I have this CSS that is displaying 3 horizontal divs, centre window:

```
.chatarea {
    display: table;
    padding-top:50px;
    margin:0px auto;
    width:80%;
}
.nick {
    width: 20%;
    border-right-style: solid;
    text-align: center;
    position:absolute; 
    top:0; 
    left:0;
}
.timestamp {
    width: 20%;
    border-left-style: solid;
    position:absolute; 
    top:0; 
    right:0; 
}
.message {
    border-style: solid;
    text-align:center;
    position:relative;
}

```

when the content/text gets longer the height of the borders does not expand.

i have created a fiddle here too: <http://jsfiddle.net/fGSsa/>