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Expanding div w/ height in non IE browsers

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Nov 05.2008

Hi.

Lets say I have a div container, within it there is another div which needs to be 100% height of its parent (there are other divs in there pushing the height of the container, but to keep it simple lets stick to one div).

How can I do this?

[code=html]
<div>
<div style=”float:left;padding:0;margin:0;height:100%;width:50%;background-color:red;”>abcdefg</div>
<div style=”float:left;padding:0;margin:0;height:100%;width:50%;background-color:blue;”>hijk<br />lmnop</div>
</div>
[/code]

I don’t think there has been any way at this moment of time to do this but it’s worth asking.

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@jassincNov 06.2008 — Set the parents height...

[code=html]
<div style="position:relative; height:400px;">
<div style="float:left;padding:0;margin:0;height:100&#37;;width:50%;background-color:red;">abcdefg</div>
<div style="float:left;padding:0;margin:0;height:100%;width:50%;background-color:blue;">hijk<br />lmnop</div>
</div>
[/code]

The inner divs should take the size of the container, in theory anyway...
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@TaboauthorNov 07.2008 — Set the parents height...

[code=html]
<div style="position:relative; height:400px;">
<div style="float:left;padding:0;margin:0;height:100%;width:50%;background-color:red;">abcdefg</div>
<div style="float:left;padding:0;margin:0;height:100%;width:50%;background-color:blue;">hijk<br />lmnop</div>
</div>
[/code]

The inner divs should take the size of the container, in theory anyway...[/QUOTE]

But you've specified a height of 400!
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@jassincNov 07.2008 — It's an example, you just change it to whatever height you want it to be...
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@TaboauthorNov 07.2008 — It's an example, you just change it to whatever height you want it to be...[/QUOTE]

But the hight changes during runtime, that's the problem, I have no idea what hight the content will be. I don't want to have to use the

background:transparent url("red_1x1px.gif") repeat-y 0 0;

trick though.

I want a clean column effect (though I'm not using this for columns lol).
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