A List Apart #167
In Faux Columns, one of the two articles in the latest issue of A List Apart, Dan Cederholm shows a trick that will make a CSS layout with columns of different lengths look like the columns are the same length.
In the other article, Patrick Griffiths takes a look at what he calls Elastic Design, which will make the layout scale with the text when the user changes text size. An interesting concept that is used in the Elastic Lawn design in the CSS Zen Garden.
- Previous post: WaSP interviews Ryan Carver
- Next post: Website Organization
Information, sponsorship, and externals
About the author
Roger Johansson is a Swedish web professional specialising in web standards, accessibility, and usability. More about me and this site.
Latest articles
- Validation statistics from Nikita the Spider Comments off
- An analysis of the sites crawled by the bulk validation tool Nikita the Spider during March 2008.
- Authentic Jobs API and Affiliates program Comments off
- The Authentic Jobs job listing service now has a public API and an affiliate program.
- What does Acid3 mean to you and me? Comments off
- Opera and Apple have announced that their web browsers pass the Acid3 Browser Test, but how will that help web designers and developers?
- Designing Web Navigation (Book review) Comments off
- Learn the fundamentals of navigation design and design better navigation systems for large and small sites as well as for web based applications.
- DOMAssistant bundle for TextMate Comments off
- To save keystrokes and speed up development I have created a DOMAssistant bundle for TextMate.
- First impressions of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Comments off
- My impressions after trying out Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for a couple of days.









Sorry, comments are closed for this post.