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    copied!<p>I just tested this (adds in a wrapper div):</p> <pre><code> &lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt; &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;style type="text/css" media="screen"&gt; #wrapper{ position: relative; } #b, #c{ position: absolute; left: 0; width: 80px; background: #ccc; } #a{ margin-left: 80px; } #b{ top: 0; } #c{ bottom: 0; } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;div id="wrapper"&gt; &lt;div id="b"&gt;Contents of B&lt;/div&gt; &lt;table border="0" id="a"&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;th&gt;Header&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th&gt;Header&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th&gt;Header&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Data&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Data&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Data&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Data&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Data&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Data&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Data&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Data&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Data&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Data&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Data&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Data&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Data&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Data&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Data&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Data&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Data&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Data&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt; &lt;div id="c"&gt; Contents of C &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>divs C and B need to be given a fixed width, and absolutely positioned. The wrapper is given relative positioning to make this work. Table A is given a margin equal to the width of C &amp; B.</p> <p>I've not tested cross-browser, just Firefox 3.</p>
 

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