David Gordon wrote: > Here's a page I'm designing to work with TextPatten (its a dummy, the > links don't work). > <http://www.dgordon.eclipse.co.uk/demo.html> > This is looking good to me so far, the main news headlines are arranged > as I want them, a big headline over two columns followed by older news. > However to get stories 2 through 5 to line up neatly I've had to use a height: > > That's fine if all the stories take up the same space, but some don't > and that leaves too much empty space. > > But if I remove the hight: as seen here > <http://www.dgordon.eclipse.co.uk/demo2.html> > although one story moves up to make best use of the space, another drops > down - making the design worst! > > So I'm asking for a solution which gives me more flexible divs, I'd like > them to take up enough space for their text without leaving big holes in > the page. Can this be done, or is my first page as good as I can hope for. > > I /guess/ what you may be after is a 2 col layout, containing a 2 col layout. If that is the case, I took a whack at trying it:<http://www.dlaakso.com/2c-in-2c.html>. If this works for you, you may want the left column of the inner 2 column layout to be first in source order-- I didn't take the time to do that. HTH Best, ~davidLaakso
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