Getting inline-block element's height to fill the parent

Question

I have a container with two items. One of those items is a select element, so I need to set the size attribute via HTML. I want the other item in

Answer 1

If I understand what you are saying, you are facing the 100% height columns problem. I'm sorry to tell you there is no actual solution but "hacks".

Here you can find several of those workarounds. I like to use the one true layout method.

By the way, this is thinking you don't want to use the experimental css3 columns properties.