On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 10:41:16 -0500, 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? You could try this: http://www.pixy.cz/blogg/clanky/css-3col-layout/ or do what I did here: http://www.torbytes.co.uk/ and set the growing/shrinking column to height: auto; (which works in the good browsers) and add a minimum height fixing 1 pixel gif to stop the column going too small in IE seems to work okay hth Tony -- http://www.xebit.net/ Sent with M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: https://secure.bmtmicro.com/opera/buy-opera.html?AID=627923