Question

i have this situation

<div class="sub_project">
    <div class="sbone brown_gradient optzeci">Description</div>
    <div class="sbtwo optzecitwo">
   Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. 
    </div>
</div>

.sub_project{
    font-size: 16px;
    margin: 10px 0;
    background: #D7D7D7;
}

.brown_gradient{
    background: #EB994F;
}
.sbone{
    padding: 5px;
    color: white;
    float: left;
    width: 160px;
    margin: 0 10px 0 0;

}

.sbtwo{padding: 5px;}

.optzeci{height: 80px;}
.optzecitwo{min-height: 80px;} * html .optzeci { height:80px; }

I would like the <div class="sbone brown_gradient optzeci">Description</div> height to grow with the amount of text.

Right now i set a min-height: 80px; but i do’t want to set height at all.

Also i don’t want to use images or javascript

See jsfiddle

any ideas?

Thanks

Answer 1

Relatively position the container, .sub_project, and give it left padding. Absolutely position .optzeci and give it top: 0; left: 0; bottom: 0;.

http://jsfiddle.net/W7Nrn/9/

.sub_project {
    ...
    padding-left: 175px;
    position: relative;
}
.optzeci {
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    bottom: 0;
}