Min-width in Ie without scripting

This layout is restricted to a minimum of 700px pixels but will also expand to 80% of the available space. This is useful if you have floats that you don't want to drop or images that you don't want clipped.

Ie doesn't understand min-width and the usual way to restricts its width is to use scripting or an expression, both of which rely on javascript being enabled. This layout however just uses CSS for the effect and in fact contains no hacks and would work in any browser, however I have hidden the extra styles in conditional comments because other browsers don't need them anyway as most of them understand min-width.

The concept is simple in that the min-width is achieved by nesting an element that has a left border equal to the minimum width we require. A further nesting is then used and the element is dragged across the border with negative margins.

The main drwaback is of course the 2 non-semantic divs required to do this. However its another choice that can be made if you want this effect, it's just a shame that we have to go to such lengths for a simple effect.

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