As far as I know, there's no min-width support for IE6 or earlier. So this
should be expected in a liquid layout that uses floats.
There's lots of well documented hacks, however.

-chris

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:41 AM, saquino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> Update: Tested in fine in IE 7. In 5.5 and 6 it looks like the nested
> set of columns (like at the bottom of the sample page) breaks out of
> the parent div but otherwise it looks like the non-nested versions
> work.
>
>
>
> On Dec 8, 11:39 am, saquino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I had a work request to do fixed width sidebars with a liquid center
> > and wanted to see if I could integrate it with BP existing framework.
> > This differs from the existing plugin which makes the whole page
> > liquid rather than just the center.  This google groups page for
> > example and other sites with a lot of content like amazon have fixed
> > columns with a liquid center.
> >
> > Here's what I came up with so far:http://design-uchi.com/blueprint/
> >
> > The nice thing about this approach is that you should be able to put
> > as many columns as you want around the center up as long as it doesn't
> > exceed the minimum width of the container. Why settle for just two?
> >
> > Some changes:
> >
> > * The source order is a little different, you have to put your liquid
> > center column last in the source
> > * If you want a border on the liquid column, it has to go on the div
> > following it rather than on the liquid div itself ( I added two
> > classes for this).
> > * Divs to the right of the center are in reverse. Yeah not ideal but
> > it works
> >
> > It still needs some testing, I haven't looked in IE yet (working on a
> > mac today) but it seems to work in FF and Safari.  If someone could
> > check it out, I'd be grateful.  Any improvement would also be welcome
> > especially toward coming up with a way to maintain the source order
> > rather than what I did.
> >
>

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