[thelist] Re: thelist Digest, Vol 5, Issue 24

Diane Soini dianesoini at earthlink.net
Tue Jul 8 20:22:22 CDT 2003


I don't recall what the problem exactly was (except it had to do with 
large text overflowing) , but I tried increasing my font sizes to the 
max (Mac Safari) and if the problem is that the header text drops below 
all the text below it and other text starts to overflow their boxes, 
maybe the problem is that your css file is setting exact heights and 
widths on things (example: body>#Header {height:127px;}). Maybe 
percents or some other units would be more fluid so the containers 
could possibly expand with the text as it expanded.

I think, too, that if you really want that header text to be an exact 
size your best bet is an image. These browsers try to build in some 
usability features, and one of those is the ability to scale the text 
way up no matter what the stylesheet says.

Cheers!
P.S. I'm new here and this resource is great!

>> The problem also appears on IE5.5 at medium. Haven't tested on Opera.
>>
>> Contributing factors potentially are:
>>
>> The structure of the right hand nav bar, you only really need
>> one div and '
>> display block' NOT a series of block level elements. Try
>> getting rid of the
>> extraneous divs and header tags.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, but it didn't help. I removed all the block 
> level
> elements in the right hand column, and just used a series of <br /> 
> tags
> instead. It actually made things worse--now the problem appears in IE6 
> at
> Large in addition to Largest. :)
>
>> BTW in your style sheet if you removed the strong=900 etc for
>> the header
>> tags and the pixel defined sizes for your fonts and used ems
>> or % you would
>> also go a long way to making the design more
>> liquid.........but you don't
>> really need those any way if you go the first route I
>> suggested.........
>
> I am not following you here. I don't use fixed pixel fonts for the 
> body of
> the document, which changes from page to page, but the header is 
> precisely
> that--it's meant to be a fixed image so that the letters match up next 
> to
> the graphic. I am still working on the overall look of the header, but 
> why
> would I want to make the text sizes of the header liquid? That would 
> allow
> the user to change the visual appearance of the header, which is 
> precisely
> not what I want.
>
> Does anyone else have any suggestions as to how I can fix the problem 
> with
> the right hand column? If I can not find a liquid solution, then I 
> will need
> to resort to fixing the pixel size of the fonts there.
>
> Original page:
> http://galleryrobinson.com/itc/newindex2.htm
>
> With Michael's suggestions for the right hand column:
> http://galleryrobinson.com/itc/newindex2.1.htm
>
> Thank you,
> Hershel
>



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