Question

I am trying to create a two div’s side by side that fill my screen 100%. The left div contains some menu and the right the content. Here’s the code I have at the moment: http://jsfiddle.net/HpWZW/ . The current problem is the height is only as large as my smallest div’s content. So in this case my iframe in the right column is larger than my menu items in the left column; however, the height is limited to the left divs contents not the right. Any ideas? Thanks!

Code

<div>
    <div class="table">
        <div class="innerLeft">
            <span>Left Column</Span>
        </div>

        <div class="innerRight">
            <span>Content with Iframe</span>
        </div>
    </table>
</div>​

…

html, body {height: 100%}

.table {

    display: table;
    height: 100%;

}

.innerLeft {

    display: table-cell;
    min-width: 160px;    

    background-color: lightblue;
    color: black;
}

.innerRight {

    display: table-cell;
    width: 100%;
    vertical-align: top;

    background-color: red;
    color: white;
}

​

Answer 1

I have ran in the same problem so many times, until I found this: http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/equal-height-columns-cross-browser-css-no-hacks

It is a valid CSS solution for making your colums share the height. Then both will be the height of the largest column.

If you want to make your colums fill the whole screen you could use something like

.innerLeft {
    position: absolute;
    left: 0;
    top: 0;
    bottom: 0;
    width: 50%; 
}

.innerRight {
    position: absolute;
    left: 50%;
    top: 0;
    bottom: 0;
    right: 0; 
}