Posted by Bruno on 12/27/05 00:41

Hello!

I have 5 columns of a table: leftleft, left, center, right and rightright:
The columns left and right are 3 px width, the width of the columns
leftleft and rightright is unknown. I used a "trick" for the center column
to push the colums leftleft and rightright to the edges of the screen:
width=100% for the center column.

<table width=100%>
<tr>
<td>$leftleft</td>
<td width='3px'></td>
<td width='100%'>$center</td>
<td width='3px'></td>
<td>$rightright</td>
</tr>
</table>

This "nonsense" width calculation works fine for most browsers. However the
Print Preview will cut out some of the right text so we will not see the
whole page.

I can not set the width of the columns leftleft and rightright to a
meaningful value because I want them to be dynamic in width depending on the
content of $leftleft and $rightright (yes, a php script provides the values)

What can I do to have a most flexible screen layout AND a correct print
Preview?

Thanks for any help / ideas

Regards Bruno

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