[thelist] possible to wrap lines up instead of down?

[Mattias Thorslund]

Hi,

I just got a 'different' kind of suggestion from my business partner, 
who has no direct experience with web design (and sometimes that helps 
in thinking outside the box):

We have this row of (horizontal) navigation links that we'd like to 
style into "tabs" - for instance with the "sliding doors" technique 
found at A List Apart: 
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/slidingdoors/.  The problem is, that 
this row of navigation links is dynamically generated and can be pretty 
long, so it must wrap lines nicely if it doesn't fit nicely within the 
width of the browser.  With links styled as just links, it's okay, but 
tabs would look better if they wrapped the excess tabs to a line *above* 
the first one instead of below.

Is there any hope of doing this dynamically in the browser with CSS 
rules somehow, or must I make the server "wrap" the rows of tabs by 
simply putting them on separate lines? The latter will cause the 
wrapping of lines more often than necessary since I can't know the width 
of the user's browser, and I try to avoid side scrolling.

All ideas are much appreciated...

Mattias Thorslund

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