Had a frustrating time getting a Silverlight control to take up 100% height of the browser page. First off, this is nothing really to do with Silverlight and all about the div it’s contained in. In IE7 having the div at 100% worked fine, but in IE8 it was tiny. The problem is that in IE7 a div at 100% means, ‘please take up 100% of the available height’. Whereas in IE8 it’s, ‘please take up 100% of your parent’. So a structure like
html->body->div->div[100%]->Silverlight Control
means that in IE8 its height is basically nothing. So I added 100% to the parents up to body and still no joy. Then Hannah at Clear Breeze Design pointed out that I needed to apply it to the html tag too. That did the trick. So if you have a very simple layout you could do something like;
html * {height 100%}
Even in my code that’s too simple but the basic take-away is that you need to follow the ancestors from the Silverlight control up until you hit a height, that’s the one it will take. If you want it to be 100% then must ensure that everyone on that chain is 100% too, including body and html.
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