As already mentioned this can’t be done with floats, they can’t inherit heights, they’re unaware of their siblings so for example the side two floats don’t know the height of the centre content, so they can’t inherit from anything. Usually inherited height has to come from either an element which has an explicit height or … Read more
You can do it with table style CSS properties, but still retain table less markup (which is still a win). Example HTML <div id=”container”> <div id=”header”><div>header</div></div> <div id=”content”><div>content</div></div> <div id=”footer”><div>footer</div></div> </div> CSS html, body { height: 100%; padding: 0; margin: 0; } #container { display: table; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 1px solid red; text-align: … Read more
Presumably the EditText and the Button are inside a RelativeLayout. Set the button’s layout attributes to alignTop and alignBottom of the EditText.
You should be able to do this if you add in a div (#header below) to wrap your contents of 1. If you float #header, the content from #someid will be forced to flow around it. Next, you set #header‘s width to 100%. This will make it expand to fill the width of the containing … Read more
The key is the childAspectRatio. This value is use to determine the layout in GridView. In order to get the desired aspect you have to set it to the (itemWidth / itemHeight). The solution would be this: class MyHomePage extends StatefulWidget { MyHomePage({Key key, this.title}) : super(key: key); final String title; @override _MyHomePageState createState() => … Read more
It seems that the width and height attributes determine the width or height of the canvas’s coordinate system, whereas the CSS properties just determine the size of the box in which it will be shown. This is explained in the HTML specification: The canvas element has two attributes to control the size of the element’s … Read more
I am trying to set a div to a certain percentage height in CSS Percentage of what? To set a percentage height, its parent element(*) must have an explicit height. This is fairly self-evident, in that if you leave height as auto, the block will take the height of its content… but if the content … Read more
Tldr If you just want to query the window height, cross-browser, and be done with it, use jQuery.documentSize and call $.windowHeight(). For implementing your own solution, read on. When to use jQuery or the clientHeight of the document jQuery’s $(window).height() is a wrapper for document.documentElement.clientHeight. It gives you the height of the viewport, excluding the … Read more
$(window).height(); // returns height of browser viewport $(document).height(); // returns height of HTML document
Wrap them in a containing div with the background color applied to it, and have a clearing div after the ‘columns’. <div style=”background-color: yellow;”> <div style=”float: left;width: 65%;”>column a</div> <div style=”float: right;width: 35%;”>column b</div> <div style=”clear: both;”></div> </div> Updated to address some comments and my own thoughts: This method works because its essentially a simplification … Read more