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To: Mailing list for developers and everyone helping AMSN
Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 12:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Amsn-devel] Chameleon, text widgets, BLT,htext and our
ultimate goal
On 12/2/06, NoWhereMan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> You're going to put the new contact list in officially? Sounds scary :P
It looked soooo much cooler!
> control how elements are resized better than CSS can (CSS can only define
> width/height of things by
> EITHER percentage or pixel/em/inches whatever (ie absolute measurements),
> not both -
> so to you cant say to the html okay the message box in the chatwindow
> needs to take up
> all the horizontal space EXCEPT 100 pixels on the right hand side which
> must be
> left for the display pictures.... BUT we CAN using TCL - we would modify
> the width attribute
> of the message box element every time the window is resized
> so that it's 100 pixels less wide than the window!)
Well actually with css and a good (x)html DOM you can do that...
<div class="container">
<div class="stuff">
MY STUFF
</div>
</div>
IIRC:
div.container { margin-left: 100px }
> I think you mean margin-right (to leave space on the right)
> It works for the width, but now you cant place anything to the right of it
> because of the margin...
> unless maybe you position it absolutely...lemme see... aah yes, you can
> 'float: right' it, and that has the added bonus that it'll shrink-wrap it
> to the right size.... so, like this:
[...]
yes, maybe without the hard breaks <br /> but using margin-bottom :D
or just using a floater element, without the need for a margin-right
bye
Yeah
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