Two horizontal divs' fluid height in a div - css

Question

I am not a web designer.. I'm just a asp.net programmer and I'm having a hard time with IE7.
Well I managed to work what i want in IE8, IE9, and Chrome.
Now I have to make it work it in IE7.
First this is my source
I am using DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"
and html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="ko" xml:lang="ko"
<style type="text/css">
html {
height: 100%
}
body {
background-color: #5c87b2;
font-size: .85em;
font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Helvetica, Sans-Serif;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
color: #696969;
border: 0;
overflow: visible;
height: 100%;
max-height: 100%;
}
</style>
<div id="header" style="
display:block;
position:fixed;
height:50px; width:100%;
background-color:red;">
d
</div>
<div id="menu" style="
display:block;
position:fixed;
width:200px;
top:50px; left:0; right:auto; bottom:0;
background-color:blue;">
d
</div>
<div id="button" style="
display:block;
position:fixed;
width:auto; height:100px;
top:50px; left:200px; right:0; bottom:auto;
background-color:Yellow;">
d
</div>
<div id="content" style="
display:block;
position:fixed;
width:auto; height:auto;
top:150px; left:200px; right:0; bottom:0;
background-color:green;">
<div style="
position:relative;
height:50%;
min-height:50%;
border:3px solid pink;
">12412
</div>
<div style="
position:relative;
height:50%;
border:3px solid white;
">
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</div>
</div>
so I have a header(red), menu on the left side(blue), sub-header(yellow), container(green)
and i need two divs in the container(pink, white border).
they need to fill up the container 100% vertically.
All the outside divs' positions are fixed.
And I gave the inner two divs' position relative and gave 50% height to both.
It works fine in IE8,9, Chrome.
I will not use script. Only trying to use css styles.
So can u guys please give me some help??
Thank U!!!!!

Answer 1

Setting a height on the outer #content div allows the inner divs to display as in the other browsers. As you are looking for a full-screen panel set-up, I'm not sure how you could achieve this with pixel values. Changing from px to % and specifying positioning and width / heights as fluid seems to achieve the desired effect in IE7.
http://jsfiddle.net/VCztH/3/