Gernot Hassenpflug wrote: > > 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. > > 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. > > > Gernot Hassenpflug >
One way of coping with trying to get a layout to work in any and all screen window widths, is to set min/max width on the outermost container and provide your favorite workaround for IE6 which does not support min/max width. Obviously in a 3 column layout one needs to be conscious of very long words, fixed width elements, and images that may break the layout or cause float drop in IE with or without font-scaling. Negative margin based float layouts are less susceptible to these problems: and, work around methods are available for some adverse situations, particularly those frequently encountered in IE6.0. As an aside, I'd be wary of placing any faith in IE7's zoom toy-- unlike Opera, IE's zoom tinker-toy is just more of their flawed "let's pretend" to make-believe this is really a compliant browser PR. Regards, ~dL -- http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
