How to force child div to be 100% of parent div's height without specifying parent's height?

Question

I have a site with the following structure:

  

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Answer 1

height : will only work if you have all parent nodes with specified percent height with a fixed height in pixels, ems, etc. on top level. That way, the height will cascade down to your element.

You can specify 100% to html and body elements as @Travis stated earlier to have the page height cascading down to your nodes.