[RESOLVED] scrolling content div with browser scrollbar

[dmikester1]

I've been fighting with this for a while now. I'm getting close, but there a just a few quirks I cannot get figured out. I have a centered set-width div with a header, left side nav, and right side content. I want the content to scroll with the browser scrollbar and everything else to stay in place (ie fixed). It's mostly working. I have 10px of margin above the header and my scrolling content should not be able to be seen above the header when it goes up there. I want the whole wrap div to be set to auto height according to the content div with a min-height so it goes down to at least the bottom of the navigation links. But when the content gets longer than the bottom of the window, I want it to have a 10px margin from the bottom of the window and then auto-scroll the content.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Mike

I'll just post a link and you can view the HTML/CSS there. Let me know if you want me to post those here.
http://www.michaelandregina.com/demo/

[mikewgd]

Do you want the scrollbar on the actual div or in the browser window?

[dmikester1]

I would like the scrollbar to be on the browser window.
Thanks
Mike

[dmikester1]

Anyone have any ideas about this one?
Thanks
Mike

[Mr. Baggins]

Mike,

First off, I was going to suggest that you add closing slashes to your meta, link, and img tags (to make it validate), but you've done that since I last looked at your page!

Try replacing the first part of your css with this:

* { margin: 0; padding: 0; }

html {
	background-color:#bbc0cb;
}

#wrap {
	width: 742px;
	border-right: 2px solid #00007D;
	margin: 0 auto;
}

#header {
	position: fixed;
	width: 744px;
	height: 106px;
	background: #bbc0cb url('img/header.gif');
	padding: 10px 0 0 0;
}

#navigation {
	position: fixed;
	top: 116px;
	width: 180px;
	height: 100%;
	background-color: #000180;
	color: #ffffff;
	font-weight: bold;
	font-size: 14px;
	font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
	padding: 5px 10px;
}

#navigation li {
	list-style-type: none;
	padding: 5px;
}

#content {
	margin: 0 0 0 200px;
	color: #000066;
	font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
	font-size: 14px;
	width: 512px;
	padding: 10px 10px 12px 10px;
}

#text {
	overflow: auto;
}

#footer {
	position: fixed;
	bottom: 0;
	width: 744px;
	height: 2px;
	background: #00007d;
	border-bottom: 10px solid #bbc0cb;
}

Make sure to add

<div id="footer"></div>

to your html right before you close the #wrap div.

Sincerely,

Mr. Baggins

[Mr. Baggins]

1. Don't forget to back up your previous code!

2. The styles I proposed will require that the webpage be always the height of the browser window; no less, even if the content is less.

Mr. Baggins

[dmikester1]

Awesome Mr. Baggins, that works wonderful! Sorry to be nitpicky here, but is there any way I could add a 10px margin above the whole wrap? I tried just doing it as is and it breaks it pretty good. I've uploaded the new version to http://www.michaelandregina.com/demo/
Thanks again!
Mike

Upadate: Woops, nevermind, I played around with it and got it figured out! Thank you very much. Solved!

[Mr. Baggins]

No problem! Glad I could help.