Thanks, David. Are you familiar with the skidoo layouts suggested by Christian? They are the most robust 3-column layouts I've tested so far and I wondered how you viewed them compared with the negativemargins method. I had checked out the ALA negative margin layout previously but didn't know about the <?xml quirks thing (you DID mean "<?xml...>" and not "<<?xml...>>", right? Doesn't matter as I tried both to be sure).
I added the xml string after observing that IE Mac and Win both have undesired effects on columns (overlap, dropdown, other) when reducing browser to very small widths, but the unwanted behaviors still persisted after adding <?xml.... On the other hand, skidoo (not the "lean," which exhibits the same problems as Holy Grail and negative margins; the full version--"skidoo_too") did not exhibit any of the same problems that negativemargins had with the 7 browsers I tested. I have read a little on the group's "Avoiding Hacks" material. Interesting way to iron out spacing and text-size problems. Thanks again. Marcus Duke Webmaster/Info Specialist UW Aquatic & Fishery Sciences On Jul 20, 2006, at 4:07 PM, David Laakso wrote: > Marcus Duke wrote: >> I'm trying to do a 1-static-1 flexible-1 static 3-column layout...] >> http://fish.washington.edu/people/template/index_first.html >> Also,is there a way to make the float 100% window height? >> [...] >> > The 3 column tutorial on this page > <http://alistapart.com/articles/negativemargins> may meet your > description, and need, for a stable, robust, layout that works well > cross os/browser. And, if you would like to avoid some of the pain and > suffering of coping with the various versions of the win/ie, play your > cards right: put an xml declaration <<?xml version="1.0" > encoding="utf-8"?> > above the doctype. It will put win/ie in > quirksmode and make things go easier. Additionally, follow the > suggestions at the top of this > page<http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=AvoidingHacks> to help avoid > hacks for ie, to boot. >> >> Marcus Duke > HTH. > ~dL > > > -- > > http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ca/ccs/pow/pow.html > ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
