Comments on: IE6 Min-height ‘Hack’ that isn’t

By: BJ

BJ — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:59:52 +0000

Anja, the cascade is feeding the good browsers min-height, which they understand. Only IE6 is getting height.

By: Anja

Anja — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:50:06 +0000

i was looking for this solution and it worked like a charm for me. had to add // like this though:
html, body {
//height: 100%;
min-height: 100%;
}
because without that, firefox thought it was height 100%, which it takes as absolute i think.

By: BJ

BJ — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:04:55 +0000

Absolute Positioning? That creates a whole lot more problems than this non hack does.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:22:35 +0000

A sometimes simpler and safer solution is to create an element with 0 width and x height, and float it left inside the container element. sometimes the above mentioned solution will mess up a site design, specifically when using things such as bottom absolutely positioned elements i.e. for footers.