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Asked: 2026-05-27T07:11:35+00:00

I am currently trying to design a website template for me, the problem is

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I am currently trying to design a website template for me, the problem is that I can’t get the Content div to auto expand on the content that is within it.

I wanted it to auto resize so I don’t need to set the CSS height manually.

The CSS Code I have made:

#Container {
    position: relative;
    width: 800px;
    height: 100%;
    margin: 0px auto 0 auto;
    text-align: left;
    padding-left: 1px;
    cursor: de;
    border-left: 1px solid #000001;
    border-right: 1px solid #000001;
    border-top: 1px solid #000001;
    border-bottom: 1px solid #000001;
    background-color: #C1E9FF;
}
#LogoContainer {
    background-image: url('/media/Logo.png');
    border-right-width: 1px;
    border-bottom-width: 1px;
    border-right-color: rgb(0,0,1);
    border-bottom-color: rgb(0,0,1);
    border-right-style: solid;
    border-bottom-style: solid;
    width: 400px;
    height: 50px;
    position: absolute;
    z-index: 1;
}
#LikeBar {
    border-bottom-width: 1px;
    border-bottom-color: rgb(0,0,1);
    border-bottom-style: solid;
    width: 400px;
    height: 50px;
    position: absolute;
    left: 400px;
    z-index: 1;
}
#ButtonHome {
    background-image: url('/media/Bt.png');
    width: 100px;
    height: 30px;
    position: absolute;
    top: 50px;
    z-index: 1;
}
#ButtonVideo {
    background-image: url('/media/Bt.png');
    width: 100px;
    height: 30px;
    position: absolute;
    left: 105;
    top: 50px;
    z-index: 1;
}
#Footer {
    border-top-width: 1px;
    border-top-color: rgb(0,0,1);
    border-top-style: solid;
    width: 800px;
    position: absolute;
    bottom: 0;
    z-index: 1;
    text-align: center;
}
#Content {
    position: absolute;
    top: 90px;
    width: 800px;
    height: 95%;
    border-top: 1px solid #000001;
}
#YouTubeBox {
    position: absolute;
    background-image: url('/media/Box.png');
    width: 100px;
    height: 30;
    left: 10px;
    text-align: center;
}
#TwitterBox {
    position: absolute;
    background-image: url('/media/Box.png');
    width: 100px;
    height: 30;
    left: 110px;
    text-align: center;
}
#FaceBookBox {
    position: absolute;
    background-image: url('/media/Box.png');
    width: 100px;
    height: 30;
    left: 210px;
    text-align: center;
}
.DivT { line-height: 1px }

HTML Code with the DIV

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
  <meta name="generator" content=
  "HTML Tidy for Linux/x86 (vers 11 February 2007), see www.w3.org" />

  <title>HTML CODE</title>
  <meta name="description" content="Null" />
  <meta name="keywords" content="Null" />
  <link href="ThemeV1.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>

<body background="/media/Background.png">
  <div id="Container">
    <!-- Start Container -->

    <div id="LogoContainer"></div>

    <div id="LikeBar"></div><!-- Menu Controls -->

    <div id="ButtonHome"></div><!-- WEBSITE CONTENT -->

    <div id="Content">
      <p class="DivT">We're upgrading the website with a new design and hopefully it will
      be faster, so check back later.</p>
    </div><!-- END WEBSITE CONTENT -->
    <!-- Footer -->

    <div id="Footer"></div><!-- End Footer -->
  </div><!-- End Container -->
</body>
</html>

So, what is wrong? I want to save time to not set the height manually.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Since your div#Content is absolutely positioned within div#Container, the container will ignore the height and width of the content when determining its own dimensions. Try giving div#Content a position value of relative. Then, as mentioned in the comments above, switch its height property to min-height. If you need to stick with absolute positioning and still want a content-affected height, you’ll have to use JavaScript to adjust the style.height of the containing div when the height of the content div changes.

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