Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 06/19/56 12:01

Scripsit Nik Coughlin:

> "Bazley" <jmp6789@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:e06cf3dc-7a01-4ead-89ae-75c9b71b1b15@e25g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
>> CSS is unbelievably unwieldy. All I want to do is have a page with
>> three columns. The left and right columns should be fixed width and
>> the central column should adjust its width to fill in the remaining
>> space. Such a simple concept is, I believe, virtually impossible to
>> code. If anyone can do it I would be very impressed.
>
> http://www.nrkn.com/3ColEqualPositioned/

I think the page nicely demonstrates what Bazley wrote, at least the
"unwieldy" part. It uses fairly complicated tricks to achieve a simple
layout that virtually anyone familiar with HTML basics could code in a
minute using a simple HTML table. Which approach is easier to apply?
Easier for maintenance? Easier to understand when you're reading someone
else's code?

(Besides, the page cheats by using IE-specific quite nonstandard CSS
features, which are effectively kind of client-side scripting.)

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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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