Styling the #nav Column

Styling the #nav Column

The third column must be floated and set with a width of 14%. Like the other columns, it also should be padded. However, the padding for this element is padding: 1em 0 1em 3%; as shown in Listing 21.10. The right-edge padding is not defined because this space is left undefined for rounding errors. The results can be seen in Figure 21.10.

Listing 21.10. CSS Code for Styling the #nav Column

body
{
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    font: 90% arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
    background: #387A9B;
    color: #333;
}

h1
{
    background: #D36832;
    color: #FFF;
    margin: 0;
    padding: .5em 3%;
    border-bottom: 5px solid #387A9B;
}

h2, h3
{
    margin-top: 0;
}

#container
{
    background: url(back01.gif) repeat-y 50% 0;
}

#container2
{
    background: url(back02.gif) repeat-y 80% 0;
}

#content
{
    width: 44%;
    float: left;
    margin: 1em 3%;
}

#news
{
    width: 24%;
    float: left;
    margin: 1em 3%;
}

#nav
{
    width: 14%;
    float: left;
    margin: 1em 0 1em 3%;
}

Figure 21.10. Screenshot of the styled #nav column.