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arbitter Regular Member

arbitter

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Hi there.

 

The title might be somewhat confusing, but here's the explanation. My site consists of the following layout:

  • Header
  • Left sidebar
  • Main content
  • Footer

 

This I've got working nicely with the following code:

HTML:

<html>
   <body>
      <div id='total'>
         <div id='wrap'>
            <div id='banner'></div>
            <div id='main'>
               <div id='sidebar'>
                  <div class='menuoption'></div>
                  <div class='menuoption'></div>
                  <div class='menuoption'></div>
                  <div id='leftFill'></div>
               </div>
               <div id='content'>Variable content over here</div>
            </div>
         </div>
         <div id='footer'></div>
      </div>
   </body>
</html>

And the css:

html{height:100%;}
body{
   margin:0 0 0 0;
   height:100%;
}
#total{
   width:1024px;
   margin:auto;
   height:100%;
}
#wrap{
   min-height:100%;
}
#main{
   overflow:auto;
   padding-bottom:28px;   /* Height of footer */
}
#header{
   height:100px;
   background-color:purple;
}
#sidebar{
   width:149px;
   float:left;
   height:100%;
}
#content{
   width:794px;
   float:left;
   min-height:600px;
}
#footer{
   height:28px;
   margin-top: -28px;
   clear:both;
   position:relative;
}

 

So what's happening: the footer should always be at the bottom of the page, as long as the content inside #content is not larger than the height of the page. Otherwise, the footer goes to the foot of the document.

 

Now the trouble is; I would like the #leftFill to have  a border on the right side. But this bordershoul go from the last 'menuoption' down, up to the footer, wherever the footer is. How is this done?

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arbitter Regular Member

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Instead

You can float both sidebar and content divs left, removing the min-height,

then apply a clearfix on the footer

 

Maybe then re-apply the leftFill height of 100%

They are both already floated left, and there is 'clear:both' in the footer already...
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hakimserwa Member

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played around with and go sourted replace your code with this one.

 

 <div id='total'>
         <div id='wrap'>
            <div id='banner'></div>
            <div id='main'>
               <div id='sidebar'>
                  <div class='menuoption'>gggg</div>
                  <div class='menuoption'>hhhh</div>
                  <div class='menuoption'></div>
                  <div id='leftFill'></div>
               </div>
               <div id='content'>
                 <p>Variable content over herei</p>
                 <p> </p>
                 <p> </p>
                 <p> </p>
                 <p> </p>
               </div>
               <div style="clear:both";></div>
            </div>
         </div>
         <div id='footer'></div>
      </div>

 

 

html{height:100%;}
body{
   margin:0 0 0 0;
   height:100%;
}
#total{
   width:1024px;
   margin:auto;
   height:100%;
}
#wrap{
   
}
#main{
   overflow:auto;
   padding-bottom:28px;   /* Height of footer */
}
#header{
   height:100px;
   background-color:purple;
}
#sidebar{
   width:149px;
   float:left;
   height:100%;
}
#content{
   width:794px;
   float:left;
   min-height:60%;
}
#footer{
   height:28px;
   margin-top: 2px;
   clear:both;
   position:relative;
}

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