I wanted a centered 980px wide header element with divs to the left and to the right which fill the rest of the available space. The result was supposed to look like this:
HTML:
<div id="header_wrap">
<div id="header_left"></div>
<div id="header">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-4"><img src="img/links.png" alt="schleife links"></a></div>
<div class="col-md-5"></div>
<div class="col-md-3"><img src="img/logo.png"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="header_right"></div>
</div>
und das CSS:
#header_wrap{width:100%;display:table;height:150px;margin:40px 0 60px 0}
#header_left{display:table-cell;width:auto;background:url('img/bg_header.png') left top repeat-x}
#header_right{display:table-cell;background:url('img/bg_header.png') left bottom repeat-x}
#header{display:table-cell;margin:0;width:980px}
This will, of course, not work in IE8.