On 10/12/11 5:53 AM, David Laakso wrote:
On 10/12/11 1:09 AM, john petroshius wrote:
I wonder if any of you learned CSS folks could tell me whether there
are any downsides or disadvantages to using what might be called the
'negative bottom margin' technique of creating columns that have
equal height regardless of how much content may be contained...a
student uploaded a quick example:
http://dev.xmd.be/ART267/column2.html
-john petroshius
As with most things, its a matter of need and opinion. Go with whatever
dose it for you and yours.Name of the game, whatever the method, used is
to stress-test [heavy- hand font-scaling] thoroughly in the browsers you
need to hit.
This is a fairly stable CSS version [1] with a footer. It avoids some of
the issues mentioned with employment of this CSS method [2].
[1]
<http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/equal-height-columns-2-column.htm>
[2]
<http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles/onetruelayout/equalheight>
<http://fu2k.org/alex/css/onetruelayout/example/interactive>
An advantage to using an image [faux column] is that it is easy to
construct and text tends to look richer and deeper when laid on-top of a
repeating background image. Something similar might be done using the
CSS3 gradients for background-color rather than using an image. Both the
image method and the CSS3 method /may/ suffer somewhat with regard to
speed optimization if the site is hitting portable devices in addition
to desktop.
Best,
~d
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