Basic 3 Column Fixed Width CSS Layout

This is an example of a Basic 3 Column Fixed Width Layout using CSS as detailed in Chris Hope's Basic 3 Column Fixed Width CSS Layout blog post. Read the blog post for more details or view the source to look at this very simple solution.

Use these links to see the effect of each column being longer than the others (this uses jQuery Javascript). It adds more content each time you click:
left middle right reset

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main content area
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