css div height 100% problem?

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css div height 100% problem?

I would like a div to take all the screen height, that's why I found the following links:

the tricks: make the container have a specified height, for example: body{height:100%} seems work fine, however, I found that: once you add some doctype claim, for example:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"&gt;

It doesn't work, at least at Firefox 3.*, it doesn't work. Any suggestions?

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The following works for me in HTML 4.01 strict (from your second link). No vertical scroll bar is displayed, even if the body is very long. Does this work for you?

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"&gt;
<html>
  <head>
    <style>
      html, body {
      /* get rid of default spacing on the edges */
      margin: 0;
      padding: 0;

      /* get rid of that 2px window border in Internet Explorer 6 */
      border: 0;

      /* fill the height of the browser */
      height: 100%;

      /* no more scroll bar */
      overflow: hidden;
    }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div>
      many many lines of text
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

Kaleb Brasee 2009-12-12 02:38:14

I noticed that the doctype is not important, the key is: not only add height:100% to body, but also to html

WilliamLou 2009-12-14 19:00:01

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