html>body #leftColumn {
	display: none;	/* Hide this column entirely */
}

* html #leftColumn * {
	display: none;	
/* ie's ghost-text bug is triggered by key elements
   having display:none set. #rightColumn is one of those
   key elements. so we display:none all child
   elements (doesn't trigger the bug) and try to
   make #rightColumn have no chance to affect
   document flow. */
}

#leftColumn {
  position: absolute;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  width: 0;
  height: 0;
  border: none;	/* remove anything that'll give this element width. */
}

#outerColumnContainer, #innerColumnContainer {
  border-left-width: 0;	/* to get from 3 to 2 columns, we must hide the
			   left-side border */
}

#innerColumnContainer {
  margin-left: 0;
}