Two columns with header and footer
<!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' xml:lang='en'>
<head>
<title>Multi-column Layout</title>
<style rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
div#heading,
div#container,
div#footer {
border: 1px solid black;
max-width: 1000px;
min-width: 600px;
}
div#container {
position: relative;
margin: 0 auto;
}
div#heading {
margin: 10px auto -1px auto;
}
div#heading h1 {
margin: 5px;
}
div#left {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
width: 200px;
background: #ccc;
padding: 5px;
border-right: 1px solid black;
}
div#content {
margin-left: 211px;
background: white;
border: 1px solid white;
padding: 10px;
}
div#footer {
margin: -1px auto 10px auto;
}
div#footer p {
margin: 5px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id='heading'>
<h1>Heading</h1>
</div>
<div id='container'>
<div id='left'>
Left side column.
</div>
<div id='content'>
<h4>Lorem Ipsum</h4>
<p>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Donec eu
</p>
<p>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Donec eu
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id='footer'>
<p>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Donec eu
</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>