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Asked: 2026-06-10T12:25:19+00:00

I’m trying to get two columns of the same height. Is there a way

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I’m trying to get two columns of the same height.

Is there a way I can make the columns the same heights as each other i.e. main body and menu column being same regardless of how much content is in either?

Using XHTML Strict 1.0.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Add some fixed height approx. screen height and overflow: hidden for parent div.
    Add overflow : auto and height:100% for main div & sidebar. So that layout doesn’t break when content grows.

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>

<style type="text/css">
body                    {   font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:12px; line-height:18px;  }
.clear                  {   clear:both; }
.container              {   background:#eee; display:inline-block; height:300px; overflow:hidden; padding:10px; width:800px;  } 
.container p,           {   color:#003;  }
.main                   {   background:#fff; float: right; height:100%; overflow:auto; padding:0 15px; text-align:justify; width:470px;  }
.main h1                {   color:#930;  }
.sidebar                {   background:#000; float:left; height:100%; overflow:auto; width:280px;    } 
.sidebar ul li a        {   color:#fff; text-decoration:none;    }
</style>

</head>

<body>

<div class="container">
        <div class="sidebar">
            <ul>
                <li><a href="#">Link -1</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Link -2</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Link -3</a></li>
            </ul>
        </div>

        <div class="main">
            <h1> Lipsum dot com </h1>
            <p>Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. </p>

            <p>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.</p>

            <p>It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged.</p>

            <p>It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.</p>


        </div>
        <br class="clear" />
</div>


</body>
</html>

    I have made few changes to the CSS of the page, as per below comments you can check this out

    <style type="text/css">
body                    {   font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:12px; line-height:18px;  }
.clear                  {   clear:both; }
.container              {   background:#eee; display:block; overflow: hidden; position: relative; padding:10px !important; width:800px;  } 
.container p,           {   color:#003;  }
.main                   {   background:#fff; float: right; height:100%; overflow:auto; padding:0 15px; text-align:justify; width:470px;  }
.main h1                {   color:#930;  }
.sidebar                {   background:#000; float:left; height: 100%; left:10px;  position: absolute; width:280px; } 
.sidebar ul li a        {   color:#fff; text-decoration:none;    }
</style>
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