Look Ma! i even thro in a picture, but still can't get it right....

[Mel]

how can i do this with DIVs. ITS KILLING ME !!!!

+-------------------------------------------+
| |
| HEADER |
| |
+-------+-----------------------------+----+
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| 300px | Stretch to max size | 150 |
| | | |
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+-------------------------------------------+

please help

[Els]

Mel wrote:

how can i do this with DIVs. ITS KILLING ME !!!!

+-------------------------------------------+
| |
| HEADER |
| |
+-------+-----------------------------+----+
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| 300px | Stretch to max size | 150 |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
+-------------------------------------------+

set your newsreader to use fixed width font (or what is it
called?) so ----- is exactly as long as 5 spaces.
That way it's easier to see what you mean.

I think you are looking for this example:
http://glish.com/css/7.asp
or maybe
http://www.pixy.cz/blogg/clanky/css-3col-layout/

--
Els
http://locusmeus.com/
Sonhos vem. Sonhos vão. O resto é imperfeito.
- Renato Russo -

[brucie]

in post: <news:c8**********@s0b1a68.ssa.gov>
Mel <me**********@ssa.gov> said:

how can i do this with DIVs.
http://moreshit.bruciesusenetshit.in...ut-thingy.shit
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change the font your newsreader uses to something monospaced such as
'courier new' if you're going to do ascii art.

--
b r u c i e

[Neal]

On Thu, 20 May 2004 12:48:27 -0400, Mel <me**********@ssa.gov> wrote:

how can i do this with DIVs. ITS KILLING ME !!!!

<div id="header">
</div>
<div id="whateverleft">
</div>
<div id="whateverright">
</div>
<div id="content">
</div>
(Replace whatever with whatever describes the content in that div.)

#whateverleft {float: left; width: 150px;}
#whateverright {float: right; width: 300px;}

This is just one solution. There are others, depending on what you want
exactly. Hard to tell from your post.

[Harlan Messinger]

"Els" <el*********@tiscali.nl> wrote in message
news:40**********************@dreader2.news.tiscal i.nl...

Mel wrote:

how can i do this with DIVs. ITS KILLING ME !!!!

+-------------------------------------------+
| |
| HEADER |
| |
+-------+-----------------------------+----+
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| 300px | Stretch to max size | 150 |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
+-------------------------------------------+

set your newsreader to use fixed width font (or what is it
called?) so ----- is exactly as long as 5 spaces.
That way it's easier to see what you mean.

??? Are you viewing it in his newsreader or in yours? He can't set the font
your newsreader uses.

When someone uses ASCII art to illustrate something like this, I just copy
and paste it into a text editor with a monospace font.

[Els]

Harlan Messinger wrote:

"Els" <el*********@tiscali.nl> wrote in message
news:40**********************@dreader2.news.tiscal i.nl...

+-------------------------------------------+
| |
| HEADER |
| |
+-------+-----------------------------+----+
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| 300px | Stretch to max size | 150 |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
+-------------------------------------------+
set your newsreader to use fixed width font (or what is it
called?) so ----- is exactly as long as 5 spaces.
That way it's easier to see what you mean.

??? Are you viewing it in his newsreader or in yours? He can't set the font
your newsreader uses.

I know that :-)
I just assume (sorry if I assumed wrong) that if you set
your newsreader to monospace, you also type your messages in
monospace. That way, he would see what I'm seeing now, and
what most of us see. (assuming again ;-) )
When someone uses ASCII art to illustrate something like this, I just copy
and paste it into a text editor with a monospace font.

I am reading (and writing) all news in monospace.
My understanding is that the OP does not, or else his
vertical lines (ascii art) would have been straight here too.

--
Els
http://locusmeus.com/
Sonhos vem. Sonhos vão. O resto é imperfeito.
- Renato Russo -

[Steve Pugh]

"Harlan Messinger" <h.*********@comcast.net> wrote:

"Els" <el*********@tiscali.nl> wrote in message
news:40**********************@dreader2.news.tisca li.nl...

set your newsreader to use fixed width font (or what is it
called?) so ----- is exactly as long as 5 spaces.
That way it's easier to see what you mean.

??? Are you viewing it in his newsreader or in yours? He can't set the font
your newsreader uses.

That's the whole point. When viewed with a monospace font the diagram
didn't line up. It was obviously composed using a proportional font,
but as we don't know which one there's no way we can make it appear
correctly.
When someone uses ASCII art to illustrate something like this, I just copy
and paste it into a text editor with a monospace font.

Did you do that in this case? If you had you would have seen that it
was a mess.

Steve

--
"My theories appal you, my heresies outrage you,
I never answer letters and you don't like my tie." - The Doctor

Steve Pugh <st***@pugh.net> <http://steve.pugh.net/>

[Harlan Messinger]

"Steve Pugh" <st***@pugh.net> wrote in message
news:qf********************************@4ax.com...

"Harlan Messinger" <h.*********@comcast.net> wrote:

"Els" <el*********@tiscali.nl> wrote in message
news:40**********************@dreader2.news.tisca li.nl...

set your newsreader to use fixed width font (or what is it
called?) so ----- is exactly as long as 5 spaces.
That way it's easier to see what you mean.

??? Are you viewing it in his newsreader or in yours? He can't set the fontyour newsreader uses.

That's the whole point. When viewed with a monospace font the diagram
didn't line up. It was obviously composed using a proportional font,
but as we don't know which one there's no way we can make it appear
correctly.

Oh, I get it. (D'oh! [And why *is* there an apostrophe in "d'oh"?]) Sorry.

[Brian]

Harlan Messinger wrote:

D'oh! [And why *is* there an apostrophe in "d'oh"?]

"The Simpsons'" producers asked Dan Castellenata (sp?) for a certain
exclamatory remark. IIRC (from the interview I heard), he came up with
"doh" for the "exclamatory remark" in the script. The spelling of this
new word came much later.

--
Brian (remove "invalid" from my address to email me)
http://www.tsmchughs.com/

[Shawn K. Quinn]

Harlan Messinger wrote:

"Els" <el*********@tiscali.nl> wrote in message
news:40**********************@dreader2.news.tiscal i.nl...

set your newsreader to use fixed width font (or what is it
called?) so ----- is exactly as long as 5 spaces.
That way it's easier to see what you mean.

??? Are you viewing it in his newsreader or in yours? He can't set the
font your newsreader uses.

When someone uses ASCII art to illustrate something like this, I just copy
and paste it into a text editor with a monospace font.

I'm viewing it in a newsreader with a monospace font, and the lines don't
line up. The original poster needs to compose the article with a monospace
font in order for it to have any hope of being understandable *at all*.

--
Shawn K. Quinn