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CSS - Css Layout 100% Height Columns And 100% Screen Fill
Hello, Below is css I am trying to get to work and use as a template for a two column , header, and footer layout. I can get by with css, but an not a designer so can't figure out the exact specifics on how to do this. I've looked at many sites, make examples, javascripts included, but either they are to hard to fit into what I am looking for or just cause me to hit my head against the wall.
I'm trying to get the left columns background to fill height 100% to the footer. The content's doesn't need it because the wrapper's background act's as its color. Also, if either column's height changes past the screen's height. I need the footer to move down too. Currently, I tested if the left-column and the main content goes past the screen's height it will just go past the footer. This works beacuse the css I have currently is making sure that the footer is always at the bottom. Code: <html >
<head>
<title>Untitled Page</title>
<style type="text/css">
html {
overflow-y: scroll; /* forces firefox scrollbar on */
}
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
background: #F2F2F2;
font: 100% Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
height: 100%;
}
/* text-align: center; is so that the content will float in the center*/
div.wrapper {
position: relative;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
text-align: left;
margin-bottom: 42px;
}
div.header {
position: relative;
width: 100%;
background-color: blue;
border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
font-size: 1.5em;
height: 42px;
}
div.footer {
position: absolute; bottom: 0;
width: 100%;
background-color: blue;
border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
font-size: 1.5em;
height: 42px;
}
div.wrapper .left {
width: 215px;
float: left;
background: yellow;
height: 100%;
min-height: 100%;
}
div.wrapper .right {
width:auto;
margin-left: 215px;
}
div.wrapper .tabs {
background: green;
height: 35px;
}
div.wrapper .mainContent {
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="header" class="header">header</div>
<div class="wrapper">
<div id="leftColumn" class="left">left content</div>
<div class="right">
<div class="tabs">Tabs go here</div>
<div class="mainContent">Main content goes here</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer" class="footer">footer</div>
</body>
</html>
Any help would be appreciated thanks in advance. Risso Similar TutorialsHello, I'm working now on div layout that contains 3 sections (header, body, footer) in one centered wrapper with border (divs with background imgs). My problem is: - divs that are in fact borders (id="l_outerborder_b" and id="r_outerborder_b") don't stretch when main container (id="body_content_text") grows. Here is a html code: Code: <!--BEGIN TEMPLATE HEADER -->
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<link href="template.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="template.js" />
</head>
<body onload="onloadprocedures()">
<div id="main_container">
<div id="template_header">
<div id="tl_outerborder"></div>
<div id="t_outerborder"></div>
<div id="tr_outerborder"></div>
<div id="l_outerborder_h"></div>
<div id="header_content">
<div id="logo"><img src="img/logo.png" alt="" /></div>
<div id="slogan"><img src="img/slogan.png" alt="Centrum zdrowia" /></div>
</div>
<div id="r_outerborder_h"></div>
</div>
<!-- END TEMPLATE HEADER -->
<!-- BEGIN TEMPLATE BODY -->
<div id="template_body">
<div id="l_outerborder_b"></div>
<div id="body_content">
<div id="body_content_text">
<p>TEST</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="r_outerborder_b"></div>
</div>
<!-- END TEMPLATE BODY -->
<!-- BEGIN TEMPLATE FOOTER -->
<div id="template_footer">
<div style="clear:both"></div>
<div id="l_outerborder_f"></div>
<div id="footer_content"></div>
<div id="l_outerborder_f"></div>
<div id="bl_outerborder"></div>
<div id="b_outerborder"></div>
<div id="br_outerborder"></div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
<!-- END TEMPLATE FOOTER -->
and CSS: Code: @charset "utf-8";
/* CSS Document */
body {
background-color:#FFFFFF;
font-family:Tahoma, Verdana, "Times New Roman", Arial;
font-size:12px;
}
a:link {text-decoration: none} /* unvisited link */
a:visited {text-decoration: none} /* visited link */
a:hover {text-decoration: none} /* mouse over link */
a:active {text-decoration: none} /* selected link */
#main_container {
position:relative;
margin:auto;
width:960px;
height:auto;
}
#template_header {
float:left;
position:relative;
width:960px;
height:300px;
}
#header_content {
float:left;
position:relative;
width:900px;
height:270px;
}
#logo {
width:310px;
height:130px;
position:relative;
float:left;
top:0px;
left:0px;
}
#slogan {
width:580px;
height:100px;
position:relative;
float:left;
top:0px;
left:0px;
}
#tl_outerborder {
float:left;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/tl_outerborder.png);
width:30px;
height:30px;
}
#t_outerborder {
