As SpliFF already mentioned, the problem is because the default (W3C) box model is 'content-box', which results in borders being outside of the width and height. But you want those to be within the 100% width and height you specified. One workaround is to select the border-box box model, but you can't do that in IE 6 and 7 without reverting to quirks mode.
Another solution works in IE 7, too. Just set html and body to 100% height and overflow to hidden to get rid of the window's scrollbars. Then you need to insert an absolutely positioned wrapper div that gets the red border and all content, setting all four box offset properties to 0 (so the border sticks to the edges of the viewport) and overflow to auto (to put the scrollbars inside the wrapper div).
There's only one drawback: IE 6 doesn't support setting both left and right and both top and bottom. The only workaround for this is to use CSS expressions (within a conditional comment) to explicitly set the width and height of the wrapper to the viewport's sizes, minus the width of the border.
To make it easier to see the effect, in the following example I enlarged the border width to 5 pixels:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Border around content</title>
<style type="text/css">
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
html, body {
height: 100%;
overflow: hidden;
}
#wrapper {
position: absolute;
overflow: auto;
left: 0;
right: 0;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
border: 5px solid red;
}
</style>
<!--[if IE 6]>
<style type="text/css">
#wrapper {
width: expression((m=document.documentElement.clientWidth-10)+'px');
height: expression((m=document.documentElement.clientHeight-10)+'px');
}
</style>
<![endif]-->
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<!-- just a large div to get scrollbars -->
<div style="width: 9999px; height: 9999px; background: #ddd"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
P.S.: I just saw you don't like overflow: hidden, hmmm...
Update: I managed to get around using overflow: hidden by faking a border using four divs that stick to the edges of the viewport (you can't just overlay the whole viewport with a full-sized div, as all elements below it wouldn't be accessible any more). It's not a nice solution, but at least the normal scrollbars remain in their original position. I couldn't manage to let IE 6 simulate the fixed positioning using CSS expressions (got problems with the right and bottom divs), but it looked horribly anyway as those expressions are very expensive and rendering got tediously slow.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Border around content</title>
<style type="text/css">
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#border-t, #border-b, #border-l, #border-r {
position: fixed;
background: red;
z-index: 9999;
}
#border-t {
left: 0;
right: 0;
top: 0;
height: 5px;
}
#border-b {
left: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
height: 5px;
}
#border-l {
left: 0;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
width: 5px;
}
#border-r {
right: 0;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
width: 5px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<!-- just a large div to get scrollbars -->
<div style="width: 9999px; height: 9999px; background: #ddd"></div>
<div id="border-t"></div><div id="border-b"></div>
<div id="border-l"></div><div id="border-r"></div>
</body>
</html>
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