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 cap

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: 0

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 al

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 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 remo

[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 . The left content div works fine, only displays in the width I want etc, bu