Wednesday 08th of February 2012 12:09:07 AM

CSS Page Layout Templates

Introduction/2 Column Templates

The following page templates are all constructed using XHTML1.0 and CSS2.
Templates marked with Recommended ! are ones I recommend.

Please note: these templates are a learning tool and should be thoroughly tested before being used on a 'production' web site.

The templates are valid CSS2 and XHTML1.0 Transitional and have been tested on WinXP with IE6, Opera 7.11 and Mozilla 1.5b as well as Firefox 0.8 & Netscape 7.1 (which are basically the same as Mozilla).



Templates: Two column |  Three column |  General




Two Column Flexible

Browsers: Mozilla Icon ' Firebird Icon ' Netscape Icon ' Opera Icon ' IE6 Icon(5+)
Description: Probably the easiest page to make. Contains two layout divs, the main content div is just floated to the left. Very simple!
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Two Column Flexible With Header

Browsers: Mozilla Icon ' Firebird Icon ' Netscape Icon ' Opera Icon ' IE6 Icon(5+)
Description: Basically the same template as above but with the addition of a header div for page title, your logo or banners etc. Again very simple to set up.
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Two Column, Left Column Static

Browsers: Mozilla Icon ' Firebird Icon ' Netscape Icon ' Opera Icon ' IE6 Icon(5+)
Description: Two columns, the left column is absolutely positioned on the left and is a fixed width. The right content column is sized and positioned by using margins and will resize with the browser window.
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Two Column, Left Column Static, with Header Bar

Browsers: Mozilla Icon ' Firebird Icon ' Netscape Icon ' Opera Icon ' IE6 Icon(5+)
Description: This is the same template as above but with the addition of a simple header bar which can be used for links, search box etc..
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Two Column Fixed Width with Header & Footer Recommended !

Browsers: Mozilla Icon ' Firebird Icon ' Netscape Icon ' Opera Icon ' IE6 Icon(5+)
Description: A fixed width centered page with a header, footer, left navigation column and right content column. One of my favourites.
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Templates: Two column |  Three column |  General



Note: The poor colour schemes and thick borders of the templates are for demonstration purposes. :-)






anchor tags! Here's a link to the top of this page.  I stuck a hidden anchor tag there: <A NAME="top"> </A>  Use anchors to improve navigability, but remember that multiple linked pages will download quicker than one huge page with lots of anchor tags!  <P>Note the use of keywords to make the 
browser display special non-ASCII characters literally, e.g.: X &gt; Y and Z &lt; Y

11.2.7. Preserving Boldness

Here's a similar trick that helps work around a bug in most versions of Navigator 4. In situations where font-weight: normal has been set on an element, this value will be inherited by all the descendants of the element. That's as

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These min-max properties can be very useful in conjunction with loated elements as well. For example, you can allow a floated element's width to be relative to the width of its parent element (which is its containing block), while also making sure that the float's width never goes below 10em. The reverse approach is also possible:

This will set the float to be 40em wide, unless