[thelist] CSS: left nav and content area colours not filling to footer

Nemesis nemesis at nemesis1.f2o.org
Fri Jul 25 16:47:53 CDT 2003


Sarah wrote:

>
>
> 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 it is not, than I 

height is the sum of the top and bottom margins, border, and padding, 
and the content height
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visudet.html#propdef-height
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/box.html#content-height


HTH
Gary

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