On 01.01.2006 19:03, Arno @ Raketnet wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> First: all the best wishes for this new year. May it turn out to be as much 
> a problem-less year as possible ;o)
> 
> Anyway... My year doesn't seem to start as problemless as I hoped.
> In the stylesheet I set the height for the column at 100%, thinking that it 
> will fill up the screen completely, regardless the amount of text and that 
> it would also extend would the text be more than fits the screen.

A hight of 100% is the hight of the viewport in your case.
If the viewport has a hight of 500px, than this 500px is
equivalent to 100%.

> 
> However. That last thing it doesn't do. As soon as the text extends the 
> screen the background set in the wrapper stops.

This is the correct behavior. If you don't want it, you should not set
an explicit hight. You could set a min-height of 100%, instead.

> 
> 
> A second problem is that IE doesn't show the style sheet at all.

As long as you are using a syntax to filter MSIE,
you won't get another result.

< http://www.dithered.com/css_filters/css_only/index.php >



Regards,
Uwe Kaiser
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