Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 07/01/05 20:32

Marc Bradshaw wrote:
> Vladdy wrote:
>
>> Quite the opposite, use em or ex to specify the width of a block
>> such as navigation.
>
> Okay, I'm completely lost. You were referring to the menu on the
> left? Are you saying I should use em or ex to specify the width of
> the left column? What would this achieve?

If you define your column widths in em (my choice), the column will
also expand when a visitor increases his/her text size. And your
content will not overlap the column boundary.

See examples here, especially the three-column layout:
http://www.benmeadowcroft.com/webdev/csstemplates/spider1.html

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