float:left;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/t_outerborder.png);
width:900px;
height:30px;
}
#tr_outerborder {
float:left;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/tr_outerborder.png);
width:30px;
height:30px;
}
#l_outerborder_h {
float:left;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/l_outerborder.png);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
width:30px;
height:270px;
}
#r_outerborder_h {
float:right;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/r_outerborder.png);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
width:30px;
height:270px;
}
#body_content {
float:left;
position:relative;
width:900px;
overflow:hidden;
}
#body_content_text {
float:left;
position:relative;
width:600px;
margin: auto;
overflow:hidden;
}
#l_outerborder_b {
float:left;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/l_outerborder.png);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
width:30px;
height:inherit;
}
#r_outerborder_b {
float:right;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/r_outerborder.png);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
width:30px;
height:inherit;
}
#l_outerborder_f {
float:left;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/l_outerborder.png);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
width:30px;
height:inherit;
}
#r_outerborder_f {
float:right;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/r_outerborder.png);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
width:30px;
height:inherit;
}
#template_body {
float:left;
position:relative;
width:960px;
overflow:hidden;
}
#bl_outerborder {
float:left;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/bl_outerborder.png);
width:30px;
height:30px;
}
#b_outerborder {
float:left;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/b_outerborder.png);
width:900px;
height:30px;
}
#br_outerborder {
float:left;
position:relative;
background-image:url(img/br_outerborder.png);
width:30px;
height:30px;
}
Thanks in advance for info how to stretch those doomed divs EDIT: Here is layout concept. URL hTTp://qsrc.pl/layout.jpg Hi, I have a multi-column layout where I want every column to always be the same height. Any one of the columns may be the longest on any given page, so the other columns have to automatically adjust to match that height. Usually I'd just use the faux column technique where you repeat a background image, but that won't work because of two elements on this page: 1. each column has a border all the way around it. 2. one column resizes with the page. I've read the articles on liquid layouts with faux columns, but as far as I can tell those techniques won't work if your columns have borders. Does anyone know any technique that would work here? Thanks. Hello, im trying to make Fixed width 3 columns (each column have fixed width) layout 100% height with header and footer. -Well I see alot of examples around the web, but i dont see complete one and im really tired of searching, i made the Fixed width 3 comlumns layout, left and right are absolute position, and center is relative to the header -the problem is that all columns dont fill the whole height of the browser windows, the footer doesnot work good. so the whole thing is missed up, so please show 100% working example of what i need. Thanks in Advanced Samer Suppose I have the following script that creates a div element and set its width and height to fill the whole screen: Code:
<script type="text/javascript">
var oDiv = document.createElement('div');
oDiv.style.width = window.screen.availWidth + "px";
oDiv.style.height = window.screen.availHeight + "px";
//oDiv.style.width = window.screen.width + "px";
//oDiv.style.height = window.screen.height + "px";
oDiv.style.border = "solid 1px #ccc";
document.body.appendChild(oDiv );
</script>
well, the code above actually does the job, BUT a scrollbar (vertical and horizontal) is also created ... how to get rid of the scrollbars? Page set up is as folows: 1)At the top is a panel 750x200 to hold an image 2)under that is a panel. 3)Followed by a container that contains the Lnav div and the data div which are to be next to each other. How can I these two to stretch to fill the browser? and stretch further together when the data exceeds. 4)Under this are 2 more panels one below the other. Code:
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
text-align: center;
min-height: 400px; /* For Mozilla/Opera/Safari */
}
#Container {
position: relative;
margin: 0 auto;
text-align: left;
width: 750px;
height: 100%;
background: #ccc;
}
#Content {
margin: 0 auto;
text-align: left;
width: 750px;
min-height: 100%;
height: auto;
background: #666;
}
#top {text-align: left; width: 750px; height: 250px; background: red;}
#page {text-align: right; width: 750px; background: green; }
#lNav {text-align: left; float: left; width: 150px; min-height: 100%; height: auto; background: orange; position: relative; margin: 0 auto;}
#data {text-align: left; float: left; width: 600px; min-height: 100%; height: auto; background: yellow; position: relative; margin: 0 auto;}
