On Feb 23, 2006, at 9:36 PM, Andrew Gregory wrote: > On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:02:57 +0800, Arlen Walker > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> http://uscf.arachnidae.com/tla/tlaworkcsg2.html >> >> 2) Note the corny buttons across the top for the styleswitching. Now >> load it in IE6/Win2K and tell me what happened to my buttons? I mean >> they ain't much, I'll grant you, but is that any reason to throw them >> away completely? > > They aren't thrown away completely, they just occupy the full > width. Maybe > it's the width:100% on ".switcher dd a:link"?
OK, this was strange. There was a confluence of interesting things going on. I think I was victimised by an unexpired cached css file in the first place, because what I saw didn't relate to what Andrew saw. After scratching my head for a while, I walked away to let it "simmer", and when I returned (after rebooting the windows test machine) what I saw related more to what Andrew saw. It was still wrong, but now wrong in a way I could almost understand and fix. It was more than the width rule, but that was part of it. Now I'm left with three more puzzles, one in IE and 2 in Opera. 1) In IE, the print forces a page break before the #sections div begins, distributing the earlier material along the page vertically in what appears to be an attempt to use the whole page. All other browsers don't put nearly as much whitespace on the first page. Does IE believe in exercising heroic measures to avoid page breaks in a div? 2) In Opera, the green background returned, but only in the last DL (class "generalinfo"). I tried assigning a background color to that block in both the screen and print CSS files, but to no avail. 3) Also in Opera, the background of "dd a:link" extends outside of "dd". There is a border around "dd" but not around "dd a:link" and there's padding left and right on "dd a:link" but no width specifications involved. If it matters, the purpose of the page is to produce a page formatted both for viewing and printing from information collected in a form in another part of the site. Creating a reasonably good-looking printed page is a requirement. Have Fun, Arlen ------------------------------ In God we trust, all others must supply data ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
