Make HTML content area fit to viewport height?

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Published on 2010-04-30T01:24:24Z Indexed on 2010/04/30 1:37 UTC
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I just made this demo extracting out what I'm trying to accomplish:

Autosize Main Content Area

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I want the pink/yellow area to act according to these rules:

Minimum height is the size of its content (which is variable) IF content size is smaller than viewport size
Otherwise minimum height is such that it adjusts to fill the window.

Checking out the source to that demo, what am I missing? I feel like this is a pretty easy case that shouldn't require javascript.

Any ideas?

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