However, for small screens (like smartphones), you might want them to stack vertically instead of horizontally: Updating a comment is different. Result. I’m of the opinion that JavaScript is generally not the best solution for layout though I do know people use it.As long as the layout still works without JavaScript I guess there’s no problem, but I prefer to stick with html and css for layout.Interesting Greg. It’s an excellent presentation.Thanks for the extra info about the faux padding. None really require that there be any content in the sidebar.Hey there. – an “inner” container div). Using the Pseudo Columns version. 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. You can just about support most everything in use if you’re willing to use older versions of the syntax and vendor prefixes too.This is crucial in table cell. In example 2, display: flex initiates flexbox for container block. Or do the columns need to adjust in size to different content that might be placed in them?Feel free to email me the code if you want. The code is wrapped in pre tags, which doesn’t let what’s inside flow.My bad with the demo, but the methods still work as they should.I use jQuery. By floating all of our columns inside all of the floated containers we ensure our container divs will always be equal in height to the tallest column.The first step here is to float both the columns and the containers. One reason it seems so complicated is the way he addresses the IE box model error (by creating faux padding).In your exposition of his method, you simplified. I tried to figure out until i reached the point of a FF bug. I think browser support for them is pretty good though so I imagine this is another solution to the problem.Yeah, this works great in modern browsers.

If I can see your code maybe I can help.I’m curious though why you don’t think any of these solutions could work. Just 4 I think work well.In the Pseudo and Offset methods, the sidebar is clipped when the browser width is reduced.Thanks David. That’s not a lot to wait on.With IE in general, once people are past IE9 things should get better. The lack of IE support makes it hard to recommend css gradients as a standard option. I’m working on creating a grid layout of images, the problem I’m having is that the plugin (RTMedia) has a problem with cropping image sizes, and breaks the layout of my grid. In his article Thierry uses the body as the container, but I’ll stick to using a container div as is my usual practice.The css is where things get interesting. I’m just starting to work more with webpages and getting the columns to match up like this has been a real headache. Thanks for the code.I generally don’t like using a Javascript solution for what I consider a structural problem. It probably won’t help for a site you’re about to design now, but perhaps the site after that.All of these solutions feel more like hacks and nothing that CSS intented you to do this way. Fine, things will still work.Thanks David. I think flexbox can be made to work though. Is the page in question online? I know it only works for limited cases, but I think those limited cases come up a lot.Of course if we use the same background colors behind all columns the issue goes away. These units are vh, vw, vmin and vmax. If so you can post a link to it. !Hey Steven.. i was just facing this problem and your all method are useful for me. Do you have a working example online? I completely missed what you were saying in your previous comment. It’s not too difficult to understand, though I did have to read through it a couple of times to really understand how and why it was working.Awesome tutorial; thanks for sharing! The width of an element does not include padding, borders, or margins! Different colored backgrounds do the same. The latest versions of I think all browsers support it.

:Thanks Andrew. We set it’s background as normal and then give it a left If we stop here you’ll see both columns displayed where you want, however our border-left has pushed the actual sidebar off the page and we need to bring it back.First we give the sidebar a negative right margin equal to its width (or the width of the left border of the content, which are the same). of each other */

Without it, IE takes shorter div to the bottom of table. 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 */ That’s often poor planning.Setting overflow and allowing for a scrollbar can work. No problem! Borders, shadows, patterns, etc.