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How to make css div stretch to 100% of the window

I find it difficult to achieve this. I would like to div content1and content2fill the remaining space vertically with a minimum height of the window.

<style type="text/css">
body,td,th {
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    height:100%;
}
body {
    background-color: #E1E1E1;
}
</style>
<style type="text/css">
.container {
    width: 965px;
    height: 100%;
    margin: 0 auto; 
    overflow: hidden;
}
.sidebar1 {
    float: left;
    width: 200px;
    background: none;
    padding-bottom: 10px;
} .content {
    padding: 10px 0;
    width: 380px;
    height: 100%;
    background: #fff;
    float: left;
    position: relative;
} .content2 {
    float: left;
    width: 380px;
    height: 100%;
    background: #fff;
    padding: 10px 0;
}
-->
</style>

Here are the divs I'm trying to change (currently empty, but I would like them to fill the window vertically):

<div class="content" style="border-left: solid 1px #CCC;"></div>
<div class="content2"><!-- end .sidebar2 --></div>
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You also need 100% height in html tag

html { height: 100%; }

See: http://jsfiddle.net/wJ73v/

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Foo</title>
        <style>
            html {height: 100%;}
            body {height: 100%; margin: 0; padding: 0;}
            div {border: 1px solid #000; height: 100%; float: left;}
        </style>
    </head>
    <body>
        <div id="foo">a</div>
        <div id="bar">b</div>
    </body>
</html>

I think a suitable DOCTYPE is necessary, because otherwise browsers will go into the so-called quirks mode.

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