Re: 'offsetWidth/height' function

On Fri, 7 May 2004, Sean M. Hall wrote:
>
> A common problem with CSS is two column stretching. The navbar should be
> as long (no more, no less) than the content div. CSS does not yet have a
> rule for this (see http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/3column.html)
>
> I propose this for CSS(3):
>
> div#navbar {
>    height: offsetHeight(div#content)px;
>    width: 25%;
> }

This is possible now in CSS2.1:

   div#navbar { display: table-cell; }
   div#content { display: table-cell; }

(Assuming the two elements are adjacent siblings.)

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