Hi Fletcher This is nothing unusual and points out the advantages of a liquid layout. If your content is text, try setting your left and right divs with percentage widths instead of px. For instance: maincontent=65%, navigation:30%.
If your wide content is a photograph, you will need to come up with a different solution. Personally, I have hit this wall. I want to use images that are large in my gallery, 500-550px and this does not leave much room for a left nav. The solution? -Ignore 800X600 users -Allow the user to collapse the leftnav -Put the content first in the source code and let the nav drop to the bottom of the screen -????? I like the liquid approach on www.simplebits.com . Try his stylesheet widget to see how you can use more of the real-estate. What other solutions are out there? Ted -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fletcher Chambers Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 8:10 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Content too large The setup: Simple 2 column layout. The left column is floated for navigation, the right column is the content. The problem: I sometimes have content that is too wide for the right column. Therefore, in Explorer the content jumps below the floated navigation leaving a huge gap at the top of my right column. Sometimes there is so much navigation that it appears that there is no content because of the gap created. Question: Does anyone see any other technique, fix, layout change, or something, that I could do to make it so Explorer doesn't give me the huge amount of white space at the top of the right column. Code: http://www.toopractical.com/temp/index.htm http://www.toopractical.com/temp/index.css To see the problem, use Explorer and shrink your window's width until the content jumps below the left column. Thanks for your help, Fletcher ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
