On 26-Jan-2009 Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
> The requirements:
> Variable-width left column, fixed width right column, and the content
> of the left column MUST precede the content of the right column for
> text browsers.
[...]
> If anyone wants to spend time trying to get CSS to do that, be my
> guest. :-) I'm not saying it's impossible, but it sure felt like it.
This is quite possible, but unfortunately, it isn't exactly perfect. I
won't take the time to write out the entire solution, but this should be
enough to give you the idea.
Usually, when you want a fixed size single column on the other side of
main text, you think about using a float. This doesn't work if you want
the right side content to be below the left, of course. However, you
can get this to work by using relative and absolute positioning with a
container div around the two columns worth of text. This will require
that the browser supports an absolute positioning using the 'right'
property, which it may not. I think the modern browsers do, but some of
the previous versions only had support for 'top' and 'left'.
There are other ways of course, but that's the one that comes to mind
immediately.
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