[thelist] Site CSS problem

[David U.]

Phil Essing wrote:
> Davidu,
>
> I was intrigued by this problem, so I grabbed your source and began
> playing with it.  Since nothing seemed obviously wrong with the HTML
> or CSS, I began to go the process-of-elimination route.  I quickly
> determined that, for whatever reason, the PRE tags were causing this
> problem, and so I tried something, just for fun....which seems to do
> the trick!  I changed the PRE property's display value to INLINE,
> from its default value of BLOCK.

Interesting indeed.  I'm no CSS guru either and I hate to take the "but it
validates so it's good" approach, but at my level I'm just getting
comfortable at that level.  Thanks for looking at this.

>
> Add this to your stylesheet:
>
> PRE {
> display: inline;
> }

Yep! That seems to fix it.  I already kinda munged a bunch of the source to
make it work with px's but I'll swap them all back because your way is
better.

>
> If any of you CSS gurus can explain this, I'd love to here from you.

Me too.  Thanks for your work Phil!

-davidu

>
> -phil
>
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>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of David U.
>> Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 3:34 PM
>> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>> Subject: [thelist] Site CSS problem
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On my website: http://david.ulevitch.delmar.ca.us/
>>
>> When the "finger" is off, the site loads fine.  When the
>> "finger" is loaded everything below the finger is shunted to
>> the left a bit and I can't figure out why.  Is it a bug in my
>> CSS? In IE?
>>
>> You'll see what I mean when the page is loaded, otherwise I
>> can take screenshots.  I am using IE6 on winXP.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> davidu
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