Have you looked at these links:
Equal Height Columns with Cross-Browser CSS <http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/equal-height-columns-cross-browser-css-no-hacks> Ultimate multi-column liquid layouts <http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/ultimate-multi-column-liquid-layouts-em-and-pixel-widths> Horizontally Centered Drop-Down Menus <http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/centered-dropdown-menus> How to keep footers at the bottom of the page <http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/keeping-footers-at-the-bottom-of-the-page> Hope this helps. > It's a question of expanding height. > > I have a couple of absolute boxes inside a relative one. The content > inside the absolute boxes is dynamic; meaning, I don't know it's height. > I also don't know the height of the relative box. > > I'd like to enable the absolute box with the longest height to expand > the relative box, and I have failed so far: > > http://geocities.ws/sweepslate/absolute-in-relative/index.html > > I resorted to absolute boxes because I want the sidebar to overlap the > content area by some pixels. Here is an example of the result I'm trying > to achieve: > > http://geocities.ws/sweepslate/absolute-in-relative/desired-result.png > > I am open to other routes than position:absolute to achieve this result. > The limitations that I have are: > > 1. #items and #sidebar have a defined width but a dynamic height > 2. #items has a dynamic number of floated items inside, #item1, > #item2, etc, that define it's height > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@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/
