Re: [WSG] 4-column layout

2004-07-29 Thread Mordechai Peller
Miles Tillinger wrote:
I've been able to find a few 4-column CSS layouts but they're all 
either 4x fixed divs or 4x fluid divs.  Before I embark on my own 
voyage of discovery/pain, is there any examples that allow for a 
mixture of fluid and fixed divs?  I've thought a bit about it and I'm 
envisaging some major cross-browser issues, but then I'm dumber than 
most so maybe some clever person has come up with something?

As Pete said, absolute positioning can make things easier.
Barring that, it's sometimes easier to break the layout recursively into 
nested two column layouts.

You may also want to check out: 
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/negativemargins/
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RE: [WSG] 4-column layout

2004-07-29 Thread Peter Ottery
Title: 4-column layout



>>  is there any 
examples that allow for a mixture of fluid and fixed 
divs?
 
can 
you have any of the columns position:absolute or do they all have to be floated? 
(maybe you have a requirement for a footer to run right across the bottom of the 
4 cols etc?). just thinking it may be easier if the extreme left and/or 
right columns could be position:absolute...
 
pete