Keeping height of div static with an ajax call that inserts html - javascript

I have an Ajax call that inserts a div with several p elements with text. The problem is whenever I click the button to make the Ajax get, the height of the whole container will change because I haven't set a static height (I have set a specific width though) for the container in my css stylesheet.
Whenever I click the button to load the Ajax info, there will be a brief instant where you can see the container gets really small because I'm just replacing the text in the container with other text. Is there a simple css solution for this?

You could consider using the CSS min-height property, which would prevent the container from shrinking to a size too short (http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_dim_min-height.asp). For instance,
#myContainer {
min-height: 600px;
}

Use
min-height:400px;//Whatever height you want it to not get smaller than
height:400px;//Whatever height you want the div to be
so that it doesn't gets small and use
overflow:auto;
so that it doesn't get big instead becomes scrollable when more content received than expected. Using overflow:auto will only show the scrollbars when the content overflows. i.e, when needed.
In case you want the scrollbars no matter what use
overflow:scroll;//Scrollbars will appear by default, even if not needed.

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Collapsible Sidebar Without Visible Reflow on Content Inside

I have a 3 column layout where I want the left and right columns to be collapsible. I want the following:
A smooth slide
Sidebars that have a percentage width
No visible reflow on the sidebar content
No white-space: nowrap;, as this will mess with the display of the sidebar content.
Allow for complex content inside the sidebar, not just simple text in a <p> tag as in the codepen example below.
No hardcoded pixel widths - I know you can add a width on an inner div together with overflow:hidden on the parent, but I don't want to hardcode a large width.
I need the sidebar widths to be relative to the immediate parent (and not the viewport), in case the 3-column layout needs to be within a section of a page (in fact in my scenario that's the case).
Note that the I've tried transitioning on the width property in this codepen, but you can see the visible reflow of content inside the sidebar. Here's a .gif of it:
Ideally I'd like to do this without using JavaScript for the animation, but I'm open to it if there are no other good solutions.
One way to do this I would say is to give a % based width to your pabel-content.
Add these two properties to the class like this
.panel-content {
min-width: 300px;
}
This should remove the wrapping while animation.

How to automatically set the div container adaptively towards the content length?

I want to make the div container can automatically resize its div-size (height) along side with the content, instead of going out of the area when the text is more than container area. Can anyone help me out to fix this instead of editing up the css for div-container? When I tried to change the div-size even it fits up the content, but while it is more than the div-area, I have to edit it manually again through CSS code.
Is it possibly to make it automatically? or maybe using JavaScript function?
CSS
div#div_id{
height : auto;
min-height: 100% !important;
}
Set your div height to auto. It will take height automatically as per your contents.
The behaviour you want is just what a div - or other so-called block-level-element - naturally does unless you give it a defined height. So just remove any fixed heights you apply to the container and you're done.
In case you want your div to be of a certain minimum/maximum height, use min-height/max-height instead of height for that.

How to make a div fit to screen without the other divs being visible

One of the divs which i want to display dynamically has to fit to screen. The problem is that if the earlier displayed div has height more than the screen height, when the dynamic div is displayed in the bottom of the page(after scrolling) there is some part of the earlier div still remaining. I dont want any trace of the earlier while displaying the dynamic div. Also i have to achieve this only by using javascript.
to place an div or any element one above another use position:absolute,top:0; left:0 and width and height to 100%
get the div out of your other divs, but still in the body and make it not visible "display:none;"
Give it some attributes, like Mardzis said, height : 100%; width : 100%; z-index:9999;
Then, when you want to display it, just do .show() or .hide() (with jquery if you use it) or .getElementById('#yourDivId').style.display = "none"; .... & so on...
I found a workaround for this.Put focus on the child div and disable scrolling.

jQuery scrolling doesn't show up

I'm writting a dynamic page using jQuery and I have a problem. I'm for example adding to my html file div's using append() function like this:
$("body").append("<div id ='dd_"+i.toString()+"' class='diamond_div'></div>");
I will be creating different amount of that div's base on datebase so that's why I use this variable i to assign different id's for each div.
My problem is that even if I'm creating that div's in body and when I look at code they are in it, if I check body's height it is 0 (width is ok, something like 1200).
Main problem with that is when there are too many div's they are beyond screen but there is no scroll bar. It's something like div's aren't in body although in code they are in.
Could you propose me any solution for that? Or what am I doing wrong? My line of thought is that I'm using $(document).ready so html file is creating a page, but see empty body so height = 0 and all my div's are beyond body. What do you think about that?
Take care of positioning; position:fixed removes your divs from normal flow ->
Fixed positioned elements are removed from the normal flow. The
document and other elements behave like the fixed positioned element
does not exist.
as W3C says
An empty <div> does not have a height. Thus you could add as many as you want to the page and it will never get any longer. For the scroll-bar to appear you need to either set a height to the <div> with CSS like this:
.diamond_div{
height:100px;
}
Or add some content to the <div> so you would have something like this instead:
$("body").append("<div id ='dd_"+i.toString()+"' class='diamond_div'>hello</div>");
Then your <div> would have height and once there are enough on the page to go beyond the height of the browser, the scroll-bar will then appear.
Following on from your comments. Setting the position to "fixed" removes the element from the workflow and thus will not extend the length of the page in the normal way.

HTML div with absolute position tries to wrap the text. Can I avoid it, without using white space

I have a set of divs with position = absolute, and they can be positioned across the screen.
If the content of any div doesn't fit on the screen, the browser wraps the text into multiple lines and attempt to fit inside the window.
However, I dont want the browser to do that, It should instead hide the content.
http://jsbin.com/welcome/35835/edit/
Edit:
you may think of it as a div on a page with absolute positioning. and
1) the user can drag the div around
2) user can manually change the width of the div( there is a stretch box widget, which the user can use)..
So the problem is when the user is dragging the div around near the edges of the screen, the text should hide and not wrap if it goes out of the window. Hope this explains better
As shown in the example, block 2 shown is what I want.
So, lets say the width of the div is 100px, and the left position of the CSS style is (screen width - 50), then the rest of the text should hide.
Solution 1: white-space:nowrap. Cant use this, since this is a flexible width UI where user can change the width of the div if they want.
Solution 2: If I set the width of the div, explicitly to a number, it works fine.
But not a optimal solution, as then here I will always have to calculate the width for all divs at the time of rendering.
Is there a more optimal solution, which can make the browser not try to fit the text into the screen.
Hard to tell what you're asking. But I think you can use
{
height: 1.2em;
overflow: hidden;
}
To hide the content that is longer than the one line you support
http://jsfiddle.net/MXXDC/2/
If you put them all inside a huge (e.g. 5k px * 5k px absolute positioned div you should see the expected effect: http://jsbin.com/welcome/35862/edit
Is this what you want? (second item)
I wrapped the inner text in a very long div and applied overflow:hidden to it's parent.
I am not sure the exact use case of the widget so I am not 100% sure on what it can have and not have. I have an idea, maybe it will be useful - setting width to a % might help, something like this
.block2{
left: 50%;
top: 100px;
width: 100%;
}
you can set this in the css to avoid calculation with js, but like I said I am not sure of how this is used so this might not work but it might give you some ideas

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