actually the 100% thing only works if you also apply it to the html element too (I believe). and that's kind of the problem, 100% refers to the height of the pa

actually the 100% thing only works if you also apply it to the html element too (I believe). and that's kind of the problem, 100% refers to the height of the parent. so if you want to have an element that isn't the body fill up at least the entire viewport, you have to apply this to every parent element as well, which can be very annoying depending on the situation. of course what you end up doing is just using 100vh anyway, since you never want there to be a horizontal scrollbar anyway