Richard Grevers wrote: > <rhetoric value="2 cents"> > Am I missing something here? Many posters to this list (and I'm not > implying that Zoe is one of them) seem to get rather upset when floats > drop in narrow windows, and I simply don't get that. The fact that > floats can drop when there's not enough room to do justice to several > columns is a primary reason to use floats - its why they are better > than tables. > The key, of course is to make the correct column drop, which I would > say should be "any column but the primary content, with main > navigation having second priority for not dropping. >
I completely agree with everything you've just said. The problem is that I've never been able to get a client to agree to it. They can't handle the idea of a column dropping and would much rather foist a horizontal scrollbar on their visitors. I do all the client education I can muster, managing to get them to agree to a liquid layout, real text for navigation buttons, etc, but the column dropping is beyond my powers of persuasion. :-) > My only wish is for some property that would make the remaining floats > expand into the space left by the dropped float. > I think there are such things that depend on JavaScript. It might be possible to get a layout like this from pure CSS using table display properties, but I've never tried. Zoe -- Zoe M. Gillenwater Design Services Manager UNC Highway Safety Research Center http://www.hsrc.unc.edu ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
