But <table> is used to tabulate data: using it to lay a page out is a
hack and will cause more problems than it solves.

The ALA article that Doug points contains a CSS based hack for getting
columns to display the same height:

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fauxcolumns/

An example of some js (not tested by me!) would be:

http://www.paulbellows.com/getsmart/balance_columns/

Leon

On Jul 16, 3:05 am, djolley <[email protected]> wrote:
> > You'll need to use some javascript to make your left
> > column the same length as the right.
>
> My initial reaction was that having to resort to JS in order to
> achieve the desired result was asking a lot especially since there is
> an HTML element (i.e., <table>) that handles the problem quite nicely
> out of the box.  However, I still feel that I am painting myself into
> a corner by continuing to structure layouts using tables.
> Accordingly, I am prompted to ask the question:  What would this JS
> code look like?  Can you point me to some sample code?   Maybe it's
> fairly simple and something with which I could live.
>
> Thanks.
>
>        ... doug
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