dynamic height?

[Amy]

Hello,

I am in the middle of re-designing my website,
http://www.amykimber.com/index.asp is the table version,
http://www.amykimber.com/temp.asp is where I'm currently at with the css
version...

Quite.

Ok, my question is this. I want a div that goes from 100px from the
top (so I have room for my top banner) to the bottom - where ever that is -
either the bottom of the screen or after the data that's in the div, which
would be a simple "hello this is my site" paragraph to a long CV page (i.e.
scrolling and non-scrolling pages). But when I state to and bottom
attributes (no height of course) it all goes pare shaped

<div id="Main" style="position: absolute; left: 155px; right: 90px; top:
100px; bottom: 10px; z-index: 1; overflow: auto;">

http://www.amykimber.com/temp2.asp - not good.

So... have I got the wrong end of the stick somewhere? Is what I'm
after possible? If I set the heights of the 6 layers to a % - say, 75% or
80% I get a very similar mess as well.

Basically... Help! Any comments, suggestions or rants gratefully
received :-)

Amy K

[Eric Bohlman]

"Amy" <bl**@blar.blar.com> wrote in
news:bp*******************@news.demon.co.uk:

Ok, my question is this. I want a div that goes from 100px
from the
top (so I have room for my top banner) to the bottom - where ever that
is - either the bottom of the screen or after the data that's in the
div, which would be a simple "hello this is my site" paragraph to a
long CV page (i.e. scrolling and non-scrolling pages). But when I
state to and bottom attributes (no height of course) it all goes pare
shaped

<div id="Main" style="position: absolute; left: 155px; right: 90px;
top: 100px; bottom: 10px; z-index: 1; overflow: auto;">

http://www.amykimber.com/temp2.asp - not good.

So... have I got the wrong end of the stick somewhere? Is what
I'm
after possible? If I set the heights of the 6 layers to a % - say, 75%
or 80% I get a very similar mess as well.

It's working just fine in Opera 7.22 and K-Meleon 0.8 (based on Mozilla
1.5), but the two columns go wacky in MSIE 6.0. MSIE is known to have some
problems handling XHTML; you might want to test it out using HTML 4.01
Strict instead.