this is an html file that i wrote a while back when i was still convinced by the css community that tableless design was the way to go. when you resize the browser window and the center content grows vertically, the height of the outer columns is adjusted with javascript. It all seems to work rather well, and in a simple layout it may really work just fine. but i found that the more complicated the layout became inside of this base structure, the harder it was to keep everything consistent and right.
i’ll follow up pretty soon with my thoughts on tables vs. tableless, but for now feel free to use this layout for your wack tableless layouts.