a div that fills like Java's gridbagconstraints.fill

[salmobytes]

In Java, using the gridbaglayout manager and its complementary
gridbagconstraints
you can tell a cell to horizontally fill 'any remaining space.'
But I can't seem to do that with divs. There must be a way.

THE PROBLEM
This would be a two-column left-floated layout.
I want a left div to contain a variable number of vertical thumbnail-
navigation columns--so its
width would not determined until runtime (these links come from
code). The right-side column
should fill any remaining horizontal space, inside a #wrapper div.

There must be a way to do that. But I can't figure it out.
http://wage.cns.montana.edu/fill.html

[Rik Wasmus]

On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:50:49 +0100, salmobytes
<Sa***************@gmail.comwrote:

In Java, using the gridbaglayout manager and its complementary
gridbagconstraints
you can tell a cell to horizontally fill 'any remaining space.'
But I can't seem to do that with divs. There must be a way.

THE PROBLEM
This would be a two-column left-floated layout.
I want a left div to contain a variable number of vertical thumbnail-
navigation columns--so its
width would not determined until runtime (these links come from
code). The right-side column
should fill any remaining horizontal space, inside a #wrapper div.

Why not let that 'right' div be an unfloated block level element? The fact
that stretches out underneath the left content doesn't seem to matter in
your design (at least not in this example).
--
Rik Wasmus

[salmobytes]

On Dec 5, 6:57 am, "Rik Wasmus" <[e-mail]:

On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:50:49 +0100, salmobytes

<[e-mail]:

In Java, using the gridbaglayout manager and its complementary
gridbagconstraints
you can tell a cell to horizontally fill 'any remaining space.'
But I can't seem to do that with divs. There must be a way.

THE PROBLEM
This would be a two-column left-floated layout.
I want a left div to contain a variable number of vertical thumbnail-
navigation columns--so its
width would not determined until runtime (these links come from
code). The right-side column
should fill any remaining horizontal space, inside a #wrapper div.

Why not let that 'right' div be an unfloated block level element? The fact
that stretches out underneath the left content doesn't seem to matter in
your design (at least not in this example).
--
Rik Wasmus

I'll be damned. That worked:
http://wage.cns.montana.edu/fill2.html

I thought the right div would pop down below the left-floated column,
if I didn't float it too. But obviously it doesn't. I'll have to
stop being
so lazy and read the spec. Today.