table not displayed over enitre webform

[Christian Cambier]

Hi,

sorry to post this question about HTML in this group but i didn't find
a HTML newsgroup.

I just want a html-table to fill the entire space of a web-page as
follows

<table border="1" style="width: 100%; vertical-align="top";
height: 100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td>
1 1
</td>
<td>
1 2
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
2 1
</td>
<td>
2 2
</td>
</tr>
</table>

But he just takes the space of 2 lines.
The bottom-border of the table is not at all at the bottom of the page
no matter what my height says unless I specify the height in pixels
but then the table-size is not changed according to my browser-window

What am I doing wrong?

Does anybody know a html newsgroup?

thank you
Chris