My dilemma lies within the sidebar of my website that I have been diligently crafting. Its primary objective is to gracefully extend to the bottom of the page, regardless of any resizing antics. For a blissful week, it conformed beautifully to this behavior until lo and behold, a sudden anomaly emerged! The bottom-left section now protrudes awkwardly as depicted in this image detailing the issue.
The code snippet responsible for styling this finicky sidebar is as follows:
.sidebar {
width: 220px;
height: 100%;
background-color: #262626;
float: left;
padding-left: 0px;
padding-top: 0px;
color: #ffffff;
}
Note the imposition of a 100% height rule which previously worked seamlessly but now leaves a frustrating gap at the indicated corner (as seen in the image). My suspicion rests on the recent inclusion of a div on the right-hand side serving as a sub-header; currently displaying "Sample Catalog Items". Directly beneath this preeminent header resides the content section, alias 'content', with its height also pegged at 100% within the CSS rules:
.content {
width: auto;
margin-left: 220px; /* equal to sidebar's width for proper alignment */
height: 100%;
backgrouond-color: #030303;
/* accompanied by additional padding */
padding: 15px;
font-size: 1.1em;
background-color: #bdc3c7;
}
Naturally, scrutiny turns towards the CSS definition for the aforementioned sub_header:
.sub_header {
font-size: 1.7em;
margin-left: 220px;
padding: 15px;
background-color: #7f8c8d;
}
An inkling gnaws at me, suggesting that this intricate interplay involving the div labeled as .sub_header might be causing an unforeseen clash between the .sidebar and .content, rendering futile all attempts to resolve this bête noire. Doesn't the steadfast declaration of height: 100% warrant unfaltering expansion despite any other concurrent div's presence?