Hi Scott,
As Gunlaug and Tim pointed out there are some issues for a solid solution 
for the problem.
But, just for studies purposes have a look at a test case hosted at: 
http://www.maujor.com/temp/css-d/fluid-header.html
May be you can find a more consistent solution.
Regards
Maurício Samy Silva

-----Mensagem Original----- 
De: "Scott Mueller" <sc...@appletree.com>
Para: "Gunlaug Sørtun" <gunla...@c2i.net>
Cc: <css-d@lists.css-discuss.org>
Enviada em: domingo, 22 de março de 2009 21:38
Assunto: Re: [css-d] 3 columns of text, but MINIMAL wrapping, possible?


Hi Gunlaug, thank you for your quick response.  Sounds like I'm best off
using a table for my layout as painful as that sounds after reading 3 books
properly explaining how wrong doing so is...

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Gunlaug Sørtun <gunla...@c2i.net> wrote:

> Scott Mueller wrote:
>
>  The difficult part is that I want these columns to NOT wrap as much as
>> possible, spread across the width of the browser window and have equal
>> amounts of whitespace between.
>>
>
>  I know there's a display: table declaration, but I understand no IE
>> browsers pay attention to it...  maybe there's an IE hack for this?
>>
>
> IE8 has proper support for CSS table, and older IE versions can be
> "tricked"...
> <http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/moa_11h.html>
>
> However, problems arise when one wants source-ordering, table behavior
> and "old IE trickery" all at once in a self-adjusting layout. Neither
> HTML table nor CSS table permits real source-ordering, so you'll
> probably end up with a complex solution to a small problem. I don't
> think it's worth it for anything but "proof of concept" cases.
>
> In real life I would forget source-ordering, and use a regular HTML
> table for a case like yours, to achieve optimal fluidity without
> premature wrapping, while avoiding problems with older IE versions' lack
> of CSS table support.
>
> You also have to take into account that text can/will be resized, which
> in itself will complicate things enough if your case is supposed to work
> across browser-land and various end-user options.
>
> regards
>        Georg
> --
> http://www.gunlaug.no
>



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