Others can join Georg & I in this discussion ... :-) > Never mind the meta-element. It doesn't matter out on the web. > > This is what W3C states: > - The doctype you've used: XHTML 1.1, *should not* be used for a document > served as 'text/html'. > - You're left with (HTML compatible) XHTML 1.0 or HTML 4.01 when using > that MIME-type.
Okay -- I'll remove that line from the page. Knowing that DOCTYPE has a major impact on browser handling of HTML and CSS .. after replying to your earlier email, I got to look at DOCTYPE and the META via Google. I'm thinking I may have the wrong DOCTYPE at the top. I've been using "transitional" in my sites but wanted to stretch myself in dealing with strict. http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/ has the following for strict .. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";> Yet the code I have has <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd";> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en"> If I replaced the above with the w3.org strict recommended DOCTYPE, am I going to case problems in the CSS and browser rendering? --------------------------------- > FYI: I hardly ever resize fonts. Instead I have set a 'minimum font size' > value so my browsers do it "automatically" for me on every site. > Few sites seems to be well prepared for that option, and you can find > quite a few complaints about that on various forums. Ahhh -- my work doesn't allow me that "luxury". And frankly haven't ever had the 2x4 hit me over the head to bring it to my attention. But I can see why people would do it. I'll do a better job in the future of checking for it. --------------------------------- > 1: your 4-column isn't "iced" or "fixed" - it is "em-based": locked to > font-size. I knew I had a "fixed" or "locked" size as far as width. I accepted that but did want to avoid locking the user to ONLY viewing in say 10px. I hate when that is done to me! I think the lesson learned here is whether it be pixel or em -- locked is locked. If you are forcing the user to view everything in a set space for the entire page expect some feathers to be ruffled. By doing that you are started out by stating you will view my page in this box -- whether you like it or not. Something I knew -- and have known for a long time. Guess I just needed to be reminded as to why we have moved away from fixed page widths in layout. > 2: my example is "elastic": it is guided by (will expand with) the font-size, > but will > stay within the width of the browser-window - as long as the window is wider > than a > "fixed" min-width. I haven't bothered to give my particular solution a > "name", since > it is only the method for solving problems with IE/win (pre IE7) that is > somewhat new. > I have not written an in-depth article about possible line-ups and numbers of > columns > for my elastic solution, but any number of side-by-side columns will work > with the > method I've used in my example. > The variable - em-based max-width - is only on the outer container, while all > columns > use a percentage-width. > Min-width takes care of the problems with overlapping and/or dropped columns, > as long > as the author takes care of image-dimensions and alike. Wish you'd write that "in-depth article". I'm going to go look at the WIKI (again). I get along fine in the 3 column elastic. While I could leave this site just as it is and move along, there are reasons why it would behoove me to understand what you are talking about and perhaps achieve a better result than what I'm getting now. Several other sites within this one (such as the simple http://www.eglin.af.mil/chapel/) are elastic. Maybe what I should do is take that one and see if I can get the single inner column to become two columns. And NOT by inserting a table either. Anyone with advice on WHERE to look for "tutorials" or "examples" of how I could achieve the latter would be great appreciated. Thanks again .. Lynda ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
