When I try to use
The accepted solution kind of works, but not if you add another column with more content in it than in the other one. If you add The only problem is that this only fixes the column height problem in FF, not in Chrome and IE. So it's a step closer, but not perfect. I updated a the fiddle from Jan that wasn't working with the accepted answer to show it working.
http://jsfiddle.net/gvcLoz20/position: relative / position: absolute on a or in Firefox it doesn\'t seem to wo
height:100% to your tr, td & div then it should work.