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Old 11-13-2012, 03:41 PM   PM User | #12
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Originally Posted by crazyponytail View Post

And yeah, the other problem is still hanging. How do I set them to 250px and 550px without any of them overlapping? What am I doing wrong here?
Another approach for a two column layout is to set a width and float one column and margin the other over with no width. That lets the second column take all the room left that the floated column didn't use.

Does that make sense?

Here's a simple two column example that shows what I'm talking about.
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