Mick Redman: height

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Tuesday, 29 April 2014

jQuery equalise height plugin

Sometimes we just want a group of element to be the same height. It's more visually pleasing. This plugin is designed to do just that.
First the HTML:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>equalise height</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">



</head>
<body>
<article>
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</article>
<article>
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</article>
<article>
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</article>
<footer>
<p>footer</p>
</footer>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="equaliseheight.plugin.js"></script>
<script>
(function()
{
$('article').equaliseheight();
})();
</script>
</body>
</html>
Now the CSS (style.css):
body
{
font: 90%/1.618 sans-serif;
padding-top:2em;
}
article
{
float:left;
margin:1em;
padding:1em;
width:15em;
background:red;
color:white;
}
footer
{
clear:left;
}
And finally the jQuery plugin (equaliseheight.plugin.js):
(function($)
{
$.fn.equaliseheight = function()
{
var maxHeight = 0;
$(this).each(function()
{
if($(this).height() > maxHeight)
{
maxHeight = $(this).height();
}
});
$(this).height(maxHeight);
}
})(jQuery);

Monday, 16 August 2010

Fixed body and footer

This example combines a fixed body and footer height. Commonly used on designer websites.

See demo.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang=”en”>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Fixed body</title>
<style type="text/css">
*
{
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
body
{
background:#A3A3A3;
}
#container, footer
{
display:block;
font-family:Sans-serif;
}
#container
{
background:#FFFFFF;
color:#A3A3A3;
height:400px;
}
footer
{
height:10em;
background:#A3A3A3;
color:#FFFFFF;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<h1>This is a sticky footer example</h1>
</div>
<footer>This is my footer</footer>
</body>
</html>

How to make a sticky footer

Sometimes you want the footer of your page to always be available at the same height no matter how much you resize your web browser. This is called a sticky footer. Here is a pretty simple way to code it for your site.

See demo.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Sticky footer</title>
<style type="text/css">
html, body
{
font-family:Sans-serif;
height:100%;
margin: 0 auto;
color:#000000;
}
#container
{
height:90%;
}
#footer
{
height:10%;
clear:both;
background:#A3A3A3;
color:#FFFFFF;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<h1>This is a sticky footer example</h1>
</div>
<div id="footer">This is my sticky footer</div>
</body>
</html>