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Posted by Nik Coughlin on 10/01/78 12:01
"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote in message
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> 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/
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> 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?
That's true Jukka, if a table is easier if you want equal height columns.
However, non-equal height columns of the type Bazley needs are trivial. I
intended to point that out as well, but I got distracted by work so ended up
leaving my post as above.
> (Besides, the page cheats by using IE-specific quite nonstandard CSS
> features, which are effectively kind of client-side scripting.)
Yes, yes it does. Unfortunate that.
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