[thelist] Tips

Mon Jun 10 01:34:01 CDT 2002

A couple to make up for all the pseudo-legal prattle and smart-ass remarks:

<tip type="Netscape 4.x">
To get 0-width page margins without using invalid attributes (marginwidth,
marginheight) in the <body> tag, use the following styles:

body {
    margin-top: -10px;
    margin-left: -10px;
    }

Place those styles in a stylesheet called with the <link> tag, then reset
the margins to 0 for more modern browsers in a stylesheet called by an
@import.
</tip>

<tip type="Netscape 4.x">
To keep your code valid while using the onresize= hack to keep NN4.x from
dropping styles when the window is resized, set the handler in your script,
rather than in the <body> tag, like so:

window.onresize = fixNNCSS();
</tip>

<tip type="Netscape 4.x">
When trying to get CSS layouts working in NN4.x, JavaScript StyleSheets can
often be more useful than Cascading StyleSheets, because they allow
expressions:

ids.main.width = window.innerWidth - 10;

ids.main.fontSize = (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase.indexOf('mac') == -1)?
'1em':'1.2em';

</tip>

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