Levi Smith wrote: > http://temptrialling.blogspot.com
> My question is whether percentages are the best route to follow as > fixed widths seem to be more commonly used on many sites. Please can > you advise on what are the advantages and disadvantages of using > percentages as opposed to fixed? Comments welcome. Fixed vs. fluid vs. percentage vs. em vs. 'whatever' is mostly a question about personal opinions and what each designer can get to work properly. Discussing these layout-options and opinions can end up in 'trench warfare' and 'flaming'- which of course isn't necessary. Your existing solution/page will only work on large screens, since the content of each column can't shrink as the columns shrink in width. That causes overlapping in the good browsers and 'float-drop' in IE/win. It is not the fluidity in your solution that causes problems, but rather that the 'fit all screens and browser-widths' approach isn't complete enough to handle all the problems. Fixed width is easier that way, in that it doesn't fit any screens or browser-widths :-) I have a few, very personal, preferences: 1: 'fixed - fluid - fixed' based on floats and negative margins... <http://www.alistapart.com/articles/negativemargins/> ...which is the solution I most often base my own layouts on, like (just as an example)... <http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/molly_1_07.html> ...with min/max width for extra "control". It's a bit of 'whatever', I think :-) 2: 'elastic' based on em and max width... <http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200504/fixed_or_fluid_width_elastic/> Others will probably have their own opinions and preferences. Some may even post them ;-) Regardless of solution: you'll end up with some problems that have to be solved /uniquely/ for your site. regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
