CSS Trick Applies Fixed and Liquid Layouts to the Same Page

The debate over whether to use liquid or fixed layouts on the web is one of those perennial and not-very-interesting debates like Mac vs Windows or Emacs vs Vim. What if, however, there were a simple way to offer up both a fixed width and liquid layout on the same page? Peace on the web? Well, not exactly, but it’s a pretty clever trick nonetheless.

CSS guru Daniel Glazman (co-chairman of the CSS Working Group) shows you how to use just one pseudo class on a single HTML document and still create two different layouts, one liquid, one fixed — via Webmonkey