Absolute Positioning Not Expanding

Question

I have the following code:

<div id="display_vendors">
<ul class="vendor_types">
<li>Category 1</li>                         
</ul>
</div>
<div id="display_vendors_container">
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</div>

Then I have the following CSS:

#display_vendors ul.vendor_types li {
background-color:#000000;
color:#FFFFFF;
width:200px;
line-height:1.5em;
margin:2px 0 0 0;
padding:10px;
border-width:1px;
border-color:#000000;
border-style:solid;
-webkit-border-top-left-radius: 10px;
-webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 10px;
-moz-border-radius-topleft: 10px;
-moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 10px;
border-top-left-radius: 10px;
border-bottom-left-radius: 10px;
display:block;
height:100%;
}

#display_vendors ul.vendor_types li:hover {
background-color:#949494;
}

#display_vendors_container{
position:absolute;
top:59px;
left:221px;
width:700px;
height:100%;
border-width:1px;
border-color:#000000;
border-style:solid;
-webkit-border-radius: 10px;
-webkit-border-top-left-radius: 0;
-moz-border-radius: 10px;
-moz-border-radius-topleft: 0;
border-radius: 10px;
border-top-left-radius: 0;
padding:10px;
min-height:400px;
}

.dispay_vendor_type {
color:#FFFFFF;
text-decoration:underline;
}

.dispay_vendor_type:hover {
color:#FFFFFF;
text-decoration:underline;
}

Now my issue is that the #display_vendors_container won't display the whole content of the div. It will only make it the same height as the #display_vendors div. If I remove the absolute positioning on the #display_vendors_container it displays all the content but not in the right place. Any ideas on what could be causing this?

Answer 1

The height: 100%; in #display_vendors_container is your problem; delete it and it will be fine.

Proof: http://jsfiddle.net/w3LSV/

Answer 2

In your CSS add:

body, html {height:100%}