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CSS Div Height

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vasah20

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How can I make the background color of a div extend past the page fold?

Example:
--
<html>
<head>
<style>
* {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
#container {
background-color: #ccc;
clear: both;
height: 100%;
width: 50%;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<p>Lorem ipsum...</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
--

Please substitute the "Lorem ipsum" with content that forces the use to scroll down. When you scroll down, I will lose the CCC background of the div. This feels like it'd be a trivial fix, but I'm not sure what I'm over looking.

TIA
leo

 
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Remove the "height:100%;".

Hope this helps,
Dan


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BillyRay, that helps, but my question now is what if I want the gray box to go down to the bottom of the page if there isn't enough content?

BabyJeffy, that helps too, but I'm trying to stay away from a table based layout. Thanks for the idea, though.

 
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but my question now is what if I want the gray box to go down to the bottom of the page if there isn't enough content?
Click to expand...

Now that is a different question entirely. Are there any other criteria you're not mentioning?

Dan


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Sorry, I thought there was a solution that handled both scenarios.

The way it works is I have no idea how much (or how little) content will be in the gray box. I would like the gray box to always extend to the bottom of the page no matter what the height inside.

I apologize for not providing enough information in the beginning, I just thought this would be a common problem and there would be an easy solution (that takes care of both scenarios).

Again, any help would be appreciated.

 
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