[thelist] CSS: left nav and content area colours not filling to footer
Carl Edwards
edwards at vitesse.com
Fri Jul 25 11:54:22 CDT 2003
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sarah [mailto:poohbear at designshift.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 9:34 AM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] CSS: left nav and content area colours not
> filling to footer
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> My understanding is that "height: 100%;" should force a div
> to stretch to
> the height of it's container, but this does not seem to work
> - if it did,
> then adding the background image to the container would not
> be necessary.
> Can anyone confirm or deny that this is how "height: 100%;"
> is supposed to
> work?
If the container is the whole page try:
html, body {
height: 100%;
scroll: auto;
}
The effect this has is dependent on your DOCTYPE, it
all drove me crazy trying to achieve my look without
unnecessary scrollbars.
/Carl Edwards
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