Thanks for the compliment, Darrel!
Thierry's website has for a long time now been in my Favorites ->
Resources folder and should technically be listed on The Holier Grail
Notables list -- an oversight I'll correct within the next week or so.
On an intranet, you know your audience and the browse
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> discuss.org] On Behalf Of Bill Brown
> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 10:37 AM
> To: Austin, Darrel
> Cc: CSS Discussion
> Subject: Re: [css-d] 3 column layout. Am I missing the obvoius? (ques
> Hi Darrel,
> This approach used to be very common, but now most authors don't want
> to
> have their content come last.
Good point, Thierry. I do imagine most of the complexity comes from
wanting source order options.
In this case, we're OK, given it's an intranet.
Bill...I just saw your Holi
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> discuss.org] On Behalf Of Austin, Darrel
> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 9:33 AM
> To: CSS Discussion
> Subject: [css-d] 3 column layout. Am I missing the obvoius? (question and
> commentary)
&g
Hi Darrel,
Fundamentally speaking, you're right on the money. The problem exists in
coloring and backgrounding. In your example, full length columns won't
render...that is, the color of 'left' may not match the length of the
background on 'right'.
In an ideal world, one might do this:
HTML:
Austin, Darrel wrote:
>
> This seems to work just fine in IE6+ up.
>
> My question is: Am I missing something obvious? Is there something wrong
> with the above example? Why are most of the 3-column layouts out there
> so heavily relying on CSS hacks and nested wrappers? Is it a workaround
> for al
Over the past year or so, my HTML + CSS work has been mostly producing
layouts for other visual designers. CSS has been great and it's been
fairly easy to layout the pages from scratch. Most of these were
2-column layouts where we had control over the content.
I'm now wanting to build a 3-column f
