[thelist] centering trouble

[Gregory Wostrel]

Hey Heather,

Good one, thanks a lot! I just knew it was going to be right in front
of my face.

Greg Wostrel


On Sunday, March 9, 2003, at 10:06  AM, Heather Quinn wrote:

> Hi, Gregory.
>
> In both examples, you've explicitly coded the widths of the image cell
> and the nav cell below it (cell "stack") as 203 px.
>
> In the working example, the "stack" renders at 203 px, because the
> image
> above the nav is 181 px wide, and thus fits within your width
> specification.
>
> In the non-working example, the "stack" renders at 253 px because the
> image above the nav is 253 px wide, forcing the stack width to expand.
> IE is now caught between two widths, your coded 203 px, and the
> rendered 253 px, and it can't calculate an accurate midpoint for the
> nav
> cell, so it does its default left-align thing.
>
> Recommendation: code a width for only the image cell, not the nav cell
> below it, i.e., remove the cell width from all pages' nav cells.  Then
> IE will only have the rendered cell width to deal with, and the
> centering will work.
>
> Gregory Wostrel wrote:
>
>> ...In the Paintings section the 1,2,3
>> nav center under the images, in the Drawings section some do and some
>> don't. I will not be at all surprised to find that the problem is some
>> stupid thing staring me in the face...
>> for example-
>> This page works:
>> http://www.gwcreative.com/working/peri/pages/drawings3.html
>>
>> This one doesn't:
>> http://www.gwcreative.com/working/peri/pages/drawings2.html
>> ...
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Gregory Wostrel
>>
>> gwcreative
>> http://www.gwcreative.com/
>> gw at gwcreative.com
>> 401.286.9228
>> Communications and the Art of Simplicity
>>
>>
>>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Heather Quinn
> info at windyhilldesign.com
> http://www.windyhilldesign.com