Hi Roger, thanks for your quick response. You didn't miss the beginning of the thread - I just left out enough details to give you that impression - sorry. ;)
I played around a bit with conditional statements, but found that they didn't quite do it for me - I still couldn't figure out how to make IE use a min-width and width:auto; the way that Firefox does. The problem with not having a min-width defined is that the buttons use background images - if they're not wide enough the images get cut off and look horrible. I don't have the code posted anywhere yet, sorry. Thanks, Phil On Nov 7, 2005, at 2:30 PM, Roger Roelofs wrote: > Phil, > > On Nov 7, 2005, at 4:46 PM, Philip DeGreen wrote: > >> Sorry for yet another question about min-width and IE but none of the >> solutions I've found so far work for me. I'm defining styles for >> buttons which will have variable length text in them depending on what >> language they're displayed in. I'd like to set a min-width for the >> button, but also specify that the element should grow if it needs to >> in >> order to accommodate the button label. This is very easy and >> effective >> in Firefox...: >> .button >> { >> min-width: 65px; >> width: auto; >> } >> >> ...but, of course, doesn't work in IE. The hacks that I've found to >> work around this don't seem to enable me to set a min-width AND >> width:auto for IE. Any ideas? > > Somehow I missed the beginning of this thread, so you may have already > covered this ground, but this is one of those cases where I use > conditional comments and a separate stylesheet or javascript with ie > fixes. Is there a url to a sample page? Seeing this problem in > context would help me to give you a more precise answer. > > The other side of this question is 'How bad is it if ie users don't get > the min-width?' The buttons would still work. Will it break your > layout somehow, or is it just sub-optimal? > > > Roger, > > Roger Roelofs > "Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, > God allows U-turns!" > ~Allison Gappa Bottke > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/