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From lyndia.com css layout tutorial module 3 - video 8 Please notice the comments down there !! They show the limitation of setting height for columns
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column height.html
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>column height</title>
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<script src="http://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
<style>
/*
Please notice the comments down there !!
They show the limitation of setting height for columns
*/
aside, article, section, header, footer, nav {
display: block;
}
html, body, section, p {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
html {
background: rgb(221,203,181);
height: 100%;
}
body {
width: 960px;
background: #fff;
margin: 0 auto 2em;
font: 100% Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
height: 100%; /*even child won't take all the spaces of the viewport, it still strenth all the way downwards*/
}
section {
background: yellow;
width: 50%;
min-height: 100%; /*let it strench by it's children*/
padding: 10px; /*it will apply on top of height:100% */
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<section>
<p>I am content inside of a section. I want this section (which has a green background) to stretch to the full height of the layout. I could set height to 100%, but that by itself doesn't have the desired result. To make the element truly stretch to the full height, I have to also explicitly set the height of all its parent elements as well.</p>
<p>I am content inside of a section. I want this section (which has a green background) to stretch to the full height of the layout. I could set height to 100%, but that by itself doesn't have the desired result. To make the element truly stretch to the full height, I have to also explicitly set the height of all its parent elements as well.</p>
<p>I am content inside of a section. I want this section (which has a green background) to stretch to the full height of the layout. I could set height to 100%, but that by itself doesn't have the desired result. To make the element truly stretch to the full height, I have to also explicitly set the height of all its parent elements as well.</p>
<p>I am content inside of a section. I want this section (which has a green background) to stretch to the full height of the layout. I could set height to 100%, but that by itself doesn't have the desired result. To make the element truly stretch to the full height, I have to also explicitly set the height of all its parent elements as well.</p>
<p>I am content inside of a section. I want this section (which has a green background) to stretch to the full height of the layout. I could set height to 100%, but that by itself doesn't have the desired result. To make the element truly stretch to the full height, I have to also explicitly set the height of all its parent elements as well.</p>
</section>
</body>
</html>
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