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<tr> <td width="1%"><img src="spacer.gif" width="250" height="1"> Left Col of 250px </td> <td width="99%">Fluid Col of Remainder</td> </tr>

• icedchai 13y ago
  Let's see the same thing with CSS! Oh, how far we've come...
  • grayrest 13y ago
    <style>span {display: inline-block}</style> <span style="width: 250px"></span><span style="width: calc(100% - 250px)"></span>
    • stan_rogers 13y ago
      When I was a kid (well, a less decrepit and slightly less old man) and there was no calc(), we did that sort of thing with padding-left, float, and negative margin-left.
    • icedchai 13y ago
      not bad! calc and inline-block is fairly recent, right?
      • grayrest 13y ago
        From memory, calc is IE9 and inline-block is IE6. http://caniuse.com/ http://caniuse.com/ can answer these questions for you in general. If you're looking into newer layout techniques, you should also check out flexbox.