Tables with CSS
Simulating table behaviour using CSS (because you used to use a table for layout purposes, but recently 'saw the light') is really not that hard. Create yourself the content you need. Properly marked up of course. Then make two divisions, one for the content and one for the google ads.
With CSS you then style the two divisions to behave like table cells. Et, voila, you've got yourself the wanted/needed effect.
Take a look at the source of this page to study the selectors and properties/values used in this case. That's what it is an example page for.
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You have to ask yourself though, why you want the content to be displayed at a fixed width. Why is that so important? Why not let your visitor decide what is a comfortable width for his/her viewport of the browser, to view your pages with?
This example is created in response to a post on the usenet newsgroup Ciwas: How to convert this to CSS
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