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ErnieStings
ErnieStings

Reputation: 6423

How can you force a floating div to be the height of its parent?

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HTML markup:

<div class="planRisk">
    <div class="innerPlanRiskRight"> 
        <div class="rmPlanFrequency">10 </div>
        <div class="rmPlanSeverity"> 5</div>
        <div class="rmPlanRiskFactor">50 </div>
        <div class="rmPlanNumSolutions">2</div>
        <div class="rmPlanPercentComplete">34% </div>
        <div class="rmPlanDeletePlanRisk"> X </div>
    </div>


    <div class="rmPlanRiskTitle"> Pandemic Influenza</div>

</div>

CSS:

.planRisk{background-color:#DEECD1; border:1px solid #BEBEBE;}
.innerPlanRiskRight{float:right; color:#000000;}

.rmPlanFrequency{float:left; width:46px;background-color:#d9dee1; text-align:center; border-right:1px solid #ebebeb; padding:0.2em;}
.rmPlanSeverity{float:left; width:46px; background-color:#dbe1d4; text-align:center; border-right:1px solid #ebebeb; padding:0.2em;}
.rmPlanRiskFactor{float:left; width:46px; background-color:#e5d5da; text-align:center; border-right:1px solid #ebebeb; padding:0.2em;}
.rmPlanNumSolutions{float:left; width:46px; background-color:#dae4e4; text-align:center; border-right:1px solid #ebebeb; padding:0.2em;}
.rmPlanPercentComplete{float:left; width:46px; background-color:#dddddd; text-align:center; padding:0.2em; }
.rmPlanDeletePlanRisk{float:left; width:30px; background-color:#DEECD1; text-align:center; padding:0.2em;}  
.rmPlanRiskTitle{padding:0.2em; }


.rmPlanSolutionContainer{background-color:#f0f9e8; border: 0 1px 1px; border-left:1px solid #CDCDCD; border-right:1px solid #cdcdcd; }
.innerSolutionRight{float:right;}
.rmPlanSolution{border-bottom:1px solid #CDCDCD; padding-left:1em;}
.rmPlanSolutionPercentComplete{float:left; width:46px; background-color:#E2EADA; padding-left:0.2em; padding-right:0.2em; text-align:center;}
.rmPlanDeleteSolution{float:left; width:30px; text-align:center; padding-left:0.2em; padding-right:0.2em; }

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3334

Answers (4)

cetnar
cetnar

Reputation: 9415

What about setting 

min-height: inherit;

Works on modern browsers.

Upvotes: 0

bobince
bobince

Reputation: 536775

This is essentially an “equal column height” question. You can't directly set the child height to 100% because the height of the parent is indeterminate. There are workarounds. of various sorts.

But in your case: use a table. It's clearly tabular data, so there's nothing wrong with using a table for it.

Upvotes: 4

willoller
willoller

Reputation: 7330

In this case I think it would be semantically acceptable to use tables, which would automatically behave the way you want.

Upvotes: 1

neuroguy123
neuroguy123

Reputation: 1365

I think this question is asked a lot. I found this on searching.

Upvotes: 0

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