Side 100%?

[sharpy]

I have no idea how to make the sides of my website expand with the rest of the page.

Here is what I coded first
http://www.wortheffort.com/new/finished/

Then I made the contents boxes expand to text...

http://www.wortheffort.com/new/side/
http://www.wortheffort.com/new/side/style.css

Now I am having problems making the sides expand to the height of the page I know in that example I have them set to 1400px but if I set it to 100% or auto they just vanish.

Is there anyway I can fix this?

And im quite new at coding tableless so sorry for the mess .

[tlcook]

What happens if you have no height defined?

[sharpy]

If no height is defined it is not displayed in FF and is only about 10px in height on IE



ty for the idea tho

[tlcook]

Have you tried using the property, display:block ?

[sharpy]

ty for all you help

I got it to work using the overflow:hidden command and setting the sides to a height 10000 and using the footer as the end and anything after that to be hidden.

[Steax]

You need to be a bit careful though. What you're doing is practically a hack, and a browser out there might have trouble with your method. If you want to be compete, test it in the following browsers:
* IE6 - test throughly for box model, test with different font sizes
* IE7 - similar test to IE6
* Firefox
* Opera
* Safari
* Konqueror (however you spell it)

Edit: save my face a bit

[tlcook]

Konqueror :P