100% height container - 250px;

HTML & CSS
1

I would like to have a 100% height container (transparant overlay), but instead of having the container stretch from top to bottom I would like the container to start at approx. 250px from the top. is this possible using CSS or should I work with a very high background-image with a 250px transparant section at the top?

2

Hi,

If you don’t need IE6 support then you could do it like this.


<!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;
    padding:0;
    height:100%
}
#outer {
    width:960px;
    margin:-1px auto 0;
    min-height:100%;
    position:relative;
    border-top:1px solid #fff;
}
* html #outer {
    height:100%
}
#inner {
    margin:250px 0 0;
    width:960px;
    position:relative;
    z-index:2;
}
.overlay {
    position:absolute;
    z-index:1;
    width:960px;
    left:0;
    top:250px;
    bottom:0;
    border:1px solid #000;
    background:red;
}
* html .overlay{display:none;}
* html #inner{background:red;border:1px solid #000;width:958px;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="outer">
    <div id="inner">
        <h1>Test</h1>
        <p>test</p>
        <p>test</p>
        <p>test</p>
        <p>test</p>
        <p>test</p>
        <p>test</p>
        <p>test</p>
        <p>test</p>
        <p>test</p>
    </div>
    <div class="overlay"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Depending on the exact design there could be a simpler way and you just colour the whole 100% high container and then just rub out the top part with a 250px white background colour (or whatever colour needs to match underneath).

3

An easier approach may be to instead of trying to start it 250px from the top, to put an element over it to erase the top 250px back to whatever you are doing underneath it.

Though I’d have to see what it is you are actually trying to do… no code, no images, no help.