What about using a min-width value to prevent the problem?
Because I'm not in control of the content, therefore, someone can always
put something wider in the content area than any min-width attribute I
set.
Seems like all the 3-column layouts work great if one is also in control
of the
Darrel,
I've had much success in avoiding this problem w/ a judicious use of
overflow:hidden and/or using relative positioning instead of floats.
An example is here: http://sandbox.royalrodent.com/threecol/.
NOTES AND DISCLAIMERS: there are several different alternate
stylesheets included on
Seems like all the 3-column layouts work great if one is also in control
of the content. Alas, this being a CMS that, while we try to 'police' we
simply can not enforce to the fullest extent of the 'content law' ;o)
This is a good chance to plug my project on making CMS-ready CSS
designs
In any case, if you cannot control how wide the main content
will be then you either
a) have a very bad CMS that allows the editors too much
freedom in designing the page rather than editing content or
It's our own CMS and we can only restrict content editing to a point. If
somone needs
Ideally, if someone WANTS to put in a really wide chunk of content, I'd
like them to be able to do it. Alas, the page would have to scroll
horizontally, but at least they could do it.
What about an overflow: auto on the content section. That way they'd
be able to scroll horizontally, too, but
What about using a min-width value to prevent the problem?
Because I'm not in control of the content, therefore, someone can
always put something wider in the content area than any min-width
attribute I set.
Seems like all the 3-column layouts work great if one is also in
control of the
Austin, Darrel wrote:
Well, I've looked through the exhaustive list of 3 column layouts that
the Wiki crew has so remarkably maintained:
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ThreeColumnLayouts
Alas, I couldn't find a single layout that prevented the IE/PC problem
where if one of the
