No, my widths seem to add up properly. The kludge-y fix might be:
Set a fixed paragraph width on these pages, say, 10px narrower than it should be. Set overflow to "visible" That's a really ugly hack, though. -Bob On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Bob Passaro <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks, Philippe. I'm still getting it with Verdana and Times. At first I > didn't notice any, though, and I thought, that's it! Then I would notice > one. It's a bit like trying to prove there's no such thing as UFOs. Just > because you don't see one at the moment, doesn't mean there not out there. > > I had hopes for the hyphenation idea, but couldn't get that to help. > > It just occurs to me to me now check go back and check all the widths. > Since this is a fixed width site that went through several incarnations, I > wonder if I set any fixed px widths for various divs that now aren't adding > up properly. > > Thanks, everyone, for thoughts on this. > > -Bob > > > > > On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> On Jun 3, 2012, at 8:32 AM, David Hucklesby wrote: >> >> > Re: <http://nwbooklovers.org/2012/06/01/nw-book-lovers-chapter-two/> >> > >> > Me too! I'm as perplexed as you. >> > >> > Removing the float declaration from the image has no effect this end in >> > Safari. It's as if the negative margin somehow pulls the whole first >> > line with it, which then re-flows as a longer line length. As Tim noted, >> > the overflow is hidden - but of course there should be no overflow! :\ >> > >> > As you say, only happening in Webkit browsers (Chrome and Safari). >> > Checked in IE 7 and 8 on Win xp, and Chrome, Safari, and Firefox in >> > Windows and on Mac OS X "Lion". >> > >> > I wish I had a solution for you. :( >> >> I have no real clue either; the negative margin somehow breaks the normal >> flow of text as David notes. >> But if I change the font used for the text (from Georgia to 'something >> else' [*]), then the clipping does not occur (tested on both OSX Lion and >> Snow Leopard) - everything flows correctly over the whole page. >> >> Come to think of it, and I have't tested, but it _might_ help resolve the >> problem: enable hyphenation for webkit, gecko browsers: >> >> e.g. >> p { -webkit-hyphens: auto; -gecko-hyphens: auto; } >> >> [*] tried 10 different commonly installed fonts, at different >> font-sizes through the Webkit inspector >> >> Philippe >> -- >> Philippe Wittenbergh >> http://l-c-n.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/ >> > > ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
