Douglas Fraser wrote: > At 15:16 -0500 2/2/07, Zoe M. Gillenwater wrote: >> Douglas Fraser wrote: >>> At 11:24 -0500 2/2/07, Zoe M. Gillenwater wrote: >>> >>>> Douglas Fraser wrote: >>>> >>>>> I have a set of the links the client wants displayed in a grid >>>>> format. Using a table is the obvious solution, even if it's not >>>>> "the >>>>> correct thing to do" presentation wise. The issue is that they >>>>> want >>>>> the text of the links to turn bold as the mouse hovers over them. >>>>> Ok, that's all fine, but the problem is the table cell gets resized >>>>> width-wise and so the other columns shift around. That looks >>>>> bad.... >>>>> >>> >>> Access to the real page is controlled, but I went and made a static >>> page that >>> does not have working links, but you can see the effect I'm (not) >>> after. Just hover >>> over the director names >>> >>> http://www.acmefilmworks.com/menus.html >>> >> >> I agree with Sophie -- you either need to set a width or stop bold on >> hover. The design is super tight as it is. It's not going to stand up to >> text resizing anyway, so you might as well set fixed widths for each of >> the columns. > > the client now wants to fiddle with fonts and the like, probably go > smaller, so > that is going to help things. some columns will be needlessly wide I > fear if width is set...
<shrugs> You'll still need to set widths. Otherwise, the content will overflow when you bump the text up (as people like me will do when you make it smaller, thus defeating the whole purpose of making it smaller ;-)). It's going to be a very finicky layout no matter what you do. Zoe -- Zoe M. Gillenwater Design Services Manager UNC Highway Safety Research Center http://www.hsrc.unc.edu ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- 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/
