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I want to make a box as high as it can go without over lapping the footer, or header. I also want the text to automatically do a line break in IE and FF, but I could only get this to work in IE, here is my CSS:

div.leftbox{
word-wrap: break-word;
overflow: hidden;
float: left;
width: 20%;
height: auto;
border: #0099CC solid 1px;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
}

 

here is a pic, I want the the white box to touch the green parts (header and footer) and automatically stretch when the hight increases.

box.bmp

 

-Thanks Guys!

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Something like this for the style sheet:

 


#leftcolumn {
width:20%;
}

#textbox{
word-wrap: break-word;
overflow: hidden;
height: auto;
border: #0099CC solid 1px;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
}

#header {
background-color:#009900;
border: #0099CC solid 1px;
}

#footer {
background-color:#009900;
border: #0099CC solid 1px;
}

 

And the html like this:

 


<body>
<div id='leftcolumn'>

<div id='header'>
Header.
</div>

<div id='textbox'>
This is a load of text.
</p>
Blah blah blah
</div>

<div id='footer'>
Footer.
</div>
</div>	

</body>

 

...ought to solve it.  The text box will change size automatically depending on how much you put in it as long as you don't specify a size eg height: 50px;

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