Elastic 2 column XHTML and CSS layout
This is a slight modification of Roger Johansson’s code that I found while reading this article. I’ve modified the code to use ems instead of pixels. Mike Jolley has written about why ems are preferrable over pixels.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="description" content=""/>
<style type="text/css">
* {
font-size:95%;
font-family: georgia,'Times',serif;
}
body {
min-width:62em;
}
#wrap {
margin:0 auto;
width:60em;
border: 1px solid blue;
}
#content {
float:left;
width:40em;
border: 1px solid blue;
}
#sidebar {
float:right;
width:19em;
border: 1px solid blue;
}
#footer {
clear:both;
border: 1px solid blue;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrap">
<div id="header">
Header
</div>
<div id="nav">
Navigation
</div>
<div id="content">
Content
</div>
<div id="sidebar">
Sidebar
</div>
<div id="footer">
Footer
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>