My page is perfect with a doctype, and breaks horribly when one is applied. (More specifically, it breaks with any HTML4 doctype. An HTML3 one works fine, but that's clearly not acceptable.)
As is typical, I have cut the page down to only include the minimum needed to demonstrate the problem, but the main problem remains.
Without doctype, desired:
With doctype, horribly broken:
And the code, of course. Add a doctype to break it.
<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
<div id="container1">
<div id="main"></div>
</div>
<div id="container2">
<div id="test1">
<p style="text-align: center;">content goes here</p>
</div>
<div id="test2">
<p style="text-align: center;">more content goes here</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
And style.css:
body
{
margin: 0px;
overflow:hidden;
color: white;
background-color: black;
text-transform: lowercase;
height: 100%;
}
#container1
{
background-color: black;
width: 100%;
height: 75%;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
margin-top: 0%;
}
#main
{
width: 800px;
height: 480px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
position: relative;
background-color: blue;
}
#container2
{
background-color: black;
width: 100%;
height: 22%;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
position: relative;
}
#test1
{
position: absolute;
width: 50%;
height: 100%;
background-color: blue;
}
#test2
{
position: absolute;
width: 50%;
margin-left: 50%;
height: 100%;
overflow: auto;
background-color: green;
}
Live demo: http://jsfiddle.net/ZcYwQ/
html { height:100%; }left:0; bottom:0;andright:0; bottom:0;on the #test1 and #test2 elements