CSS Height

[mrstuff68]

I have a layout that has 2 columns.

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| 111111 | 222222222222222222 |
| 111111 | 222222222222222222 |
| 111111 | 222222222222222222 |
| 111111 | 222222222222222222 |
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Section 2 on some sections of the site goes on for several pages, section 1 has only a navigation menu in it. Is there a way to make the size of 1 the same as 2. I would like to make the height of 1 the same size as 2 dynamically. How can this be done?

[penagate]

I am always running into this issue, AFAIK you can't, but usually if you think about it a bit you find you don't need to anyway.

What is the effect that requires they be the same height? Certain to be an alternative method.

[mrstuff68]

I have a scroller with quick links(anchors) on it so that finding info on a page will be easier, but it seems to hide once I get past the navigation menu area in section 1. it just seems weird to me, and I though that if I can set the height of section 1 to the height of section 2 that it would resolve the problem.

[penagate]

Can you post a screenshot of how it looks at the moment?

[Merri]

Most often the easiest method is to wrap both inside another element and set a background to that element. As the parent element is sized according to the inner elements, it'll always fill all space available.

As offtopic: this behaviour in CSS is something I personally consider a flaw. It should be possible to make elements fill all available vertical space. But it isn't possible, atleast not at the moment, thus we just have to work around the problem.