Hi Kara, Unlike a <td>, a div will expand to fill the available space (and not the content it contains), if a width is not specified.
To achieve the layout you describe, you will need to: -set widths on the divs, and/or -set left or right margins to accommodate both divs, for example if <div> [A] is 20px width then <div> [B] should have a left margin of 21px. This tutorial might help: < http://www.456bereastreet.com/lab/developing_with_web_standards/csslayout/2-col/ > , otherwise try googling: 'CSS 2 col layout'. >For some reason, both divs are expanding horizontally to take up all the >available space, even when the content inside them is only 20 pixels >wide. I'm not specifying any widths because the content is dynamic so I >have no way of knowing what the width will be. > >The only width I have specified is the container width of 60em. > >Why are they doing this? Shouldn't they only expand horizontally to make >room for whatever is contained in them - in this case only a few words? Cheers, -- Andy Kirkwood | Creative Director Motive | web.design.integrity http://www.motive.co.nz ph: (04) 3 800 800 fx: (04) 970 9693 mob: 021 369 693 93 Rintoul St, Newtown PO Box 7150, Wellington South, New Zealand ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
