make the last div in a container have the rest of the height ( preferrably no javascript )

Question

I want divBody2 to fill the rest of the height in the div. Using a table was not initially my intention, but I was unable to do it without a table, so I thought of using one. Still the solution seems to elude me.

html:

<div id="divContainer" class="Container">
 <div id="divContainerLeft" class="ContainerLeft">
  <table>
    <tr style="height: 1%;">
     <td>
         <div style="background-color: white;">Header1</span>
     </td>
    </tr>
    <tr style="height: 1%;">
      <td>
        <div id="divBody1" class="Body1">
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        </div>
      </td>
    </tr>

    <tr style="height: 1%;">
     <td>
         <div style="background-color: white;">Header2</span>
     </td>
    </tr>
    <tr style="height: 100%;">
      <td>
        <div id="divBody2" class="Body1" style="background-color: red;">
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        </div>
      </td>
    </tr>

   </table>
</div>

css:

.Container {
    position: absolute;
    top: 2%;
    left: 2%;
    height: 96%;
    width: 96%;
    overflow: visible;
    background-color: cyan;
    border: 0px solid #000000;
}

.ContainerLeft {
    position: absolute;
    top: 0px;
    left: 0px;
    height: 100%;
    width: 200px;
    overflow: visible;
    border: 0px solid black;
    padding: 0px;
    margin: 0px;
    background-color: green;
}

.ContainerLeft table {
    position: relative;
    top: 0px;
    left: 0px;
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    border: 1px solid #000000;
    border-spacing: 2px;
    background-color: cyan;
}

.ContainerLeft tr {
    border: 0px solid #000000;
}

.ContainerLeft td {
    vertical-align: top;
    border: 0px solid #000000;
}

.Body1 {
    position: relative;
    left: 0px;
    top: 0px;
    height: auto;
    right: 0px;
    border: 0px solid black;
    background-color: #FFFFFF;
}

jsfiddle:

http://jsfiddle.net/p25hF/2/

is there any way to achieve this? i have set the table height to 100% of the parent container, but if the text ( or subdiv ) is large enough the table gets bigger than the parent container.

the problem doesn't seem to exist for the width ( width: 100% ), only for the height.

And for some reason i can't imagine, trying bottom: 0px; doesn't work either.

Answer 1

As explained in this question, there is no way to do it with CSS(2).

However, if you don't need to support older browsers, you can use flexbox. It is pretty simple. Assuming the following HTML:

<div class="outer">
    <div class="inner"></div>
    <div class="inner"></div>
    <div class="inner"></div>
</div>

You can get the desired behaviour with a few lines of CSS:

.outer {
    height: 200px;
    display: flex;
    justify-content: flex-start;
}
.inner {
    overflow: auto;
    flex-shrink: 0;
    flex-grow: 0;
}
.inner:last-child {
    flex-shrink: 1;
    flex-grow: 1;
}

See a working example here: http://jsfiddle.net/ECf9M/1/ (requires a modern browser).