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I'm trying to do a seemingly simple webpage layout, but I'm hitting a wall. I'd like to do everything purely with CSS (no tables to muck things up, and no javascript dynamically

Solution 1:

how about THIS? it works with konqueror (KHTML), chrome (webkit) and firefox (gecko). like anything recent, it will probably barf under IE6.

<html><bodystyle="margin: 0; padding: 0;"><divstyle="position: absolute; background: #faa; 
                height: 100px; top: 0px; width: 100%;">header</div><divstyle="position: absolute; background: #afa; 
                top: 100px; bottom: 100px; left: 0; width: 100px;">left</div><divstyle="position: absolute; background: #afa; 
                top: 100px; bottom: 100px; right: 0; width: 100px;">right</div><divstyle="position: absolute; background: #faa; 
                height: 100px; bottom: 0px; width: 100%;">footer</div><divstyle="position: absolute; background: #aaf; 
                bottom:100px; left: 100px;top: 100px;right: 100px; overflow: auto;"><p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Aliquam tincidunt tempor
 velit quis volutpat. Nulla pharetra pulvinar arcu sed lacinia. Nulla ultrices aliquet sem, 
vitae commodo elit condimentum ut. Nulla consectetur facilisis nibh, et tempus purus 
pellentesque nec. Ut eu nibh ut arcu mattis luctus. Cras at interdum quam. Pellentesque 
imperdiet mi vitae felis sollicitudin iaculis. Maecenas accumsan tortor neque, at posuere 
felis. Quisque ultricies mi quis dolor pellentesque elementum. Maecenas quis nunc tortor. 
Cras eu velit faucibus nulla volutpat mollis. Aliquam fermentum lobortis diam ut pharetra. 
Duis mattis posuere fringilla. Morbi consectetur mauris vel libero pellentesque varius. 
Aenean leo enim, placerat a feugiat nec, ultrices et nulla. Etiam tincidunt urna id justo 
molestie faucibus. Cras neque enim, semper et sodales eu, volutpat nec urna. Vestibulum 
interdum arcu et ante egestas ut lacinia dui semper. Cras ligula lacus, aliquet nec dapibus 
ac, commodo vitae libero. In gravida venenatis sapien a convallis.</p><p>Nulla ac risus eu velit pulvinar pretium. Etiam porttitor viverra sollicitudin. 
Donec lectus mi, posuere quis luctus facilisis, lacinia non ante. Sed sed mi neque. Etiam 
neque risus, bibendum et tincidunt vel, pharetra nec risus. In hac habitasse platea 
dictumst. Nam sollicitudin condimentum lorem, quis dignissim turpis sagittis nec. 
Pellentesque diam nunc, rhoncus quis lobortis id, lacinia quis lorem. Maecenas tempor metus 
nec velit facilisis in rhoncus lectus varius. Integer mollis, odio ut pharetra varius, elit 
nulla pellentesque neque, a egestas est justo dapibus neque. Vivamus a mauris massa, sit 
amet commodo orci. Aliquam nec iaculis sapien. Suspendisse ornare, tortor eget mattis 
tempus, nulla ligula fermentum elit, vitae euismod odio metus ac risus. Etiam iaculis 
dignissim consectetur. Nunc molestie lorem ac neque pulvinar vitae eleifend justo 
facilisis.</p><p>Duis a sem turpis, et cursus arcu. Suspendisse potenti. Sed eu risus orci, eget 
bibendum justo. Praesent dapibus porttitor mauris, ac sollicitudin eros pretium quis. 
Curabitur mi eros, aliquam et ultrices et, adipiscing ut mauris. Nunc pretium malesuada nisi 
laoreet consectetur. Phasellus mi arcu, rutrum in blandit in, consectetur non risus. 
Vestibulum enim lacus, aliquam eu ultrices a, tempor ut turpis. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, 
consectetur adipiscing elit. Curabitur rhoncus faucibus sapien, quis vulputate eros tempus 
consequat. Vivamus id metus massa. Vivamus aliquet enim quis sem viverra eu molestie elit 
cursus.</p><p>Mauris at lorem massa. Aliquam risus ligula, vestibulum et placerat condimentum, 
pellentesque sit amet justo. Cras tempor sollicitudin ultrices. Aliquam sed elit sapien. 
Praesent consectetur molestie vehicula. Pellentesque quis lectus et nunc accumsan feugiat. 
Ut rhoncus aliquet libero sed rhoncus. Fusce egestas nunc eu elit vestibulum placerat. Class 
aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. 
Phasellus vitae nisi ante, id fermentum justo.</p><p>Donec iaculis magna nec elit fringilla imperdiet. Proin mauris sem, pellentesque sed 
ultrices ac, luctus ac elit. Donec blandit, orci ac volutpat luctus, turpis sem malesuada 
tellus, eget porta magna nisi vitae quam. In vitae scelerisque urna. Proin ante odio, 
ultrices lobortis scelerisque at, dictum non justo. Pellentesque tincidunt congue leo 
malesuada ullamcorper. Quisque dapibus, massa dignissim gravida blandit, augue felis 
vehicula urna, et ullamcorper turpis orci sit amet nibh. Ut vitae consequat nibh. 
Pellentesque turpis justo, ultrices ac porta in, pretium quis quam. Donec purus nisi, 
dignissim vitae hendrerit vel, hendrerit ac sapien. Fusce facilisis purus a libero elementum 
ultrices. Nunc in libero congue ipsum tempor suscipit. Pellentesque pharetra pretium 
volutpat. Nam sapien arcu, viverra vitae euismod sit amet, mollis nec arcu. Phasellus at 
elit metus, sit amet tempus turpis. Phasellus mattis justo ut est varius facilisis ut et 
leo. Phasellus congue cursus est eget luctus. In eleifend diam at enim ultricies a lacinia 
mauris molestie. Nunc porttitor bibendum vulputate. Pellentesque quis risus vel mi 
pellentesque imperdiet vitae ac nunc.</p></div></body></html>

Solution 2:

I think this is a bit of a strange thing to try to do. Nevertheless, I took a shot at it, and I may have only gotten as far as you got, but maybe I used a different method that could be useful. I'm very interested to see if Rob has a better way. My method works, with one problem: the content is scrollable, but you can't see the scroll bars. I can't seem to think of a way to fix this. Anyway, here's what I came up with: http://www.happyspork.com/layout_test.html

Solution 3:

If anyone's interested I developed a layout that uses css to emulate dynamic table behaviour [using divs]. It works in Chrome, Firefox and IE>7.

DEMO, have a go at resizing the window

As it stands all five components grow as their respective contents do, however, if you really want your left and right sides fixed just apply a width rule to .east and .west.

Have a fiddle with it.

Code:

<divclass="view"style="height:100%; width:100%"><divclass="north">
        n
    </div><divclass="middle"><divclass="west">
            w
        </div><divclass="centre">
            c
        </div><divclass="east">
            e
        </div></div><divclass="south">
        s
    </div></div>
html, body {
    height : 100%;
    margin : 0;
}

.view,
.view > .middle {
    display : table;
}

.view > .north,
.view > .south {
    height : 1px;
    display : table-row;
}
.view > .north { vertical-align : top; }
.view > .south { vertical-align : bottom; }

.view > .middle > div {
    display : table-cell;
}
.view > .west,
.view > .east {
    width : 1px;
}

/*div { border : 1px solid black; }*/

Simple markup, no JS, and dynamic layout. Uncomment the border css line to see whats going on. At the bottom of your question I see you tried using tables but with issues. Placing a max-height on centre or middle might be what you want (for the scrollbar thing). Maybe this can help you.

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