Right-floated image height

A perennial problem; apologies if people are sick of this one. I have a
dynamic-width page with stripes on the left and the right; the left
stripe is defined in "body {background:}", while the right stripe is in a
right-floated div.

Has anyone come up with a method to make a right-floated image run the
full height of the document? Both Mozilla and IE(5, probably 6) take
"height: 100%" to mean "100% of the viewport height". Scroll down, and
the stripe just ends there in the middle of the document.

I'm to the point of defining "height: 250%" and such, but that can make
for a heckuva lot of white space at the bottom, depending on font size,
window size, and the phase of the moon. Any better ideas?

Have a look:
http://www.foogod.com/~torquill/test...index_new.html
stylesheet at ./index_import.css (Warning: kludge zone still in effect!)

I can't decide whether this or the "background: fixed" bug costs me more
hair. Thank heavens I'm not trying to do both....

--Alison

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 06:41:45 GMT, "Alison Stewart"
<spammo_hung (AT) foogod (DOT) com> wrote:

A perennial problem; apologies if people are sick of this one. I have a
dynamic-width page with stripes on the left and the right; the left
stripe is defined in "body {background:}", while the right stripe is in a
right-floated div.

Has anyone come up with a method to make a right-floated image run the
full height of the document? Both Mozilla and IE(5, probably 6) take
"height: 100%" to mean "100% of the viewport height". Scroll down, and
the stripe just ends there in the middle of the document.

I'm to the point of defining "height: 250%" and such, but that can make
for a heckuva lot of white space at the bottom, depending on font size,
window size, and the phase of the moon.

Too true.

Any better ideas?

Yes, I think so. This does indeed get asked from time to time, so I've
borrowed your stripes to knock up a quick demo:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/layout5.html

It uses nested DIVs rather than floats.

HTH

--
Stephen Poley

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:53:27 +0200, Stephen Poley
<sbpoleySpicedHamTrap (AT) xs4all (DOT) nl> wrote:

Yes, I think so. This does indeed get asked from time to time, so I've
borrowed your stripes to knock up a quick demo:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/layout5.html

It uses nested DIVs rather than floats.

Exactly what I was looking for -- thanks, Stephen. I had to mess with the
right margin a little, but it's perfect now.

Thanks for the reply.

Alison
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http://www.painters-wing.com

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 00:54:43 GMT, "Alison Stewart"
<spammo_hung (AT) foogod (DOT) com> wrote:

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:53:27 +0200, Stephen Poley
sbpoleySpicedHamTrap (AT) xs4all (DOT) nl> wrote:

Yes, I think so. This does indeed get asked from time to time, so I've
borrowed your stripes to knock up a quick demo:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/layout5.html

It uses nested DIVs rather than floats.

Exactly what I was looking for -- thanks, Stephen. I had to mess with the
right margin a little, but it's perfect now.

I forgot to mention that I noticed your stripes_right wasn't quite a
mirror-image of your stripes_left, so I produced a new version by
flipping stripes_left. That would cause the margin difference.

Thanks for the reply.

You're welcome.

--
Stephen Poley

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/