Wow, ignore my last comment. When he is talking about his "body" element he is talking to about a div with an id of "body"....
Who does that!? Just take off overflow and see if it works for all your browsers. -Richard Aday On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Richard Aday <[email protected]>wrote: > I found this online: > > Moreover, notice the body element, it will need to have 100% height and >> also to clear the floats we need to use the *overflow: hidden* option >> (for IE6 there is a bug and the overflow need to be visible to work out) > > > from > http://www.thechoppr.com/blog/2009/02/08/3-column-fluid-layout-100-height/ > > Good luck! > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Richard Aday <[email protected]>wrote: > >> You know, now that I think about it... you probably don't need overflow: >> hidden. >> >> I don't have time to try it out so it's up to you! :) >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 7:01 PM, peter <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Thanks, Richard! I tried putting it in the body tag and it worked. >>> Nout sure I quite understand why, yet, but I think I will when I take >>> a close look at it. >>> >>> Again, thanks. >>> >>> Peter >>> >>> On Feb 23, 3:45 am, Richard Aday <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > Or, why don't you just set that background image on the body tag and >>> see if >>> > it does what you are looking for (Make sure you specify repeat-y). >>> > >>> > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Richard Aday <[email protected] >>> >wrote: >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > > 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 >>> > >>> > > -- >>> > > -Richard Aday >>> > >>> > -- >>> > -Richard Aday >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> -Richard Aday >> > > > > -- > -Richard Aday > -- -Richard Aday --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ -- You received this because you are subscribed to the "Design the Web with CSS" at Google groups. To post: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
