tough (?) design question - please help

[windows]

Hi all!<br />
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Please have a look at:<br />
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You should see a page the way I want it to look like:<br />
* a horizontal bar on top covering the whole browser width<br />
* a vertical bar on the left covering the whole browser height<br />
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the horizontal bar is done with a css background image repeating on the x<br />
axis:<br />
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<style type="text/css"><br />
<!--<br />
body {<br />
background-color: #FFFFFF;<br />
background-image: url(images/hintergrund.gif);<br />
background-repeat: repeat-x;<br />
}<br />
--><br />
</style><br />
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the vertical bar on the left is a layer with background color and a height<br />
of 100%<br />
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The Problem: the height of the vertical bar<br />
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resize your browser - everything is fine: the vertical bar still covers 100%<br />
now resize your browser so you get a vertical scrollbar - now scroll down<br />
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the vertical bar is cut off!!!<br />
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I think I understand the problem but I can't think of a solution.<br />
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I want to have a horizontal bar on top covering the whole browser width<br />
combined with a vertical bar on the left covering the whole browser height<br />
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Thanks for your feedback!<br />
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best regards,<br />
Kicker Ewald<!--content-->change your 100% to a pixel. so you could do 700px<br />
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the height attribute is real buggy and I think it is deprecated<!--content-->works fine for me, i see no cutting off in mozilla.<!--content-->Looks fine in NT4 with IE5.5... I can see the vertical bar redraw, but it's quick enough to not be a nuisance<!--content-->the reason it looks good is because he has already fixed it.<!--content-->Ahhh, makes a helluva lotta sense.<!--content-->