I just tried google feeling lucky with "100% height div" and got this:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum83/200.htm
makes sense - try 100% on the body (but also test what happens when
you resize to less than the size of the content to make that doesn't
get mucked up).
HTH,
Brett
On 4/28/05, Daniel Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks Brett for the clear answer. I agree with you, tables is hardcoded
> layout stuff, and a distinct separation of layout and content is also what I
> prefer.
>
> Did you try to stretch the nav column with css yourself? I would appreciate
> some help. When trying to extend the maven-basic.css to stretch to the
> extend of the page there are basically to ids the should be considered:
>
> <html>
> ...
> <body class="composite">
> ...
> <div id="leftColumn">
> <div id="navcolumn">
> ...
>
> In my mave-basic.css I added the following instructions:
>
> #navcolumn {
> ...
> height: 100%;
> }
>
> #leftColumn {
> ...
> height: 100%;
> ...
> }
>
> However, no stretching is visible. Any clue what would do the trick?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Daniel Frey
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Brett Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 28. April 2005 08:38
> An: Maven Users List
> Betreff: Re: table vs. div tag in site
>
> Actually, db.apache.org was done with an older version of Maven. You can get
> that look and feel, using the <div/> approach, using
> maven.xdoc.theme=classic.
>
> Note that the table style is definitely not a good way to be doing layout,
> and the web is moving much more towards (albeit slowly) CSS driven layout.
>
> You can customise with a whole new site.jsl as recommended, but also by just
> supplying an alternate stylesheet (preferred). The stylesheet could easily
> set the left nav to extend to 100% of the content.
>
> - Brett
>
> On 4/28/05, Jörg Schaible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Daniel Frey wrote on Wednesday, April 27, 2005 4:42 PM:
> >
> > > Hello
> > >
> > > I am revising my sites css. I would like the left navigation column
> > > to have ist gray background going to the bottom of the page. Trying
> > > to find out how this can be achieve I have found that there are two
> > > different types of maven sites on the web:
> > > 1. Those I get where the left and body columns are just wrapped into
> > > a div tag (i.e. http://maven.apache.org/), and 2. those where they
> > > are placed with a table (i.e.
> > > http://db.apache.org/). I would like to have the table version, as
> > > it fullfills my needs easily. How can I switch to this type of
> > > documentation? Are there templates to be exchanged or so?
> >
> > There's only one Maven site on the web, the one with CSS. db.apache.org is
> not done with Maven. You can apply your own template though by defining your
> own site.jsl (see xdoc-plugin docs). Drawback is that you have to update all
> parts taken from the original with every new release of the plugin yourself.
> >
> > - Jörg
> >
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