How to Make a Div 100% Height of the Browser Window

How can I make a div 100% of window height?

tl;dr - add html, body {height:100%;} to your CSS.


Percentage values in CSS are inherited from some ancestor that already has height declared. In your case, you need to tell all parents of your sidebar to be 100% height. I'm assuming that #sidebarBack is a direct child of body.

Essentially, your code above is telling #sidebarBack to be 100% height of its parent. Its parent (we are assuming) is body, so you need to set height: 100%; on body as well. We can't stop there, however; body inherits height from html, so we also need to set height: 100%; on html. We can stop here, because html inherits its properties from viewport, which already has a declared height of 100%.

This also means if you end up putting the #sidebar inside another div, then that div also needs height:100%;.

Here is an Updated JSFiddle.

Changed your CSS to:

html, body {
height:100%;
}

#sidebar {
background: rgba(20, 20, 20, .3);
width: 100px;
height: 100%;
left: 0;
float:left;
}

section#settings {
width:80%;
float:left;
margin-left:100px;
position:fixed;
}

Make Div Element 100% Height of Browser Window Using CSS

Is this what you want?

html, body {  height: 100%;  margin: 0;}#thediv{  min-height:100%;  min-width:100%;  background-color:red;  display:flex;  align-items:stretch;  position:relative;}.interiordiv{  background-color:blue;  width:50px;  margin:15px auto 15px auto;}
<div id="thediv"> <div class="interiordiv">A</div> <div class="interiordiv">V</div> <div class="interiordiv">C</div> <div class="interiordiv">D</div> <div class="interiordiv">E</div></div>

Make div take 100% of browser window height

If you want to achieve a 100 view height (device height) styling on a div or other elements you can use something like this:

.full-height {  height: 100vh;}.full-width {  width: 100vw;}div {  background: green;}
<div class="full-height full-width"></div>

Make body have 100% of the browser height

Try setting the height of the html element to 100% as well.

html, 
body {
height: 100%;
}

Body looks to its parent (HTML) for how to scale the dynamic property, so the HTML element needs to have its height set as well.

However the content of body will probably need to change dynamically.
Setting min-height to 100% will accomplish this goal.

html {
height: 100%;
}
body {
min-height: 100%;
}

Set div height to window height

Removing the margin and padding will help, you can also add box-sizing: border-box; to account for borders and padding when setting widths. Also I'm not sure if you wanted to make your footer stick to the bottom of the page, but I did that along with the other fixes in this fiddle:

http://jsfiddle.net/ob1g0752/2/



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