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HTML
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<div>
Hello I want to break everything on your CSS but unfortunately I cannot.
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div>
test
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
CSS
table { height: 1px; }
tr { height: 100%; }
td { height: 100%; }
td > div { height: 100%; }
/* just to test that it's full height */
table { width: 100px; }
td:nth-child(2) > div { background: lightgray; }