Use height:auto, top:0, and bottom:0 to stretch an absolute element to the top and bottom of its closest positioned ancestor. : float layout « Layout « HTML / CSS






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Use height:auto, top:0, and bottom:0 to stretch an absolute element to the top and bottom of its closest positioned ancestor.

 


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title></title>
<style type="text/css">
.container{
    position: relative;
    width: 800px;
    height: 800px;
    background: pink;
}
* .box {
  float: right;
  overflow: auto;
  visibility: visible;
  width: auto;
  height: 100px;
  margin: 10px;
  padding: 10px;
  background: red;
}

* .small {
    position: absolute;
    top: 0px;
    bottom: 0px;
    height: auto;
    background: yellow;  
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
  <div class="container"> 
    <div class="small">this is a test. <BR/>this is a test. this is a test. this is a test. </div> 
    <div class="box">this is a test</div> 
  </div> 
</body>
</html>








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