--- Gunlaug Sørtun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Elli Vizcaino wrote:
>
> > http://e7flux.com/index3.html
>
> > http://e7flux.com/css/e7flux.css
>
> > Can someone explain why it's working and basically
> if I just need to
> > scrap the min-width properties I have in the CSS
> as it seems to me
> > based on this discussion that it's unnecessary? My
> guess is that the
> > reason it's working is because the container I
> have my content in is
> > set to a specified width?
>
> Exactly. Declaring a width _there_ using an
> absolute-sized unit - px,
> turns it into a fixed-width layout.
>
> Once you declare a fixed 'width' on a container,
> elements inside it will
> have a fixed width - fixed relatively to that
> container-width or on
> their own. Declaring 'min-width' anywhere doesn't
> have any effect in any
> browser in such a scenario, since the width itself
> doesn't change no
> matter what.
>
> A 'min-width' on an element will override 'width'
> only if 'width' is
> smaller than 'min-width' for that element. That
> happens only if the
> 'width' is flexible - one way or another, or a too
> small 'width' is
> declared.
>
> regards
> Georg
> --
> http://www.gunlaug.no
>
Thanks for the clarification!
Elli
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