I have the following HTML:
<html>
<body>
<h2>Title</h2>
<div id='large_div'>
blah.. blah.. blah..
</div>
</body>
</html>
How can I make the large_div take up the rest of the page height?
Here is the CSS for the page:
html { height: 100%; }
body { height: 100%; }
#large_div {
/* ??? */
}
html,body {height:100%;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;}
#large_div {height:100%;margin:0px;}
So, you basically want a table layout? This is one of the nastiest things in CSS. You might consider to fall back to old fashioned HTML tables, but if you don't care about IE6/7 support, then you can also play around using display attributes of table, table-row and eventually table-cell.
Here's an SSCCE, copy'n'paste'n'run it.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>SO question 3323454</title>
<style>
html {
height: 100%;
}
body {
display: table;
margin: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
#large_div {
display: table-row;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
background: pink;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Title</h2>
<div id="large_div">blah.. blah.. blah..</div>
</body>
</html>
Again, this works in decent CSS2-adhering browsers only.
If all you want to achieve is to give the div a nice background, then there are nicer solutions.
You could try setting a negative margin on the #large_div that was equal to the height of the h2. Unfortunately this will not very solid code since that h2 height will change depending on text length and browser:
#large_div {
height: 100%;
margin-top: -1em; /* adjust to height of h2 */
}
A bit of jQuery would sort you out though:
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#large_div').css({height: $(window).height() - $('h2').height()});
});
If you knew the height of the top div (or h2 in this case), you might be able to try something like the following:
#topdiv { height:100px; }
#bottomdiv { height:100%; margin-bottom:-100px; bottom:0; }
Unfortunately, I can't test this from where I am right now, so this could be way off... But I believe I've used something similar to this before and it had a similar effect.
You may be able to find your solution - or at least a "good enough" solution, by playing around with those css properties...
Good luck!