CSS - 3 column faux

[sandyk3]

Hi Everyone,

I seriously have tried everything and I cannot get this to work. My site I'm redoing is:
www.thegenesiscenter.net - I need my design to look like this but with CSS - no tables.

I am testing:
www.sandysdesignline.com/genesis/biotest3.html

You can even try biotest5 or 9..


I have put many tests through browsershots.org:
https://browsershots.org/http://www..../biotest3.html

On that page you have access to all the other biotest files I have put up. 3 through 9. I have even tried javascript. Please, someone help me before I pull ALL of my hair out!!!

Thank you for any help you can give me.

Sandy K

[tfit]

sandyk3,

You are a free person and you have the right to ask this question again!!. BUT I gave you a base and I saw on another forum somebody else give you an example, so why don't put in the effort and come up with your own solution. It's friendlier to ask for help than do your work.

[sandyk3]

tfit - I have tried to do this with the suggestions. i wouldn't ask for help again if I didn't need it. I don't think your post was very nice. I think you are one of the reasons people don't like to ask for help.

I was also going to post this morning that I found a fix for it - guess what... on my own. I have another person that helped me and came up with a totally different idea to one of my designs and I was only missing one or two things which included a IE fix and for beginners - those are hard to find and hard to understand why and when to use them.

If I remember correctly you were the one that posted a fix but it didn't follow the same design that the page has now. and then you posted another idea and it didn't work - otherwise I wouldn't have been searching the internet for fixes and other ideas. And what is wrong with going to another board to see if others have other ideas? This is the way we learn. It's not like I was posting every day on this board or other boards for help. I do try things on my own before requesting some help. I have done at least 12 different designs trying to patch and fix things.

If you don't like helping then don't respond to my posts.

The fixes that I found (ON MY OWN) are: use javascript to measure all columns and then the script resizes the columns to fit the longest. Or use an image that has your column color for your width - for all columns - making the image 2px high. Tile the background where you need it in the design. Then someone helped me with one of my designs and I was very close. I was mainly missing my IE fixes, which are hard to find and understand.

And by the way, what does this mean:
"It's friendlier to ask for help than do your work."

Have a great weekend!
Sandy K

[tfit]

sandyk3,

Than ignore what I said. My problem with your approach was it that I didn't see any of our code. And it was alexjewell who give you those tips.

You're right

It's friendlier to ask for help than do your work.

should be :It's friendlier to ask for help than asking to do your work. But ignore what I said.

[sandyk3]

tfit - 1st - Where in any of my postings did I ask anyone to do my work? I simply asked for help or to be pointed in the right direction.

2nd - I did try the fixes that you suggested and alex suggested and that many more suggested on other boards as you can see from the screen shots of all of my testing. I don't need to post each of my trys to know that they aren't working. And sometimes when I post and I run it through browswershots and it fails, I will delete it from the main directory. So, don't assume that I haven't tried the fixes that people have offered.

Thanks,
Sandy K

http://www.sandysdesignline.com/genesis/tries.html

[Furious]

Do you have a problem with nesting divs? If not... create a wrapper div... background color is your side content color... Then create a main content div with the width of your site minus your side content. And for a third column if you need it, (and by the way you've already at this point created a 2 column layout with faux columns without the need of javascript... have two nested divs inside your main content div for the additional sub content and main content. I hope I made sense.

[sandyk3]

Hi Furious,

Thank you for your reply. Yes, that makes sense to me now. About 5 days ago it wouldn't have.

Thanks for your suggestion!!!

Sandy K