jquery - Liquid layout with liquid left + fixed right column

Question

The question is pretty self explanatory. All these div elements are 100% in height I need the left div to flex, but not have it set to overflow:hidden so that I can make it's children elements be elastic as well. Inside the left div is an Image slider which is responsive and I'm trying to make it responsive. can someone help me with my css for this please thanks in advance.

<div id="parent">
    <div id="left">
         Liquid layout
    </div>
    <div id="right">
         Fixed width 450px
    </div>
</div> 

Answer 1

If div elements are 100% of window height then your HTML+CSS markup is reduced to:

<div id="left">Liquid layout</div>
<div id="right">Fixed width 450px</div>

html   { height: 100%; }
body   { height: 100%; margin: 0; padding: 0; }
#left  { position: absolute; top: 0; bottom: 0; left: 0; right: 450px; }
#right { position: absolute; top: 0; bottom: 0; right: 0; width: 450px; }

Demo here

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If div elements are equal height then here is an "old school" approach that (i) Preserves source order (ii) Uses floats (iii) Produces equal height faux columns (iv) Requires one clearing div

<div id="parent">
    <div id="left">Liquid layout</div>
    <div id="right">Fixed width 450px</div>
    <div class="clear"></div>
</div>

#parent { border-right: 450px solid orange /* right bg */; background-color: yellow /* left bg */; }
#left   { float: left;  width: 100%; }
#right  { float: right; width: 450px; margin-right: -450px; }
.clear  { clear: both; }

Demo here