At 11:14 PM 1/21/2009 +0100, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote:
FWIW: the basic layouts on my private site...
http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_additions_26.html
...are just overbuilt and overstyled versions of negative margins...
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/negativemargins
Once you've understood how
Firstly, thanks for your reply, Holly -- and also thanks to Jen, too,
for the tip (in a separate message) on the book to look for
At 11:59 AM 1/19/2009 -0600, Holly Bergevin wrote:
As with most things CSS, you'll need to test the effect you want in
the environment it's going to be placed. Oh,
Ron Koster wrote:
Another page that may give you an example is -
http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_additions_04.html
Nicely laid out page, Georg (assuming you're reading this)! As an old
table layout guy (for the time being, at least), when I look at
the source code for pages like yours,
At 08:43 PM 1/18/2009 -0500, Bill Brown wrote:
I'm just leading horses to the Kool-Aid...I can't make 'em drink it.
Okay, apparently I didn't explain my questions well enough, it would seem.
Once again, on this page...
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=DropCaps
...is the following
From: Ron Koster r...@psymon.com
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=DropCaps
...is the following recommended way to do up dropcaps...
Ron,
As with most things CSS, you'll need to test the effect you want in the
environment it's going to be placed. Oh, and in a variety of browsers as well
One of the issues that I've been having is with drop caps, and in
looking for a solution I found this page...
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=DropCaps
...which recommends this code...
p:first-letter {
font: 2.5em/80% serif;
float: left;
padding: 0.2ex 0 0 0.2ex;
Ron Koster wrote:
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=DropCaps
p:first-letter {
font: 2.5em/80% serif;
float: left;
padding: 0.2ex 0 0 0.2ex;
margin: 0;
overflow: visible;
}
and so I'm just wondering if there's a particular reason why...
a) 2.5em/80% is
At 08:09 PM 1/18/2009 -0500, Bill Brown wrote:
2.5em is the size of the font in relation to the parent element. In
your example, the first letter of every paragraph on the page would
be 2.5 times the height of the font of the paragraph.
80% is the line-height, which does not require a unit, so I
Ron Koster wrote:
...will it break in some browser or other? For one thing, for example,
I'm not sure why extra padding is needed (or suggested) on two sides of
the drop cap.
Ron,
I'm just leading horses to the Kool-Aid...I can't make 'em drink it.
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