CSS - relative positioned parent div not stretching to absolute child div height

Question

I\'ve been googling this all morning and can\'t seem to get it to work:

I have a parent DIV with Relative positioning and a two column child DIV setup inside of it,

Answer 1

You do not need position: absolute for this task.

#content {
    width: 780px;
    padding: 10px;
    position: relative;
    background: #8b847d;
}

#leftcol { 
    width: 500px;
    float: left;
}

#rightcol {
    width: 270px;
    position: relative;
    margin-left: 510px;
    text-align: center;
}