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min-height 100% doesnt work on inner div

Tags:

html

css

height

I have a div called "content" which I wish to at least take up the entire height of a window.

So what I did was this:

body
{
   min-height:100%;
   height:auto !important;

   /* The following probably aren't relevant but I'll include them just in case */
   min-width:600px;
   color: #fff;
   font-family:'lucida grande',verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;
   font-size:90%;
   margin: 0;
}
div#content
{
   min-height:100%;

   /* The following probably aren't relevant but I'll include them just in case */
   clear: both;
   color: #333;
   padding: 10px 20px 40px 20px;
   position:relative;
   background:url(/img/strawberry.png) right bottom no-repeat;
}

Using firebug, I verified that indeed is now taking up the entire page (even when there's no content on the page. Just as I wanted)

However the problem is, content is not taking up the entire height of , but instead being only as large as its internal contents.

EDIT: Seems to work in chrome 7.0.517.41, but not in firefox 3.6.10 (problem seems to occur in all versions of firefox 3.6.x and probably previous versions as well).

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Razor Storm Avatar asked Dec 28 '22 06:12

Razor Storm


1 Answers

I've already solved a similar problem with

html,body {
    padding:0;
    margin:0;
    height:100%;
    min-height:100%;
}

It seems <html> is sometimes taken into account to calculate height.

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MatTheCat Avatar answered Dec 30 '22 20:12

MatTheCat