"dorayme" <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:doraymeRidThis-4BC036.14441829032008@news-vip.optusnet.com.au...
> In article <MPG.2256f68ebe356f89899b0@news.tiscali.fr>,
> Yohan N. Leder <ynleder@nspark.org> wrote:
>
>> In article <doraymeRidThis-F013AF.11324628032008@news-
>> vip.optusnet.com.au>, doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au says...
>> > .leftcol, .rightcol {background: #fff; ...
>> >
>> > and the problem should disappear.
>> >
>>
>> Funny guy Well, more seriously ?
>
> OK Yohan, I was perhaps a little flippant! But there was a serious point
> in that people can avoid problems by changing how they design pages
> (there being so many *simple* and nice ways to go).
>
> But I nicked down the road to the Catholic church and talked to the
> priest and he told me to go back and knock something up for Yohan N.
> Leder that may be more useful to him. So here is something you might
> find useful, it employs techniques known (though I am not sure whether
> in this form quite):
>
> <http://netweaver.com.au/alt/equalCols/three_cols_fixed_sides.html>
>
> or
>
> <http://tinyurl.com/22h3ep>
>
> I expect it does not work in IE, but I tested in Safari and Firefox. If
> it does not work in IE, please let me know

Works in IE7. Does not work in IE6. Oddly, works in IE5.5.

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Richard.

dorayme wrote:
>
> <http://netweaver.com.au/alt/equalCols/three_cols_fixed_sides.html>
>
> I expect it does not work in IE, but I tested in Safari and Firefox.

The right column does not stretch all the way down in Seamonkey or
Firefox. It only stretches the length of the viewport, not the content.

http://www.bergamotus.ws/screenshots/netweaver.png

Note the scrollbar

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Berg