[WSG] help with layout postioning

2006-10-09 Thread Kevin McMonagle
hello, I recently posted a question about a page i am building based on a simple 3 col anyorder layout. I was worried that negative margin usage was becoming out of control. It was suggested that I use absolute positioning on one of the columns(navigations) to rely less on negative

Re: [WSG] help with layout postioning

2006-10-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Kevin McMonagle wrote: [...] I was worried that negative margin usage was becoming out of control. It was suggested that I use absolute positioning on one of the columns(navigations) to rely less on negative margins. This caused the column to vanish in ie pc. Heres is the negative margin

Re: [WSG] help with layout postioning

2006-10-09 Thread Kevin McMonagle
Hi George, -im relieved that you say that the negative margins are ok. I had a proggrammer at work complain about them and a couple posts here made me wonder if it was ok. Im planning on replacing those underscore hacks with the star selector method, is that still the way to go with ie 7 on the

Re: [WSG] help with layout postioning

2006-10-09 Thread John Faulds
Im planning on replacing those underscore hacks with the star selector method, is that still the way to go with ie 7 on the horizon? IE7 won't understand the * html (Holly) hack. You're better using conditional comments for serving different versions of IE different style rules. --

Re: [WSG] help with layout postioning

2006-10-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Kevin McMonagle wrote: -im relieved that you say that the negative margins are ok. I had a proggrammer at work complain about them and a couple posts here made me wonder if it was ok. I've heard/read complaints about every single CSS-based method in use for laying out web pages. Yet, most