[thelist] RE: Side navlist nudging text in main content

[Clive R Sweeney]

Thank you to those who responded to my problem (below). With your help I
found there didn't seem to be a way to "solve" the 3-pixel jog caused by
floated divs, so the page had to be corrected with a different CSS
layout. To achieve exactly the same layout as before, the "navlist" is
no longer floated to the left, but has been given an absolute position
within the container div, which has a relative position. The container
div uses a full-width background image that serves for both "navlist"
and "maincontent".

In case anyone else is having the same problem, you can see how I dealt
with it at 
http://www.designshift.com/problems/notnudged.html

::. clive


-----Original Message-----
From: Clive R Sweeney [mailto:clive at designshift.com] 
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 11:21 PM
To: 'thelist at lists.evolt.org'
Subject: Side navlist nudging text in main content


I'm preparing a new version of my site using CSS layout. All seems to be
going fairly well, but there's a small issue that I can't figure out.
The problem is that there seems to be something in the leftnav section
that is "reaching out" and nudging the heading and the first several
lines of text an extra 3 pixels or so to the right. Of course the effect
is just barely noticeable, even in IE Win, and most users would probably
never notice, but some would.

I should mention that I've seen this problem only in IE6 Win. Netscape
7, Opera 7, Mozilla 1.4, and Firebird (v 0.6.1) seem to display the text
just fine. I don't have a machine running IE5 Win, but I wouldn't be
surprised to learn that the problem exists there as well. IE Mac seems
okay. It could be some overflow situation, but darned if I can tell
what's overflowing.

If anyone has the time and inclination to check it out, I've posted a
scaled-down version of the page at:
http://www.designshift.com/problems/nudged.html

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

::. clive
 
Clive R Sweeney
clive at designshift.com