Phoebe Taylor wrote: > I'm proceeding from my first CSS site to a new one. This one will > have a header and a main section below that with 3 columns, Navigation > - Content - and a column on the right for highlighted events. > > Instead of a fixed width site, which is what i used on my last one, I > want this site to be a percentage of the browser window - say 80% in > width, so it will scale up with larger browsers. In doing this, what > is the best way to handle the sizing of the columns? Should I float > them on percentages or just use pixels? > > Phoebe Taylor > >
Good question. Difficult to give a straight answer. A lot depends on the content. Fixed width sidebars with an overall width set on the outermost wrapper works well with negative margin layouts (particularly if the side bars will have background colors) such as this one <http://www.alistapart.com/articles/negativemargins>. IE/6 (and sometimes Opera) tends to have difficulty width percent widths on all columns because of difficulty recovering from rounding calculations, although this is less problematic (not as noticeable) if all three columns have the same background color. These spins <http://blog.html.it/layoutgala/> on Brill's concept all have primary content first in source order, if of interest to you; and, there are fixed sidebar versus all 3 columns in percent to work from. I guess the name of the game is maintain a flexible attitude and experiment until you find the solution that works best for you. -- http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
