Re: [css-d] horizontal, variable height nav bar. Doable with display: table?

2010-02-03 Thread Paul Novitski
At 2/3/2010 09:56 AM, Troy Harshman wrote: >If I'm understanding correctly, you want each item in your menu to >have the same dimensions. You would just need to add height and width >then. Such as... > >#nav-menu a {display:block; height:30px; width:60px;} > >If you want them to grow with changes i

Re: [css-d] horizontal, variable height nav bar. Doable with display: table?

2010-02-03 Thread D A
For those interested, I put up a quick demo here: http://jsbin.com/uzehe/edit As you can see the green elements (the LIs) are all the same height. But the anchor tags within (pink) are only as high as the text. What I've been doing via .js is to calculate the height of the tallest anchor, then

Re: [css-d] horizontal, variable height nav bar. Doable with display: table?

2010-02-03 Thread Troy Harshman
I see what you're looking to do now, and I can't think of a way to do it without an image. It's a similar issue as multiple columns not being the same height. You would likely need a background image and employ the sliding doors technique to pull it off with CSS. ___

Re: [css-d] horizontal, variable height nav bar. Doable with display: table?

2010-02-03 Thread D A
> If I'm understanding correctly, you want each item in your menu to > have the same dimensions. You would just need to add height and width > then. Such as... > > #nav-menu a {display:block; height:30px; width:60px;} Well, then we're back to using javascript. I'm actually doing this anyways for I

Re: [css-d] horizontal, variable height nav bar. Doable with display: table?

2010-02-03 Thread Thierry Koblentz
> From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d- > boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of D A > Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 9:10 AM > To: css-d Discuss > Subject: [css-d] horizontal, variable height nav bar. Doable with > display: table? > > I

Re: [css-d] horizontal, variable height nav bar. Doable with display: table?

2010-02-03 Thread Troy Harshman
If I'm understanding correctly, you want each item in your menu to have the same dimensions. You would just need to add height and width then. Such as... #nav-menu a {display:block; height:30px; width:60px;} If you want them to grow with changes in browser text settings than you would size then u

Re: [css-d] horizontal, variable height nav bar. Doable with display: table?

2010-02-03 Thread D A
>> I'd like it so that >> all of the anchor tags (as well as the LIs) are all the same height so >> that each link has the same size target to click on. >> >> Is that doable with just CSS? Or will this also be a task for javascript? > > Setting the links to display: block is the first step.  It mi

Re: [css-d] horizontal, variable height nav bar. Doable with display: table?

2010-02-03 Thread Climis, Tim
> Alas, the issue is that while the LIs are all the same height, the > actual anchor tags are only as high as the text. I'd like it so that > all of the anchor tags (as well as the LIs) are all the same height so > that each link has the same size target to click on. > > Is that doable with just C

[css-d] horizontal, variable height nav bar. Doable with display: table?

2010-02-03 Thread D A
I'm building a horizontal tab navigation where each link may be different in height (multi-line). In <= IE7 I'm using javascript to adjust everything as needed to they visually are all the same height. In IE8 and the rest, I'm using display: table to achieve this: My Link My Link M