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I have a "navigation" div which is a list of links floated to the left of the page. Beside it on the right is a "content" div of text also floated left. Naturally, their height is dependent on the content within.

Therefore the "navigation" div of only 5 links is much shorter than the multiple paragraph "content" div. (these are coloured boxes on a background of white, this is why i'm trying to line them up)

What I would like is to make these the same height so that they are lined up. Of course I could manually specify a pixel height for both of them, however I would like this CSS file to be used across multiple HTML pages, where the text content varies from 2-5 paragraphs, and manually specifying wouldn't work.

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  • possible duplicate of [How might I force a floating DIV to match the height of another floating DIV?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/526294/how-might-i-force-a-floating-div-to-match-the-height-of-another-floating-div) – Aaron Digulla May 06 '14 at 09:38
  • See my answer at http://stackoverflow.com/a/23491034/34088 – Aaron Digulla May 06 '14 at 09:40
  • @AaronDigulla this doesn't work when `float: left` is used: [Updated Fiddle](http://jsfiddle.net/6j58h/2/) – Re Captcha May 06 '14 at 09:43
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    @ReCaptcha: `float` is an ugly hack which you don't need if you use `display: table-cell`. – Aaron Digulla May 06 '14 at 10:00

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Please check below answer.

HTML

<div class="container clearfix">
<div class="sidebar">
    <ul>
        <li>link1</li>
        <li>link1</li>
        <li>link1</li>
        <li>link1</li>
    </ul>
</div>
<div class="content">
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</div>

CSS

.container{border:1px red solid; position:relative;}
.sidebar {float:left;width:150px;border:1px green solid;position:absolute;top:0;bottom:0;left:0;}
.sidebar ul{list-style:none;padding:0;margin:0;}
.content{float:left;width:300px;border:1px orange solid;margin-left:160px;}
.clearfix:before, .clearfix:after { content: " "; display: table; }
.clearfix:after { clear: both; }
.clearfix { *zoom: 1;}

Below is the fiddle of my code. You can solve this by many way I just mentioned one.

http://jsfiddle.net/murli2308/htZhG/

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