Solve the height=100% problem in Firefox

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Introduction

I had problems using DIV tags to design my page layout. When designing, I wanted a column height as 100%. I wrote:

<div style="height:100%"></div>

It worked fine in IE but failed in Firefox. I researched so much in the forums and finally, I did the design successfully. Now I am publishing it hoping it will help you!

Background

You should be familiar with CSS. please visit: http://www.w3c.org, http://www.w3schools.com.

Using the code

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
               "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--

body, p, td, li, div, html
{ 
font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, monospace; 
color: #000080;
font-size: small;
height:100%;
width:99%;
}
#leftspace {
float:left;
text-align: center;
width: 10%;
height:100%;
background-color:#006699;
background-repeat:repeat-y;
}

#container
{
float:left;
text-align: center;
width:78.56%;
}

#rightspace {
float:left;
text-align: center;
width: 10%;
background-color:#006699;
background-repeat:repeat-y;
height:100%;
}

#leftscroll {
float:left;
text-align: center;
width: 7px;
height:100%;
/*background-image:url(images/home_bg05.gif);*/
background-color:#ff0000;
background-repeat:repeat-y;
}
#rightscroll {
float:left;
text-align: center;
width: 7px;
height:100%;
/*background-image:url(images/home_bg04.gif);*/
background-color:#ff0000;
background-repeat:repeat-y;
}

#header {
float: left; 
border: 1px solid #8690ab; 
text-align: center; 
height: 100px; 
width: 99.8%; 

}
#left {
float:left; 
width: 20%; 
height: auto; 
border: 1px solid #8690ab; 
}

#middle {
float:left; 
width: 59.49%; 
border: 0px solid #8690ab; 
height:auto;
}

#right {
float:left; 
width: 20%; 
height: auto; 
border: 1px solid #8690ab;
}

#footer{
float: left; 
border: 1px solid #8690ab; 
text-align: center; 
height: 60px; 
width: 99.8%; 
}

-->
</style>
</head>

<body style="width:99.8%; border: 1px solid #ff0000 ">
<div id="leftspace"></div>
<div id="leftscroll"> </div>
<div id="container">

<div id="header">This is the header section</div>

<div id="left">
Category 1 <br />
Category 2 <br />
Category 3 <br />
</div>

<div id="middle">
<br />

A frequently asked question in CSS forums is how to create pages that stretch vertically to fill the browser window, regardless of the amount of content. With tables, you would nest your entire design in a table with a single cell and set both the cell and table's height to be 100 percent. With CSS, it's quite simple and easy. In this tutorial, you will learn the basic CSS techniques for making pages fill the browser window, which you can also use any time you have a DIV that you want to stretch to fill its parent.

<br />
</div>
<div id="right">Column 3 content </div>
<div id="footer"><br />This is the footer section<br />Mangrove CM, Vietnam </div>
</div>
<div id="rightscroll"> </div>
<div id="rightspace"> </div>
</body>
</html>