3 Column Templet Code
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>3 Column Layout</title>
<link href="styles.css" type="text/css" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" />
<style type="text/css">
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="outer">
<div id="header"><h2>Header</h2>
</div>
<div id="menu"><h4>Menu</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Link 1</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Link 2</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Link 3</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Link 4</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Link 5</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Link 7</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Link 8</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="main"><!--main contains: left column & content-->
<div id="lt_col"><h4>Left Column</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Link 1</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Link 2</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Link 3</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Link 4</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Link 5</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Link 7</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Link 8</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="content"><h4>Content</h4>
<p>
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</p>
<p>
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</p>
</div>
<div id="rt_col"><h4>Right Column</h4>
<p>
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</p>
</div>
</div>
</div><!--End Outer-->
<div id="footer"><h4>Footer</h4>
<p>
<a href="#">Link 1</a> |
<a href="#">Link 2</a> |
<a href="#">Link 3</a> |
<a href="#">Link 4</a> |
<a href="#">Link 5</a> |
<a href="#">Link 6</a> |
<a href="#">Link 7</a>
</p>
<p>Content © Company A | Site Design and Hosting by <a href="http://cat5designs.com">Category 5 Web Designs</a></p>
</div>
<div id="sub_footer"><h4>Sub Footer</h4>
<p>Content © Company A | Site Design and Hosting by <a href="http://cat5designs.com">Category 5 Web Designs</a></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
CSS
* {margin:0;padding:0}
html,body {background:#eee;color:#000; margin:0 auto;font-size: 10pt;font-family: verdana,tahoma,helvetica,"Lucida Sans", Arial;line-height:120%;}
/* MSIE display:inline-block is to make sure MSIE doesn't paint the backround above the containers, the overflow declaration is to make sure the containers do not drop below siblings if content pushes the width (in modern browsers it doesn't drop, but it spawns an orizontal scrollbar) */
#header,#menu,#content,#lt_col,#rt_col,#footer,#sub_footer {overflow:hidden;display:inline-block}
/* safari and opera need this */
#header,#menu,#footer,#sub_footer {width:100%}
#header,#menu,#content,#lt_col,#rt_col,#footer,#sub_footer {padding:10px 0;font-size:.9em}
#outer {width:900px;margin:auto;background:#aaa}
#header {background:#fcc}
#main {margin:auto; Width: 100%;background:#9cf url(images/bg.jpg) repeat-y 0% 0;}
#content div {margin:10px}
#content {background:#9cf;width:60%}
#content,#lt_col,#rt_col {float:left}
#lt_col {background:#cfc;width:19.9%}
#lt_col div {text-align:center}
#rt_col {background:#ffc;width:20%}
#rt_col div {text-align:center}
#menu {background:#dcd}
#footer {clear:left;width:900px;background:#ccf;text-align:center;margin:auto;}
#sub_footer {text-align:center;margin:auto;}
p {margin:10px 10px}
h2 {margin:10px 10px;}
h4 {margin:20px 10px;}
#menu ul {margin:10px}
#menu ul li {margin-right:9px;list-style:none;display:inline}
#lt_col ul {margin:10px}
#lt_col ul li {margin:10px;list-style:none;display:block}