Instead of trying to float the columns next to each other, you could avoid much pain to the brain by wrapping the fixed image column inside the content column.
------------------------------------------ | |--------|| | | || | main | image || | content | || | | || | |--------|| ------------------------------------------ Or you could always just apply a 190px right-margin to your content float. ;) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ivanovitch Sent: Monday, 5 December 2005 9:32 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] 2-col question Folks - you've helped out before, and I'm asking again. Pardon if this sounds all too simple, but I've yet to find a solution either in this list's archives, or on the web. I'm trying to create a fluid layout with two columns, but whilst the left column is variable width, the right column (sidebar) is to be a fixed width (190px). This is entirely because the right column contains an image in every instance. But I want the left column to take up the remainder of the space (viewport width - 190px). Everything that I've seen or reviewed works fine if I wish to break the columns by percentage, or pixel widths on both. And min-width doesn't seem to work for IE. Having divved up some non-table examples using the usual suspects, my efforts result in my finding that when making the viewport window very small (or when enlarging the text to huge sizes), the left column slides under the righthand column. Do I need to use double-divs to set a width for the troublesome right column? The most frustrating part of this is using tables and cells, this is a no-brainer. I'd show you an example of where I'm at, but my test site is down at the moment. ****************************************************** 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 ******************************************************
