i'm not going to say this is the best answer, but it works in ff, ie, and opera. maybe it will give you a starting point.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" > <head> <title>)}i{( Test</title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <style type="text/css"> html, body { height: 100%; margin: 0; padding: 0; } #header { background: #eeeeee; height: 50px; position: relative; z-index: 1; } #content { background: #ffffcc; height: 100%; margin-top: -50px; padding-top: -50px; position: relative; } #content-inside { padding-top: 50px; } </style> </head> <body> <div id="header"> hello world </div> <div id="content"> <div id="content-inside"> some text </div> </div> </body> </html> ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/