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Sorry, second post as in as many days...
Im looking to make a centered site, that has two columns (left and right) that contain images for background decoration and a content column.
What i dont understand is how i can make the left/right columns have hidden overflow whilst preserving the centered effect and preventing the overall positioning div to show.
learning from experience...ive done a little drawing!...it can be viewed here
Many thanks to you all for your patience with me!
I think you're after something like this.
I've put min-height on each div just to show you how the height could be displayed (which won't work in IE6 and below) but I presume you'd allow the content to decide on the height anyway so this could be removed.Code:<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>Home</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
width: 760px;
margin: 0 auto;
background-color: #CCC;
}
#container {
float: left;
width: 760px;
padding: 20px 0px;
}
#navigation {
float: left;
width: 144px;
border: solid #C00 1px;
background: #FFF;
margin: 0px 2px;
min-height: 200px;
}
#content {
float: left;
width: 458px;
border: solid #C00 1px;
background: #FFF;
min-height: 500px;
}
#subcontent {
float: left;
width: 144px;
border: solid #C00 1px;
background: #FFF;
margin: 0px 2px;
min-height: 200px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="navigation"></div>
<div id="content"></div>
<div id="subcontent"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Hope that helps?