HTML/CSS set div to height of sibling

Question

I have 2 div\'s contained in a third. One of the contained div\'s is floated left, the other floated right. I would like the 2 sibling div\'s to always be at the same heig

Answer 1

I ran into this issue several times this week and this topic was the closest I came to finding a concrete answer. This is an expansion on @Pekka's response for those who need a bit more to go on, I certainly did.

jsFiddle

example html:

    

        
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example css:

.view-table
{
    display:table;
    width:100%;
}
.view-row
{
    display:table-row;
}
.view-row > div
{
    display: table-cell;

}
.view-name 
{
    text-align:right;
    background-color: lightblue;
}
.view-type
{
    background-color: pink;
}