Make two columns the same height

Question

I\'m trying to make a 2 column design (using Twitter Bootstrap) with 2 columns of equal height.

Let\'s take this example:

Answer 1

And old classic is the faux columns technique. Works flawlessly in every browser and is easy to implement.

One downside however: You need to add a background image (and thus one more request, unless you're base 64 encoding your background).

Setting height/min-height to 100% is not possible on block level elements that have "auto height".