css layout fixed width and variable width on same line
css, html
Solution
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
html, body, div { margin: 0; padding: 0; border: 0 none; }
#left { margin-right: 300px; background: yellow; }
#right { width: 300px; float: right; background: #ccc; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="right">Fixed</div>
<div id="left">Variable</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
This has a right column of 300 pixels and a variable left column. The DOCTYPE is just there to make IE misbehave less. Also use of a reset CSS is recommended.
Problem
with tables I can easily have a row with 2 columns, column 1 is variable width and column 2 fixed width in pixels and column 1 resizes to fill the available space. I'm transitioning to css and wondering how to do this with css..and make sure that both divs/columns stay on the same line and don't wrap.