Css – creating fixed width with 960

960.gscss

i use 24 columns fluid version of 960. the html looks like this:

<body>
    <div class="container_24">
        <div id="header" class="grid_24">
            Welcome to my page
        </div>

        <div id="leftbar" class="grid_4">
            leftbar
        </div>
        <div id="content" class="grid_12">
            content
        </div>
        <div id="rightbar" class="grid_4">
            rightbar
        </div>
        <div id="ads" class="grid_4">
            ads
        </div>

        <div id="footer" class="grid_24">
            Footer
        </div>        
    </div>
</body>

i wonder how i can make the leftbar, rightbar and ads divs fixed width so that they dont get thinner when i resize the webbrowser to a smaller size. i want just the header, content and footer div to be fluid.

is this possible?

Best Answer

This is quite easy to fix, add a min-width:whateverpx (for example: min-width:300px;) rule to each column and specify the minimum width you're willing to 'tolerate' so as to avoid thinning down.

If you could post a live sample of your code, it would help greatly

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Html – Expand a div to fill the remaining width

The solution to this is actually very easy, but not at all obvious. You have to trigger something called a "block formatting context" (BFC), which interacts with floats in a specific way.

Just take that second div, remove the float, and give it overflow:hidden instead. Any overflow value other than visible makes the block it's set on become a BFC. BFCs don't allow descendant floats to escape them, nor do they allow sibling/ancestor floats to intrude into them. The net effect here is that the floated div will do its thing, then the second div will be an ordinary block, taking up all available width except that occupied by the float.

This should work across all current browsers, though you may have to trigger hasLayout in IE6 and 7. I can't recall.

Demos:

Fixed Left: http://jsfiddle.net/A8zLY/5/
Fixed Right: http://jsfiddle.net/A8zLY/2/

div {
  float: left;
}

.second {
  background: #ccc;
  float: none;
  overflow: hidden;
}

<div>Tree</div>
<div class="second">View</div>

Css – How to center an absolutely positioned element in a div

This works for me:

#content {
  position: absolute; 
  left: 0; 
  right: 0; 
  margin-left: auto; 
  margin-right: auto; 
  width: 100px; /* Need a specific value to work */
}

<body>
  <div>
    <div id="content">
      I'm the content
    </div>
  </div>
</body>

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