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rf wrote:

>
> "rf" <> wrote in message
> news:Wwsnj.8401$...
>>
>> "A-OK-SITE" <> wrote in message
>> news:583db7eb-f12b-424e-85bb-...
>
>>> Why would you care,
>>
>> I would care because you are trying to palm off this pdf as usefull
>> information to the OP and to this newsgroup at large.
>
> Hmmm. I must have offended Mr Site. He appears to have removed his posts
> in this thread from googles archive, picked up his bat and ball and gone
> home.
>
> Little does he know that these posts remain on usenet servers around the
> world for months to come

Perhaps he'll go back to the real Google Groups -- the ones that only
other Google Gropers see. He probably just got out here in the real
world by mistake.


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rf wrote:
> "A-OK-SITE" <> wrote in message
> news:e8b9890d-16c5-463f-ba7c-...
>> On Jan 28, 2:59 pm, Bazley <jmp6...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> CSS is unbelievably unwieldy. All I want to do is have a page with
>>> three columns. The left and right columns should be fixed width and
>>> the central column should adjust its width to fill in the remaining
>>> space. Such a simple concept is, I believe, virtually impossible to
>>> code. If anyone can do it I would be very impressed.
>> Bazely,
>>
>> Try this it lays it out in a step by step easy to understand format.
>>
>> http://a-ok-site.com/webdesign/xhtml_basics/ch10.pdf
>
> A power point presentation inside a pdf? Surely you jest. This is the web
> not the boardroom.
>

Who amongst us has the nerve to post a link to their own website?

Jeff

"Jeff" <jeff@spam_me_not.com> wrote in message
news:...
> rf wrote:
>> "A-OK-SITE" <> wrote in message
>> news:e8b9890d-16c5-463f-ba7c-...
>>> On Jan 28, 2:59 pm, Bazley <jmp6...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>> CSS is unbelievably unwieldy. All I want to do is have a page with
>>>> three columns. The left and right columns should be fixed width and
>>>> the central column should adjust its width to fill in the remaining
>>>> space. Such a simple concept is, I believe, virtually impossible to
>>>> code. If anyone can do it I would be very impressed.
>>> Bazely,
>>>
>>> Try this it lays it out in a step by step easy to understand format.
>>>
>>> http://a-ok-site.com/webdesign/xhtml_basics/ch10.pdf
>>
>> A power point presentation inside a pdf? Surely you jest. This is the web
>> not the boardroom.
>>
>
> Who amongst us has the nerve to post a link to their own website?
>


Oh I have the nerve... I just don't have the time or inclination to massage
the egos of the naysayers afterwards.

asdf wrote:
> "Jeff" <jeff@spam_me_not.com> wrote in message
> news:...
>> rf wrote:
>>> "A-OK-SITE" <> wrote in message
>>> news:e8b9890d-16c5-463f-ba7c-...
>>>> On Jan 28, 2:59 pm, Bazley <jmp6...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> CSS is unbelievably unwieldy. All I want to do is have a page with
>>>>> three columns. The left and right columns should be fixed width and
>>>>> the central column should adjust its width to fill in the remaining
>>>>> space. Such a simple concept is, I believe, virtually impossible to
>>>>> code. If anyone can do it I would be very impressed.
>>>> Bazely,
>>>>
>>>> Try this it lays it out in a step by step easy to understand format.
>>>>
>>>> http://a-ok-site.com/webdesign/xhtml_basics/ch10.pdf
>>> A power point presentation inside a pdf? Surely you jest. This is the web
>>> not the boardroom.
>>>
>> Who amongst us has the nerve to post a link to their own website?
>>
>
>
> Oh I have the nerve... I just don't have the time or inclination to massage
> the egos of the naysayers afterwards.
>
>
Naysayers? Here?

Jeff

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:24:35
GMT rf scribed:

> "rf" <> wrote in message
> news:Wwsnj.8401$...
>>
>> "A-OK-SITE" <> wrote in message
>> news:583db7eb-f12b-424e-85bb-
>> ...
>
>>> Why would you care,
>>
>> I would care because you are trying to palm off this pdf as usefull
>> information to the OP and to this newsgroup at large.
>
> Hmmm. I must have offended Mr Site.

