height=100% do not work

Question

the code below are all height=100%, it works fine in chrome but it displayes very strange in firefox and ie7!it is not exactly the 100% height.anyone knows? thanks a million.

Answer 1

You may need a container div, with a min-height property. Writing 100% height in HTML for some reason is one of the hardest things to do.

Here are some tutorials on how 100% height can be achieved

http://www.dave-woods.co.uk/?p=144

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum83/200.htm