Title: WordPress 3 Column Flexible Interface
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# WordPress 3 Column Flexible Interface

 *  [Root](https://wordpress.org/support/users/root/)
 * (@root)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-3-column-flexible-interface/)
 * Another bunch of junk which will never ship. [Vesuvius](http://www.atthe404.com/vesuvius)

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 *  [Jayvie Canono](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gaius_mohiam/)
 * (@gaius_mohiam)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-3-column-flexible-interface/#post-85174)
 * You’re the man, Root, but if you’re gonna give something away to the community,
   it says a lot about you for you to lace it with the venom of your cynicism and
   bile. Wanna know why it will never ship? Because it will validate every bitter
   word that you have uttered from your poisoned rhetoric.
    I have never heard of
   Gemini before but I have been using the same techniques since I moved to a fixed
   width design, long before you gave it a name. I don’t care if you’ve branded 
   it, more power to you. I don’t care if dozens of people thank you for it. But
   you fire the first shots of your campaign so antagonistically that you have ensured
   that you will be ignored by the very people who could actually help make changes.
   Whatever response — or lack of it — you get, you deserve.
 *  Anonymous
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-3-column-flexible-interface/#post-85178)
 * Breaks in Mozilla (Firefox and Camino) – looks like float problems. The ‘Comments(
   1)’ link for the first post is pushed down below the entire content of the left
   side bar.
 *  [zadu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zadu/)
 * (@zadu)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-3-column-flexible-interface/#post-85196)
 * Root, thanks for putting this up. I’ve been looking for a good 3-col flexible
   layout for a while. Some test results:
    – Firefox 0.9.3: perfect. – Opera 7.5.1:
   Comments link of the 1st post pushed down as described by anon above. – IE6.0:
   Ditto. Also, when displaying a single post (e.g. index.php?p=2) the right hand
   ad boxes move down to the bottom of the right hand column. Also, I see the menu
   comes before the content in the source. IIRC your earlier version had the content
   first (although it had some other ugliness in IE which is now gone). I guess 
   I can’t have everything… Another thing, just a personal opinion: part of the 
   beauty of Firefox is that it’s so easy to change the font size – I like it BIG–
   and part of the beauty of truly flexible layouts is that they can accomodate 
   that without breaking – meaning that, IMO, the width of the left and right columns
   should be specified in em’s rather than pixels (that’s one thing I do like about
   Dave Shea’s WP default). Of course that makes it impossible to use “faux columns”(
   at least for a noob like me), but I care more about the font scaling.
 *  Thread Starter [Root](https://wordpress.org/support/users/root/)
 * (@root)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-3-column-flexible-interface/#post-85216)
 * Thanks for the feedback. Quickly. Bugs are bugs and I will do my best to get 
   them fixed up. Design is design. This is a flexible solution to a particular 
   problem., which is getting menu bgs all the way down. It was first proposed by
   Ryan Brill at alistapart and I have adapted it for WP. The content order is part
   of that solution. In a perfect world we would all have ems all round. I agree.
   I have ems based layouts on the drawing board for both Gemini and Trident. Whether
   we choose one layout or another is a matter of choice. But eventually the limitations
   of every single design become clear. Mine are no different. Roll on CSS 3. Thanks
   for your interest.
 *  [zadu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zadu/)
 * (@zadu)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-3-column-flexible-interface/#post-85219)
 * Yup, agreed. Perhaps if you manage to sort out how it displays in IE and Opera,
   I’ll be able to turn faux columns into what I want.. 3 cols + header + footer,
   flexible and not broken in any broswer would be a great start for me. Or maybe
   I’ll have to actually read and understand Stuart’s tutorial…
 *  Thread Starter [Root](https://wordpress.org/support/users/root/)
 * (@root)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-3-column-flexible-interface/#post-85225)
 * Two specific faults seem to be occuring. One is anons description of the comment
   link being misplaced in moz and camino. I am on FF but can’t see it.
    Then there
   is the comment protruding into the r menu. That is the well known 3 px jog; a
   well established IE bug and quite easy to fix.

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