On 09/02/07, david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Seona Bellamy wrote: > >> In your scripting logic I imagine you'll want to decide how to handle > >> widows & orphans so you don't strand a section title at the bottom of > >> column1 or the last item of a section at the top of column 2. > > That should be very interesting to implement, since you won't know just > how the lines within a block of text will wrap and break (would depend > on visitor's browser, version, font & sizes actually used, viewport > size, etc). Can JS find out, for instance, the dimensions of a > particular paragraph and allow you to calculate from that to determine > if it will fit completely in a particular column? > > I think this has outgrown the focus of the CSS-D list, though ... >
Me too. I'm now working through it off-list, but will post the final results when we have some since it is something that may help others who are faced with this same problem (at least until CSS3 and the column-count property are supported). Cheers, Seona. ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- 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/
