[thelist] cross browser <div> float weirdness

[John Corry]

Yeah, Actually...Firebug lets you do the same thing.
I'm just at a loss for what to tweak! It's so simple: a series of divs float
left and clear right.

Thanks for the tip...

John

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Robert Lee <rob at rob-n-steph.net> wrote:

> Not sure what's causing the issue, but you may be find it easier to track
> the issue down from the raw html. I have used this trick in the past with
> dynamic content:
>
> Grab the html from view / source and use it to create a new test html page
> in a location that can see the theme and images (the root of the site
> should
> do) You can also do a quick search and replaces to get the full URL to
> images and what not, in order to test on the local machine.
>
> Then you can tweak that one html page and quickly see if something (like
> breaking the line up) does indeed change the layout.
>
> If I'm not clear post and I'll try to do a better job explaining what I
> mean.
>
> HTH,
> Rob
>
>
>
>
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>
> That, unfortunately, is part of the output from Joomla's templating
> system...
> I guess I could go dig through the template files to see if I can find
> where
> that's happening and add some line breaks...but that seems like sort of a
> long shot for fixing my problem.
>
> John
>
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:31 PM, m riedel <matt at ledeir.com> wrote:
>
> > The only thing that I see that is troubling (at least to my eye) is the
> > long
> > unbroken line beginning at <ul class="menutop"> (sorry, no line numbers -
> I
> > got lazy). IE will render differently if things are on one line versus
> > multiple lines.
> >
> > What this has to do with  messing up the image order is beyond me, but
> I've
> > learned to expect the unexpected in cross-browser/cross-platform HTML.
> >
> > Also, the long line makes it hard to manually parse and debug. [yes, I
> have
> > the white beard, but no red suspenders!]
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