Posted by Mark Parnell on 08/26/05 06:05

Previously in alt.html, ben <lessani@gmail.com> said:

Please quote the relevant parts of the message you are replying to.

> lol, no, that table was an example, the actual previous one is far too
> big to post here. but the idea is that the widths are fluid (?), so
> when the content of the cell is too large, it automatically deducts the
> available width from the remaining cells not using it

display:table-cell; would probably do exactly what you are looking for.
Unfortunately it's not supported by IE at all.

Look into min-width and max-width (also not supported by IE, but there
are workarounds available). You may be able to work something out with
those. You could at least set the max-width on all 4 sections so that
they don't add up to more than 100%. Getting them to always fill 100% of
the width could be difficult though.

Perhaps with a URL of the page in question, we may be able to suggest
something more appropriate.

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