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CSS Container Height 100%

I posted this in another “resolved” theread but I modified my CSS slightly as well as verifying it. The verification said that its all good except the overflow-x and overflow-y (which I dont know any way around)
I’m trying to make my CSS containers full page height with my footer always sitting at the bottom of the page, I went by everything in the other thread and it almost works but the footer dangles off the bottom of the page, it seems that I either get this, the footer way high just at the end of the text area or in front of the text.

any thoughts?

[code]
<style type=”text/css”>
<!–
html {
min-height: 100&#37;;
}
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
body {
font: 100% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
background: #666666;
margin: 0; /* it’s good practice to zero the margin and padding of the body element to account for differing browser defaults */
padding: 0;
text-align: center; /* this centers the container in IE 5* browsers. The text is then set to the left aligned default in the #container selector */
color: #000000;
background-color: #000;
border-top-style: none;
border-right-style: none;
border-bottom-style: none;
border-left-style: none;
margin-top: 25px;
}
.oneColFixCtrHdr #container {
width: 800px;
margin: 0 auto; /* the auto margins (in conjunction with a width) center the page */
border: 0;
text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
background-color: #000;
min-height: 100%;
}
html #container {
height: 100%;
}

.oneColFixCtrHdr #header {
padding: 0 0px 0 0px; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear beneath it. If an image is used in the #header instead of text, you may want to remove the padding. */
background-color: #000;
height: 150px;
}
.oneColFixCtrHdr #header h1 {
margin: 0; /* zeroing the margin of the last element in the #header div will avoid margin collapse – an unexplainable space between divs. If the div has a border around it, this is not necessary as that also avoids the margin collapse */
padding: 0 0px; /* using padding instead of margin will allow you to keep the element away from the edges of the div */
}
.oneColFixCtrHdr #mainContent {
padding: 0 0px;
background-color: #000;
overflow: scroll;
height: 100%;
overflow-x:hidden;
overflow-y:auto;
}
.oneColFixCtrHdr #footer {
padding: 0 0px;
background-color: #000;
font-size: 10px;
height: 55px;
margin: -55px 0 0;
width: 800px;
}
.oneColFixCtrHdr #footer p {
margin: 0; /* zeroing the margins of the first element in the footer will avoid the possibility of margin collapse – a space between divs */
padding: 0px 0; /* padding on this element will create space, just as the the margin would have, without the margin collapse issue */
}
body,td,th {
color: #FFF;
}
–>
</style>[/code]

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@Declan1991Apr 26.2010 — Get rid of the HTML comments I'd say. Also, border: none; is handier than setting them all individually..oneColFixCtrHdr #header {
padding: 0 0px 0 0px; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear beneath it. If an image is used in the #header instead of text, you may want to remove the padding. */
}
padding: 0; Same with a few others down along the page. Don't put a unit on 0 either.

I would have thought that footer should be on the bottom of the page. Is it totally off the page, or just a bit?
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@borrisauthorApr 30.2010 — thanks I'll try that. I ended up making it a fixed height, I'm using a larger monitor than most people who would be viewing it anyway so some of my issues were exaggerated by that.
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