Create fluid layouts with HTML5 and CSS3

When I first started making websites at the end of the 1990s, layout structures were table-based. More often than not, sectioning up screen real estate was done with percentages. For example, a left navigation column might be 20 percent whilst the main content area would be 80 percent. There weren't the vast differences in browser viewports we see today, so these layouts scaled well across the limited range of viewports.

Nobody much cared that sentences looked a little different on one screen compared to another. However, as CSS-based designs took over, it enabled web-based designs to more closely mimic print. With that transition, for many (including myself), proportionally based layouts dwindled for many years in favor of their rigid, pixel-based counterparts.

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