I have a website with two columns, within a wrapper div.
The wrapper has the same height as the tallest div by giving floating everything and giving the wrapper height:100%
.
Here's my problem: one of the columns is a div with overflow:scroll and several images in it. I tried to set its height to 100%, thinking that it would take up the full height of the wrapper. Instead, it became the height of all the images on top of each other.
If I set the height of the column with images (#rightbox
) to a specific height in pixels, this happens.
I want it to have the same height as the other div with text, so I set its height to 100%. Then this happens.
How can I make the two columns have the same height?
EDIT: I forgot to mention that the amount of text varies, so I can't define a specific height for the wrapper.
You cannot define height as 100%
unless your parents provides an actual heights.
#wrapper {
height: 800px;
}
/* Now you can make the columns inside take the full height of its parent *?
#wrapper .columns {
height: 100%;
overflow: auto;
}
Note: if the wrapper sits inside the body
element then you will need to set html,body { height: 100%; }
before the wrapper can be set to 100%
Given the limited amount of code provided... here is a pure css solution.
http://jsfiddle.net/rlemon/Q7MvS/
.wrapper {
height: 600px;
width: 800px;
}
.panel {
float: left;
width: 400px;
height: 100%;
}
.panel.right {
overflow: scroll;
}