Posted by dorayme on 07/23/06 02:01

In article <e9ugun$de0$1@news-02.connect.com.au>,
"John Tennan" <mrshabby@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Have run into a little difficulty. I want to create a 2 colum layout within
> a box that is centered. The box is 80% width. The left colum is 200px. The
> right colum needs to be dynamic; to fill the rest of the box, but also not
> to spill underneath the left colum when the left colum is completed. IE
> works okay to leave width off when defining style for right colum, however,
> Netscape reacts by forcing the right colum to begin underneath the left
> colum (if the left colum divs were created before). I'm using floats at the
> moment, but have tried positioning, but makes more complicated and seems
> less stable.
>
> If anybody has any ideas on how to achieve this that would be greatly
> appreciated. Many thanks in advance.
>
> Cheers John.
>
> Example code is below.

You could look at some cleaner code I knocked up for you to do
this sort of thing at

http://members.optusnet.com.au/droovies/test/test4.html

and if there are probs, ask here and someone will deepen your
knowledge... It is a tricky business handling the float bugs in
IE.

--
dorayme

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