With little additions to the code I have provided in my previous post How to create table using div , we can easily build a three-column fixed layout. Let’s see how it works:
<style type=”text/css”>
<!–
#header {
background: #0f0;
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
width: 800px;
height: 100px;
}
#leftcol {
background: #f00;
position: absolute;
top: 100px;
left: 0px;
width: 150px;
height: 500px;
}
#rightcol {
background: #f00;
position: absolute;
top: 100px;
left: 650px;
width: 150px;
height: 500px;
}
#content {
background: #fff;
position: absolute;
top: 100px;
left: 150px;
width: 500px;
height: 500px;
}
#footer {
background: #0f0;
position: absolute;
top: 500px;
left: 0px;
width: 800px;
height: 100px;
}
–>
</style>
The HTML code is the following:
<div id=”header”>Header Section</div>
<div id=”leftcol”>Left Section</div>
<div id=”content”>Content Section</div>
<div id=”rightcol”>Right Section</div>
<div id=”footer”>Footer Section</div>
Here is the complete code:
<html>
<head>
<title>THREE-COLUMN FIXED LAYOUT WITH FIXED BOXES</title>
<style type=”text/css”>
<!–
#header {
background: #0f0;
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
width: 800px;
height: 100px;
}
#leftcol {
background: #f00;
position: absolute;
top: 100px;
left: 0px;
width: 150px;
height: 500px;
}
#rightcol {
background: #f00;
position: absolute;
left: 650px;
top: 100px;
width: 150px;
height: 500px;
}
#content {
background: #fff;
position: absolute;
top: 100px;
left: 150px;
width: 500px;
height: 500px;
}
#footer {
background: #0f0;
position: absolute;
top: 500px;
left: 0px;
width: 800px;
height: 100px;
}
–>
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id=”header”>Header Section</div>
<div id=”leftcol”>Left Section</div>
<div id=”content”>Content Section</div>
<div id=”rightcol”>Right Section</div>
<div id=”footer”>Footer Section</div>
</body>
</html>
As stated above, with minor modifications to the code, we can easily add another column to our existing layout, keeping widths and heights expressed in pixels. These simple examples show clearly that once we have defined our general layout, we are able to add more DIVS into the main containers or other elements, building more complex layouts with little or no effort.
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