html - CSS - relative positioned parent div not stretching to absolute child div height

Question

I've been googling this all morning and can't seem to get it to work:

I have a parent DIV with Relative positioning and a two column child DIV setup inside of it, both positioned Absolute. I need the parent DIV's height to stretch with the content of the inner DIV's.

I have tried putting a .clearfix type bit before the closing tags for #content but I'm not floating anything. I've also tried adding a float attribute to the #content div to no avail. Can anyone point me to the right direction here. Clearly I'm missing something with how the nested displays affect each other.

CSS:

#content {
    width: 780px;
    padding: 10px;
    position: relative;
    background: #8b847d;
}

#leftcol {
    width: 500px;
    position: absolute;
}

#rightcol {
    width: 270px;
    position: absolute;
    left: 500px;
    margin-left: 10px;
    text-align: center;
}

HTML:

<div id="content">
    <div id="leftcol">
        <p>Lorem Ipsum</p>
    </div><!-- /leftcol -->
    <div id="rightcol">
        <img src="images/thumb1.jpg">
        <img src="images/thumb2.jpg">
    </div><!-- /rightcol -->
    <br style="clear:both;">
</div><!-- /content -->

Answer 1

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$(document).ready(function() 
{
     var objHeight = 0;
     $.each($('#content').children(), function(){
            objHeight += $(this).height();
     });
     $('#content').height(objHeight);
});?