I answered this question about a week or two on this list:

Here is an example on how to do it.  The trick is with the CSS rule for html
> and body.
>
> *viewport.html*
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";>
>
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>ViewPort Example</title>
> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="viewport.css">
> </head>
>
> <body>
>
> <div id="example">This div has 100% height and width of the viewport</div>
>
> </body>
>
> </html>
>
> *viewport.css*
> html, body {
>   overflow: hidden;
>   height: 100%;
> }
>
> #example {
>   height: 100%;
>   background-color: blue;
> }
>

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 5:46 AM, peter <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I am trying to have a black vertical bar on the left of my web pages.
> I want it to go to the bottom of the page. Here is the code I used in
> the style sheet:
>
> #menu {
>    position: absolute;
>    top: 0px;
>    left: 0px;
>    padding: 10px;
>    height: 100%;
>    width: 200px;
>    background-image: url(/images/lefttile.gif);
>    background-repeat: repeat-y;
> }
>
> "lefttile.gif" is a black square. The bar only goes part way down the
> pages.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
>
> >
>


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