Richard Grevers wrote:

> Since the footer has a child it was easiest to fake the left column
> by giving the child the same left margin and moving the background.

That's easier than stacking, yes.

>> Also a number of contradicting styles in your page, which makes it
>> less cooperative. I don't have time to debug it all, so I just play
>> along with what's already there.
>> 
> That's what happens when you start out with some negative margins
> code from layoutgala, overlay your IE width expressions (currently
> lost in the wash), then add footerstickalt into the mix, then have a
> change in brief and a new design (which necessitates losing the
> header), and finally add companion columns.

Nice mix :-)

In case something get "lost in translation" somewhere, here's a newly
modified example of what can be done visually with Ingo's "companion
column method" when combined with my "conditionally fixed-elastic-fixed"
layouts an "px/em based min/max expression for IE6"...

<http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/ic/test_08_0415.html>

It's a pretty versatile method.

> As I understand it, footerstickalt precludes having a global
> container to set width (because the 100% height has to pass down the
> chain of inheritance), so I was looking at having 3 elements to
> handle when I get the min-max for IE working again. I added a class
> (fluidwidth), but on second thoughts isn't the method dependent on
> using ids?

The inherited 'height' has nothing to do with 'width', so you're pretty
free to add what you want. I use "global container" / wrapper with a
declared and expression-controlled 'width', so there shouldn't be any
problems making it all work together without adding more IDs or CLASSes.

> It's just about in shape now, 
> http://www.vine.org.nz/index.php/adult-classes except pages seem to
> be an em too tall in most browsers, and I haven't yet spotted where
> that snuck in.

#footer's height too short. Try #footer {height: auto;} and/or adjust
'height' to taste.

regards
        Georg

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