CSS Tips & Ideas
CSS Three Column Layout
November 10th, 2006
Designing a clean, flexible, three column website is more difficult with CSS than you may think. Unlike when working with tables, CSS styled content does not necessarily always flow in the most flexible manner. You cannot always expect CSS to expand with the content, in the same way that tables might.
This can cause difficulties when, for example, you might want to build a web page with multiple columns. Where table columns would all expand together to fit the column with the most content, CSS columns are typically controlled individually. As such, it can be a challenge to build a three column website where all columns are equal height and can flex with the amount of content within them.
Fortunately, solutions DO exist. One of the best solutions to this problem that I have found so far, can be found at this link: 3 col layout with equalizing columns and footer
In his example, the author has created a flexible CSS layout that will run a three column website, leaving the columns to be flexible enough to grow or shrink as content demands. This design also demonstrates the ability to keep the footer at the bottom of the page, regardless of lack of content. If there is more content than room on the page, the column will extend down. However, if there is less content than needed to fill the page, the footer will stay fixed at the bottom of the window.
CSS Rounded Corners
6 November 2006
In the past, one of the downsides of CSS was the fact that it was difficult to create pages with a more rounded look and feel. It is nice at times, to be able to design more than just a simple square box. To avoid this problem, one option has been to create […]
CSS Book Review - In search of the One True Layout
12 October 2006
Using CSS to layout and design an entire website can be frustrating if you don’t know all the quirks and hacks for all the different browsers, needed to format your pages in a specific way. In addition to this, there is usually a plethora of ways to solve any given CSS problem, not all […]