Thanks, Matthew. I'll take your advice and spend some time with the source code.
Best, Hank Sims On Nov 18, 6:55 am, "Matthew Nuzum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Hank Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello: > > > I'm a newcomer to Blueprint with not much more experience with CSS in > > general. Please pardon me if this question has an obvious answer that > > I've overlooked. > > > Is there a particularly Blueprintish way to do an island-style "float: > > right;"? Here's an illustration of what I mean, with additional > > explanation: > > >http://www.northcoastjournal.com/media/css/blueprint_test/float_test.... > > > Thanks in advance, > > > Hank Sims > > Hi Hank, I think starting with blueprint is an excellent way to begin. > I don't think there is an "official" way to do what you want, but I > would do it it like this: > > <div style="float: right;" class="span-8 box"> ... </div> > > If it were a sidebar like a magazine inset I might also add "small" to > the list of classes: > > <div style="float: right;" class="span-8 box small"> ... </div> > > If I'm in doubt and I know that the normal css way is to do float: > right, then I'll open the blueprint css file and search for "float" or > "right" to see if there are some shortcut rules that already do that. > (in this case there aren't) You'll see that the blueprint css > stylesheet isn't magical. Read through it to at least get a list of > the css classes you can use in your layout - they're generally named > in a way that makes their purpose very self evident. > > -- > Matthew Nuzum > newz2000 on freenode --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Blueprint CSS" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/blueprintcss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
