Height 100% not working for DIV tag in Internet Explorer 8
I have the following code that I am using to display a search tool with a scrolling results section. In IE the code works fine:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html style="background:black;height:100%;width:100%;">
<head>
<title>Report</title>
</head>
<body style="background:black;">
<table HEIGHT="100%" WIDTH="100%" style="background:red;">
<tr>
<td>
Search Area
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td HEIGHT="100%" WIDTH="100%" style="background:orange;">
<div style="overflow-y:scroll;height:100%;">
<table style="width:100px;height:1000px;">
<tr>
<td style="background:white;">
Results Area
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
But when I set the meta tag to use IE8 formatting by adding:
开发者_JAVA技巧<meta http-equiv='X-UA-Compatible' content='IE=edge' />
The bottom DIV tag expands beyond the page. I have tried a number of options though and can't find a way around it without actually specifying a height for the values. Which will not work as I want the page to take up 100% of the screen no matter the size of the browser window.
Any help would be much appreciated.
This metatag enables correct CSS rendering, and in CSS – by design – height:100% basically doesn't work.
You need to give specific height to every single ancestor of the element, including <body>, <table>, <tr> and even <tbody> element that's automatically inserted by the parser.
Anyway, this layout can be achieved in easier way:
.topBanner {
position:absolute; position:fixed;
height:2em;
top:0; left:0; width:100%;
}
body {padding-top: 2em}
this will degrade nicely in IE6, and unlike overflow, will work properly in Mobile Safari.
Edit:
Removing the DOCTYPE declaration will make height="100%" work but it puts the browser in quirks mode though, which is not desirable.
Generally speaking using tables for layout is discouraged, you should use CSS instead.
For example: http://jsfiddle.net/rf649/7/
HTML
<div id="search">Search Area</div>
<div id="results">Results Area</div>
CSS:
#search {
background-color: red;
position: fixed;
height: 150px;
width: 100%;
}
#results{
background-color: orange;
position: fixed;
top: 150px;
width: 100%;
bottom: 0;
overflow: auto;
}
You should set all margins and paddings for the parent elements to zero in order to get what you want.
Update: Sorry, didn't understand the problem at once. Ben's hint should be the better one I assume. :)
Update 2: Oops, since Ben has deleted his answer my first update doesn't make any sense. Try setting the body's height to 100%, that should solve the problem.
My understanding about cross browser CSS is not that big so it might not be the best solution, but it's a solution.
As far as I've seen, you always have to set the height/width of the container that you want to overflow, so you need to set them.
To deal with the resolution I would suggest you to add a jQuery script at the onReady event that dynamically would fix the height and width making the overflow work.
I had the similar problem like you and finally the solution was to modificate a CSS line entry that had an !important modificator for a fixed height declaration. In the HTML code the class (defined in CSS) had the height assigned to 100%, but the CSS applied the !important during the style loading.
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