two-column-layout

css fluid layout with Google Map

I've been working on a layout for a site recently and have gotten stuck with the CSS. I like to think that I could follow the simple tutorials for a 2 column footer layout, but I keep getting stuck with the content of one of the columns. The two column design would be left-side fluid Google Map and right side fixed width sidebar. I have...

Fixed widths inside fluid layout

I need CSS definitions for the following layout: <div id="middle-wrapper"> <div id="column1-wrapper"> This has to be 100% - 250px wide </div> <div id="column2-wrapper"> This has to be 250px wide </div> <!-- no other markup in middle-wrapper except maybe a clearing div --> </div> middle-wrapper needs to be 100% wide ...

Why does this CSS example use "height: 1%" with "overflow: auto"?

I am reading a HTML and CSS book. It has a sample code of two-column layout. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt; <html> <head> <style> #main {height: 1%; overflow: auto;} #main, #header, #footer {width: 768px; margin: auto;} ...

HTML CSS two columns

If my HTML says something along the following <div class="container"> <div class="element"> </div> <div class="element"> </div> [...] <div class="element"> </div> </div> is it then possible to align those elements as if they were in a two-column table? I.e. with 7 elements there would be 4 rows, with the last row only having on...

Two-Column CSS Layout without having to specify the right column

I'm trying to figure out how to create a layout that would display two columns, one on the left and one on the right side. I'm cool with specifying the width of the left column, but because of margins and paddings, I really don't want to specify the width of the right column and leave it up to the browser to decide. I cannot find any ex...