http://www.coffeeonmars.com/170_su/client/portfolio/
At this link, I have 3 thumbnails which display horizontally and are evenly distributed, and respect the 1.25em right and left padding of their parent. Using good ol’ pen and paper, I calced the total width of the elements, the padding of the parent, got my leftover space, and calculated that as a percentage of the parent, so my margin-right would be that % value. It didn’t work! I fiddled with fewer digits after the decimal, then began incrementing down, and it never did act right. But when I put in the “hard” value in ems, it worked! Why so? Why would % not work? the selector for the first two thumbnails is below…commented out the initial percent value. Thank you! .thumb-one-two{ float:left; width:270px; /* margin-right:47.87234%; */ margin-right:2.8125em; } thumb-three just has to have the correct width and float left: #thumb-three{ float:left; width:270px; } ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] 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/