Want to make contentless div responsive to height of adjacent div - html

Question

Making a Reactjs app. Referring to the code, I would like to make the height of the colorTab div, equal and responsive to that of the content div. The height of content must be dynamic given that I would like it to be defined by the amount of text in tile + description, which is variable, and the width of the window.
Currently, when I omit min-height from colorTab's CSS and simply have height: 100%; defining colorTab's height, colorTab disappears. Adding the min-height gives it that height but then it becomes unresponsive to the height of content which is the goal. How do I solve this issue?
JSX:
<div className="wrapper">
<div className="colorTab" style={color}>
</div>
<div className="content">
<tr>
<td className="title">
<a href={link}>{title}</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td className="description">
{description}
</td>
</tr>
</div>
</div>
CSS:
.wrapper {
min-height: 48px;
overflow: hidden;
}
.colorTab {
float: left;
position: relative;
width: 5px;
min-height: 48px;
height: 100%;
border-radius: 5px;
margin-left: 15px;
}
.title {
padding-top: 0 !important;
padding-bottom: 0 !important;
}
.description {
padding-top: 0 !important;
padding-bottom: 0 !important;
}

Answer 1

Flexbox will offer the functionality you need.
Put display: flex on your container class. And flex: 1 on your content div. No matter how much content you place in the content div the colorTab div will match its height.
Example in pure HTML/CSS (no React):
.wrapper {
overflow: hidden;
display: flex;
}
.colorTab {
position: relative;
width: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;
background: red;
}
.content {
flex: 1;
}
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="colorTab">
</div>
<div class="content">
<div class="title">
<a>Your Title</a>
</div>
<div class="description">
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</div>
</div>

Answer 2

Now, I would absolutely recommend the flexbox mentioned in the other answer but...
but for some other outdated browsers which do not support it (cough
cough looking at you, grandpa, using that same old version of IE)... it
might be good idea to provide extra version support.
So, for answer's completion sake:
The other option is to utilize the tables.
.wrapper {
display: table;
}
.description {
display: table-cell;
}
.colorTab {
display: table-cell;
width: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;
background: red;
}
// not necessary, but for esthetic reasons
.content {
position: relative;
left: 10px;
}
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="colorTab">
</div>
<div class="content">
<div class="title">
<a>Your Title</a>
</div>
<div class="description">
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</div>
</div>