[thelist] CSS: layout question

Wed Nov 20 17:38:00 CST 2002

On 21.Nov.02 00:15 Chris W. Parker wrote

 > here is what i want to do with css that is easily achievable with
 > tables.

[snipped a bunch of code]

Not sure what it is you're after, but the look you're achieving with
your tables (header across the top, then menu left & content right 2
col) is easily gotten by floating the menu to the left (note: it *must*
have a width in order to float) and assigning a left margin equal to the
width of the menu to the content.

Sump'n like this:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
	<head>
		<title> title me </title>
		<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
		<style type="text/css">
			<!--
			body { padding: 0; margin: 0; }
			div { border: 1px solid black; }
			#header { height: 50px; }
			#menu { width: 25%; float: left; }
			#content { margin-left: 25%; }
			//-->
		</style>
	</head>
	<body>
		<div id="header">header</div>
		<div id="menu">menu</div>
		<div id="content">content</div>
	</body>
</html>

Tweak at your leisure, or specify more clearly what it is you're after.

Best

--
/nik