Code Answer: positioning three divs with css

Who likes riddles? ;)

I have three divs:

How would I define the CSS styles (without touching the html) to have the menu-div as the left column, the login-div in the right column and the content-div also in the right column but below the login-div.

The width of every div is fixed, but the height isn't.

From stackoverflow Thomas Danecker

```
#menu {
  position:absolute;
  top:0;
  left:0;
  width:100px;
}
#content, #login {
  margin-left:120px;
}
```
Why this way? The menu coming last in the markup makes it tough. You might also be able to float both content and login right, and added a clear:right to content, but I think this might be your best bet. Without seeing the bigger picture, it is hard to give a solution that will definitely work in your case.
EDIT: This seems to work as well:
```
#content, #login {
  float:right;
  clear:right
}
```
More thoughts: The absolute positioning won't work (or won't work well) if you want to have the columns in a centered layout. The float seems to work - as long as you can get any border-between-columns type requirements to pan out with the float solution, you might be better off choosing that. Then again, if the site is supposed to be left align, I think that the absolute method would work very well for your needs.

Thomas Danecker : Thanks a lot! I used the floating-approach. The clear:right in the content-div did the trick for me.

From Chris Marasti-Georg

Floats away... not perfect. Chris's answer seems a better solution.

<html>
    <head>
     <title>test</title>
     <style>
      #login {
       float: right;
       width: 400px;
       border: 1px solid #f00;
      }
      #content {
       clear: right;
       float: right;
       width: 400px;
       border: 1px solid #f00;
      }
      #menu {
       float:left;
       width: 400px;
       border: 1px solid #f00;
      }
     </style>
    </head>
    <body>
     <div id="login">Login</div>
     <div id="content">Content</div>
     <div id="menu">Menu</div>
    </body>
</html>

From enobrev

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