Found the answer (guess I had forgotten some float basics) put right column before text, and define right with float right and text with no float or width but with a 10em margin.
> In classic GUIs it is quite easy to do what I aim for, but I don't recall > ever figuring out how to do it in css. > > <div id="container"> > <div id="text"> > lots of text paragraphs > </div> > <div id="right"> > fixed width column of icons and indicators > </div> > </div> > > I wish container to get 100% width, right to get say 10em width and text > to get 100% - 10em width. > > Hmm, I think I once got tables to behave like that. Would some > display:table do the trick? > > Henrik > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > 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/ > ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
