Comments on: Two Column Layout With A Twist

By: My CSS is Cat -(categories with css)

My CSS is Cat -(categories with css) — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:10:20 +0000

[...] all these problems quite easily. (As an aside this method was also exploited earlier in one of John’s Articles.) If we once again use overflow other than visible on this content we can make it form a [...]

By: Ogłoszenia Mielec

Ogłoszenia Mielec — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:09:03 +0000

Thanks for very interesting article. btw. I really enjoyed reading it. Very good technique.

By: New Tampa Homes for Rent

New Tampa Homes for Rent — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:28:30 +0000

Thanks for sharing this technique… I was trying to implement a two column layout with a floating right column while also having a min. and max. page width. Had all sorts of problems until I read this… thanks!

By: Paul OB

Paul OB — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:51:06 +0000

Good article John

It’s worth pointing out that the same technique can also be used for the middle column of a 3 column layout (which also leaves the possibility of the side columns being absent without needing to change the CSS at all).

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:56:12 +0000

A very well written article, I’m sure it will come in handy at some point.

By: Golgotha

Golgotha — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:46:08 +0000

Good one John, I didn’t know about this method.

By: Anna Vester

Anna Vester — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:41:27 +0000

Great Information. I am going to stumble this.

By: dougwig

dougwig — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:33:31 +0000

For IE, word-wrap:break-word (CSS) works well as a rule to prevent long URLS and unusually long strings from breaking the layout. It’s also fairly easy to insert word-break elements into long strings using regular expressions and either javascript or server-side code.