Re: [css-d] multiple columns

2012-01-31 Thread Ghodmode
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:15 AM, John j...@coffeeonmars.com wrote: I would like to arrange some text into multiple columns...I'm thinking 4 or 5; the text in question lends itself to that. Looking at the tutorial linked below, it says IE doesn't support it. It doesn't specify IE 6 or 5,

Re: [css-d] multiple columns

2012-01-31 Thread David Laakso
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:15 PM, John j...@coffeeonmars.com wrote: I would like to arrange some text into multiple columns...I'm thinking 4 or 5; the text in question lends itself to that. John Good morning, John... I don't see any reason why one could not use CSS to create a layout of

Re: [css-d] multiple columns

2012-01-31 Thread John
thank you, David and Ghodmode.. this looks like excellent information about what I'm trying to achieve. John __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ --

[css-d] multiple columns

2012-01-30 Thread John
I would like to arrange some text into multiple columns...I'm thinking 4 or 5; the text in question lends itself to that. Looking at the tutorial linked below, it says IE doesn't support it. It doesn't specify IE 6 or 5, just IE, and I assume it means ANY IE, which isn't too cool. Can anyone

Re: [css-d] multiple columns

2012-01-30 Thread David Hucklesby
On 1/30/12 7:15 PM, John wrote: I would like to arrange some text into multiple columns...I'm thinking 4 or 5; the text in question lends itself to that. Looking at the tutorial linked below, it says IE doesn't support it. It doesn't specify IE 6 or 5, just IE, and I assume it means ANY IE,

Re: [css-d] multiple columns inside multiple columns

2006-01-09 Thread Ian Young
I am not sure weather this is a bug, or simply not possible, but I would prefer to use css rather than throw in a table. Rob It must be a bug, as it is perfectly possible to have columns within columns. The code you have certainly doesn't work as you don't get two columns even if you remove the

Re: [css-d] multiple columns inside multiple columns

2006-01-09 Thread Ian Anderson
Ian Young wrote: I would play around with the width of your left and right columns making sure that these do not have more than a 100% width, including margins and padding etc and see if these give you two columns on their own before including within your page. eg This might be better

Re: [css-d] multiple columns inside multiple columns

2006-01-09 Thread Tom Pickering
Rob - You might consider adding a different color border to each div with the following: border: 1px dotted black (or whatever color); This has helped me to sort out the actual visual box size in each browser when I'm running into the type of problem you're seeing. It has so far

Re: [css-d] multiple columns inside multiple columns

2006-01-09 Thread Rob Brown-Bayliss
hi folks. Thanks for the input, I read all, played, adn had some succses, but it's still giving me grieff... Here is what I have done, I mnade the left column a width rather than a margin like so: #left-column{ float: left; width: 46%; } #right-column{ margin:

Re: [css-d] multiple columns inside multiple columns

2006-01-09 Thread Rob Brown-Bayliss
Also, in IE, the second column in the content does not center... but does in Mozilla based browsers, as I would expect given the css of: #right-image-column{ margin: 0 0 0 53%; text-align: center; } And even more disturbing, I have two images in that column, both with

[css-d] multiple columns inside multiple columns

2006-01-08 Thread Rob Brown-Bayliss
Hi, I have a page setup with two columns, and it works as advertised. The left column is a menu or navigation bar. the right is the content for the site. IThe problem comes when I want to put two columns in the content div. The left content div works fine, only displays in the width I want

[css-d] multiple columns problems and Dreamweaver

2005-11-14 Thread Stuart King
I am trying to make a multiple column list in Dreamweaver. I am having several problems: 1. In Dreamweaver: instead of appearing on the top of the page, the multiple columns are appearing at the bottom of the page in staggered order. How do I fix this?

Re: [css-d] Multiple columns, equal heights

2005-06-17 Thread Al Sparber
Alexander Khost wrote: Does anyone know of a way to create a cross-browser compliant three column layout using floats (currently, I'm using the template found at: http://webhost.bridgew.edu/etribou/layouts/3col_footer/archives/3col_footer_02/index.html) that have equal sized heights without

Re: [css-d] Multiple columns, equal heights

2005-06-17 Thread David Laakso
On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:39:27 -0400, Alexander Khost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a way to create a cross-browser compliant three column layout using floats (currently, I'm using the template found at: