Pushing the Limits: The Perfectly Semantic Three Column CSS Layout

By ldminteractive 135 days ago from http://mirificampress.com

Building a three or four column layout on the web without the help of a table can be a difficult task. The CSS3 spec proposes a perfectly tailored solution; but, unfortunately, CSS3 support is spotty at best even in modern browsers. We're stuck with CSS2 until that changes, so we might as well make the best of it. There are a number of ways to overcome the lack of multi-column support in CSS and none of them is very pretty. The three-column layout is the easiest to achieve without stepping outside the semantic boundaries, so we'll start there. Then in the next few articles we'll move on to the rarely explored waters of four-column+ CSS layouts.