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 -- The Nemesis Project http://nemesis1.f2o.org One Stop CSS