[thelist] Need Mac Site Check

Joshua Olson joshua at waetech.com
Thu Apr 25 20:28:01 CDT 2002


Thanks to everybody that helped out.  A majority of the layout issues were
indeed the block level interpretation that strict parsing implies.  Ref:

http://developer.netscape.com/evangelism/docs/articles/img-table/

The other problem was that the browsers were wrapping before the <br />, but
after the <img>, even though there was no space.  Talk about a mess!  I
guess it's just a new way of thinking.  In order to clean up the layout I
just put stuff each image in their own table cells, instead of trying to
stack them left to right.

For the question about width="-1%", that is a trick that I picked up from
some designers in Australia.  It may be improper, but it forces the browser
to make the column as narrow as possible.  Couple that with some cells
width="100%" and you can do some fun layout stuff.

eg.

<table>
  <tr>
    <td width="-1%">narrow</td>
    <td width="100%">wide</td>
    <td width="-1%">narrow></td>
  </tr>
</table>

Thanks all,
-joshua





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