With the following HTML
and CSS
I ran into this situation and creating an extra div was impractical.
I ended up just setting the full-height
div to height: 10000%; overflow: hidden;
Clearly not the cleanest solution, but it works really fast.
So gaiour is right, but if you're looking for a full height item that doesn't scroll with the content, but is actually the height of the container, here's the fix. Have a parent with a height that causes overflow, a content container that has a 100% height and overflow: scroll
, and a sibling then can be positioned according to the parent size, not the scroll element size. Here is the fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/M5cTN/196/
and the relevant code:
html:
<div class="container">
<div class="inner">
Lorem ipsum ...
</div>
<div class="full-height"></div>
</div>
css:
.container{
height: 256px;
position: relative;
}
.inner{
height: 100%;
overflow: scroll;
}
.full-height{
position: absolute;
left: 0;
width: 20%;
top: 0;
height: 100%;
}
position: fixed;
will solve your issue. As an example, review my implementation of a fixed message area overlay (populated programmatically):
#mess {
position: fixed;
background-color: black;
top: 20px;
right: 50px;
height: 10px;
width: 600px;
z-index: 1000;
}
And in the HTML
<body>
<div id="mess"></div>
<div id="data">
Much content goes here.
</div>
</body>
When #data
becomes longer tha the sceen, #mess
keeps its position on the screen, while #data
scrolls under it.
You need to wrap the text in a div
element and include the absolutely positioned element inside of it.
<div class="container">
<div class="inner">
<div class="full-height"></div>
[Your text here]
</div>
</div>
Css:
.inner: { position: relative; height: auto; }
.full-height: { height: 100%; }
Setting the inner div's position to relative
makes the absolutely position elements inside of it base their position and height on it rather than on the .container
div, which has a fixed height. Without the inner, relatively positioned div
, the .full-height
div will always calculate its dimensions and position based on .container
.
* {
box-sizing: border-box;
}
.container {
position: relative;
border: solid 1px red;
height: 256px;
width: 256px;
overflow: auto;
float: left;
margin-right: 16px;
}
.inner {
position: relative;
height: auto;
}
.full-height {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
right: 128px;
bottom: 0;
height: 100%;
background: blue;
}
<div class="container">
<div class="full-height">
</div>
</div>
<div class="container">
<div class="inner">
<div class="full-height">
</div>
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</div>
</div>
http://jsfiddle.net/M5cTN/