Posted by Mark on 11/28/07 10:12

Suppose I have two floated divs inside a container div to achieve a
simple 2-column layout:

<div id="contentcontainer">
<div id="content">content column</div>
<div id="navigation">nav</div>
</div>
<div id="footer">footer</div>

On some pages it may be possible for there to be very little content in
either column but on those pages, I don't want the layout to collapse to
a tiny height. I'd like there to be whitespace after the content so the
layout still has a reasonable height.

What is the best way to impose a minimum height?

I'm thinking you could do this:

#contentcontainer {
height: 200px; /* For IE lte 6 */
}
html>body #contentcontainer {
height: auto;
min-height: 200px;
}

200px being a more or less random value.

This seems to work OK, but is it a reliable method? Or should I put the
height on one of the floated divs, not the container?

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