Filling a left nav color to the bottom of a page

[liunx]

Is there an easy way to completely fill a left nav background color the the very bottom of the browser, regardless of the amount of content? I want the black background under the left nav to fill up to the bottom of the page even if there is only a little bit of content.<br />
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<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.brianyoshida.com/temp-sub1.html">http://www.brianyoshida.com/temp-sub1.html</a><!-- m --><!--content-->Try setting the heights of your tags as well i.e.<br />
<table height="100%"> or<br />
<td height="100%"><br />
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It might be a bit hit n miss but give it a shot, I have never tried it, just assume this will work.<!--content-->Generally the suggestion provided by entimp should work, but it often does not due to poor implementation by browser makers.<br />
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I suggest making a table inside the table cell and inputting a transparent gif with the desired height, e.g.<br />
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<td><br />
<table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0><br />
<tr><br />
<td><img src=http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/"blank.gif" height=500 width=1></td><br />
<td> Here goes normal contents </td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
</td><!--content-->