100% height block with vertical text

Question

I have a block of a variable height in which I want to put another block with 100% height and vertical text (bottom-to-top direction) and stack it to the left side of the ou

Answer 1

The best I could come up with is this: http://jsfiddle.net/EwgtT/

The variable height of block1 won't be a problem, but the variable height of your message is; it will always start at the bottom.

Edit: Updated, so it works well in FF and IE: http://jsfiddle.net/EwgtT/2/