Flexible full width backgrounds with HTML,CSS and 960.gs - javascript

I'm working on the front end build of a set of HTML templates with a tricky element in the design.
As you'll see from the screengrab the main navigation is a vertical list which will contain nested lists of links where child pages and sections exist thus requiring the height of the menu to be flexible.
The design has a set of full width stripes in the background - header, centre and from beneath the main nav downwards. This is proving tricky to integrate as the dark blue background which goes the full width of the browser needs to be flexible and change alongside changes in the height of the main nav.
I have tried implementing the following solution from CSS tricks but it's causing various problems in various versions of IE.
I'm considering creating a blank absolutely positioned container that has it's height set by determining the height of the main nav via JavaScript but I'm worried about jumps in the layout on page load and again cross browser compatibility.
Any other suggestions on how to approach this?

It can be done with pure css bu not clearing floats. Basicly the idea is to have a div that wraps your nav and content, and float the content. The wrapper sould not have overflow:hidden. The float is cleared in footer.
Fiddle.
Tested FF4, Opera 11.50 and Chrome 12. Don't have IE on hand but it should work fine.

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When resizing window and then scrolling down, some elements get apart from each other

I got a website (which I didn't made) that, when I resize to test responsiveness, it works normally, though, when getting it back and scrolling down (and then up), there seems to appear a gap between the header and the element under it.
Site: http://miriam.mx/index/
Before resize and scroll:
After resize and scroll:
The site is using a lot of plugins and css:
The thing is that I need some hint to solve it, since I'm not experienced with any of those CSS works yet.
This has to do with your sticky code. Looks like you are using Sticky-Kit. It's setting the height of the sticky div to a height bigger than your children elements. You are using 1.1.1, which they have 1.1.2 and that seems to add some support with auto adjusting when scrolling. You could also play around with the recalc settings.

Trying to create a Responsive Scrolling Sticky Menu

I'm trying to create a responsive website in Dreamweaver with a header and menu which initially scroll and then stick to the top of the page.
The header and menu would need to scroll over the top of a fixed hero image.
This hero image can't be defined as a background as it will be powered by a flexslider script to change the image after a set time.
I would also like the sticky header to possibly shrink down in height when it reaches the top of the page, to reduce the amount of screen space it takes up.
I've found a number of sticky menu examples on-line and some seem to have the annoying trait where the content directly below the menu disappears behind it at the point at which the menu sticks to the top of the screen. I would like to avoid this.
Please find a Mock-up of what I'm looking for here
Obviously, all of the above won't be acceptable on a mobile device.
So for mobiles, the header would need to scroll out of the way, leaving just a hamburger style menu fixed at the top of the screen.
I have found a number of examples on-line with elements of what I require, but nothing yet that combines everything.
I've tried cutting and pasting code from different sources, but haven't yet achieved the desired effect.
I don't know if what I'm asking for is workable, but I would appreciate if anyone could point me to examples of how to achieve this (or improve upon what I'm looking for).
Thanks
Neil White
Use this JS
http://stickyjs.com/
it adds the class is-sticky to the element which you wanted to stick to top. So you can add height in css for is-sticky class. Which in terms will reduce or increase the height of element when it reaches to top as per your requirement.

rdio Player Footer Slider

Im trying to recreate the script that rdio (http://rdio.com) has created for their player footer. when you click on footer, a panel slides up nicely and to reveal more content. another example is by teehan lax; the top dropdown http://www.teehanlax.com/ but theirs doesn't support firefox properly.
I came across this snippet, http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex17/dddropdownpanel.htm
But its not clean as rdio's or teehan.
any thoughts on library they might using?
We're just using basic CSS transitions, and adding and removing classes. The z-index of the bottom bar is set such that it appears in front of everything else, and the class changes control how the content is changed.
You can accomplish the same height changes with jQuery quite easily, as described here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4965097/1309238

webapp movement

i have created a webapp using only html css javascript using iui library i have few pages and all the content is inside one html page and for page navigation and slide effect i have used iui framework
when there is lot of content i can scroll vertically up and down which is fine however what i have also noticed is if i drag the page horizontally either left to right or right to left and also if i drag the page from top left diagonally the entire page is moving in those directions which is not good
i would like this movement to be locked and even if i use the finger to slide across or diagonally the page should stay fixed and should only move vertically up or down
do i need to write any meta tag to avoid this movement.
using only html css and javascript is there a way to fix this or are there any other alternatives without creating the app natively using xcode
If the webpage is wider than the width of the viewport then the behavior you describe will occur. However if you ensure the content width is set to 320px (and no child transparent-ish elements are pushing content past that demarcation point) then you shouldn't be able to scroll sideways.
If that's not working for you, you should be able to use the touchstart/move/end events and disable the default behavior in javascript using preventDefault() on the event object - http://www.sitepen.com/blog/2008/07/10/touching-and-gesturing-on-the-iphone/
Hey Sudhakar! Why not using the list?
First, check if your viewport meta is correct. Then, perhaps a media (image) is larger than the global viewport.
Last, this could also due to a width: 100% + some padding/margin. To fix that, box-sizing: border-box; could be your friend
R.

Autoresize Element (div) to Fit Horizontal Content

I tried googling, but didn't come up with much. I'm building a horizontal carousel which displays images in a LI, floated. The issue I want to solve is, everytime I add thumbnails to the carousel (I'm lazy loading), I need to recalculate the width of the carousel (so that all the floated thumbnails line up nicely side by side).
For one, I rather not have to do these kinds of calculations in JS, and for two, I found that it's hard to find a cross browser way to ensure that the width will be properly calculated (I end up having to add or remove pixels from the total width depending on the browser).
So my question is, is there any way without JS, to be able to add content to a div, and have the width adjust as needed, the same way a div's height would?
And if not, have you found a more efficient way to handle this scenario than recalculating the width every time?
I'm not new to web dev, and for as long as I've been in this field, to my knowledge this has never been possible. But with the advent of new technologies cropping up, I thought maybe there was an obscure way of achieving this now.
Thanks in advance!
[EDIT] (for clarification, but simplified): If my carousel is 500px wide with overflow hidden. There's a slideable section containing thumbnails, each is 100px wide, floated, they fit 5 across in the carousel. When a user clicks Next, it lazy loads the next set of 5 thumbnails, and appends it to the slider area after the first set of 5. But since this div was 500px wide to accommodate 5 thumbnails, adding another 5, I need to recalculate the width to get the new thumbnails to show up side by side. Ideally I'd like to find a way to have the div autoresize its width to fit horizontal content, the same way it naturally does for vertical content.
I've found that using a containing carousel div with white-space: nowrap and overflow: hidden has worked. I then have display: inline-block for each item in the div.
Using this class for each individual item:
.eachItem {
display: inline-block;
}
Will work (I've done something similar to that).
The problem is that in IE7 it won't work! and you'll have to use JavaScript anyway :(
EDIT: I meant inline-block... and as you may know, IE7 doesn't "like" it.

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