demo;http://www.csseasy.com/layouts/fluid/2column_left.html
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <head> <title>CSSeasy.com example page</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <style type="text/css"> /* You are allowed to do whatever you want with this layout. Though I would be pleased if you placed a link on your site to csseasy.com or to profit42.com (best "blog about hacking" ever). Donations are also welcome: paypal@profit42.com (or follow the donation button on csseasy.com) */ body{ background-color:#dc8; font-size:16px; margin:0; padding:0; } #header{ background-color:#333; height:150px; } #left{ float:left; width:200px; background-color:#dc8; min-height:650px; /* for modern browsers */ height:auto !important; /* for modern browsers */ height:650px; /* for IE5.x and IE6 */ } #center { margin-left:200px; background-color:#eec; min-height:650px; /* for modern browsers */ height:auto !important; /* for modern browsers */ height:650px; /* for IE5.x and IE6 */ } #footer { clear:both; background-color:#333; height:100px; } </style> </head> <body> <div id="header"> </div> <div id="left"> </div> <div id="center"> </div> <div id="footer"> </div> </body> </html>