Css Height in Percent Not Working [Duplicate]

Css Height in Percent Not Working [Duplicate]

I have the following simple code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "">
<html xmlns="" xml:lang="en">

<head>
  <title>Live Feed</title>

  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

  <style>
    body {
      margin: 0px;
      padding: 0px;
    }
  </style>
</head>

<body>
  <div style="background-color: #eeaabb; width: 250px; height: 100%; border-right: solid 1px #e1e1e1;">
    I should be tall
  </div>
</body>

</html>

But the div doesn't get displayed with height being 100%. Why?

2

8 Answers

You need to set a 100% height on all your parent elements, in this case your body and html. This fiddle shows it working.

html, body { height: 100%; width: 100%; margin: 0; }
div { height: 100%; width: 100%; background: #F52887; }
<html><body><div></div></body></html>
4

Make it 100% of the viewport height:

div {
  height: 100vh;
}

Works in all modern browsers and IE>=9, see here for more info.

1

height: 100% works if you give a fixed size to the parent element.

You can achieve that by using positioning.

Try

position: absolute;

to get the 100% height.

1

You need to set 100% height on the parent element.

Add height:100% to body

body{height:100%}
1

the root parent have to be in pixels if you want to work freely with percents,

<body style="margin: 0px; width: 1886px; height: 939px;">
<div id="containerA" class="containerA" style="height:65%;width:100%;">
    <div id="containerAinnerDiv" style="position: relative; background-color: aqua;width:70%;height: 80%;left:15%;top:10%;">
       <div style="height: 100%;width: 50%;float: left;"></div>
       <div style="height: 100%;width: 28%;float:left">
            <img src="img/justimage.png" style="max-width:100%;max-height:100%;">
       </div>
       <div style="height: 100%;width: 22%;float: left;"></div>
    </div>
</div>
</body>

This is what you need in the CSS:

html, body {
    height: 100%; 
    width: 100%; 
    margin: 0; 
}
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