[thelist] CSS: layout question
Nik Schramm
n at industriality.com
Wed Nov 20 18:59:00 CST 2002
On 21.Nov.02 01:41 Chris W. Parker wrote
> now the problem is that the border that is defined for the div
> *within*the containg box has it's bottom border at the top. like
> this...
A <ul> is a block-level tag, so there is no need to wrap it in a div.
You can just assign the 5px right-marge directly to the list, which also
means the code looks less like a nested table, which is a valid concern
that I do appreciate.
Try this: (Note that I have nulled the default margins and padding of
the ul in my styles, then redclared some of them later in the #menu.
Lists can be tricky, especially cross-browser, so you might need to hack
some in order to get a consistent feel)
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title> title me </title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body { padding: 0; margin: 0; }
div { border: 1px dotted black; }
ul { margin: 0px; padding: 0px; }
#header { height: 50px; margin-bottom: 5px; }
#menubox { width: 25%; float: left; }
#menu { margin-right: 5px; padding: 20px; border: 5px solid black;}
#content { margin-left: 25%; }
//-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="header">header</div>
<div id="menubox">
<ul id="menu">
<li>Home</li>
<li>Section A</li>
<li>Section B</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="content">content</div>
</body>
</html>
That (or something fairly similar) might do it...
--
/nik
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