#bNav {text-align: center; width: 750px; background: blue;}
#bottom {text-align: right; width: 750px; background: purple;}
/* Hack for IE */
* html #Content{
height: 100%;
}
/* End IE Hack */
Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<LINK REL=stylesheet HREF="container.css" TYPE="text/css">
</head>
<body>
<div id="Container">
<div id="top">top</div>
<div id="page">page</div>
<div id="Content">
<div id="lNav">lNav</div>
<div id="data">data</div>
</div>
<div id="bNav">bNav</div>
<div id="bottom">bottom</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
apologies if this has been asked and answered already - i did a search of the board but didn't find a clear solution. what i'm trying to do seems simple enough, but isn't turning out that way. lets say i have a page background of some color (e.g., orange). then i have a main container div that is centered with auto margins, and has a white background. i want this main container to start at 100px from the top (so 100px of orange shows above it), and the white background should expand to the bottom of the page - without scrollbars. if i set it's height to 100%, the 100px top margin is added to the 100% height of its parent (body + html), so it acts as if there's 100px of substance beneath the viewport and therefor shows scrollbars. i had assumed a negative bottom margin set for the same amount as the top margin would work, but alas it does not. obviously i don't want to just force-hide scrollbars by overflow:hidden or position:asbolute/fixed - if content in the container forces it to expand, it should do that. otherwise, even if there's very little content - or even none - it should expand to the bottom of the page. i've attached a very basic (non-working) example - any insight would be appreciate. not looking for a hack - i'm looking for the best way to handle this with best-practices. tyia Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" >
<head>
<style type="text/css">
html {
height : 100%;
}
body {
margin : 0;
background : #F90;
height : 100%;
}
div.wrapper {
margin : 100px auto -100px auto;
width : 500px;
background : #FFF;
height : 100%;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="wrapper">
</div>
</body>
</html>
I have read and read through the CSS2 spec and I am unable to figure out if this is possible. Hopefully I can describe it well enough for somebody to help out. Okay, what I want to accomplish seems simple. I want a div, lets call this one "container", with a calculated height/width relative to the document (in terms of percentage). Inside this div will be another div, lets call it "header", whos width will span the length of the containing div (100%) and height is fixed, lets say 30px. Now here comes the tricky part... a third div, lets call it "content" should sit right underneath "header" and its width will also be 100% of the containing div, but the height should fill the remainder of the containing div. I can't seem to get the "content" div to fill the remainder of "container" and scroll when needed. If I specify a calculated height, the offset of the "header" div is not taken into account so "content" div does not fit properly. Thanks a ton if you can help me out. Please let me know if this doesn't make sense. http://www.ilumos.co.uk/site/ http://www.ilumos.co.uk/site/styleDefault.css Ok, I'm trying to make a page layout for my site, and on the left I have a navigation bar (#sidebar), which I'd like to fill the whitespace between it and the footer (#footer) (but not dissapear behind the footer, height: 100%). I'd also like to fill the whitespace between the left of the main (#main) div and the edge of the page, and the whitespace under the div too. If there's a non-hacky solution to this I'd love to hear it, but if there isnt, and there's a way to change my CSS/HTML to get the same result I'd still be interested. Thanks loads, ilumos In my css I have the following to set up the height and width of the page to 100%: Code:
html, body {
font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif;
color: #000000;
background-color: #E1E1E1;
margin: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
text-align: center;
}
For my website I have the following layout: Code:
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="header"></div>
<div id="menu"></div>
<div id="main"></div>
<div id="footer"></div>
</div>
</body>
