When you float the sidebar it takes it out of the flow of the page so the <div id="content"> will span the entire page or wrapper, if used. If you give your content a margin of 200px it will leave that space open for the sidebar.
Mike -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Bicknell Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 9:35 AM To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: [css-d] Mixing % width and pixel width I want to create a site with a sidebar div {width:200px; float: left;} rule and a content div that stretches to fill the remaining space and that centers the content within that remaining space. When I specify a percentage width for the content div it behaves as if the floated div is not there. When I remove the float rule from the sidebar div, the content div sits below, rather than to the right of the sidebar div. Am I missing something, or do I need to redesign the site? Any thoughts would be appreciated. -- Scott ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- 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/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- 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/
