Two Column Fixed Width Layout Only div Used for Layout Horizontal Navigation Menu Inline & Background Graphics
Two Column Fixed Width Layout Only div Used for Layout Horizontal Navigation Menu Inline & Background Graphics
This is a basic example of a two column fixed width HTML layout with page navigation.
Only the div element is used for layout. This means the newer HTML5 semantic versions of the div tag such as section, article, nav, header, footer are not used. This approach makes the layout natively supported in Internet Explorer versions 6, 7 and 8.
This is a good starting point for students learning CSS who are very new to web technology. Two pages, the Home and the About pages, are completed.
Two pages, the Home and the About pages, are completed.
Source Code
This is the home.html file. It the top page for the web site. The top page would be named index.html when the file does not contain server side scripting code.
This is the about.html file. With static pages that a lot of HTML needs to be replicated on each page. The page navigation is one example. And even with the page navigation, you have small differences. For example if you want to make the loaded page navigation button to become inactive.
This is the site.css style sheet. Making the style sheet external to the documents, the documents can share the style selectors. Changing a property or style then impacts all the pages.
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