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Asked: 2026-06-15T13:50:40+00:00

I’ve tried several suggestions online, making my html and body tags have a height

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I’ve tried several suggestions online, making my html and body tags have a height of 100% as well as a min-height of 100%. I’ve set my div tag as the same as well.. It just isn’t expanding to the bottom of the screen.

Also I can’t get a second floating div to fill 100% of the space not filled up by another div beside it. It will only fill 100% of the screen (under the other smaller div) or enough to allow for the text.

I guess it should be noted that I tried viewing in IE9 as well as Firefox 16.

<!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>
  <title></title>
  <style type="text/css">
    body {
      margin: 0px;
      padding: 0px;
      height: 100%;
      min-height: 100%;
      overflow:hidden;
    }  
    div#topbar {
      width: 100%;
      height:133px;
      background-image :url(bkgnd_header_tile.jpg);
    }
    div#logo {
      width: 187px;
      height: 133px;
      background-image:url('headerlogo_home.jpg');
      float: left;
    }
    div#text {
      width: 1;
      height: 133px;
      float: right;
    }
    div#campuses {
      height: 68px;
      padding-top: 10px;
      color: White;
      text-align: right;
    }
    div#title {
      height: 41px;
      color: White;
      text-align: right;
      padding-top: 14px;
    }
    div#sidebar {
      height: 100%;
      width: 250px;
      float: right;
      background-color: Black;
    }
    div#body {
      height: 100%;
      width: 100%
      float: right;
      font-family: Segoe UI;
    }
    span.text {
      padding-left: 15px;
      padding-right: 15px;
      font-family: Sans-Serif;
      font-size: small;
    }
    span.name {
      padding-left: 15px;
      padding-right: 15px;
      font-family: Sans-Serif;
      font-size: x-large;
    }  
  </style>
</head>
<body>
  <div id="topbar">
    <div id="logo"></div>
    <div id="text">
      <div id="campuses">
        <span class="text">St. John's Campus</span>
        <span class="text">Grenfell Campus</span>
        <span class="text">Marine Institute</span>
        <span class="text">Harlow Campus</span>
        <span class="text">Distance Education</span>
      </div>
      <div id="title"><span class="name">Memorial Self Service</span></div>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div id="sidebar">

  </div>
  <div id="body">
    asdf</div>
</body>
</html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    Basically, following Ravindra’s suggestion, and modifying it a bit, I got this to work. I set the body with the following style settings

    body {
  position: absolute;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  margin: 0px;
  padding: 0px;
}

    and used these for my two DIV sections:

    div#body { 
  position: relative;
  height: 100%;
  overflow:scroll;
}

div#sidebar {
  position: fixed;
  background-color : #EFEFEF;
  height: 100%;
  width: 300px;
  overflow: hidden;
}

div#content {
  height: 100%;
  float: left;
  margin-left: 300px;

    <div id="body"></div> is a parent container for the other two div’s, id=”sidebar” and id=”content”. I did this because I also had a top bar in its own div 133px high just above the “body” div.

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