background css 100% width horizontal scroll issue

shahhardik.in picture shahhardik.in · Jul 10, 2013 · Viewed 7.9k times · Source

Please See the issue

I am facing this issue when i scroll the window to horizontal then the footer and header breaks.

Please help with CSS

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    body {
        font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
        font-size:1.3em;
        min-height:100%;
    }


    .containerMain {
        min-height:100%;    
        width: 100%;
    }


    .full {
    width:100%;
    }

    .fixed {
    width:900px;    
    }


    .footer {
        border-top:1px dashed #000;
        margin-top:5px;
        height:50px;
        background-color:#F7B200;
        bottom:0px;
        position:relative;
    }

---------------------------- HTML CODE ----------------------------------------

    <div class="containerMain">
    ....
    .....
    .........
    <div class="full footer clear ">
        <div class="fixed center">
            <div class="left">
                <ul class="links">
                    <li><a href="#">Contact</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#">Contact</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#">Contact</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#">Contact</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#">Contact</a></li>
                </ul>
            </div>    
            <div class="social right">
                <a href="#" target="_blank" title="Facebook"><span class="facebook-mini"></span></a>
                <a href="#" target="_blank"><span class="twitter-mini" title="Twitter"></span></a>
                <a href="#" target="_blank"><span class="pinterest-mini" title="Youtube"></span></a>
                <a href="#" target="_blank"><span class="linkedin-mini" title="Linkedin"></span></a>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
    </div>

Answer

Oriol picture Oriol · Sep 25, 2013

The best way to solve this issue is via CSS.

Apply a min-width to its parent container and make sure its children have a width: 100%. See below:

.containerMain {
    width: 100%;
    min-width: 900px;
}
.footer {
    width: 100%;
}