When you say you want the height of the lower left box to "match the
height" of the right column, I didn't think you meant literally the
same height, but that you want the lower edges to line up. So I
assumed further that all you really wanted was for the two fixed size
boxes to stay a fixed size letting the last box expand downwards while
keeping a consistent lower border with the right column. So if this is
solution way off, now you know why. :)

<div style="width: 300px; border: 1px solid black">
        <div style="width: 130px; float: left">
                <div style="height: 50px; background-color: green">data data</div>
                <div style="height: 50px; background-color: red">data data</div>
                <div style="background-color: blue;">expanding left column</div>
        </div>
        <div style="margin-left: 130px;">expanding right column</div>
</div>

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jon
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Monday, November 24, 2003, 12:00:42 PM, you wrote:
IS> Haven't gotten much of a response from Talk, so I thought I would try here.
IS> Hopefully there are enough of us working this week to get a answer.

>> I have a table laid out something like this simplified example:
>>
>> <table>
>>         <tr>
>>                 <td>data</td>
>>                 <td rowspan=4>Data</td>
>>         <tr>
>>         <tr>
>>                 <td>data</td>
>>         <tr>
>>         <tr>
>>                 <td rowspan=2>data</td>
>>         <tr>
>> </table>
>> I am working on the calculation that results in the unnecessary rowspan in
>> the third row.  But I don't think that applies to this issue.
>>
>> This results in a display such as this:
>> (I hope this comes through clearly)
>>
>> |------|------|
>> | data | data |
>> |------|      |
>> | data |      |
>> |------|      |
>> | data |      |
>> |------|------|
>>
>> Now the problem is that the data in the right column is several lines
>> long, and is sometimes longer then the data in the rows in the left
>> column.  When this happens, I would like the height of the top two cells
>> to remain constant, and the bottom cell to expand to match the height of
>> the right column.  I've tried setting the height with both the height
>> parameter in the <td> tag and the CSS height property.  Neither seemed to
>> have much effect.  The three rows on the left are spacing themselves
>> equally.  This needs to work in our IE5.5+ intranet environment.
>>
>> Anybody have any suggestions?
>>
>> Thank You
>>
>> --------------
>> Ian Skinner
>> Web Programmer
>> BloodSource
>> www.BloodSource.org
>> Sacramento, CA
>>
>>
>>
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