Eugene Hourany wrote: > Hi gang, > > I'm having some difficulty making the same div height trick work in > IE 7. Of course, it works just fine in Firefox 3.5. I need it to also > work in IE 6 and 8. > > Here's a link that discusses how to do it: > http://www.ejeliot.com/blog/61(I'm not using "faux columns" as there > are dynamic background images). > > I apply the overflow: hidden attribute to the parent container, but > it's not working. The shorter column doesn't reach down to match the > height of the longer one, as expected. > > The problem I think is that the columns are containers themselves of > content. I'm applying the margin/padding-bottom trick on the > innermost content of the columns, as applying them to the column > containers seems to do no good. >
Still not sure I understand your problem, since you don't show the relevant HTML... Any road, you may like to try out these alternatives: Companion Columns - http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/companions.html Equal Height Columns with... No Hacks http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/equal-height-columns-cross-browser-css-no-hacks Cordially, David -- ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
