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Answer 1

A:

Sorry I misread what you wanted. See if this is any better.

<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
    #content-wrap
    {
     background-color: #EEE;
     clear: both;
     float: left;
     width: 100%;
    }
    #content
    {
     background-color: #0F0;
     text-align: left;
     padding: 0;
     margin: 0 auto;
     height: 470px;
     width: 760px;
    }
    #leftbar
    {
     background-color: #F00;
     float: left;
     width: 200px;
     height: 470px;
     margin-left: -200px;
    }
</style>
</head>
<body>
  <div id="content-wrap">
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
      <div id="content">
        <div id="leftbar">

        </div>
      </div>
    </form>
  </div>
</body>
</html>

Chris Diver 2010-07-11 12:21:10

This will cause the #content area to split, and I don't want this behavior, I'd like that the new div floats on the left side of #content and #content remains centered

Argons 2010-07-11 12:37:25

Ah okay sorry, try the above instead.

Chris Diver 2010-07-11 13:09:45

Answer 2

A:

You could centre align the #content-wrap div, then use absolute positioning inside it for the two inner divs. You are using fixed-width divs, so I don't think this should be a problem.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"&gt;
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title>Test</title>
<style type="text/css">
    #content-wrap {
        position: relative;
        margin: 0 auto;
        width: 900px;
        height: 600px;
        background: #eeeeee;
    }

    #content {
        position: absolute;
        left: 215px;
        width: 470px;
        height: 600px;
        background: #cccccc;
    }

    #sidebar {
        position: absolute;
        background: #aaaaaa;
        left: 0;
        height: 600px;
        width: 200px;
    }
</style>
</head>
    <body>
        <div id="content-wrap">
            <div id="content"></div>
            <div id="sidebar"></div> 
        </div>

    </body>
</html>

Mike 2010-07-11 12:44:12

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