Side by side positioning

Basic question i believe.

We have a navigation on the left, content to the right of it.
Usually i just use position:absolute; to position it alongside.

Theres gotta be a way to just position it so if the navigation is made wider/thinner, the content placement is modified (like it would with height (normal positioning) )

Do you mean like you would wrap text around an image?

You could see it like that yes.
Say we have a navigation on the left, content in the middle, then another nav bar on the right, we could put all this within 1 div wrapper cant we?
instead of having 3 seperate?

I don't get ... maybe it's because I haven't had breakfast yet but ... do you have an image or a link that we might see what you are trying to achieve?

You'd be better off using a float layout for this. Absolute positioning is both rigid and complicating; avoid deploying it unless you have a precise purpose.

In any case, just leave the width of one container unspecified, or specify it flexibly with the CSS property max-width (ignored by IE6, I'm afraid).

That's the general idea, but you'll need to supply details (your code, for example) if you want more specific help.

Theres no visual difference im trying to achieve really.
Just a difference in css so i don't have to use 'absolute'.
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Simply like that, but without using the absolute tag.

Use floats. Try this tutorial.

You can have one wrapper div to hold everything. But you will have to have three other div's within (nested inside). One for left nav, one for content and one for right nav.