Create multiple page lengths in CSS

[NicholasOZ]

Hi,
I am in the middle of a rather large site that has different sized pages.
Normally I would set up maybe 3 or 4 divs (eg "pageHolderSmall",
"pageHolderMedium" etc ) with varying height lengths in my style sheet to allow
for different page lengths and then use that particular div on each particular
page.
This time however, I have way too many pages with wildly varying lengths and
so can't use this system.
What can I do? I tried using height: auto; but that doesn't work in mozilla...
I'd really appreciate any help.
Thanks
Nicholas

[Michael Hager]

What exactly are you trying to accomplish? A properly written and formatted
html page will simply be as long as it's content. What benifit is derived
from specifying a height?

"NicholasOZ" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:ema15e$60t$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> Hi,
> I am in the middle of a rather large site that has different sized pages.
> Normally I would set up maybe 3 or 4 divs (eg "pageHolderSmall",
> "pageHolderMedium" etc ) with varying height lengths in my style sheet to
> allow
> for different page lengths and then use that particular div on each
> particular
> page.
> This time however, I have way too many pages with wildly varying lengths
> and
> so can't use this system.
> What can I do? I tried using height: auto; but that doesn't work in
> mozilla...
> I'd really appreciate any help.
> Thanks
> Nicholas
>

[NicholasOZ]

Hi Michael,
When I design using CSS, for example, and I have a left column filled with
text, it sometimes stretches beyond the parent container. That's to say, the
parent container is smaller (in height) than the column that is supposed to be
within it. So in the past, i have included a height for the parent container
so that this doesn't happen. Having many pages in the current site i am
designing, this is impossible and so I wondered if there was another way.
This is not purely designing in HTML, this is using CSS as well.
Cheers
Nicholas