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Asked: 2026-05-26T23:05:35+00:00

I’ve got a design idea that I’m not exactly sure the best way to

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I’ve got a design idea that I’m not exactly sure the best way to go about pulling it off in html and css. Basically I want to do what I’ve (crudely) drawn in this image:

Crappy design idea

My basically I want a div to appear some distance down from the top of the page that stretches from infinity, to within the bounds of the container to display some content. My code looks something like this

# html
<html>
  <body>
    <div id="container">

      <div id="content">
        Some text content
      </div>

    </div>
  </body>
</html>

# css
div#container {
  width: 1140px;
  margin: 0 auto;
}

div#content {
  width: 300px;
  background: #000;
  color: #fff;
  float: left;
}

Where the div#content would be the one that has the background that stretches to infinity. Is this possible to pull off without resorting to altering the background of the tag? I want to use this on multiple pages within my site, all of which have different heights and distances down from the top, so I’d like to be able to do it without having to switch out the background images for the tags for these different pages. And the div#content will have variable content length, so using body background images isn’t a very elegant solution. It would be nice to do it without resorting to some kind of absolute positioning as well.

Sorry for rambling, I hope what I am trying to do is clear. Any suggestions?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I whipped this up.

    Just adds a div beneath the content area that matches up with the element you have in the header. It goes on infinitely in both directions. I hope this is what you were trying to achieve.

    EDIT: As per your request in the comments, I threw this together. It uses jQuery to set the width of the underlying div and its top margin, which is found by getting the top offset of the fg div.

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