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April 13, 2004
In Search Of: Div Height Control with CSS
When building sites, I want things to be standard. The ultimate goal is the make your sites flexible so changing, upgrading and programming is quick, easy and painless. A wall that I constantly come up on is the column height issue. Creating two columns with equal height without using a hack or the "faux columns" trick is my Holy Grail.
Unfortunately it doesn't look like it can be done. In fact, it seems that CSS is specifically geared against this practice without some dynamic intervention.
I've come to realize that I'm not alone. Zeldman's solution works well. But if you want to go with an expanding layout, unless you plan to use a very long horizontal graphic, it seems like your screwed. So if anyone has any ideas, I'm wide open. I've looked into the Box Lessons, but haven't found anything solving my problem. Anyone? Anyone? V-O-O economics?
Posted by davidissimo :: Permalink :: Comments [1] ::
How about using some border + positioning trickiness? View source on my site for an example; Mezzoblue has a good writeup of the technique. Best luck.
Posted by: Brian at April 14, 2004 12:55 AM
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