Question

I have some divs floating inside another one and I want to align them to the bottom.
This is the HTML:

<div class="magazinebookcase">        

    <div class="books">
    <a title="Mag1" style="height:286px;width:16px;" href="">
    </a>
    </div>
    <div class="books">
    <a title="Mag2" style="height:258px;width:48px;" href="">
    </a>
    </div>
    <div class="books">
    <a title="Mag3" style="height:252px;width:38px;" href="">
    </a>
    </div>
    <div class="books">
    <a title="Mag4" style="height:258px;width:50px;" href="">
    </a>
    </div>       
    <div class="books">
    <a title="Mag5" style="height:284px;width:14px;" href="">
    </a>
    </div>

    <div class="clearfix"></div>
</div>

And the CSS:

.magazinebookcase {
width: 100%;
padding: 3px;
vertical-align:bottom;

} 

.magazinebookcase .clearfix {
clear:both;
}

.magazinebookcase .books {
text-align:center;
float:left;
position: relative;
vertical-align:bottom;
}

.magazinebookcase a {
border: 1px solid #000;
display: block;
word-break: break-all;
}

.magazinebookcase a:hover {
background-color: #ccc;
}

I’ve tried many ways, changing the positions from absolutes to relatives and other things but I can’t do it properly. Any help?

Answer 1

You should not use tables for your layout. But the vertical alignment features are very powerful. You could do something like that:

display: table-cell;
vertical-align: bottom;

I made a jsFiddle that demonstrates how it works.