Thanks to everyone that has helped me with this problem! Alas, I have dabbed some Rogaine on my head and ended up staying with the tables rather than DIV. Why? Well, tables, thus far seem to be less problematic between browsers (at least for my case) as well as between versions of the same browser.
Yes, I had to nest and nest and nest, but in the end, to get the DIV tags to work, I also had to end up nesting, and in the case of using DIVs, it was not so obvious as to the rationale; a supportability issue. If every browser just conformed to the standards and did not have their own interpretation of that standard (a "standard" standard, now there is a novel idea!), life would be bliss. DIVs would have been so much cleaner. Regards, Steven Garno CarpeDatum Inc. www.CarpeDatumInc.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] (303) 627-8000 Office (303) 847-9018 Cell (303) 617-7373 Fax -----Original Message----- From: Gunlaug Sørtun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 2:20 AM To: Steven Garno Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [css-d] Help! I have no more hair! Steven Garno wrote: > I have been pulling my hair out trying to get this layout to work > using DIV tags. With all the bugs, and hacks that I have been > reading through in a ton of pages, I can't seem to get the recipe > right. Can't help you with your hair-problem, and I think you'll run into two problems that together makes your layout-problem nearly unsolvable in practice. 1: how tall is a browser-window? I usually limit the hight-range to from 400px to 2400px, which already is too much for most such layouts. The real size-range is larger. 2: plenty of visitors will use a browser that doesn't support the relevant CSS properties, so you'll have to add workarounds for those. Apart from that the recipe has been around for a while - here... <http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#fixed-positioning> ...but you'll have to relax on your requirements a bit if you want it to work in practice, or else you'll just keep on losing hair for no good reason. A workaround for the weakest browser in regular use can be found here... <http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_additions_15.html> ...but it doesn't solve the problem with the size-range for browser-windows. It does however solve the problems well enough for comfort for "slightly less fixed and a lot more relaxed" designs, like this one... <http://www.gunlaug.no/main-en.html> ...which at the moment is waiting for an improved beta-version of IE8 to arrive. regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
