Dynamic Drive: CSS Left, Bottom and Right Frames Layout

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CSS Left, Bottom and Right Frames Layout

This is a mixed columns and rows layout (three main columns, middle column split into two rows), with everything being static except the top row inside the middle column. Tested and works in IE5+, Opera7+, and Firefox.

Source Code:

<!--Force IE6 into quirks mode with this comment tag-->
<!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 Left, Bottom and Right Frames Layout</title>
<style type="text/css">

body{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
overflow: hidden;
height: 100%; 
max-height: 100%; 
}

#framecontentLeft, #framecontentRight{
position: absolute; 
top: 0; 
left: 0; 
width: 200px; /*Width of left frame div*/
height: 100%;
overflow: hidden; /*Disable scrollbars. Set to "scroll" to enable*/
background-color: navy;
color: white;
}

#framecontentRight{
left: auto;
right: 0; 
width: 150px; /*Width of right frame div*/
overflow: hidden; /*Disable scrollbars. Set to "scroll" to enable*/
background-color: navy;
color: white;
}

#framecontentBottom{
position: absolute;
bottom: 0; 
left: 200px; /*Set left value to WidthOfLeftFrameDiv*/
right: 150px; /*Set right value to WidthOfRightFrameDiv*/
width: auto;
height: 120px; /*Height of bottom frame div*/
overflow: hidden; /*Disable scrollbars. Set to "scroll" to enable*/
background-color: navy;
color: white;
}

#maincontent{
position: fixed; 
top: 0;
bottom: 120px; /*Set bottom value to HeightOfBottomFrameDiv*/
left: 200px; /*Set left value to WidthOfLeftFrameDiv*/
right: 150px; /*Set right value to WidthOfRightFrameDiv*/
overflow: auto; 
background: #fff;
}

.innertube{
margin: 15px; /*Margins for inner DIV inside each DIV (to provide padding)*/
}

* html body{ /*IE6 hack*/
padding: 0 150px 120px 200px; /*Set value to (0 WidthOfRightFrameDiv HeightOfTopFrameDiv WidthOfLeftFrameDiv)*/
}

* html #maincontent{ /*IE6 hack*/
height: 100%; 
width: 100%; 
}

* html #framecontentBottom{ /*IE6 hack*/
width: 100%;
}

</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="framecontentLeft">
<div class="innertube">

<h1>CSS Left, Bottom and Right Frames Layout</h1>
<h3>Sample text here</h3>

</div>
</div>

<div id="framecontentRight">
<div class="innertube">

<h3>Sample text here</h3>

</div>
</div>

<div id="framecontentBottom">
<div class="innertube">

<h3>Sample text here</h3>

</div>
</div>


<div id="maincontent">
<div class="innertube">

<h1>Dynamic Drive CSS Library</h1>
<p><script type="text/javascript">filltext(255)</script></p>
<p style="text-align: center">Credits: <a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/">Dynamic Drive CSS Library</a></p>

</div>
</div>


</body>
</html>