[thelist] Tricky three column issue with Footer

Jono Young Jono at brookgroup.com
Fri Oct 17 13:45:30 CDT 2003


This has been posted a few times as such an example:
<http://www.pixy.cz/blogg/clanky/css-3col-layout/>

On 10/17/03 11:41 AM, "Scott Blanchard" <octigonuser at hotmail.com> wrote:

> This is, I would think, a common problem. Perhaps there is a consensus "most
> often used" solution.
> 
> I have a 3 column layout with a footer element. The footer element must span
> across alll three columns and should fall below the longest vertical column.
> 
> Is this possible? examples?
> 
> I have example code I can post, if that would help. I have a workaround in
> effect that only works in IE. I have set the height of the middle column's
> div to a fixed height which is sufficient to clear the left colum's longest
> expected width (its an image that changes with each section). But when this
> is viewed in Netscape or Safari, and the middle column's content extends
> past this fixed height, the footer elements does not flow with the content
> and instead stays fixed. In IE, the footer flows to make room for the
> content.
> 
> example (view in both IE and Netscape to see the diff):
> http://demo.octigon.com/websites/marnell/default.asp?id=4
> 
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