HTML - Div Not Extending

I have a website in the making that has two side bars that are jpges. I am using show/hide div tags that extend the page to stretch to match the content it is showing. How can I make the side bars extend to fill in the gap when the page needs to become bigger? This is what I tried thus far... The sidebars have a gradient to them to make it look like steel so I took a small piece and cut it and made it a jpeg. I then made an extra row under the side bars and set this cut jpeg as a background image. That didn't work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hello!

I have an <a> tag with display block set which is good as it makes it as wide as its container.

However, I want to give it more height than it currently has, 100% is possibile.
Inside the <a> tag there is an <img> tag with the image being very poor in height, it's a line of text with special font.

How can I get the <a> to be higher please?

Thanks!

hello, new member here so hiya!

I have a site and I have a div containing all the page. At first I gave it a height just so I could put CSS in and see what it's like. After I have taken out the height though, the div shrinks to like 1 pixel. Why isn't it as long as it's containing divs - including left column, main section, footer?

Many thanks

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamici...iframessi2.htm

This is the tutorial I followed. I did everything it said to do and it worked on my index page where the iframe is located. The only problem is when I try to load a new page into that iframe the iframe doesn't extend and scroll bars appear. On the tutorial there is an example of what i'm talking about. Does anybody know why the other page doesn't extend? Here is an exmaple: http://www.dejavulifestyle.com/dvsite/example.html It's the video page that i'm trying to open in the iframe.

Edit: I meant to type dynamically in the title.

Hi, I'm kind of new to HTML and I've been trying to make a website that has 3 frames in it. One frame extends across the entire top of the page and has about a 100 pixel height. The second frame extends the entire length of the page, but only has a width of about 200 pixels. Which leaves the rest for the thrid frame. I'm doing this so that frames one and two don't change and all of the content changes in the third frame.

I'm running into an issue, because I cannot figure out how to get one frame extend across the top and one fram extend the length of the page. I can do one or the other but not both. is there any way that I can configure the columns and rows so that the page takes on this look?

Thank you.

here is a visual of what I'm trying to do:

Code:

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|          1       |
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|      |           |
|      |           |
|   2  |    3      |
|      |           |
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