title: How to extend a div to fill the whole page
body: <p>I am building a page with two columns side-by-side that should fill the entire page. Both columns should both be 50% of the available width with no margin or padding on either side and take up 100% of the available height depending on the resolution.</p>
  
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  <pre class="snippet-code-css lang-css prettyprint-override"><code>* {
    padding: 0;
    margin: 0;
  }
  
  html,
  body {
    height: 100%;
    display: flex;
    flex-direction: column;
    overflow: hidden;
  }
  
  body&gt;* {
    flex-shrink: 0;
  }
  
  .login-column {
    float: left;
    width: 50%;
    background-color: #F4F6F9;
    margin: 0;
  }
  
  .news-column {
    float: left;
    width: 50%;
    background-color: #75BFF0;
    /* For browsers that do not support gradients */
    background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom right, #75BFF0, #C9E7FF);
    /* Standard syntax (must be last) */
    margin: 0;
    flex-grow: 1;
  }</code></pre>
  <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;div class="row"&gt;
    &lt;div class="login-column"&gt;
      &lt;h1&gt;Login&lt;/h1&gt;
    &lt;/div&gt;
    &lt;div class="news-column"&gt;
      &lt;h1&gt;News&lt;/h1&gt;
    &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;</code></pre>
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  <p>Currently, the divs have no padding or margin on the top, left, and right; however, the background color only extends to the end of the text. I want the background to extend to the bottom of the page, without a scrollbar.</p>
  
  <p>On a side note, I am using divs. Is this still recommended or should I be using the new, HTML5 things such as article, aside, .etc?</p>