Question

I want to position a div element centered in a page with width about 1000px and another one on its right that covers the whole right side that can adjust depending on the window size.
Actually I have a right floated element on the centered div. So
absolute positioning does the job but the flaw in it is visible while zooing in the page…

I want to know if it is possible using pure html, css and not javascript.

Also I have used background property, absolute positioning to achieve the above but looking for a better solution.

Answer 1

Here is my go:

HTML

​<div id="container">
    <div id="right">
        <div id="right_content">sdfdsfdfg</div>        
    </div>
    <div id="main">sdfdsfdzgf</div>
</div>

CSS

html,body { height: 100% }
#container { height: 100%; background: #ccc; }

#right {
    position:absolute;
    left: 50%;
    right: 0;
    height: 100%;
    background: #f00;
    z-index: 0;
}

#right-content {
    position: absolute;
    left: 150px; /* half the width of #main */
}

#main {
    position: relative;
    margin: 0 auto;
    width: 300px;
    height: 100%;
    background: #00f; 
    z-index: 1;    
}

http://jsfiddle.net/XPE3w/3/