I am building a page layout with three divs: a header and footer with a fixed height in pixels, as well as a div in the middle of the page that should fill the remaining height of the screen. In addition, I want to be able to set the height to 100% in the internal divs of the content div, because one of them will place the view of the drawing area, which should fill the remaining height of the screen. Therefore, it is especially important that the inner divs do not leak under the header or footer. So far, I have achieved a 100% valid CSS solution that works in all major browsers except Internet Explorer 6 and 7.
Is there anything I can do to fix my layout for IE6 and 7? Or do you see another way to do what I want?
Here is the code:
<!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>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>The #content div fill the remaining height and appears to have a height</title>
<style TYPE="text/css">
<!--
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
html, body,
#container{
height: 100%;
}
#container{
position: relative;
}
#header,
#footer{
height: 60px;
line-height: 60px;
background: #ccc;
text-align: center;
width : 100%;
position: absolute;
}
#header{
top: 0;
}
#footer{
bottom: 0;
}
#content{
position: absolute;
top:60px;
bottom: 60px;
width : 100%;
overflow: auto;
border-top: 1px solid #888;
border-bottom: 1px solid #888;
}
#inner-content{
overflow: auto;
background-color: #FC0;
height: 100%;
}
p{
margin-bottom: 10px;
}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="header">
<h1>Header</h1>
</div>
<div id="content">
<div id='inner-content'>
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quam dictum hendrerit eu non elit. Donec ultricies ullamcorper libero a molestie.
Donec auctor nulla vitae tortor ullamcorper posuere. Etiam fringilla tristique blandit.
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</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer">
<h1>Footer</h1>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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