I don’t even know if what I am about to ask can be done without absolute positioning. I don’t particularly care if the page won’t degrade gracefully in older browsers, but there has been a particular three-column layout that has been bugging me to no end, and it’s got everything to do with document order. I know I have seen a glimpse of either a tutorial or a page source where I saw this.

Basically, you have the header, followed by the content, and then two divs that occupy the left and right sidebars, and then the footer. Vesuvius 1.5 is not an option. The negative margins approach on ALA is not an option.

I know I’ve seen that document structure before, and that the CSS involved floating elements and not absolute or relative positioning. I just know it. And I didn’t have a good way of saving pages I’ve seen before until recently.

Anyone else know of the tutorial or guide that can do this? Anyone with CSS and source code to share?