[headbirth]

Why would my container not span and adjust to the entire height of the window if I used this?

#container {
margin: 0 auto;
width: 750px;
height: 100%;
text-align: left;
border: 1px solid #000000;
background: #C4C4C4;
}

I'm looking to get container to act as a centered self-adjusting column in the window.

Thanks!

[skalie]

I think you've got to obtain the height of the browser window using javascript and work with that.

Something along those lines.


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[Diggory Laycock]

see the sticky at the top of the web dev forum - theres a link in there that has a hint for that kind of thing.

[headbirth]

Is that how it's done with sites like this:

http://www.bartelme.at/

or other blog style designs?

[Diggory Laycock]

yes - I've ripped the relevant parts into a page here:

http://www.monkeyfood.com/design/centralcolumn/
http://www.monkeyfood.com/design/centralcolumn/main.css

p.s. There are some nice templates for column based layouts here:

http://intensivstation.ch/css/template.php

[headbirth]

Thanks Diggory!!

I'll check them out.

[Oisín]

Originally posted by Diggory Laycock:
yes - I've ripped the relevant parts into a page here:

http://www.monkeyfood.com/design/centralcolumn/
http://www.monkeyfood.com/design/centralcolumn/main.css

Both of them not found?

[Chris O'Brien]

Originally posted by Diggory Laycock:
yes - I've ripped the relevant parts into a page here:

http://www.monkeyfood.com/design/centralcolumn/
http://www.monkeyfood.com/design/centralcolumn/main.css

p.s. There are some nice templates for column based layouts here:

http://intensivstation.ch/css/template.php

You having some site issues mate? Your main page (http://www.monkeyfood.com/) is the default Apache page...

[Diggory Laycock]

Bah! What the hell is going on with this crappy router of mine?

Do you still see the same page?

[Chris O'Brien]

Originally posted by Diggory Laycock:
Bah! What the hell is going on with this crappy router of mine?

Do you still see the same page?

Afraid so, bud.

Edit Scratch that. I appear to have cought you in the midst of sorting it out, as it's now just showing the directory listing for your document root...

[Diggory Laycock]

Wierd - You are getting my Laptop - at
http://212.158.229.85/

However the DNS entry for www.monkeyfood.com points to:
http://212.158.229.84/

[Chris O'Brien]

Originally posted by Diggory Laycock:
Wierd - You are getting my Laptop - at
http://212.158.229.85/

However the DNS entry for www.monkeyfood.com points to:
http://212.158.229.84/

They all come up saying 'this is the widebook' now. You got a 17" PowerBook or something?

Something else of interest: I can't actually ping monkeyfood.com. I can go to the site in Safari to bring up the page I mentioned above, but it's a no go for pinging. Weird.

You don't happen to have your server in a co-lo down in London do you? A mate of mine uses easily.co.uk and they've been having troubles all day...

[Diggory Laycock]

Yes - I've got a 17" pb.

Right, thanks for the help with the heads-up and the troubleshooting - this terrible new netgear router I bought is playing silly buggers and routing all incoming traffic to my laptop.

Back to the shop you go - Hello 3Com.