Hi Brian, Alan, David Thanks for your ideas.
The float idea looks promising; I'll have to see how it behaves when I add in the other elements (the example is a considerable simplification of the live case). Unfortunately I cannot use "white-space: pre" and need the NBSP entities because this HTML has to survive some Javascript processing: it's probably off-topic for css-d but we have found that IE strips (some of) the white-space out of document.body.innerHTML, so the non-breaking spaces are essential. Setting a min-width causes the scrollbar and code box to play nicely together, though I think to do it properly condemns me to calculating exact line lengths for all the content, which (in the live case) isn't as easy as counting characters, if only :-) "Overflow: auto" doesn't display nicely, I think I'll pursue the other options first. Cheers T -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Funk Sent: Tuesday, 17 February 2009 8:02 a.m. To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [css-d] nowrap and border issue in IE6 and/or IE7 Trevor Nicholls wrote: > Example found at http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~tmjpbn/csw5.html > I have a (div) code fragment which has a text content (div) 'fragbody', > styled with white-space:nowrap ... You could use white-space: pre; which would give the same no-wrap effect but you could eliminate all the (21 in this case) characters. > ... if the browser window is narrowed the border and colored > background "box" will not shrink to be smaller than the text, and the user > can scroll right to see the end of the text and the edge of the box. This is > the desired behaviour. Would floats be an option? I achieved what I /think/ you're after by floating both divs. <http://www.stoneladder.ca/sandbox/css/nowrap-01.html> -- Brian ______________________________________________________________________ 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/ ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
