Hello, This is my first post, a short intro: b. in South Africa, 37, background engineering, working as atmospheric science researcher in Tokyo, interests in LaTeX, web design, and document archiving and long-term compatibility. Using Debian and Ubuntu GNU/linux for work and at home.
I've been trying to improve my own webpage design (header, 3 columns, footer) to cater for gecko, khtml and IE6/7 rendering engines. Mostly done, and problems of margins/padding and use of extra DIVs understood. I've done some Googling and searches of some months of d-css archives but came up short on the following topic (not sure what to search for, tried "resize", "block", "font", "CSS"): What I am worried about is the following: how can one design CSS styles that resize the block elements when the user decided to increase the font (of the inline text)? At some point, all the fine examples I've found (e.g., http://www.ground.cz/luci/css/my3cols.html) break down and text extrudes from a block or starts to enter an adjacent block. This even occurs with the css-d website. What I'd like, I think, is an expanded viewport (virtual, i.e., larger than the actual screen) with---scroll bars activated---as the block elements all expand to cater for the extra needed space as the font size is increased. So I'm curious if there is some tactic that is accepted, or whether CSS2/3 cannot provide any guarantees once certain constraints are not kept. Best regards, Gernot Hassenpflug ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
