Re: [css-d] Three col faq

2010-12-28 Thread David Laakso
On 12/28/10 11:36 AM, Colin (Sandy) Pittendrigh wrote: I want to make a liquid 3-column layout where the center column fills what ever space is left after setting widths (as percents) for the left and right columns. If I understand what you are attempting, a "spin" on negative-margin layout

Re: [css-d] Three col faq

2010-12-28 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Tim Climis wrote: #left { float: left; width: 30%; } #right { float: right; width: 25%; } #center { margin-left: 30%; margin-right: 25%; min-height: 12em; /* min-height does not work in IE6 */ } The problem is surely in the replicatio

[css-d] Three col faq

2010-12-28 Thread Colin (Sandy) Pittendrigh
I'm just learning about CSS. So no pretensions here. I want to make a liquid 3-column layout where the center column fills what ever space is left after setting widths (as percents) for the left and right columns. I'd like to set a min-height on the center column--but I want to keep it simple, so