On 10/17/12 7:27 AM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote:
> E {
> display: inline-block;
> float: left;
> /* .. more .. */
> }
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#dis-pos-flo
I'm a bit at sea too... I smell a poor understanding of document flow.
Assuming that those rules have width values set, I reckon it's down to a
failure to refactor, like so:
1. Attempt during prototyping to get some crop of
inline elements to behave like replaced elements.
2. Fail and fiddle, eventually settling on a width/
float/clear solution. If at first you don't
succeed...
3. Exult in triumph and put the site into
production in due course.
4. Neglect stylesheet refactoring thenceforth.
For a heap of reasons, I reckon none of us are complete strangers to #4.
At least half - and probably more like 70% - of my clients would ream me
if I broke out refactoring as an invoice line item. The second sigma
would listen to my explanation then ultimately take the confident
gibberish as evidence that I know what I'm doing what I was paid to do,
and the third would make a point of bringing it up during the
requirements gathering phase.
--
Ben Henick lurker...@henick.net
Sitebuilder At-Large t:@bhenick
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