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	jQuery - Columns of Equal Height

VernonK

6-29-2009 9:22 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2e1077f8-7158-4dcc-a600-93975cb473a2/B97D7BD9-0A3A-4405-91B0-4478E70B8E71/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.queness.com/post/126/useful-and-handy-jquery-tips-and-tricks" href="http://www.queness.com/post/126/useful-and-handy-jquery-tips-and-tricks" style="font-size: 11px;">www.queness.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.queness.com/post/126/useful-and-handy-jquery-tips-and-tricks"><LI class="alt"><SPAN><SPAN>$(document).ready(</SPAN><SPAN class="keyword">function</SPAN><SPAN>() {  </SPAN></SPAN></LI><LI class=""><SPAN>    setHeight(<SPAN class="string">'.col'</SPAN><SPAN>);  </SPAN></SPAN></LI><LI class="alt"><SPAN>});  </SPAN></LI><LI class=""><SPAN>  </SPAN></LI><LI class="alt"><SPAN><SPAN class="comment">//global variable, this will store the highest height value</SPAN><SPAN>  </SPAN></SPAN></LI><LI class=""><SPAN><SPAN class="keyword">var</SPAN><SPAN> maxHeight = 0;  </SPAN></SPAN></LI><LI class="alt"><SPAN>  </SPAN></LI><LI class=""><SPAN><SPAN class="keyword">function</SPAN><SPAN> setHeight(col) {  </SPAN></SPAN></LI><LI class="alt"><SPAN>    <SPAN class="comment">//Get all the element with class = col</SPAN><SPAN>  </SPAN></SPAN></LI><LI class=""><SPAN>    col = $(col);  </SPAN></LI><LI class="alt"><SPAN>      </SPAN></LI><LI class=""><SPAN>    <SPAN class="comment">//Loop all the col</SPAN><SPAN>  </SPAN></SPAN></LI><LI class="alt"><SPAN>    col.each(<SPAN class="keyword">function</SPAN><SPAN>() {          </SPAN></SPAN></LI><LI class=""><SPAN>      </SPAN></LI><LI class="alt"><SPAN>        <SPAN class="comment">//Store the highest value</SPAN><SPAN>  </SPAN></SPAN></LI><LI class=""><SPAN>        <SPAN class="keyword">if</SPAN><SPAN>($(</SPAN><SPAN class="keyword">this</SPAN><SPAN>).height() &gt; maxHeight) {  </SPAN></SPAN></LI><LI class="alt"><SPAN>            maxHeight = $(<SPAN class="keyword">this</SPAN><SPAN>).height();;  </SPAN></SPAN></LI><LI class=""><SPAN>        }  </SPAN></LI><LI class="alt"><SPAN>    });  </SPAN></LI><LI class=""><SPAN>      </SPAN></LI><LI class="alt"><SPAN>    <SPAN class="comment">//Set the height</SPAN><SPAN>  </SPAN></SPAN></LI><LI class=""><SPAN>    col.height(maxHeight);  </SPAN></LI><LI class="alt"><SPAN>}  </SPAN></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.queness.com/post/126/useful-and-handy-jquery-tips-and-tricks"><LI class="alt"><SPAN><SPAN class="tag">&lt;</SPAN><SPAN class="tag-name">div</SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN class="attribute">class</SPAN><SPAN>=</SPAN><SPAN class="attribute-value">"col"</SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN class="attribute">style</SPAN><SPAN>=</SPAN><SPAN class="attribute-value">"border:1px solid"</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">&gt;</SPAN><SPAN>Column One</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">&lt;</SPAN><SPAN class="tag-name">br</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">/&gt;</SPAN><SPAN>  </SPAN></SPAN></LI><LI class=""><SPAN>With Two Line<SPAN class="tag">&lt;</SPAN><SPAN class="tag-name">br</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">/&gt;</SPAN><SPAN>  </SPAN></SPAN></LI><LI class="alt"><SPAN>And the height is different<SPAN class="tag">&lt;</SPAN><SPAN class="tag-name">br</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">/&gt;</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">&lt;</SPAN><SPAN class="tag-name">br</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">/&gt;</SPAN><SPAN>  </SPAN></SPAN></LI><LI class=""><SPAN><SPAN class="tag">&lt;/</SPAN><SPAN class="tag-name">div</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">&gt;</SPAN><SPAN>  </SPAN></SPAN></LI><LI class="alt"><SPAN><SPAN class="tag">&lt;</SPAN><SPAN class="tag-name">div</SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN class="attribute">class</SPAN><SPAN>=</SPAN><SPAN class="attribute-value">"col"</SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN class="attribute">style</SPAN><SPAN>=</SPAN><SPAN class="attribute-value">"border:1px solid"</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">&gt;</SPAN><SPAN>Column Two</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">&lt;</SPAN><SPAN class="tag-name">br</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">/&gt;</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">&lt;</SPAN><SPAN class="tag-name">br</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">/&gt;</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">&lt;/</SPAN><SPAN class="tag-name">div</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">&gt;</SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.queness.com/post/126/useful-and-handy-jquery-tips-and-tricks"><H2>Columns of equal height</H2>
I think this script is quite useful. I haven't have a chance to use it yet. It's more on design. If you want columns have the same height, this function
will answer your request.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B97D7BD9-0A3A-4405-91B0-4478E70B8E71/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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