[thelist] CSS question..

Gregory Wostrel gwostrel at mac.com
Tue Oct 8 17:12:02 CDT 2002


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Well it works fine in IE 5 and NN7 on OSX. Too bad about all those
Windows users....

I have found that IE/Win screws it up for backgrounds as well,
especially if you want to have two background images to line up but to
have one visible only in the <div> it is associated with. For example:
http://www.wostrel.com/pages/thoughts/robert.html

and to David who said:
"Internet Explorer for Windows doesn't fully support CSS 2 (its only
a five year old specification, nowhere near enough time for
Microsoft to implement it)."

That is true unless it is the Mac Business Unit at Microsoft. Mac IE
has supported this nicely since ver5, circa 1999-2000 or so.

Greg Wostrel

gwcreative
http://www.gwcreative.com/
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On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, at 05:07  PM, rabbit at poorrabbit.com wrote:

>
> I'm finally working towards using CSS for my layout instead of
> table based layouts, and I've run across something I can't figure out.
>
> According to the CSS2 spec, the "position: fixed;" setting will cause
> an element uses that class to stay put, period. If you stick something
> on the top right of the screen, it stays there, even when scrolling.
>
> for example:
>
> DIV.foo {       right: 50px;
>         top: 10px;
>         position: fixed;
>         color: black;
>         width: 100px;
>         }
>
> If you look at: http://www.truthmagnet.com/v2/test.php in MOZILLA
> (at least in v1.1, or in the latest opera) you can see this behavior.
>
> The "HELLO" on the top right of the screen will stay put even if you
> scroll - you may have to shrink your window to see this effect.
>
> In explorer, this completely fails to work. In explorer, the Hello
> appears on the top left, and appears to be behaving as though
> position was set to "relative", which I THINK is the default.
>
> I've tried looking for alternate way of doing this with explorer, or
> even a way of convincing explorer to at least put stuff where it
> belongs, so that even if it doesn't stay put, it at least gets there
> to begin with, such that in mozilla it behaves as I wish, and that in
> explorer it will degrade gracefully - without having to use browser
> checking code.
>
> so much for "coding to standards".
>
> any ideas?
>
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