Mick Redman: min-height

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);

Tuesday, 2 November 2010

Cross-browser minimum-height

Of course, so many things require hacks to work on all browsers. It's been the way of the web world for years. Actually since the emergence of IE. The example also points to a new trend in my designs to use em for sizing things other than just fonts.

See demo.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Cross-browser minimum-height</title>
<style type="text/css">
body
{
font-family:Sans-serif;
}
section
{
margin:0 auto;
width:50em;
background:#FF0000;
color:#FFFFFF;

/* The minimum height stuff */
min-height:10em;
height:auto !important;
height:10em;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<section>
<h1>Hello World!</h1>
</section>
</body>
</html>