Is there a disadvantage of using `display:table-cell`on divs?

Question

What I am trying to accomplish is having a fixed-width first div and a fluid second div which will fill up the rest width of the parent div\'s width.

Answer 1

display: table-cell is perfectly fine to use, with just one downside..

It doesn't work in IE7 (or IE6, but who cares?): http://caniuse.com/#search=css-table

If you don't need to support IE7, then feel free to use it.

IE7 still has some usage, but you should check your Analytics, and then make a decision.

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To answer your specific use case, you can do it without display: table-cell, provided that you don't need the height to adjust based on content:

http://jsfiddle.net/g6yB4/

  
some content
  
some more content

(why overflow: hidden? With: http://jsfiddle.net/g6yB4/3/ vs without: http://jsfiddle.net/g6yB4/4/)