Posted by Chaddy2222 on 12/19/06 04:40

Jonathan N. Little wrote:
> Travis Newbury wrote:
>
> > Flexible is only so flexible. Everything eventually breaks
> >
>
> Yep, not much works at 50 pixels! But as Andy pointed out placing the
> three "columns" in the right order and the use of min-width on the
> columns would do as you wish. BUT, and this is the usual caveat, IE
> doesn't support min-width property so you will either have to:
>
> 1) put up with IE squishing your 3 columns
> 2) employ one of the numerous CSS hacks
> 3) Ugh! Use a spacer image to fix the min width!
>
> I personally would opt for #1
>
IE7 does support min-width.
But personally, I would just set each colum as a percentage of the
screen (say the main content div at 80%), and have the left and right
colums at 10% each. That way (everything fits on the screen) even at
600px wide. It would just look a bit squished.
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Regards Chad. http://freewebdesign.cjb.cc

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