3 floating divs with center dynamic width - css

Question

Alright so my problem is that I can't get the center div to dynamically set its width based on browser width and still float in between the two divs.
<style type="text/css">
#container{width:100%;}
#left{min-height:70px;width:60px;float:left;}
#middle{min-height:70px;width:100%;float:left;}
#right{min-height:70px;width:60px;float:right;}
</style>
<div id="container">
<div id="left">text</div>
<div id="middle">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Curabitur fringilla enim eget augue pretium facilisis. Quisque euismod mauris eu odio tincidunt pharetra interdum enim dignissim. Phasellus eleifend viverra diam, et vestibulum orci feugiat vitae. Fusce rhoncus, dolor sit amet rhoncus pulvinar, elit libero tincidunt tortor, non elementum lacus nisl sit amet lorem.Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Curabitur fringilla enim eget augue pretium facilisis. Quisque euismod mauris eu odio tincidunt pharetra interdum enim dignissim. Phasellus eleifend viverra diam, et vestibulum orci feugiat vitae. Fusce rhoncus, dolor sit amet rhoncus pulvinar, elit libero tincidunt tortor, non elementum lacus nisl sit amet lorem.</div>
<div id="right">text</div>
</div>

Answer 1

You could try setting your CSS up like this:
#container{width:100%;}
#left{min-height:70px;width:60px;float:left;}
#middle{min-height:70px;padding:0 60px}
#right{min-height:70px;width:60px;float:right;}
jsFiddle

Answer 2

You could set the width of the middle div using jQuery, as such:
$('#middle').width($('#container').width()-120);
Working Demo

Answer 3

Try this with some trivial javascript: http://jsfiddle.net/maniator/SjMqU/
var middle = document.getElementById('middle');
var win_width = document.body.offsetWidth;
middle.style.width = (win_width - 140) + 'px';
And this fiddle works on window resize: http://jsfiddle.net/maniator/SjMqU/4/

Answer 4

The best way to do it would be to put it into a table, but if you don't want that just make all the divs behave like table cells:
<style type="text/css">
div{display:table-cell;}
#container{width:100%;}
#left{min-width:60px;}
#middle{min-width:50%;}
#right{min-width:60px;}
</style>
.....

Answer 5

You could do something like this:
#container{width:100%;
}
#left, #middle, #right{min-height:70px;
display:inline-block;
vertical-align:top;
}
#left{width:19%;
background:red;
}
#middle{width:60%;
background:green;
}
#right{width:19%;
background:blue;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/jasongennaro/8BqP9/