Andrew Gregory wrote: > > Using Opera 8(.54), it's not "literally centered" - resize the window > to see. It has an amusing repaint glitch too. > Well, at least it's amusing ;) > My Firefox (1.5.0.3) did not need that margin. Removing that margin > changed nothing in the display of my Firefox, Opera or IE. And you are right - more "playing" yesterday on my part caused me to discover this, as well :) It must have been one of the other versions I was working on, and it slipped through to this one (note the name of the file is "index6" - I'm up to index8" now!)
Ryan Cannon wrote: > unlike absolute positioning, which is relative to a relatively or absolutely > positioned containing block or, that failing, the viewport. > That's what I was afraid of. I was beginning to think that this is *exactly* what the issue was. Oh well, at least it's now verified! > I'm wondering if you perhaps want absolute position instead of fixed. > I would be happy to use absolute positioning. The problem is (and you can see this in IE) that when you *do* use absolute positioning, the sidebar scrolls with the page, as well. Which I don't want. The only part I want to scroll is the content area - the "box" and the sidebar, I want to stay in place, right where they are. In Firefox (and apparently Opera 9 and IE7) it does exactly what I want it to do. > With the code you supply, page does very odd things when the window scrolls. I'm willing to bet you mean the weird "light gray" boxes that scroll everywhere over the sidebar? This is the other thing I'm experimenting with - I'm trying to associate block-level divs with the scrolling content. Normally, when you hover/click over the links in the sidebar, the background reverts back to the original background color (since CSS doesn't supply "onclick" events the way a javascript would). What I was trying to do is, when the end user clicks on a link to scroll to that particular section of content, that "light gray box" covers the link, making it obvious *which* "page" of content you are on - sort of like a "fake onclick" thing. (I hope that makes sense.) Again, in Firefox, works great. Everything else..it sucks. Anyway, if anyone has further input on this, I'd appreciate it - but it *is* just something I'm toying with, so it's of no real importance. Just messing around to see if it can be done. I'm beginning to think that it can't! Thanks! ~Shelly ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
