How to Make ≪Div≫ Fill ≪Td≫ Height

How to make div fill td height

If you give your TD a height of 1px, then the child div would have a heighted parent to calculate it's % from. Because your contents would be larger then 1px, the td would automatically grow, as would the div. Kinda a garbage hack, but I bet it would work.

How to make div fill td height in Firefox

Try adding display: table to your nested <div>, and change height: 1px to height: 100% on the parent <td>

Example that works in Firefox, IE and Chrome

table,th,td {  border: 1px solid black;}
.fix_height { height: 1px;}
@-moz-document url-prefix() { .fix_height { height: 100%; }}
<table>  <tr>    <td class="fix_height">      <div style="border:1px solid red; height:100%; display:inline-table">        I want cell to be the full height      </div>    </td>    <td>      This cell      <br/>is higher      <br/>than the      <br/>first one    </td>  </tr></table>

Make a DIV fill an entire table cell

The following code works on IE 8, IE 8's IE 7 compatibility mode, and Chrome (not tested elsewhere):

<table style="width:100px"> <!-- Not actually necessary; just makes the example text shorter -->
<tr><td>test</td><td>test</td></tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding:0;">
<div style="height:100%; width:100%; background-color:#abc; position:relative;">
<img style="left:90px; position:absolute;" src="../Content/Images/attachment.png"/>
test of really long content that causes the height of the cell to increase dynamically
</div>
</td>
<td>test</td>
</tr>
</table>

You said in your original question that setting width and height to 100% didn't work, though, which makes me suspect that there is some other rule overriding it. Did you check the computed style in Chrome or Firebug to see if the width/height rules were really being applied?

Edit

How foolish I am! The div was sizing to the text, not to the td. You can fix this on Chrome by making the div display:inline-block, but it doesn't work on IE. That's proving trickier...

Make div height 100% in a table cell

If you only need the background color to cover the entire cell, you can just set it on the td rather than div.

td:last-child {
background-color: green;
}

If you really need to make the div to cover the cell, you can try using the position tricks. Note, this approach only works when there is less data in the second cell.

td {
position: relative;
}
td:last-child div {
background-color: green;
width:100%;
height: 100%;
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: 0;
}

jsFiddle

Make a div fill up the entire width and height of a table cell with unspecified dimensions

After trying many things it seems that as of 2020 stretching a div to fill all the available space of a table cell without JavaScript is not possible unless you use absolute/relative positioning.

The downside with absolute positioning is that the cell does not expand with the content inside it and even not expanded the table cell seems to break on mobile ( tested with an iphoneXS on IOS14 )

dev-sbx.github.io/x

Sample Image

The only real solution here seems to be using a CSS Grid layout opposed to an HTML table.

How to make a div occupy the full height of td

Two things:

1.) Add ´box-sizing: border-box;´as a general rule (* selector) (if you want to see the red border on all four sides of the cell)

2.) Add padding: 0 to the cell to get rid of the tiny white space between red and blue borders.

* {  box-sizing: border-box;}body,html {  width: 100%;  height: 100%;  padding: 0px;  margin: 0px;}
.full { width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 10px solid red;}
#content { width: 100%; height: 100%;}
#content>table { width: 100%; height: 100%;}
#content>table>tbody>tr>td { border: 10px solid blue; padding: 0;}
#container { width: 100%; height: 100%; border
<div id="content">  <table>    <tr>      <td style="height: 100%">        <div id="container">          <div class="full">            foo          </div>        </div>      </td>  </table></div>

div will not fill height of td with height: 100%

please try:
the div will be 100%; height.

div{
height: 100%;
border: 1px solid;
display:inline-block;
}


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