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Matching Boxes

11 May 2006

Moving from table layouts to CSS-based layouts, we occassionally need to recreate the effect of boxes of content that remain the same size, even when they contain different amounts of text.

Using table cells for layout, its very easy to ensure that the two boxes will always exactly the same height as, no matter how much text is placed within each box, the height of the row expands to contain the content.

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