Variable height header with scrollable content area filling remaining viewport area

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Published on 2010-04-30T16:49:52Z Indexed on 2010/05/01 14:17 UTC
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I've seen versions of this simple problem raised a dozen times here and elsewhere on the web, but I haven't seen a solution that works for me yet so I'm asking it again.

I want a webpage with a variable height full width header (height based on contents). Below that I want a content area that fills the rest of the browser viewport. If the content is larger than the remaining space in the viewport then I want the content area to scroll.

I don't need this to work on IE6. I don't care whether the solution uses CSS, tables or a mixture of the two, just no frames and no Javascript.

For a bonus point fix a variable height footer to the bottom of the page.

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