# Can CSS span 100% vertically?

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**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [January 29, 2004, 12:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-css-span-100-vertically/41434 "2004-01-29T00:23:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![novon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/65b543/32.png) [@novon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/novon)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2004, 12:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-css-span-100-vertically/41434/1 "2004-01-29T00:23:59Z")

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I’m tyring to design a table-less CSS layout, with 3 columns, all of which span 100% of the page vertically (all the way down). Is this possible with CSS? I tried setting the margin-bottom value but the DIVS only stretch to the amount of content in them.

Any CSS gurus out there?

Thanks