# Container Background Color Issues

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/container-background-color-issues/44940>\
**Category:** RapidWeaver Elements\
**Created:** [October 11, 2024, 4:43pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/container-background-color-issues/44940 "2024-10-11T16:43:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![sbchasin](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/sbchasin/32/26943_2.png) [@sbchasin](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/sbchasin)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 4:43pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/container-background-color-issues/44940/1 "2024-10-11T16:43:25Z")

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Container set to height of full, but background color not filling everything. Or is my understanding of how it works not correct??

Elements:

 ![Screenshot 2024-10-11 at 12.36.32](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/5/f/5fe87b93bbeb4f4b01a36fe15b0dfb16164904e8.jpeg)

See white space on bottom of screen. Shouldn’t it continue to be gray (my background color)??  
Preview in Safari:

 ![Screenshot 2024-10-11 at 12.37.29](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/2/5/25d66f3b042b03f4cba4cb97bd4ae80fcc1efdeb.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![ben](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/ben/32/28488_2.png) [@ben](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/ben)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2024, 8:44am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/container-background-color-issues/44940/2 "2024-10-14T08:44:58Z")

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you would want to set the Height to `screen` if you want it to fill the entire height of the screen 🙂

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**Author:** ![sbchasin](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/sbchasin/32/26943_2.png) [@sbchasin](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/sbchasin)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2024, 1:37pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/container-background-color-issues/44940/3 "2024-10-14T13:37:09Z")

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Thank you. I thought that full did that, or does it do that when there are scroll bars??

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**Author:** ![ben](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/ben/32/28488_2.png) [@ben](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/ben)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2024, 5:43pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/container-background-color-issues/44940/4 "2024-10-14T17:43:09Z")

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The `full` option is setting the height to `100%`. This means the full option is context dependant - and can behave slightly differently depending on the structure of the page.

If the container is inside something else, setting the height to full will make it take up the entire height of it’s parent component.

If the container is at the root of the page, or inside a component without a specific height, setting height to `full` would mean the height of the container is only big as the content inside of it.

Hope that makes sense!

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**Author:** ![sbchasin](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/sbchasin/32/26943_2.png) [@sbchasin](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/sbchasin)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2024, 6:32pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/container-background-color-issues/44940/5 "2024-10-14T18:32:25Z")

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Got it. More understandable now. Thank you!!