Side bar and footer

[jshurst]

I am having a problem with these. Let's say I have a left div that I want to extend all the way down the page (no matter how long it is). I would like a footer to be at the bottom of the page no matter how long it is. Everytime I put "height: 100%" it seems to only extend to the visible screen size. Also with "bottom: 0px" it seems once again to go with what is displaying on the screen. Maybe I am missing a fundamental idea of CSS here, but can someone explain this to me?

Thanks.

 

[cLFlaVA]

the fundamental of css that you are missing is that in order for height: 100% to operate as you want it to, the element must be inside a parent element with a static (set) height.

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