Sidebar wrapper not expanding with page-content-wrapper - html

Struggling to figure this one out, any help is appreciated.
I've a main #wrapper div that wraps around the whole document. Then we have a #sidebar-wrapper for the navigation and a #page-content-wrapper for the content. The problem is that when the content expands the sidebar-wrapper doesn't. I know they are both absolutely positioned, I've tried relative positioning and that didn't work either.
The sidebar-wrapper div should expand down (height) to accompany the growth of the page-content-wrapper div.
I would appreciate any help. Thank you.
Here's the fiddle: wrapper fiddle
Found the SOLUTION: overflow-x on the page-content-wrapper should be set to hidden and that made the sidebar-wrapper expand to 100% of the document size.

Use position relative for outer wrapper like this:
#wrapper.toggled
{
padding-left: 250px;
overflow: hidden;
position:relative;
}

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EDIT
Not a duplicate of How to make child div scrollable when it exceeds parent height?
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Try below CSS :
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overflow-y: auto;
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Excerpt from W3School:
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Edit:
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.content{
height: 80%;
overflow-y: auto;
}
this is because there is not much content to make it scroll.. put some content and try.. check below link
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add this to the modal class. thanks
https://codepen.io/Xenio/pen/mvbpJV99

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please see my fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/qVHg8/1/
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http://jsfiddle.net/qVHg8/2/
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EDIT:
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