DocType xhtml1-transitional.dtd ignores table cell height

Posted by Sameer Shariff on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Sameer Shariff
Published on 2008-12-11T09:36:57Z Indexed on 2010/06/17 18:03 UTC
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
    <title>Untitled Page</title>
    <link href="Stylesheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
    <table style="height: 100%; width: 100%;">
        <tr>
            <td colspan="2" style="height: 100px;">Header</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td style="width: 180px;">Links</td>
            <td>Content</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td colspan="2" style="height: 25px;">Footer</td>
        </tr>
    </table>
</body>
</html>

Stylesheet.css looks as follows:

*
{
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;	
}
html, body
{
    height: 100%;
    width: 100%;
}

Row 1 and 3 above have fixed heights. Row 3 is not filling the remaining space. If i omit the doctype, it works as expected. I need to use this doctype.

Please help!

Thanks!

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