CSS: Two 50% fluid columns not respecting min width

Question

I\'m trying to use this layout with two 50% column width instead. But it seems that when the right columns reaches its \'min-width\', it goes under the left column. Is there

Answer 1

Well, I don't want to get into a political argument, but the reasoning in the cited article by Agoudzward about "why CSS is better than tables" has little to do with tables. What it demonstrates is that CSS is better than using individual font tags and color settings and the like over and over again when many page elements call for the same style. Yes, I absolutely agree that if you have a hundred elements on a page that all should be in green, 14pt, Arial text, then it makes excellent sense to create a CSS style for this rather than copying and pasting a font tag over and over, for all the reasons they give. That goes double if you want this same style across multiple pages.

But what does that have to do with tables?

The reasoning seems to be "CSS is good because it allows you to specify font and color once rather than repeatedly, therefore anything that can be done with CSS is better than any possible alternative". Well that doesn't follow at all! Just because a tool is good for one type of problem doesn't mean it's good for all possible problems. Hammers are great for putting in nails. That doesn't mean that I use them to put in screws. If I can do a layout more simply and logically with tables than with div's and CSS tags, then to insist that I should nevertheless use CSS because "CSS is good" leaves me saying, So what?