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 Posted by Neredbojias on 06/16/37 11:58 
To further the education of mankind, "Gav" <gav@nospam.com> vouchsafed: 
 
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> "Neredbojias" <http://www.neredbojias.com/fliam.php?cat=alt.html> 
> wrote in message 
> news:Xns9840CE7A7887Bhttpwwwneredbojiasco@208.49.80.251...  
>> To further the education of mankind, "Gav" <gav@nospam.com> 
>> vouchsafed:  
>> 
>>> I have a container DIV that is 100% height and within that I have an 
>>> absolute positioned DIV which contains my page header and has a 
>>> height of 60px. I would like to have another DIV (document body) 
>>> within the container that fills the remaining space in the container 
>>> (height wise), but if I put 100% the height of the container is 
>>> applied to the "document body" DIV and it overlaps the container. Is 
>>> there another way for me to fill the remaining container space? 
>> 
>> Fill it with what? 
>  
> I just want the DIV itself to fill the remaining space. Heres what I 
> have.  
>  
> <DIV id=wrapper> 
>         <DIV id=header> 
>         </DIV> 
>  
>         <DIV id=menu> 
>         </DIV> 
>  
>         <DIV id=content> 
>         </DIV> 
> </DIV> 
>  
> wrapper = width:760px, height:100% 
> header= width:100%, height: 60px; 
> menu= width:200px; height: 100%; 
> content=width:560px; height: 100%; 
>  
> What I would like is for the menu and content DIV's to fill the space  
> between the header and the bottom edge of the wrapper regardless of 
> the amount of content within them. But when I am using height:100% the 
> height of the wrapper is used so I get an overlap of 60px over the 
> bottom edge.  
 
Yes.  Perhaps you can put the header and menu div (sans 100% height) in  
the content div?  But you still haven't explained why you want 100%  
height. 
 
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Neredbojias 
Infinity has its limits.
 
  
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