Thanks! I'm getting closer, and indeed display:table will do that
trick in everything but IE. A follow-up question...
> IE6 does expand the container in that example-page, but if IE/win
> doesn't do that in an actual page, add...
You're right, in my original example everything's fine in IE. I h
David Feldman wrote:
> http://interfacethis.com/misc/css-test/wide-page.html
In standard compliant browsers: mimic HTML-table behavior with CSS-table...
#a {
background:orange;
display: table;
}
...and #a will expand like a table.
IE6 does expand the container in that example-page, but if IE/w
I can't show you the actual page, but I can't point you to a similar
example I just made:
http://interfacethis.com/misc/css-test/wide-page.html
As you can see, with a normal window size the table is wider than the
window. If you scroll the page to the right, the orange background
stops. I n
David Feldman wrote:
> [...] Any ideas?
Plenty, but I don't know which one to suggest unless you give me an idea
about the layout it's supposed to improve.
Can you give us a link to a typical "problematic" page of yours?
regards
Georg
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I have a Web page whose content is sometimes wider than the browser
window, necessitating a horizontal scrollbar. Several elements fairly
high up the DOM tree have horizontally repeating background images.
The problem is, when the content is wider than the window these
background images sti
