The color background you stated for  #centerBox  was dark grey
background: #444444;

what color do you want it to be?


On Feb 6, 9:36 pm, Enoch <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, so my problem is that my content escapes the centerBox div IF the
> browser window is opened so that vertical scroll bars occur normally.
> Code below. It is really odd becuase the centerBox fills 100% as one
> would expect. But when you use the scroll bars to look at additional
> content the centerBox div doesn't follow - leaving (in this case) a
> dark grey background behind the content. Oddly enough, if I resize the
> browser window so that all content is shown - it will correct and
> repaint so that the centerBox fills the 100percent.
>
> this happens in firefox, chrome and ie (latest/greatest of all).
> anyone have any thoughts/suggestions/ideas? - thanks!
> <pre>
>     html, body, div#centerBox{
>       height:100%;
>     }
>     div#content, div#main{
>       float:left;
>     }
>     body{
>       margin:0px;
>       padding:0px;
>       text-align:center;
>       background-color:#444444;
>     }
>     #centerBox {
>       width:996px;
>       margin:0px auto 0px auto;
>       text-align:left;
>       min-height: 100%;
>       background: #444444;
>       background-image: url('../sides.gif');
>       background-repeat: repeat-y;
>     }
>     #content{
>       padding:0px 6px;
>       margin: 0px;
>      }
>     #main{
>       width:946px;
>       margin: 0px 20px;
>     }
>     <body>
>
>          <div id="centerBox">
>           <div id="content">
>            <div id="main">
>           content that will cause vertical scroll bars in the browser
> to occur naturally.
>            </div>
>           </div>
>          </div>
>         </body>
>
> </pre>

-- 
--
You received this because you are subscribed to the "Design the Web with CSS" 
at Google groups.
To post: [email protected]
To unsubscribe: [email protected]

Reply via email to