CSS difficulties
i'm aware this site has nothing to do with web development, but if anyone here has experience with it, they may be able to help. I actually found an answer... sort of while searching.
One of the components of an application i wrote in C++ takes certain statistics and data from other parts of the program and outputs them visually to an html file for viewing in a browser. I'm rewriting this component to eliminate <table>'s and replace them with <div>'s and CSS. the problem is that since this is computer generated and the amount of info is unknown, it spills out the bottom of the div. now apparently this is a fairly common problem, and I read some info on getting the container div to expand and hold the child div. My problem is that my footer div still is not getting pushed down to the bottom, past the container div. if anyone has any ideas, that would be great. in the mean time i'll keep searching and pull a few code snippets to post on here.
One of the components of an application i wrote in C++ takes certain statistics and data from other parts of the program and outputs them visually to an html file for viewing in a browser. I'm rewriting this component to eliminate <table>'s and replace them with <div>'s and CSS. the problem is that since this is computer generated and the amount of info is unknown, it spills out the bottom of the div. now apparently this is a fairly common problem, and I read some info on getting the container div to expand and hold the child div. My problem is that my footer div still is not getting pushed down to the bottom, past the container div. if anyone has any ideas, that would be great. in the mean time i'll keep searching and pull a few code snippets to post on here.
size: auto; Prob used on the height in your case. But the auto keyword should be what your after.
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thanks, that seemed to work! :) now that i think about it, what i was essentially trying to do was have three main sections, all specified as percentages of the height as a whole. but after a little more searching, the 'auto' keyword ( or actually just removing the height declaration ) works because certain browser versions interpret the height declaration as absolute, not a starting, or relative percentage to then accomodate content. luckily, the 'min-height' declaration seems to work fine in my target browser versions so that the page layout retains it's proper flow. by any chance do you know how to force the footer div to the bottom without a 'min-height' in the center div? and thanks again for the help!
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