# CSS Hight Question
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-hight-question/115239
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [July 6, 2004, 9:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-hight-question/115239 "2004-07-06T21:26:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@RussianBeer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/RussianBeer)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2004, 9:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-hight-question/115239/1 "2004-07-06T21:26:49Z")
Okay, I have created an all CSS website,
[size=1][color=#0000ff][http://www.pacific-emarket.com/imts/Templates/imts-test.dwt](http://www.pacific-emarket.com/imts/Templates/imts-test.dwt)
[/color][/size]
Using DIV tags I have created a menu located on the left, but I want in to stretch to the bottom, which I wasnt able to do it.
```auto
#menu {
float:left;
height:100%;
background-color: #CCCCCC;
}
```
the rest of the CSS is at: [u][size=1][color=#0000ff]
[http://www.pacific-emarket.com/imts/imts.css](http://www.pacific-emarket.com/imts/imts.css)
[/u][/color][/size]
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2004, 10:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-hight-question/115239/2 "2004-07-07T10:52:45Z")
i remember seeing some hints on this… there are a few tutorials if you google ‘CSS + 100% height’. NB sometimes the effect is buggy, so check a range of browsers… OR you could also mimic the same effect by using a 2 colour bg image to give the impression of a left-hand nav column in a different colour
🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2004, 12:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-hight-question/115239/3 "2004-07-07T12:16:54Z")
Doesn’t work easily. Need to make the
```auto
body {
height:100%
}
```
You need to have it’s parent container be 100% for it to work so if it’s a div inside a div it needs to be 100% too. Anyway, you make it body will need to be 100%
If you want a bg in it, it’s simple
```auto
background:url(bg.gif) repeat;
```
This code gets ugly on browsers other than IE
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2004, 12:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-hight-question/115239/4 "2004-07-07T12:27:06Z")
useful site:
[http://nemesis1.f2o.org/articles](http://nemesis1.f2o.org/articles)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2004, 7:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-hight-question/115239/5 "2004-07-07T19:53:57Z")
Awsome guys thanks,
I did that
body {height:100%}
#menu {height: 100%} \<- The navigation\
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2004, 6:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-hight-question/115239/6 "2004-07-22T18:35:20Z")
well it works funky… it makes longer… but not all the way… any idea?
[http://www.pacific-emarket.com/imts...s/imts-test.dwt](http://www.pacific-emarket.com/imts...s/imts-test.dwt)