Will there be star sizing in future versions of HTML or CSS?

css, html

Solution

There is a template layout module for CSS 3 that does something similar.

Edit But you can already do that:

<div style="padding-left: 50px">
    <div style="float: left; width: 50px; margin-left: -50px;">
        Occupies 50px of the page width
    </div>
    <div style="float: left; width: 25%">
        Occupies 25% of the rest of the page width
    </div>
    <div style="float: left; width: 75%;">
        Occupies 75% of the rest of the page width
    </div>
</div>

The additional `padding-left` and `margin-left` adjustment is to have the content model of the outer `DIV` at 100% minus 50px width.

Problem

In WPF you can set the width of a column to occupy the remaining space by setting the width to a star. Will there be something similar in future versions of HTML or CSS? Example: ``` <div style="float: left; width: 50px;"> Occupies 50px of the page width </div> <div style="float: left; width: 1*;"> Occupies 25% of the rest of the page width </div> <div style="float: left; width: 3*;"> Occupies 75% of the rest of the page width </div> ``` It would really help web developers out there if this could be implemented in future versions of browsers.

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