On 4/15/08, Gunlaug Sørtun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Grevers wrote: > >> Having had problems with onetruelayout before, I tried Gunlaug's > >> companion column example. > > > FYI: "companion column" is not mine. It's Ingo Chao's (linked to from my > site). > I stand corrected. (Sorry Ingo!) > > > But I still have the problem of the gap (stripe of background colour) > > in FF/Opera, plus the client will want the left column to go all the > > way to the bottom (or a "narrow footer") > > > Contradicting requirements - or I simply don't understand them.
Since the footer has a child it was easiest to fake the left column by giving the child the same left margin and moving the background. > > Also a number of contradicting styles in your page, which makes it less > cooperative. I don't have time to debug it all, so I just play along > with what's already there. > That's what happens when you start out with some negative margins code from layoutgala, overlay your IE width expressions (currently lost in the wash), then add footerstickalt into the mix, then have a change in brief and a new design (which necessitates losing the header), and finally add companion columns. As I understand it, footerstickalt precludes having a global container to set width (because the 100% height has to pass down the chain of inheritance), so I was looking at having 3 elements to handle when I get the min-max for IE working again. I added a class (fluidwidth), but on second thoughts isn't the method dependent on using ids? It's just about in shape now, http://www.vine.org.nz/index.php/adult-classes except pages seem to be an em too tall in most browsers, and I haven't yet spotted where that snuck in. Richard -- Richard Grevers, New Plymouth, New Zealand Dramatic Design www.dramatic.co.nz ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