Mr. Diplomatic you're not. Perhaps you should peruse some of Jukka's posts
in an effort to absorb a modicum of congeniality.

> He appears to have removed his
> posts in this thread from googles archive, picked up his bat and ball
> and gone home.

That happens.

> Little does he know that these posts remain on usenet servers around
> the world for months to come

That happens, too.

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Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:33:53
GMT scribed:

> On Jan 28, 6:24 pm, "rf" <r...@invalid.com> wrote:
>> "rf" <r...@invalid.com> wrote in message
>> Hmmm. I must have offended Mr Site. He appears to have removed his
>> posts in this thread from googles archive, picked up his bat and ball
>> and gone home.
>>
>> Little does he know that these posts remain on usenet servers around
>> the world for months to come
>
> Mr. Site thinks you are a stupid prick. He also thinks usenet sucks.
>
> usenet.sucks

Yeah, all of usenet sucks and you're right...

rf may have been a little rough on you, but he can't help it; he was born
that way. And also, I'm curious to know what he said that you believe is
inaccurate...?

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Riches are their own reward.

Bazley wrote:
> CSS is unbelievably unwieldy. All I want to do is have a page with
> three columns. The left and right columns should be fixed width and
> the central column should adjust its width to fill in the remaining
> space. Such a simple concept is, I believe, virtually impossible to
> code. If anyone can do it I would be very impressed.

I don't understand it: there are lots of examples with three columns.
Problems arise when you want equal heights of the columns or borders in
between*.
In that case there is a relation between the 3 columns and a table is
appropriate.
* for example the site of A-OK http://a-ok-site.com/webdesign/index.html:
looks great, but when font-size is enlarged the border between column 1 and
2 is broken.

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On Jan 29, 6:38*pm, "Nico Schuyt" <nsch...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Bazley wrote:
> > CSS is unbelievably unwieldy. All I want to do is have a page with
> > three columns. The left and right columns should be fixed width and
> > the central column should adjust its width to fill in the remaining
> > space. Such a simple concept is, I believe, virtually impossible to
> > code. If anyone can do it I would be very impressed.
>
> I don't understand it: there are lots of examples with three columns.
> Problems arise when you want equal heights of the columns or borders in
> between*.
> In that case there is a relation between the 3 columns *and a table is
> appropriate.
> * for example the site of A-OKhttp://a-ok-site.com/webdesign/index.html:
> looks great, but when font-size is enlarged the border between column 1 and
> 2 is broken.
>
That all depends on how the site is coded.
http://freewebdesignonline.org/wdto/...-importent.php
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Chaddy2222 wrote:
> Nico Schuyt"
>> Bazley wrote:

>>> CSS is unbelievably unwieldy. All I want to do is have a page with
>>> three columns. The left and right columns should be fixed width and
>>> the central column should adjust its width to fill in the remaining
>>> space. Such a simple concept is, I believe, virtually impossible to
>>> code. If anyone can do it I would be very impressed.

>> I don't understand it: there are lots of examples with three columns.
>> Problems arise when you want equal heights of the columns or borders
>> in between*.
>> In that case there is a relation between the 3 columns and a table is
>> appropriate.
>> * for example the site of
>> A-OKhttp://a-ok-site.com/webdesign/index.html: looks great, but when
>> font-size is enlarged the border between column 1 and 2 is broken.

> That all depends on how the site is coded.
> http://freewebdesignonline.org/wdto/...-importent.php

Do you suggest to use px to prevent the text being enlarged (in IE)??

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Nico

On 2008-01-28, Bazley <> wrote:
> CSS is unbelievably unwieldy. All I want to do is have a page with
> three columns. The left and right columns should be fixed width and
> the central column should adjust its width to fill in the remaining
> space. Such a simple concept is, I believe, virtually impossible to
> code. If anyone can do it I would be very impressed.

Of course many people have done this and the least impressive is a
small template I put together ages ago:

http://www.andrews-corner.org/template_3.html

#leftnav and #rightnav are in ems which is not particularly 'fixed'
but this would be a trivial thing to alter. I stopped working on it
because I have a certain dislike for 3 columns and other people were
doing it so much better

Andrew

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