Fluid center column

Hi, I am new here and i need some help with 3 col div layout.

I found this free template called reflections and edited it to he way I like.the only problem i have is,when the content is longer then the left or right column it get spred around.how do I make it so only the center part gets longer in the lines.I hope you get what I mean.

here it is in action Glitternation (http://www.glitternation.com)

here is my css coding.


/* Main Styles that apply to body */
body {
font-size: 11px;
font-family: Verdana;
margin: 0px;
padding-left: 50%;
background: #fff url(images/bg.gif) center repeat-y;

}

/* This is the page container built and centered using -ve margins */
#container {
width: 800px;
margin-left: -389px;
}

/* The topmost faded bar */
#topbar {
width:auto;
background: #EEE;
height: 20px;
padding: 10px 5px 5px 2px;
font: 9px verdana;
font-weight: bold;
color: #CCCCCC;
text-align: right;
}

/* This holds the two heading blocks, the title and the login form */
#headerwrapper {
width: auto;
}

/* class that styles the holder div of the forms */
.userform {
width: auto;
color: #DD7CB4;
padding: 5px 0px 5px 3px;
background: #fbfbfb;
border:1px solid #efefef;
border-top: none;
text-align: justify;
margin-bottom: 1px;
}

/* This will style the login and search */
.userform input {
border: 1px solid #DDD;
font-family: verdana;
font-size: 10px;
color: #BBB;
font-weight: bold;
}

h1 {
font: 48px verdana;
color: #EEE;
margin: 5px;
}

h6 {
font: 10px verdana;
font-weight: bold;
color: #DDD;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
margin-left: 8px;
}

/* This holds the tabs */
#tabholder
{
width: auto;
}

/* Container for the article box, and the pic box */
.articleboxouter {
width: auto;
padding: 0px 5px 0px 5px;
clear: both;
}

/* Content holder for the articles */
.articleboxinner {
width: auto;
line-height: 20px;
color: #DD7CB4;
padding: 0px 6px 0px 6px;
background: #fbfbfb;
border:1px solid #efefef;
text-align: justify;
height: auto;
}

/* The title style for the main article */
.articleheader
{
font-size: 18px;
font-weight: bold;
border-bottom: 1px solid #CCC;
}

/* This will style the read more thing at the bottom */
.readmore {
text-align: right;
display: block;
width: auto;
}








/* Sometimes, I don't want borders around my hyperlink images */
.noborder {
border: none;
}

/* For taming those leeeeeeetle arrows */
img {
vertical-align: text-bottom;
}

/* Style-up those ugly default hyperlinks */
a {
text-decoration: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
color: #303030;
}

/* And their ugly hover states too */
a:hover {

color:#BEBEBE;

}

/* Why should the humble footer be left out? */
#footer {
background-color: #CCC;
color: #fff;
text-align: center;
vertical-align: middle;
height: 20px;
padding-top: 5px;
clear: both;
}

/* This will contain the three columns */
#newsContainer2
{
width:auto;
background-color: #E0E0E0;
}

/* First column of the three columns */

.c1
{
width: 143px;
background-color: #fff;
border: 1px solid #DDD;
border-top: none;
line-height: 15px;
font-size: 10px;
font-family: Verdana;
color: #DD7CB4;
float: left;

}
/* Second column of the three columns */
.c2
{
width: 499px;
float: left;
border-bottom: 1px solid #DDD;
line-height: 22px;
color: #6699ff;
position:relative;


}

/* Third column of the three columns */
.c3
{
width: 143px;
background-color: #fff;
border: 1px solid #DDD;
border-top: none;
line-height: 15px;
color: #DD7CB4;
font-size: 10px;
font-family: Verdana;
float: right;

}

/* This controls the titles for each column */
.noteheader
{
width:auto;
border-bottom: 1px solid #DDD;
border-top: none;
color: #DD7CB4;
height: 24px;
font-family: verdana;
font-size: 11px;
font-weight: bold;
background:url(images/bar2.gif) repeat-x;
}

.noteheader2
{
width:auto;
border-bottom: 1px solid #DDD;
border-top: none;
color: #DD7CB4;
height: 24px;
font-family: verdana;
font-size: 11px;
font-weight: bold;
background:url(images/bar.gif) repeat-x;
}
/* And this gives the column text some breathing space */
.spacy
{
padding: 5px;
}

