Posted by aljones on 04/03/07 22:58

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> Scripsit aljones:
>
>> 2) http://brokenchainsministry.net/products.html
>> I've looked at uneven columns / unequal columns / css unequal columns
>> / etc till I'm blue in the face.
>
> Do you mean that you would want the navigation bar and the content
> proper occupy the same height?
No, I want them to appear as if they do.
>
>> This page is the most atrocious of the situations I see, but could
>> someone please direct me to a reference that (please, I'm begging)
>> specifically describes how to 'fix' a two column page where the
>> bottoms are probably going to be out of synch??
>
> Well, it _seems_ that you want the blocks ("columns") to have the same
> height, but you could have said that more directly.
>
> Using a simple table is the simplest way. Stay tuned to getting flamed,
> at least verbally, by purists if you take that path.
>
> (Well, the _simplest_ way is to stop wanting that. Why should two
> completely unrelated blocks have the same visual height?)
Mostly because I'd really like to have the footer appear after
everything else on the page. It looks really odd (to me) for the footer
on a page which has short content to fall under the content without
falling under the nav bar as well.

>
> If you use the current approach (div elements and CSS), then perhaps the
> simplest way is to wrap the div elements #navbar and #content inside an
> outer div element, set the background you want for #navbar (some blue)
> to that outer div and the desired background for #content. Set #navbar
> background to transparent.
>
> This way, #navbar will still have just its natural height, but it
> _looks_ as tall as #content.
>
> P.S. You had two completely unrelated questions. It's best to ask such
> questions in separate messages. That would let you write Subject lines
> that reflect well the content; now your Subject line didn't even give a
> hint about your first question.
I thought about that as I was posting it. I th9ink my decision was
fianlly that the first question would be simple enough that I could
'wing it' along with the other.

As it is, I've gotten some really good (again, to me) comments on both.

(( See Mike, Jukka *really* isn't *that* bad!! )) <<grin>>
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