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I've got the following HTML code:
<body>
<div id="Frame">
<div id="Body">
<div id="Panel">Side panel, fixed width.</div>
<div id="Content">The rest of the content, should be dynamic width and fill up rest of space horizontally.</div>
</div>
<div id="Foot">
<div>FooBar.</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
What I'm trying to do is make it so that #Panel is of a fixed width (~200 pixels) and on the left hand side, and that #Content is immediately to the right of #Panel but is of "dynamic" width and fills the rest of the space in the browser screen horizontally. I've tried a lot of different things but haven't been able to get it working -- the farthest I've gotten is to the point where #Panel is on the left and #Content is to the right of #Panel and fills of the rest of the space, but #Content starts below #Panel whereas I'd like it to start at the same vertical position.
I did find In CSS, how do I get a left-side fixed-width column with a right-side table that uses the rest of the width?, however I wasn't able to apply it to the HTML above.
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The width property is used to fill a div remaining horizontal space using CSS. By setting the width to 100% it takes the whole width available of its parent. Example 1: This example use width property to fill the horizontal space. It set width to 100% to fill it completely.
To convert it to a fixed-width layout, simply add a fixed with to the #wrapper and set the margins to auto. Setting the margins to auto will cause the left and right margins to be equal no matter how wide the browser window is, which will cause your fixed-width layout to be positioned in the center of the browser.
Aligning two divs side by side horizontally, you need to add width to both divs and add display: inline-block; . Show activity on this post.
Here's that link, applied to your code:
CSS
#frame { background:pink }
#panel { background:orange; width:200px; float:left }
#content { background:khaki; margin-left:200px }
#foot { background:cornflowerblue }
HTML
<div id='frame'>
<div id='body'>
<div id='panel'>
Side panel, fixed width.
</div>
<div id='content'>
The rest of the content, should be dynamic width and fill up rest of space
horizontally.
</div>
</div><!-- End #body -->
<div id='foot'>
<div>FooBar.</div>
</div>
</div><!-- End #frame -->
Works pretty well! Although, IMHO, you don't need the frame or body (but I don't know the master plan). That would look like this:
<div id='panel'>
Side panel, fixed width.
</div>
<div id='content'>
The rest of the content, should be dynamic width and fill up rest of space
horizontally.
</div>
<div id='foot'>
<div>FooBar.</div>
</div>
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