- From: Christian Wolfgang Hujer <Christian.Hujer@itcqis.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 17:43:14 +0100
- To: "Robert Koberg" <rob@koberg.com>, <www-html@w3.org>, <www-style@w3.org>
Hello Robert,
> -----Original Message-----
> > So what about (for a three column layout):
> > .firstColumn {
> > width:150px;
> > float:left;
> > }
> > .thirdColumn {
> > width:125px;
> > float:right;
> > }
> > .secondColumn {
> > /* no formatting neccessary */
> > }
> > Annotation: the third column has to be before the second column in the
> > document order.
> > I think, for a three column layout this definitely is the best solution.
> > And everything regarding margins, borders and paddings works
> finest in the
> > first and third column.
>
> You have me thinking in 'pure' ideals now ... :)
>
> Doesn't it strike you strange that the placement of columns in
> the html page
> affects the layout?
Oh, and how it does! :(
Really. That's annoyingly ugly (though still better than some other
solutions).
You know we are talking about a yet unsolved quest: multicolumn layout on
web pages.
So even the best currently available solution is just an interims solution
:(
The final newspaper-style solution already is on the way:
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-multicol/
Though as far as I see the CSS3 Multicol module really covers only
newspaper-style.
But that's what's currently missing, and everything else is already solved
(though it needs improvement).
I am really looking forward to see the CSS Level 3 Recommendation :)
(I am not so much looking forward to see the first CSS Level 3
implementations, I believe there again will be much trouble as with CSS 2 :(
Greetings
Christian
Received on Saturday, 12 January 2002 11:45:42 UTC