I'm not sure why you say the source is disappointing - the markup is pretty clean, sparse and fairly semantic. Not a plethora of divs and spans as you would sometimes see.
There is a positioning/column sizing hack in that they are using <br> tags to make the left and right paragraphs have the same number of lines of content and therefore the same height. Perhaps that's what you found disappointing as they didn't use a rigorous vertical positioning solution. It's not the structure I expected as it uses a single div for each column and they are twiddling with <br> to get horizontal alignment of the second and third headings in each column. I had expected a div for each row so that the longer of a pair of articles would determine the row height for both. If baseline, h4 sizing + padding and paddings are all kept to match a multiple of the vertical grid, you would get the same result - all aligning to a vertical grid without having to stuff <br> tags. (It's not a grid framework implementation using vertical positioning, but it could just as easily have been one. A div for each row, each containing two divs 12 columns wide.) The row divs could have a min-height if you wanted each row to be spaced equally down the page despite short paragraphs in both the left and right content columns. You could use the vertical positioning classes to set those heights. Not sure what you are after. ----- Original Message ----- From: "ed" <[email protected]> To: "Blueprint CSS" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 2:37 AM Subject: [BP #3093] Re: How to enforce a fixed vertical grid? On Jun 15, 11:19 pm, "G. D. Speer" <[email protected]> wrote: > Not sure what you are asking for - I presume you want to maintain vertical > rythm. > Do so by using ems as your unit of measure instead of pixels and if > baseline > is 1.5ems, > then min-heights or max-heights are set to multiples of that. This allows > font resizing to > adjust vertical spacing and sizing proportionately. > > Did I miss the point of your qustion? > Duke > It was more to do with having containers whose heights multiples of a fixed value, as Christian said you can do this trivially by setting the height manually. In a moment of weakness I was wondering if there was some rounding up mechanism I had overlooked which took account of the displayed height of a column. Looking for this kind of effect, http://www.augustgroupevents.com/services.html View source is kind of disappointing :-) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.339 / Virus Database: 270.12.71/2178 - Release Date: 06/15/09 17:54:00 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Blueprint CSS" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/blueprintcss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