How do I get the <div id="main"></div> to fill in the remainder of the window height, without setting its height to 100% and them causing scroll bars and throwing the footer off the page. Hello Just recently I had an idea for a page I wanted to make, the design is basically a 3-column layout with no traditional header or footer, the height of all three columns should run the length of the window/page height the left and rightmost column would have a fixed width or a width in em, the center column width should fill the space in between. If the content is short all columns should extend to the height of the page window, but if the content in any of the columns is longer than the window height they should all extend to reach the bottom of the page and accommodate the content length In my first attempt things didn't go so well, results varied wildly across browsers so I decided to start from scratch bit by bit Bellow is the point at which I reach consistent but undesired behaviour, I have validated and tested the code in Firefox 3/Pale Moon, Internet Explorer 8, Chromium 9, and Opera 11 I would like the end result to work in the above browsers as well as IE7 if possible I should point out now that im not interested in using faux-columns, the layout should not require images, I also wish to have absolute-positioned elements in the columns some time later Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Three Columns</title>
<style type="text/css">
*, html, body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
font-size: 100%;
}
html, body {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
#maincontainer {
position: relative;
height: 100%;
background: #eee;
}
#left {
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
width: 200px;
background: #fbb;
height: 100%;
}
#mid {
position: relative;
margin: 0 200px 0 200px;
background: #efe;
height: 100%;
}
#right {
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
right: 0px;
width: 200px;
background: #bbf;
height: 100%;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="maincontainer">
<div id="left">
left start<br />
left<br />
left<br />
left<br />
left<br />
left<br />
left<br />
left<br />
left<br />
left<br />
left<br />
left<br />
left<br />
left<br />
left end<br />
</div>
<div id="mid">
mid start<br />
mid<br />
mid<br />
mid<br />
mid<br />
mid<br />
mid end<br />
</div>
<div id="right">
right start<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right<br />
right end<br />
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
In the above example it works as long as the content within the columns is shorter than the window height, but if you re-size the window so that the text in the right or left column goes beyond the page, and then scroll to the bottom, the columns do not extend to the bottom of the page so there is a large gap where the content overflows beyond the column What I would like to do from this point is make the columns extend to the bottom of the page when this happens, but I'm not sure how best to proceed I also have a version of the above code which uses floated left and right columns instead of absolute positioned ones, would it be better to work from that? or does it not really matter Thanks in advance Doh! Nevermind, I fixed my problem. Hello all. I have a site with 2 columns. I would like the left column to be the same height as the right column. The right column will always be longer than the left. Here is what I have so far: Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="vi" />
<title>My page </title>
<style type="text/css">
* { font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0; padding: 0; }
body { background: #0b89b8; margin: 0; padding: 0; }
#container { width: 100%; }
#header {
width: 100%;
color: #ffffff;
font-size: 2em;
padding: 0.5em 0;
text-indent: 0.5em;
background-color: #00ff00;
} /* end #header */
#header p { padding-left: 10%; }
#side_menu {
background-color: #ff0000;
float: left;
margin: 0;
width: 10%;
color: #ffffff;
} /* end .side_menu */
#side_menu ul { list-style-type: none; border-top: 1px solid #ffffff; }
#side_menu ul li { border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff; padding: 0.5em 0; text-align: center; }
#side_menu ul li a { color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; }
#content { width: 90%; float: left; background: #ffffff; }
.content_container { clear: both; padding-bottom: 1em; }
.content_header_even, .content_header_odd {
width: 100%;
background-color: #69bfde;
color: #595441;
padding: 0.5em 0;
text-indent: 1em;
} /* end .content_header_even, .content_header_odd */
.content_header_odd { background-color: #b4e8fb; }
.content_graph { float: left; padding-right: 1em; }
.content_graph_info, .content_info { padding: 1em; margin: 1em; }
.content_graph_info { float: left; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="header"><p>Header</p></div>
<div id="side_menu">
<ul>
<li><a href="index.php">Home</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="content">
<div class="content_container">
<p class="content_header_even">Subheader</p>
<div class="content_info">
<p>Number: 34906607<br />
Percent: 21.84%<br />
Size: 1.085<br />
Total size : 11.78%</p>
</div>
<div class="content_graph_container">
<div class="content_graph_info">Text a. </div>
