Only padding at top and left

JumperJack · 02-06-2013, 04:32 PM

Hello,

Recently I came across a tiny problem which drives me crazy. I've been looking all over the internet, but once again, it seems like I'm overlooking something...

I have got a Div on my page, and inside it is text. Therefore I have a certain padding specified. However, this padding only exists on the top and the left side, but not on the right and bottom sides. Even worse: at those two sides, the text actually disappears out of the Div.

Code:

<div id="container">
    <div id="bot1">
    bla1 sdnwklodnansd ksdnks (...) dnklas dnklas dnklas dnkla
    </div>
</div>

Code:

#container {
    width:100%;
    height:100%;
    position:relative;
}

#bot1 {
    width:25%;
    height:100%;
    position:absolute;
    background-color:#AAAAAA;
    top:0%;
    left:0%;
    padding:10px;
}

I wonder, why can't I set a right and bottom padding? I tried setting it manually (padding-right and padding-bottom).

Excavator · 02-06-2013, 05:04 PM

Hello JumperJack,
For your 100% height to work you must declare it from the start.
Try it like this -

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
html, body {
	margin: 0;
	background: #fc6;
	height: 100%;
}
#container {
    width:100%;
    height:100%;
    position:relative;
}

#bot1 {
    width:25%;
    height:100%;
    position:absolute;
    background-color:#AAAAAA;
    top:0%;
    left:0%;
    padding:10px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
    <div id="container">
        <div id="bot1">
        	bla1 sdnwklodnansd ksdnks (...) dnklas dnklas dnklas dnkla
        </div>
	</div>
</body>
</html>

Is there any reason that #bot1 is absolutely positioned? It might be better just to let the document flow naturally.

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