How make middle div to fill space between floating elements?

Question

I have three div elements: left, middle and right. Left and right are fixed and floating. What I want is the middle div to fill the gap in between them.

Answer 1

The key is to restructure your html to have middle last, remove the float from the middle and replace it with overflow: hidden.

View fiddle example.

HTML

  left   
  right  
  middle 

CSS

#left {
    width: 200px;
    float: left;
}
#middle {
    overflow: hidden;
}
#right {
    width: 200px;
    float: right;
}