Sander van Surksum wrote: > I'm using the 3 colomn layout with a width of 775px. The leftnav has > a bg image en the rightnav has a border-left. Sometimes the leftnav, > content or the rightnav are longer as the others. So al the colomn > has to auto stretch but i can't figure out what i'm doing wrong. > > Is this posible with floating elements or do I have to use position: > absolute; for every colomn? > > http://www.johnsten.com/test/test.htm
General advice: avoid using absolute positioning as main layout-method. AP-layouts tend to become too rigid and inflexible - mostly because IE/win has severe limitations when it comes to 4-side positioning. OTOH: this... <http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/css/holy-gruel/juanpercent.htm> ...looks like a working solution - with absolute positioned elements and all. You may also find this alternative useful... <http://www.alistapart.com/articles/holygrail> ...and Ryan Brill's 'negative margins' is still working well... <http://www.alistapart.com/articles/negativemargins> Other layouts along the same lines, using floats and flow, are around - waiting for a search. Look in the css-d wiki also. Most, if not all, can be styled for 'fixed width' and 'any column longest - same apparent height' layouts. I use a variant of Ryan Brill's 'negative margins' myself - which is styled to fall back to fixed width in IE/win if one turns off javascript support in that browser... <http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/molly_1_18.html> ...but that layout-version may be a bit too complex with its undocumented 'imageless faux columns' and other 'personal garbage', so it's more of a demo of what one can do with floats and flow. regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
