Simple CSS table layout not working as intended

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Hi,

I'm trying to achieve the following setup:

| div fit to content |margin 48px| ----- s t r e t c h e d ----- |

So the left div needs margin: 0 48px 0 0, and needs to fit its content, and the right div needs to stretch horizontally to fit the remaining width of the parent.

I've tried setting the parent to
display: table;
width: 100%;

And using different combinations of widths, display: table-cell etc for the columns but nothing seems to work.

One thing to note, the left and right div must both fill the height of the parent.

| div fit to content |           | ----- s t r e t c h e d ----- |
|                    |margin 48px|                               |
| -- more content -- |           | -- stretched down to here  -- |

It would be great to get this simple layout working.

What I have tried:

Everything mentioned in question.
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Posted 19-Apr-18 22:35pm

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Updated 20-Apr-18 3:43am

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Richard Deeming · Answer 1 · 2018-04-20T03:45:00

If you can drop support for IE10 and earlier, Flexbox would be a simple solution:

HTML

<div class="wrapper">
    <div>
        Div fit to content<br />
        More content<br />
        And some more
    </div>
    <div>
        Stretched
    </div>
</div>

CSS

.wrapper
{
    display: flex;
}
.wrapper > div
{
    flex-grow: 1;
}
.wrapper > div:first-child
{
    margin-right: 48px;
    flex-grow: 0;
}

Demo[^]
Browser support[^]
A Complete Guide to Flexbox | CSS-Tricks[^]