Linking the Heights of 2 div's

[Webbo agogo]

I want to link the height of 2 divs that are side by side in the body of my
website.

The 1st div's height is determind by the amount of text within it (which can
change from page to page). The 2nd div will contain a repeat image, which i
want to grow to whatever size the 1st div is, but I don't know what height
setting to assign the div's in my CSS document.

Please can someone help, I'm sure this is very easy but i'm just starting out
and i'm completely stumped.

[VVebbie]

Make the repeating image the background image in the div with the text, and
adjust the padding to accomodate the image.

Inform yourself:
[url]http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/css/propindex/colorbg.htm[/url]

If you don't understand the difference between margins and padding, now's a
good time to look that up too:
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[Excavatorak]

Hello Webbo agogo,
See the example I made of an equal height 2 column layout -
[url]http://nopeople.com/CSS/equal_length_columns/[/url]

To do what you want you'll have to flop the 2 columns, make your background
image as wide as your right column, put that image as the background of
#wrapper.
I don't know how your image will look when the content column cuts half of it
off because it's not long enough to expose the enire image....

Use CSS like this:

background-image: url(..image/picture.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat-y;
background-position: right;

[Webbo agogo]

thanks guys i will look into both of these options.

It looks like i will have to add a 3rd div on the right side of the text area
which will include the navigator (which will be made up of 8 images) - do you
have any ideas which of your 2 options would be best suited to this?

[VVebbie]

The two-column setup.

My suggestion is based on the assumption that the "column" has no content, and thus doesn't actually need to be a column.

[Excavatorak]

Webbo, I put a really simple one here - [url]http://nopeople.com/Webbo/[/url]

[Webbo agogo]

Thanks for the help guys. And thanks for the example Excavatorak.

Cheers

Webbo