Hi peeps.
I'm going round in circles with a CSS layout. I basically want it like:
<-------><-------------->
<------><------>
400px 50% 50%
So its 3 colums, one fixed size, and the other two taking up 50% each of the remaining space. I cant seem to make the second and third take up 50% of the remaining space.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks very much :)
First of all it's always a good practice to WRAP your layout. In the following example:
+---------------BODY-----------------+
|<---DIV#1---><--------DIV#2-------->|
| <---DIV3--> | <--DIV4--><--DIV5--> |
| | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | |
| | | | |__________________| |
| |_________| | |____CLEAR DIV_____| |
+-----------------------------------+
Your best bet would be to have it set up like so:
Wrappers are pretty important and make a lot of things much easier. To center things inside of wrappers, you can set margin left/right of the divs inside of the wrappers to "auto".
<div class="bigwrapper">
<div class="400pxdiv">
Content for 400pxdiv
</div>
<div class="rightwrapper">
<div class="50percent1">
50percent1's content
</div>
<div class="50percent2">
50percent2's content
</div>
</div>
</div>
the markup:
<div id="left">some content</div>
<div id="main">
<div>more content</div>
<div>still more content</div>
</div>
the css:
#left {
float: left;
width: 400px;
margin-right: -405px; /* throwing in a little extra */
}
#main {
margin-left: 405px; /* matching the margin of #left */
}
#main > div {
width: 50%; /* may need to make it 49.9% for some browsers */
}
I tried a couple of variations. Below works in Chrome 2, Firefox 3.5 and IE8:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html>
<head>
<title>NLR</title>
<style type="text/css">
html, body, div { margin: 0; border: 0 none; padding: 0; }
div { height: 500px; border-collapse: collapse; }
#wrapper { padding-left: 400px; }
#nav { width: 400px; margin-left: -400px; float: left; background: yellow; }
#main { overflow: hidden; background: blue; }
#left { float: left; width: 50%; background: red; height: 300px; }
#right { float: right; width: 50%; background: green; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="nav"></div>
<div id="main">
<div id="left"></div>
<div id="right"></div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
This works for me in Firefox.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<title>Test</title>
<style>
#A { width: 400px; float:left; outline: thin solid pink; }
#B { margin-left: 400px; overflow: hidden; outline: thin solid pink; }
#B1, #B2 { width:50%; float:left; outline: thin solid pink; }
</style>
<div id=A>
A
</div>
<div id=B>
<div id=B1>
B1
</div>
<div id=B2>
B2
</div>
</div>