Dynamic Drive: CSS Liquid Layout #3.1- (Fixed-Fluid-Fixed)

Instructions: CSS Liquid Layout #3.1- (Fixed-Fluid-Fixed) [View Demo]

Description: This is a 3 columns fixed layout with a default width of 840px. For the columns themselves, the left column is explicitly fixed, the content column is implicitly fixed, and the right column, also explicitly fixed like its left counterpart.

Layout Source:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Dynamic Drive: CSS Liquid Layout #3.1- (Fixed-Fluid-Fixed)</title>
<style type="text/css">

body{
margin:0;
padding:0;
line-height: 1.5em;
}

b{font-size: 110%;}
em{color: red;}

#topsection{
background: #EAEAEA;
height: 90px; /*Height of top section*/
}

#topsection h1{
margin: 0;
padding-top: 15px;
}

#contentwrapper{
float: left;
width: 100%;
}

#contentcolumn{
margin: 0 200px 0 230px; /*Margins for content column. Should be "0 RightColumnWidth 0 LeftColumnWidth*/
}

#leftcolumn{
float: left;
width: 230px; /*Width of left column*/
margin-left: -100%;
background: #C8FC98;
}

#rightcolumn{
float: left;
width: 200px; /*Width of right column*/
margin-left: -200px; /*Set left marginto -(RightColumnWidth)*/
background: #FDE95E;
}

#footer{
clear: left;
width: 100%;
background: black;
color: #FFF;
text-align: center;
padding: 4px 0;
}

#footer a{
color: #FFFF80;
}

.innertube{
margin: 10px; /*Margins for inner DIV inside each column (to provide padding)*/
margin-top: 0;
}

</style>

<script type="text/javascript">
/*** Temporary text filler function. Remove when deploying template. ***/
var gibberish=["This is just some filler text", "Welcome to Dynamic Drive CSS Library", "Demo content nothing to read here"]
function filltext(words){
for (var i=0; i<words; i++)
document.write(gibberish[Math.floor(Math.random()*3)]+" ")
}
</script>

</head>
<body>
<div id="maincontainer">

<div id="topsection"><div class="innertube"><h1>CSS Liquid Layout #3.1- (Fixed-Fluid-Fixed)</h1></div></div>

<div id="contentwrapper">
<div id="contentcolumn">
<div class="innertube"><b>Content Column: <em>Fluid</em></b> <script type="text/javascript">filltext(45)</script></div>
</div>
</div>

<div id="leftcolumn">
<div class="innertube"><b>Left Column: <em>230px</em></b> <script type="text/javascript">filltext(20)</script></div>

</div>

<div id="rightcolumn">
<div class="innertube"><b>Right Column: <em>200px</em></b> <script type="text/javascript">filltext(15)</script></div>
</div>

<div id="footer"><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/">Dynamic Drive CSS Library</a></div>

</div>
</body>
</html>

CSS Liquid Layout #3.1- (Fixed-Fluid-Fixed)

CSS Library CSS Layouts Three Columns Here

Instructions: CSS Liquid Layout #3.1- (Fixed-Fluid-Fixed) [View Demo]