I know this is probably one of the most basic questions ever asked here, but why can’t I get my theme sidebars to go all the way DOWN unless there is content in there? I mean, the sidebar background is colored, but it ain’t going all the way down to footer.
Here’s the code I am using: width: 130px; height: 100%;
Oh boy… what did I miss? 
Check the height of the sidebar’s container.
You should probably post a link to your site or a fiddle demonstrating the issue.
You’re gonna run into trouble getting that to work cross browser, take a look at this oldie but a goodie article on faux columns:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fauxcolumns/
A few more methods:
http://css-tricks.com/7692-fluid-width-equal-height-columns/
Thanks! So I have two options from what I see:
One, create a DIV to include sidebar1/content/sidebar2 - and make this DIV with a height and the 3 inside it with a 100% height…
Or Two, create a DIV to include sidebar1/content/sidebar2 and make a small background image to repeat from top to bottom.
Ok, be back in a couple minutes 
Great! Problem solved!
Used the advice and followed AListApart’s tip: a body background image repeating top to bottom, it’s so small, less then 2k
You guys rock!! Thank you!
I would go JS way on this one.
If sidebar height > content height, then it probably already sticks to footer, but if sidebar height < content height, just set sidebar height = content height with JS.
shaki saidGreat! Problem solved!
Used the advice and followed AListApart’s tip: a body background image repeating top to bottom, it’s so small, less then 2k
You guys rock!! Thank you!
Change the format to .gif ~2K is still huge, it should be proly ~100-ish bytes.
Ivor saidshaki saidGreat! Problem solved!
Used the advice and followed AListApart’s tip: a body background image repeating top to bottom, it’s so small, less then 2k
You guys rock!! Thank you!
Change the format to .gif ~2K is still huge, it should be proly ~100-ish bytes.
Done. Sometimes I forget these small details. Thanks Ivor 