<div> Height

height:100%;

[pageoneresults]

Question for you CSS gurus. I have a navigation <div> that resides at the left of my page. Inside that <div> I have another <div> that contains navigation text links.

I have a background tile image which measures 189 x 9 and is set as a background-image attribute for that navigation <div>, it tiles nicely. Problem is, I need that <div> with the background image to extend 100% of the height of the browser window. I've tried specifying height:100%; and it seems to stop at about 70% of the window height. I then set it to height:1100px; and it extends the full 1100px nicely.

Unfortunately that does not work for all pages and hence the reason why I need one that extends 100% no matter how much or how little content their is.

How do I get that <div> to be 100% of the height?

[mivox]

That's a great big mystery to me... never found out how to make that work.

I'd love to know if it's possible.

[tedster]

So far CSS on its own is not well enough behaved to accomplish this, as far as I know. But you can use JavaScript to capture the measure of the window's height in pixels. Store this value in a variable, and then use document.write to define the div inline and make it's height exactly that number of pixels.

I know that using js has some limitation, but it would give 90% of your visitors the exact experience you want. You could always use a <noscript> tag to write in a best guess so your page would degrade gracefully for visitors with scripting turned off.

We've wrestled with similar issues over in the Browsers forum. Here's one related thread [webmasterworld.com].

[pageoneresults]

I think what we may end up doing is changing the left tile to a page background image and then changing the current page background image to a tile in a div that we can control the width in percentage.

Been doing some reading since I first posted and you cannot specify height in percentages for <div> elements. But, you can specify percentages for width. So, we just need to reverse our page background and we should be okay. Thanks for your responses!