Posted by dorayme on 01/23/02 11:41

In article <Xns977BB44D18A8Asonicyouth@216.196.97.131>,
Good Man <heyho@letsgo.com> wrote:

> dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote in
> news:doraymeRidThis-D374FA.09173904032006@news-vip.optusnet.com.au:
>
> > A further thing, perhaps someone can talk about the best and
> > simplest technique they personally favour to get the two divs to
> > line up height-wise, (align at top being easy of course).
>
> this is ridiculously tricky and there is no 'easy' answer. which is
> outrageous considering CSS is all about layout!! the 'equal height'
> conundrum with two columns is indeed a huuuuge 'gotcha' when designing
> using CSS.
>
> even the CSS-guru site ALA has no CSS answer... they advise using a
> background image.
>
> http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fauxcolumns/
>

Thank you for reminding me of this - good man!

>
> otherwise, you can use a combo of js/css as mentioned here:
> http://www.paulbellows.com/getsmart/balance_columns/
>
>
> but, as you will see from hunting around, there is no quick answer....
> sucks.

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dorayme

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