Just so that beginners don't misunderstand, you can keep columns
floating side-by-side regardless of window width if you declare a
fixed width on the block that contains all the columns. That doesn't
strike me as being table emulation, but was that your intention?
No Paul, that is not table emulation - that's a regular fixed-width
layout with width (in some form) declared on both container and its
elements (columns).
A table - CSS table or HTML table - expands to contain its children, and
the emulations I was thinking of are the solutions we sometimes used to
make old IE (7 and older) emulate CSS table. Don't think we need those
IE-specific solutions anymore, but they do exist.
If I grokked correctly the OP was trying to figure out whether it made
sense to only declare width on the elements (column) inside a container,
or to declare width on the container and let the width of the elements
(columns) relate to the container-width.
It ain't that simple...
regards
Georg
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