[pmwiki-users] Disjointed Display

Wade Hudson whudson at igc.org
Mon Feb 14 13:47:44 CST 2005


nice hack
it works
thanks

--Wade Hudson
  http://ProgressiveResourceCatalog.org

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pmwiki-users-bounces at pmichaud.com
> [mailto:pmwiki-users-bounces at pmichaud.com]On Behalf Of Hans
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 4:13 PM
> To: Pmwiki-users at pmichaud.com
> Subject: Re: [pmwiki-users] Disjointed Display
>
>
> Friday, February 11, 2005, 11:16:36 PM, Wade wrote:
> > When we try Hans' suggestion (with a minor variation), it
> looks great in
> > firefox, but in IE it puts a horizontal scroll bar at the
> bottom of the
> > screen and the right-side window stretches off out of sight, at any
> > resolution.
>
> yes you are right, sorry for not checking it out thoroughly.
> you may try this:
>
> #left{
>         float:left;
>         width:24%;
> }
> #right{ position:absolute;
>         top:12px;
>         left:25%;
>         }
> * html #right{ /* IE hack */
>         width:76%;
> }
>
> This seems to work in Firefox and IE6.
>
> But if you got a long non-wrapping text line, for instance if you got
> typewriter font by leaving a space at the beginning of a line, then
> the window will stretch right off-screen. The same scenario with
> #right {float:right} will drop the whole right side underneath the
> left in IE. So I think the above is still a better way. But I had to
> give the right a width value for IE, I adjusted the IE hack so IE6 can
> see it.
>
>
> Best,
> ~Hans
>
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