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Here's the deal. I have a page designed with divs, in 2 main columns. a 15% and a 85% column. It's very important that they resize as they do. Problem is, I need to add a 2px border around both, which makes the size of the divs 15%+4px and 85%+4px, so that the second one is too large and drops below the first.

Here's the exact code. Any ideas on how to get this to work?

CSS:
[code]body {
background-color:#ccc;
font-family: Verdana;
}

#layout1 {
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
min-width:760px;
width:95%;
border: 10px solid #fff;
}

#header1 {
    text-align:center;
float:left;
background-color:#006699;
width:15%;
height:125px;
}

#header2 {
    font-size:20px;
    font-weight:bold;
text-align:center;
float:left;
width:70%;
height:125px;
}

#header3 {
    text-align:center;
float:right;
width:15%;
height:125px;
}

#nav1 {
clear:both;
float:left;
width:15%;
}

#body1 {
background-color:#fff;
float:left;
width:85%;
}

#footer1 {
text-align:center;
}

#footer2 {
    clear:both;
}[/code]

HTML:
[code]<body>
<div id="layout1">

<div id="header1">
content
</div>
<div id="header2">
content
</div>
<div id="header3">
content
</div>

<div id="nav1">
content
</div>

<div id="body1">
content
<div id="footer1">
content
</div>
</div>

<div id="footer2">
&nbsp;<-- This is to pull the 10px white border down -->
</div>

</div>
</body>[/code]
Forgot to mention; that was the code WITHOUT the borders. Here is the CSS with the borders:

[code]body {
background-color:#ccc;
font-family: Verdana;
}

#layout1 {
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
min-width:760px;
width:95%;
border: 10px solid #fff;
}

#header1 {
    text-align:center;
float:left;
background-color:#006699;
width:15%;
height:125px;
}

#header2 {
    font-size:20px;
    font-weight:bold;
text-align:center;
float:left;
width:70%;
height:125px;
border-top:2px solid #006699;
border-bottom:2px solid #006699;
}

#header3 {
    text-align:center;
float:right;
width:15%;
height:125px;
border-top:2px solid #006699;
border-right:2px solid #006699;
border-bottom:2px solid #006699;
}

#nav1 {
clear:both;
float:left;
width:15%;
}

#body1 {
background-color:#fff;
float:left;
width:85%;
border-left:2px solid #006699;
border-right:2px solid #006699;
border-bottom:2px solid #006699;
}

#footer1 {
text-align:center;
border-top:2px solid #006699;
}

#footer2 {
    clear:both;
}[/code]
[quote author=emehrkay link=topic=120167.msg493323#msg493323 date=1167424020]
it shouldnt cause any errors on a % width. it may be the fact that you have a min-width. add those pixels to yoru min-width
[/quote]

No luck, exact same result. Also, I cannot just make the divs 2% smaller, cause that leaves huge hideous gaps at anything larger than the minimum size.
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