CSS - Elastic layout, 1 fluid + 1 fixed column, center aligned

Question

This CSS challenge is really puzzling me. Here's what I'm trying to do...

• have an elastic layout (ie the container is max-width: 1200px min-width: 960px)
• have the container be center aligned.
• where the left column is fluid and expands to the highest possible width in the elastic constraints.
• and the right column is fixed to say 200px

Can anybody enlighten me?

Answer 1

The main part is keeping the left column stay fluid while the right is not.

The left column should have a wrapper, that wrapper should have a margin-right of 200px; The left column should be 100% width;

The right column should float right, have absolute positioning and have 200px of width.