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Posted by taahrqqhar
taahrqqhar
14,147 Points

can anyone tell me how to add full height to my css bootstrap?

I've tried every way in the world but I cant get it for some reason ... i want each box to be 100% height.... please help. it seams bootstrap dont let you make it 100% height why is that?

1 Answer

Lucas Santos
Lucas Santos
19,315 Points
Lucas Santos
Lucas Santos
19,315 Points

Whenever you want to add 100% of height to a child element the parent element also needs to be set to 100%. So in other words if I had a page with 1 div and it was a red box in the middle of the screen and I wanted it to have 100% I would do this.

html,
body {
height: 100%;
}

div {
height: 100%;
width: 200px;
margin: auto;
background: red !important;
}

and a quick note if you ever have trouble overwriting any css just use the !important call. hope this helps.

taahrqqhar
taahrqqhar
14,147 Points

I tried this but it didn't work... thank you anyways...