Align 2 DIV per line, both the with the same height

Question

We have a problem where we need to have a list of divs with dynamic content. There will always be 2 divs per row. Both of those elements should have the same height.

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Answer 1

Have a look at this fiddle You can use display:table-cell;

CSS:

.row {
    display: table;
    width: 100%;
}
.left {
    width:50%;
    background: blue;
    display:table-cell;
}
.right {
    width:50%;
    background: red;
    display:table-cell;
}

HTML

<div class='row'>
    <div class='left'>

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    </div>
    <div class='right'>

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    </div>    
</div>

Answer 2

You can use a flex model for this:

.boxes .box 
{
    margin-left: 2%;
    margin-bottom: 2%;
    width: 50%;
    padding: 4%;
    border: 1px solid #b6b6b6;
    border: 0.0625rem solid #b6b6b6;
    box-sizing: border-box;
}

.box-wrapper
{
    width: 100%;
    display: -webkit-box;
    display: -moz-box;
    display: -webkit-flexbox;
    display: -ms-flexbox;
    display: -webkit-flex;
    display: flex;
}

jsFIddle

This way every row will be the height of the highest child element. However the support for this is limited.

So if you rather not use this method you can transform you structure in a table structure. This way every row will be the height of the highest child element.

.boxes .box 
{
    display: table-cell;
    margin-left: 2%;
    margin-bottom: 2%;
    width: 50%;
    padding: 4%;
    border: 1px solid #b6b6b6;
    border: 0.0625rem solid #b6b6b6;
    box-sizing: border-box;

}

.box-wrapper
{
    display: table-row;
}

.boxes
{
    display: table;
    border-collapse: separate;
    border-spacing: 5px;
}

Because margin doesn't work between table-cells i used border-spacing to define the seperation between the cells.

jsFiddle

Answer 3

I use flexbox, it's magic ^^ :

HTML

<div class="boxes">
  <div class="box"></div>
  <div class="box"></div>
  <div class="box"></div>
  <div class="box"></div>
  <div class="box"></div>
  <div class="box"></div>
</div>

CSS

.boxes {
  display: flex;
  flex-wrap: wrap;
}
.box {
   margin: 0 1% 1% 0;
   width: 48%;
}

CODEPEN DEMO

Complete guide to flexbox on css-trick

Answer 4

Try this

.boxes .box {
    float: left;
    margin-left: 2%;
    margin-bottom: 2%;
    width: 38%;
    padding: 4%;
    border: 1px solid #b6b6b6;
    border: 0.0625rem solid #b6b6b6;
    box-sizing: border-box;
    display:inline-block
}
.box-wrapper,.boxes{
        display:inline-block;
        width:100%;
}

Fiddle