Adam Morris wrote:
I've just made the background images 3000px wide to cover the gaps
that open up and, I think, I've narrowed the container - although I'm
not sure now!.. It also now seems not to break in IE at widths over
1200px.. Am I right? My Virtual PC browser window doesn't allow me
to stretch the site much at all!
http://www.megustalatelevision.com/uwish/index1.html
Looks like you are pretty close to a stable solution.
Main part seems to render well to around 3000 browser-width, which
should be plenty. Of course there's a huge white space at the left side
in the main column at that width (and those text-lines ends up a bit too
wide for my reading-style :-) ).
IE6 does show some background-flaws below the main column on windows
wider than 1600px, but seems to be fine on narrower widths.
The min-width javascript doesn't have the correct values for your
layout, so it is jumping a bit at around 1020 window-width.
Martin Heiden wrote earlier:
Probably because 'position: absolute' adds 'Layout' to that GS>
container[1]. It's an IE-bug that is often used to "fix" things in
that browser, although that bug most often creates more problems
than it solves.
Are you sure? He wrote that he tried position: relative as well and
that it didn't work for him. This should have added Layout as well. I
didn't take a closer look to the site, but I bet that (as you
mentioned) position: absolute took the container out of the flow and
solved the problem. And of course created some new ones...
No, I'm not entirely sure, since I didn't download and put the page in
question through rigorous tests. I based my "probably" on experience
with IE/win and its bugs.
The 'position: relative' solution doesn't automatically add "Layout" in
IE/win. It does affect "layering", which is often needed when some
element becomes invisible or renders incomplete in IE.
One often has to use one of the "real" 'hasLayout' triggers in
combination with 'position: relative' if a badly rendered element
crosses its parent-container's edges. Such a scenario doesn't apply in
this case, I think.
regards
Georg
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