content column

All templates are XHTML 1.0 and CSS2/ tableless.

2 columns / menu fixed, content dynamic.
2 columns layout grid. The navigation column is fixed, the content column is dynamic and adjusts itself to the browser window.
The layout also works with an absolute height template 100% height
more nice and free css templates

html {
padding:0px;
margin:0px;

XML documents are also naturally committed to a database (relational or object) or any other kind of XML document store. There are commercial products available which allow you to save XML documents to an XML storage layer (which is not a database per se), like Datachannel's XStore and ODI's eXcelon. These XML store solutions are quite expensive ($10,000 to $20,000 range).
XML documents are also quite naturally retrieved from a persistence layer (databases, file systems, XML stores). This lends XML to be used in real world applications where the information being used by different parts of a system is the most important thing.
XML is platform independent, textual information
Information in an XML document is stored in plain-text. This might seem like a restriction if were thinking of embedding binary information in an XML document. There are several advantages to keeping things plain text. First, it is easy to write parsers and all other XML enabling technology on different platforms. Second, it makes everything very interoperable by staying with the lowest common denominator approach. This is the whole reason the web is so successful despite all its flaws. By accepting and sending information in plain text format, programs running on disparate platforms can communicate with each other. This also makes it easy to integrate new programs on top of older ones (without rewriting the old programs), by simply making the interface between the new and old program use XML.

}
body {
background-color: #e1ddd9;
font-size: 12px;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, SunSans-Regular, Sans-Serif;
color:#564b47;
padding:0px 20px;
margin:0px;
}
#content {
margin-left: 200px;
background-color:#fff;
overflow: auto;
}
makes is in where the tiling starts. Figure 6-51shows the difference between tiling from the center of theBODY, and from its top left corner.

Figure 6-51

Figure 6-51. The difference between starting a repeat from top left (left) and centering it (right)

Note the differences along the edges of the browser window. When thebackground repeats from the center, the grid is centered within theviewport, resulting in consistent "clipping" along theedges. The variations may seem subtle, but the odds are thatyou'll have reason to use both approaches at some point in your padding on a single side of the box, without affecting the other sides.

padding-top, padding-right, padding-bottom, padding-left

Values

<length> | <percentage>

general, the height of an element is determined by its content. Thiscan be affected by its width, of course; the skinnier a paragraphbecomes, for example, the taller it has to be in order to contain allof the textual (and other) content.

In CSS, it is possible to set an explicit height on any block-levelelement. If this is done, the resulting behavior is somewhatuncertain. Assume that the specified height is greater than thatneeded to display the content:

*.apple {color: red;}
.apple {color: red;}

However, you should consider this: if you're concerned about older user agents that don't know about CSS2, then *.class (or *#id) is an easy way to fool them. Since both of these are examples of invalid selectors in CSS1, they should be ignored by CSS1-only parsers. If they aren't ignored, then they're likely to cause strange results. Therefore, it might be a good idea to omit the universal selector in conjunction with class and ID selectors.about what happens when you're using a visible border style such as solid or outset. Things start to get interesting, though, when the border style is set to be none: 

P {margin: 5px; border-style: none; border-width: 20px;}

As we can see in Figure 7-41, despite the fact that the border's width was set to be 20px , when the style is set to none, not only does the border's style go away, so does its width! Why?