I've seen lots of CSS solutions to this. They all seemed a little over the top and unreliable to me. So I decided to write my own solution using jQuery. There may be a better way to go about this using jQuery and I'd love to simplify what I've done, but it does work.
See demo.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Three Equal Columns using jQuery</title>
<style type="text/css">
*
{
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
body
{
font-family:Sans-serif;
margin:0 auto;
width:800px;
font-size:62.5%;
color:#FFFFFF;
}
#column1, #column2, #column3
{
float:left;
padding:10px;
font-size:1.2em;
}
#column1, #column2
{
width:180px;
}
#column1
{
background:#FF0000;
}
#column2
{
background:#000000;
}
#column3
{
background:#CCCCCC;
width:380px;
}
</style>
<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
<script>
google.load("jquery", "1");
google.load("jqueryui", "1");
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://github.com/malsup/corner/raw/master/jquery.corner.js"></script>
<script>
$.fn.getBiggest = function(param, biggest)
{
if($(param).height() > biggest) return $(param).height();
else return biggest;
}
var currentlyBiggest = 0;
$(document).ready(function()
{
$('div').each(function(index)
{
currentlyBiggest = $(document).getBiggest($(this), currentlyBiggest);
});
$('div').height(currentlyBiggest);
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
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<div id="column2"><p>Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Vestibulum tortor quam, feugiat vitae, ultricies eget, tempor sit amet, ante. Donec eu libero sit amet quam egestas semper. Aenean ultricies mi vitae est. Mauris placerat eleifend leo. Quisque sit amet est et sapien ullamcorper pharetra. Vestibulum erat wisi, condimentum sed, commodo vitae, ornare sit amet, wisi. Aenean fermentum, elit eget tincidunt condimentum, eros ipsum rutrum orci, sagittis tempus lacus enim ac dui. Donec non enim in turpis pulvinar facilisis. Ut felis. Praesent dapibus, neque id cursus faucibus, tortor neque egestas augue, eu vulputate magna eros eu erat. Aliquam erat volutpat. Nam dui mi, tincidunt quis, accumsan porttitor, facilisis luctus, metus</p></div>
<div id="column3"><p>Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas.</p></div>
</body>
</html>
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