Question

So I have a layout like this:

div {
  border: 1px solid
}

<div id="col_1" style="float:left;width:150px;">1</div>
<div id="col_2" style="float:left;width:100px;">2</div>
<div id="col_3" style="float:left;width:<REMAINING_WIDTH>;">3</div>

col_1 and col_2 take up a fixed amount of space. I want the third column to take up the rest of it. What is the best way to do accomplish this?

Answer 1

You could do something crazy, abandon the javascript and the not-quite-ready-for-prime-time CSS3 stuff and use absolute positioning.

See this jsfiddle.
Bonus points for behaving well through browser resizes, too.

#col_1 {
  position: absolute;
  top: 0px;
  bottom: 0px;
  width: 100px;
  background-color: #eee;
}
#col_2 {
  position: absolute;
  top: 0px;
  bottom: 0px;
  width: 150px;
  left: 100px;
  background-color: #ccd;
}
#col_3 {
  position: absolute;
  top: 0px;
  bottom: 0px;
  left: 250px;
  right: 0px;
  background-color: #cdc;
}

<div id='col_1'>Column 1</div>
<div id='col_2'>Column 2</div>
<div id='col_3'>
  Column 3
</div>