CSS height question

[thor]

I have two divs which are basically two variable height columns displayed side-by-side. Is there some CSS way of ensuring that one column is never any bigger (higher) than the other? In this case, I need the left hand column to always be equal to or bigger than the right hand column.

I know this is easy enough to do with javascript but for now I was hoping I could achieve it with just html/css...

 

[Tripnologist]

You can't. However, you can use faux columns to give the appearance of them being the same height.