Holly Bergevin wrote: > From: David Pratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Hi. Just a note to say I have reposted the updated the page at: >> >>http://ce12566576.17.psi.zettai.net/test.html >> >>with the changes you have suggested. I have validated it for xhtml in >>the meantime. There are still a couple of quirks in IE. I have not got >>the top right to stop separating once the horizontal scrollbar appears. >>The three columns also appear a bit more left than centered in the main >>column so thinking there needs to be a couple of changes in the numbers >>to get this to work out a bit better. > > > The problem with the separating is because of the padding you have used (in > two places) on .inner . Since it is em-based, it increases in size when the > test-size gets larger. IE expands the container so that its children stay > inside, so the separation happens. Remove the padding from inner and use > margins on all the elements inside, paragraphs and headings and such, to get > the desired separation of content in the columns. > > Even though this may "lick" the IE problem, you might want to check out what > happens to your center column in Firefox when the text-size is increased in > that browser. The result is again because of the em-based sizing on the side > columns with the center column taking up the rest of the available space. > Though you have used a min-width on #pageWrapper, you might want to > reconsider those three mini-colums in the center one, or set a larger > min-width. > > Hope that helps, > > ~holly
Hi Holly. This is some very good advice and I appreciate your taking the time to suggest these changes. More than that, your explanation is making this excellent and has made this problem much clearer to me. I continue with what you suggest and post the result when I have got this worked out. Many thanks. Regards, David ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
