I forgot to add, if you want to apply a background image or footer then wrap then

<body>
 <div id="contentwrap">
   <div id="sidebar"></div>
   <div id="content"></div>
   <div style="clear : both;">&nbsp;</div>
 </div>
</body>

Add background images to the #contentwrap for a faux column effect, also if you add a footer div after #contentwrap it will automatically appear after whichever column is the longest out of #sidebar or #content. Their are also better ways of putting content inside the clear div (firefox requires something to be in it to work) in the &nbsp; (see the CSS "content-after")

Samuel


Samuel Richardson wrote:

<body>
 <div id="sidebar"></div>
 <div id="content"></div>
</body>

#sidebar
{
 float : right;
 width : 190px;
}

#content
{
 margin-right : 190px;
}

ivanovitch wrote:

Folks - you've helped out before, and I'm asking again. Pardon if this
sounds all too simple, but I've yet to find a solution either in this
list's archives, or on the web.

I'm trying to create a fluid layout with two columns, but whilst the
left column is variable width, the right column (sidebar) is to be a
fixed width (190px). This is entirely because the right column
contains an image in every instance. But I want the left column to
take up the remainder of the space (viewport width - 190px).

Everything that I've seen or reviewed works fine if I wish to break
the columns by percentage, or pixel widths on both. And min-width
doesn't seem to work for IE.

Having divved up some non-table examples using the usual suspects, my
efforts result in my finding that when making the viewport window very
small (or when enlarging the text to huge sizes), the left column
slides under the righthand column.

Do I need to use double-divs to set a width for the troublesome right
column? The most frustrating part of this is using tables and cells,
this is a no-brainer.

I'd show you an example of where I'm at, but my test site is down at the moment.
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