.spacy2
{

padding: 30px;
}

/* CSS Tabs */
#tabs8 {
float:left;
width:100%;
background:#FFF;
font-size:93%;
line-height:normal;
border-bottom:1px solid #CCC;
}

#tabs8 ul {
margin:0;
padding:10px 10px 0 5px;
list-style:none;
}

#tabs8 li {
display:inline;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}

#tabs8 a {
float:left;
background:url("images/tableft8.gif") no-repeat left top;
margin:0;
padding:0 0 0 4px;
text-decoration:none;
}

#tabs8 a span {
float:left;
display:block;
background:url("images/tabright8.gif") no-repeat right top;
padding:5px 15px 4px 6px;
color:#fff;
font-weight: bold;
}

/* Commented Backslash Hack hides rule from IE5-Mac \*/
#tabs8 a span {float:none;}
/* End IE5-Mac hack */
#tabs8 a:hover span {
color:#591333;
}

#tabs8 a:hover {
background-position:0% -42px;
}

#tabs8 a:hover span {
background-position:100% -42px;
color: #888;
}

#tabs8 #current a {
background-position:0% -42px;
}
#tabs8 #current a span {
background-position:100% -42px;
color: #888;
}


#nav{
width:143px;
height:20px;
float: right;


}

ul.list_one {
list-style-type:none; /* remove the bullets */
margin:0; /* remove the automatic margin that some
browsers use for the text-indent. */
padding:0px; /* remove the automatic padding that other
browsers use for the text-indent. */
width:499px; /* fix the width of the list items which
would default to 100% */
float:left;
line-height:15px;

}
ul.list_one a, ul.list_one a:visited, ul.list_one a:active {
text-decoration:none; /* remove the default underline from
the links */
display:block; /* make each link into a block so that
hovering over any area of the link
will cause a change of background color */
text-indent:5px; /* move the link text 5px to the right */
border-bottom:1px dashed #aeadad; /* separate the links with a 1px
wide white line */
padding-bottom:1px;

}
ul.list_one a:hover {
background:#ddd; /* change the background to blue on :hover */
border-bottom:1px dashed #aeadad; /* separate the links with a 1px
wide white line */
padding-bottom:1px;
}

.button{

color : #ffffff;
border:#303030 1px dashed;
text-align : center;
padding-right: 5px;
padding-left: 5px;
font-weight: bold;
background:#bbbbbb;}


input , textarea {
color : #ffffff;
background :#d0d0d0;
font: 11px Verdana, sans-serif;
color: #ffffff;
font-weight : normal;
text-decoration : none;
text-align : left;
border-width : 1px;
border-style : dashed;
border-color : #303030 ;}

.bar{
font: 11px Verdana, sans-serif;
color : #6699ff;
text-align :left;
padding-right: 5px;
font-weight: bold;
line-height: 14pt;
}

.bar2{
font: 11px Verdana, sans-serif;
color : #fff;
text-align :center;
padding-right: 5px;
font-weight: bold;
line-height: 14pt;
background:#ddd;
border-bottom:1px dashed #aeadad;
}

Scrollbar colors! ...................... */
<!--body {
scrollbar-3dlight-color: #e8e8e8;
scrollbar-highlight-color: #e8e8e8;
scrollbar-arrow-color: #d0d0d0;
scrollbar-base-color: #d0d0d0;
scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #afaeae;
scrollbar-face-color: #d0d0d0;
scrollbar-shadow-color: #afaeae;
scrollbar-track-color: #d0d0d0;

} -->
/* End of CSS Tabs */



Thanks you,
priya

At first glance, I don't see a problem. What browser are you using?

if you need equal height colums, there are many ways to fix it, i personally wrote my own

http://blog.creonfx.com/examples/javascript/equal-height-div-columns.html

http://blog.creonfx.com/javascript/equal-height-two-three-columns-div-layout

Try adding some margins to the side of the centre column.
Because of the floats, the centre will flow past the column lines unless there is a margin the same width of the side columns.


margin-left: 150px;
margin-right: 150px;

Or something like that. Worth a try.