yes, I have tried both the faux columns approach that you use and the large padding solution.. can't get either to work very well.
maybe you can correct me if I am wrong but the faux column approach sets a body background because the body tag will cover the whole page and therefore extend the height of the column. in my particular case (http://www.allanalog.com/aaw/) the column I am trying to stretch is the center column in middle section of my page (with About Us at the top) - so ideally I would like to have a wrapper only around column 2 and 3 (first column is generated by a CMS system and it is complex to wrap that one as well) where I thought I could (as you do with body) put repeating background image in the wrapper DIV... but, as I am guessing.. it is not like adding it to body; as it does not repeat the same anywhere else. I think bottom line is that CSS is not really at the stage where it can be used for page layout for complex layouts (not that mine is that complex - but still haven't seen a solution that can work here). seemed like a nice idea though.. maybe in a few years. Peter Lindstrom All Analog - Technical Design Consulting Ottawa, ON Voice: 613-612-1419 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.allanalog.com ::-----Original Message----- ::From: Ricky Zhou [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ::Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 9:14 PM ::To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ::Subject: Re: [css-d] vertical stretch .. just can't get it :: ::On 2/5/06, Peter Lindstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ::> I have managed to use this method to get what I was looking for.. but I ::had ::> sort of been hoping there was a "real" way of stretching columns without ::> that technique since there are limitations when doing this.. for example ::- ::> the side column must be fixed width (which isn't really that big a deal ::in ::> most cases).. ::The method described is used to get the container to stretch fully ::(the border is a completely different issue, which I solve with faux ::columns). If you want to avoid this, I think some people use a huge ::paddings/negative margins to stretch the columns to theh container ::(padding-bottom: 32767px; margin-bottom: -32767px;). Personally, I ::think that the image is a more flexible/clean solution, though. :: ::Hope this helps, ::Ricky ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
