Hmm, alright. Can you or anyone else on the list suggest a better way of making this work? I'm not sure where to begin...
Thanks! Chris On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Gunlaug Sørtun <[email protected]> wrote: > Chris Hanks wrote: > > http://www.selfsoothingsoftware.com >> > > The second, and more pressing problem, is that my main content (the text >> column and floated boxes) appears completely out of whack in IE. >> The boxes are approximately in the right place, but IE7 is trying to >> center the paragraphs of the text column midway between the floated boxes >> and the opposite edge of the screen, and I'm not sure how to make it stop. >> > > Without looking at it in depth: min-width/max-width acts as > 'hasLayout'[1] triggers in IE7, which causes the effect you're describing. > In my (very personal) terminology you get "a hard margin on a block > formatted element", which means the margins on paragraphs won't flow > behind the floats but instead line up against them, and the paragraphs > become isolated square blocks. > > No other way to fix that IE7 'hasLayout' bug but to delete the > min-width/max-width 'hasLayout' triggers, and find another way to add > the space at both sides. If you want/need to support IE6 you'll have to > create such an alternative solution anyway. > > regards > Georg > > [1]http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/onhavinglayout.html > -- > http://www.gunlaug.no > ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
