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Setting Equal Heights with jQuery

By: Mark Dijkstra    In: Design jQuery

Creating the visual effect of equal-height columns or content boxes has been a challenge ever since we abandoned table-based layouts.

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When developing complex web applications or site designs we’ve found that it often makes the most sense from a usability and performance standpoint to use a simple JavaScript workaround: our equalHeights() function determines the heights of all sibling elements in a container, and then sets each element’s minimum height to that of the tallest element. When JavaScript is disabled, the boxes or columns appear with varying heights, but the content remains legible and the page is still completely usable.

See a demo here

Written by: Mark Dijkstra

Mark Dijkstra is the founder and main writer of OpenSourceHunter. He's also a passionate freelance web developer and designer. Mark is one of those people that spend too much time on the internet to keep up with all of the trends and tools.
You can follow Mark on twitter @ MarkDijkstra

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