<div class="content_graph_info">Text b.</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Any thoughts? Hi, I have a site (URL address blocked: See forum rules) which I need the bottom footer bar to always be at the base of the screen (on larger resolutions). So when you start minising the browser window and adjusting it up and down it seems to have this grey space under the footer but the footer is meant to be flush to the bottom. Works on every other page bar the homepage and the problem only happens in IE7. Any ideas? Hello, I am looking for a CSS two fixed width columns centered layout with header and footer. Could someone recommend me a good one? Thank You, Miguel Hi... Not sure how to title this message, but here's the problem: I've got a site that has three columns of variable length text. Each column must have a 2px left border. No problem so far. Under each column of text, I must align a block of links. These blocks must align along the top link. The borders must continue from the top of the text to the bottom of the links. Does this make sense? The problem I have is the border is only solid on the column with the longest amount of text and breaks on the shorter ones. I can get this to work by setting a fixed height for the text, but that doesn't seem like a great solution as it would have to be changed as the text length changes. my CSS: Code: .box {border-left: 2px #CCCCCC solid; width: 254px; float: left; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;}
.txt {font: verdana; font-size: 12px; color: #000000;}
.linkscontainer {width: 853px; clear: both;}
.linkbox1 {bottom: 0px; position: relative; border-left: 2px #CCCCCC solid; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; float: left; width: 254px;}
.linkbox {bottom: 0px; position: relative; border-left: 2px #CCCCCC solid; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; float: left; width: 254px;}
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<style type="text/css">
#top_container {width:760px;}
#top_left {float:left; height:100%; width:200px;}
#top_right {float:left; height:100%; width:560px;}
</style>
<div id="top_container">
<div id="top_left">Content</div>
<div id="top_right">Content</div>
<br clear="all" />
</div>
I've slimmed down the code and cut out non relevant pieces like font styling, colors, and other non pertinent sections. Hi, I am trying to better understand how column heights are displayed, and how to create full height columns. On this page http://tapmeister.com/layout_test/index.html, the column which drives the height of the page is <div id="main">, and the left and right columns do not span the entire column height, and the red <div id="content"> shows at the bottom of both side columns. On this page http://tapmeister.com/layout_test/index2.html, I put less stuff in the center <div id="main"> so it wouldn't drive the height of the page. The green <div id="main">, however, did cover the entire column unlike the left and right column on the earlier page. Can anyone help me understand what is going on, and why one column has full height color yet not the other one? Also, what is the best way to make the left and right column have full height color? I know I can apply a repeating background graphic to <div id="content"> which mimics the appearance of the left and right column, however, it would be nice to do differently if possible. My code is listed below (sorry about the ugly colors!) Thanks Code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Layout Test</title>
<style type="text/css">
* {margin: 0; padding: 0;}
body {background-color: olive;}
#wrapper
{
width: 100%;
background-color: blue;
margin: auto;
}
#main
{
margin: 0 180px;
background-color: green;
}
#content {background-color: red;}
#side1
{
width:180px;
float:left;
background-color:yellow;
}
#side2
{
width: 180px;
float:right;
background-color:yellow;}
#footer
{
clear:both;
background-color:lime;
border-top: 10px solid black;
}
#header {background-color: purple;}
.clear
{
clear:both;
}
</style>
</head>
<body id="page_bg">
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="header">My Header</div>
<div id="content">
<div id="side2">
<p>Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here. Right Column go here.</p>
</div>
<div id="side1">
<p>Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here. Left Column go here.</p>
</div>
<div id="main">
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<p><img style="margin: 5px; float: left; width: 250px;" src="lady.jpg" alt="" width="250"></p>
<p>Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff. Some More Stuff.</p>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer">My Footer</div>
</body>
</html>
Hi I need these 3 columns http://dmumford.bizhat.com/equalheights.htm to be of equal height regardless of what column has the most text in. Could somone please help me with this, I have looked at Paul OB's 2 col example but I am at a puzzle how to do it with my requirements!! Your help is much appreciated! Hi ya My goal is to get this page: portfolio.modernmusicians.com/portfolio.html to have the layout like this: portfolio.modernmusicians.com/port_goal.gif Notice how "description" is squared up in the image. I'm not sure if I should make nested div's or use margins or padding or what. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. |
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