I have the following example:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Example</title>
</head>
<BODY>
<DIV style="height:150px;background-color:#AAAAFF;overflow:auto">
<TABLE style="height:100%;width:300px">
<TR>
<TD style="background-color:orange">Text with an unknown height (22px here)</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="height:100%">
<TD style="height:100%;background-color:yellow">
<TEXTAREA style="height:100%;-moz-box-sizing:border-box" COLS=30 ROWS=4>Remaining space (150px with IE9, 122px with others)</TEXTAREA>
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</DIV>
</BODY>
</html>
It works fine using Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer in quirks mode but IE9 in standard mode draws a textarea with same height as root div. So is there a way without using JS, to tell browser to draw a textarea using all remaining space? I tried unsuccessfully div with float attributes, div with display table attribute, div with fixed position attribute. Of course, with Javascript or if the first row has a constant known height, there are several working solutions.
Any suggestions?