Responsive full-height CSS cols down to IE8

by b9chris

HTML

<div class=box>
    <div class="col col1">Col 1<br/>Col 1</div>
    <div class="col col2">Col 2</div>
</div>

CSS

body {
    font: 10pt Verdana;
    padding: 0;
    margin: 0;
}

div.col {
    padding: 10px;
}

div.col1 {
    background: #8ff;
}
div.col2 {
    background: #8f8;
}

@media (min-width: 400px) {
    div.box {
        display: table;
        width: 100%;
    }
    div.col {
        display: table-cell;
        width: 50%;
    }
}