I am having a little bit of trouble with my CSS, as when I change the default zoom (Command + on Mac) of the browser it causes the below image. 
When it is at 100% viewport on chrome, it is supposed to look like the below where it fits perfectly in the black box.
My html code is below. For the sake of simplicity, I have only included the container and the tag to show where I wrote it.
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="container-bars"></div>
</div>
</body>
My CSS code is below:
body {
background-color: rgb(89, 87, 87);
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
.container {
background-color: rgb(37, 35, 35);
height: 80%;
position: absolute;
width: 60%;
left: 500px;
top: 150px;
}
.bars {
float: left;
border: 1px solid rgb(232, 10, 10);
background-color: rgb(218, 215, 215);
}
The .container is the black box in the background and the body is the grey background. Finally, .bars just represents the CSS for each bar. I am creating a visualizer so the when adding the bars, I am using javascript. The code for adding the bars is below.
const container = document.querySelector('.container');
function add_bars(input) {
const Div = document.createElement('div');
const containerWidth = container.clientWidth;
const containerHeight = container.clientHeight;
const barWidth = containerWidth / inputval - 2;
Div.className = 'bars';
//prettier-ignore
Div.style.height = `${((containerHeight / 100) * input) - 2}px`;
Div.style.width = `${barWidth}px`;
containerBars.append(Div);
}
The input in this case is how large the size of the array is which I am dividing in order to split the width of each bar equally. Any help would be appreciated as to why it exceeds the container when I change how “zoomed” in the browser is. Thanks!
function for_loop(array) {
resetArray();
for (let i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
add_bars(array[i]);
}
}
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Answer
When you use % or vh vw in css and change zoom the elements will change their sizes. Try a console.log(document.querySelector(“.container”)) after and before changing zoom and you will see a different value. In order to avoid that behavior you have to use fixed sizes in your elements. For example:
.container {
background-color: rgb(37, 35, 35);
position: absolute;
height: 600px; // pixels, not % or vh
width: 800px;// the same
left: 150px;
top: 150px;
}
Also, when you make zoom out the problem persist. In order to avoid that just add the next:
* {
box-sizing: border-box;
}
And there is no need to substract 2 px in add_bars function:
...
const barWidth = containerWidth / inputval;
...
Div.style.height = `${((containerHeight / 100) * input)}px`;
...