> Once upon a time a young HTML monkey was happily
> banging out some code. The monkey god came to the
> monkey and said, "These fields should be grouped
> together, and there should be signs indicating what the
> grouping is."
>
> The young monkey attempted to comply with the monkey
> god, and set about creating a color and border, by which
> the groupings would be more visible. Then he created the
> signs, by which the groups would be known.
>
> It was then the young monkey noticed a problem. The
> signs pushed the color beyond the boundaries of the fields.
> Try as he might, he could not figure out to push the color
> back within the boundaries, at least not without erasing
> the border.
>
> Can you help the young monkey?
>
> So I want it pink inside the border, but not outside the
> border, but the addition of a legend pushes the
> background color up to the height of the legend text.
> Only the legend has a white background. When I
> added a width to the legend, it erased the top border.
>
> It's for an internal app, so no linkies.
>
> fieldset {
> border:#8f2d3f solid 1px;
> background:#fee;
> display:inline;
> margin:0 0 10px 25px;
> width:750px;
> }
> legend {
> background:#fff;
> font:bold larger Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
> color:#900;
> }
>
Nice one Marc, I like the way you've put it.
How about some monkey magic ;)
http://kalkadoon.net/sandbox/html-monkey/monkey.html
http://kalkadoon.net/sandbox/html-monkey/primate.html
Hope that helps.
Cem Meric
Kalkadoon
Corporate Solutions
www.kalkadoon.net
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