Thank you; that makes sense and is a very workable solution! I've also been experimenting with eliminating the sidebar completely (it's just there to have a vertical band of color) and putting a repeating left-aligned background image in the main content area that is 35 pixels wide and the appropriate color.
Peg On 10/6/06, Gunlaug Sørtun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Peggy Coats wrote: > > http://ambientglow.com/RV/sample.html > > > > What I want to do is have the vertical colored sidebar, which is set up > as a > > separate div, automatically size itself to the same height as the > Content > > div (where all the text is). > > Basically: don't 'position' anythingthing, and "fake" the look you're > after. > > A simple example - using your page as base... > <http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/test_7310.html> > <http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/inside02.css> > ...shows that an auto-expanding wrapper takes care of the "same height" > problem in a 'flow and float' layout. You can fill the separate, vertical, > sidebar as you like, but there isn't much space in a 39px wide sidebar. > > > regards > -- > http://www.gunlaug.no > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
