I am trying to make a page layout, as seen in the attached figure. The problem is that I cannot get it to work properly. I spent half a day trying to get it to work, but to no avail. I just want to have a fixed div width for the menu and next to these two divs, creating columns, each of which occupies half the remaining width of the page. Heights should all be content dependent.
Does anyone have an idea? I could find a lot of information about such mixed perecentage / pixel layouts, but I can't imagine how complicated it is.
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