Posted by jaschreiber on 05/22/06 05:29

i'm writing this only because i spent a good two days endlessly trying
to solve this problem and couldn't find anything on the internet that
actually helped. I eventually figured out the solution, as no doubt so
does everyone (hence the solution never actually being posted: it seems
too obvious to bother)... but had i found it sooner, i would have been
happy, so here goes:

if you're trying to get a CSS div to span the total height of the
window and scrolling is likely to be involved (for instance, a menu
sidebar), don't use the height: 100% tag! set margin-top: 0px and
margin-bottom:0px.

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