Question

Trying to float one ul left and one ul right and keeping them to bottom of div with no success

heres the fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/Ku2jk/

Answer 1

Nothing wrong with the approach to float the containers inside another container, which is positioned to the absolute bottom.

You just had some syntax errors plus the container holding the floating divs did not have a width.

http://jsfiddle.net/Ku2jk/26/

height = 100px;
       ^   should be height:100px;
backgroundcolor: blue;
          ^  should be background-color;


#menubar{
   position: absolute;
   bottom: 0;
    width: 100%;
       ^   needed a width because positioned absolute.
}