyone know the best way of achieving this? I rarely have to delve into CSS, so I could be missing something obvious. Ideally the solution should use CSS <= 2.1, be standards compliant, not reliant on JavaScript, and shouldn't rely on fixed heights.
Thanks!
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