layers overlapping in liquid css layout

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layers overlapping in liquid css layout

i'm trying to write a liquit layout based in layers and css and have the next code:

Code:

<style type='text/css'>
<!--
body{font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin:5px 5px 5px 5px; position:relative;}
#header{border:1px solid #000000; width:100%; height:60px; position:absolute; top:0px; left:0px; min-width:600px;}
#menu{border:1px solid #000000; position:absolute; top:60px; left:0px; width:15%; min-width:150px;}
#content{border:1px solid #000000; position:absolute; top:60px; left:15%; width:85%; min-width:450px;}
-->
</style>

and in the body:

Code:

<body>
<div id='header'>header</div>
<div id='menu'>menu links</div>
<div id='content'>contents</div>

the little problem here is thata due to the percentages used to determine the left position of the contents layer it overlaps with the menu layer when i resize the window
but i've seen a lot of pages that do not behave this way... what am i missing????

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April 8th, 2004, 01:17 AM

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Don't become infatuated with absolute positioning. Like floats, there are lots of 'gotchas' waiting for the unwary. Also, forget about min/max anything. IE, dumba—— that it is, does not recognize the attribute.

I think this is close to what you want;

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <head>
    <meta name="generator"
    content="HTML Tidy for Linux/x86 (vers 1st March 2002), see www.w3.org" />
    <meta http-equiv="content-type"
    content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />

    <title>Liquid Layout</title>
<style type="text/css">
/*<![CDATA[*/

body {
    margin: 5px;
    }

#header {
    border: 1px solid black;
    height: 60px;
    }

#menu {
    border: 1px solid black;
    width: 15%;
    float: left;
    }

#content {
    border: 1px solid black;
    margin-left: 15%;
    }

/*]]>*/
</style>
  </head>

  <body>
    <div id="header">
      <h1>Generic Header/Logo</h1>
    </div>
    <!-- end header -->

    <div id="menu">
      <ul>

        <li>Generic</li>

        <li>Menu</li>

        <li>Items</li>
      </ul>
    </div>
    <!-- end menu -->

    <div id="content">
      <p>All kinds of generic content</p>
    </div>
    <!-- end of content -->
  </body>
</html>

cheers,

gary

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Last edited by kk5st : April 8th, 2004 at 01:19 AM.

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