How do I make a overflow:scroll div have the same height of its container? Details inside
Question by Bror Bojlén
I have a website with two columns, within a wrapper div.
The wrapper has the same height as the tallest div by giving floating everything and giving the wrapper height:100%.
Here’s my problem: one of the columns is a div with overflow:scroll and several images in it. I tried to set its height to 100%, thinking that it would take up the full height of the wrapper. Instead, it became the height of all the images on top of each other.
If I set the height of the column with images (#rightbox) to a specific height in pixels, this happens.
I want it to have the same height as the other div with text, so I set its height to 100%. Then this happens.
How can I make the two columns have the same height?
EDIT: I forgot to mention that the amount of text varies, so I can’t define a specific height for the wrapper.
Answer by Starx
You cannot define height as 100% unless your parents provides an actual heights.
#wrapper {
height: 800px;
}
/* Now you can make the columns inside take the full height of its parent *?
#wrapper .columns {
height: 100%;
overflow: auto;
}
Note: if the wrapper sits inside the body element then you will need to set html,body { height: 100%; } before the wrapper can be set to 100%
