That will bring the sidebar back to where we want, but it still isn’t I’d encourage you to read both articles I linked to above as they offer more details than I am here. I’d probably use flexbox. Until they’re used more frequently though, we still have the methods I described in this post. Both contain code for using this method with a third column and Thierry’s article talks about setting up borders between the columns.I’ve saved it for the end since it’s a little more complex and you might need to read through it a few times to understand how it works.The html is similar to what we’ve seen above though you’ll note an extra container div to what we’ve seen before.As with the other methods we’ll use these containers to set background colors that will appear as though they belong to our columns.There’s a lot more going on here than what we’ve seen to this point. I had to refer to this post myself today to remind me how the last method worked.Matthew James Taylor’s solution is absolutely brilliant and I’ve been using it exclusively for over a year. I’m generally not a big fan of having extra scrollbars though.
If you have two links, use 50%, and 33.33% for three links, etc.. text-align: center; /* If you want the text to be centered */ The viewport-percentage lengths are relative to the size of the initial containing block. I just wanted to thank you for this great article. It’s an excellent presentation.Thanks for the extra info about the faux padding. So, it’s redundant.Good point. If not you can email me the code and I’ll try to take a look.This is an excellent article, and I used the suggestions here to start converting the websites I have built to use CSS instead of traditional tables.I have a general dislike of websites where the height of a particular column is much greater than the height of the others – I think it shows poor foresight because of the ’empty spaces’ it leaves in the other columns.To avoid this I actually set the height of each column to the same value, i.e.
When you have columns that should appear side by side, you'll often want them to be of equal height (matching the height of the tallest).The columns we made in the previous example are responsive (if you resize the browser window in the try it example, you will see that they automatically adjust to the necessary width and height).
In padding-xyz: 100%, 100% equals 100% of the box's width. JavaScript is another method used for equal height columns. Step 2) Add CSS: Add a percentage value for padding-top to maintain the aspect ratio of the DIV.
You have to use < ; and > ; (without the space) for the opening and closing angle brackets if you want to post html.I think this is like using a boulder to drive a nail. It’s because I set both of those methods up as flexible layouts and then filled the columns with non-flexible content. To handle content, I create interior containers in each column.
Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanks a lot, I loved the forth method, and it works really good.Thanks. Will the audience for this site use older versions of IE?I’m not sure I’d use flexbox for the entire layout of a site, though I think you could. I think flexbox can be made to work though. I take it the negative bottom margin on the floated columns combined with the overflow hidden on the container is what makes the column equal height.I’ve never seen that before. in this context named ‘sidebar’) not to show at all if it is empty? The negative padding-bottom/margin-bottom trick won’t work since hiding overflow-y also has the consequence of hiding the title that is been negatively margined above the div for style purposes.So how do people get equal height divs when we are doing borders not backgrounds?My first thought is to ask if you really need everything to have borders.