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BeTheBall
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Forcing Right Div to fill space - 1/2/2008 12:45:21
Happy New Year CSS gurus. I am having a little trouble with a fairly simple two-column layout. I want a fixed width for my left column and then want the right column to fill in the rest of the space. I have the two columns nested within another div set to 99% width. Problem is, when my content in the right div is narrow, the page does not fill in the entire remaining width. Here is the CSS:
.main_content {
margin: 0 auto;
width: 99%;
}
.sd_left {
float:left;
color: #000;
margin: 0;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
width: 180px;
font: 1.3em arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif;
}
.sd_right {
background: #fff url(../images/back_white.jpg) repeat;
clear: both;
float: right;
color: #000;
margin: 0px;
padding: 10px 0px 10px 10px;
font: 1.2em arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif;
}
Here is a screen capture of what I am getting on narrow pages.
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Tailslide
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RE: Forcing Right Div to fill space - 1/2/2008 15:11:05
Well you could just float them both to the left which would possibly look neater - give less of a gap on the left.
If you're floating divs they must have a width too - which would cause a problem if you don't actually know what the width is with one div being fluid.
You might want to consider instead of having two divs floating next to each other, have the left div floating (with a fixed width) inside of the div containing the right-hand content which would take up the remaining space, whatever that is, minus a left margin of 180px.
Here's another way of doing it that looks pretty easy: http://css-tricks.com/examples/PerfectFluidWidthLayout/
< Message edited by Tailslide -- 1/2/2008 15:21:38 >
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BeTheBall
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RE: Forcing Right Div to fill space - 1/2/2008 16:01:34
Thanks Helena. I'll have a look at the example you sent. I found a work around, but it has me a bit uneasy. All I did was give my <h2> element a width of 100% and that seemed to fix my problem, however, like I said, not sure how comfortable I am with that "fix".
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