On Thursday 29 January 2009 9:31:54 pm you wrote: > David McGlone wrote: > > I'm thinking that even though there are more than 1 words, closing > > the tag after each word does not make it a whole new box that can be > > moved individually. > > > > Am I thinking correctly? > > No, I'm afraid your thinking is flawed for positioning bits of text on > top of a fixed background (image). > > For the left column only: if you want to use a fixed background for your > text - links or whatever, this is the most steady method... > <http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/dmg/test_09_0130.html> > <http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/dmg/test_09_0130_files/styles00.css> > ...where individual paragraphs are absolute positioned. > > Those paragraphs will adjust vertically for font resizing, but long > lines will overflow horizontally pretty quickly. > > If you want links instead, just replace the <p>s with <a>s. > > > Sidenote: > > The entire <http://www.dmcentral.net/eweb/> shows that you're relying on > what you see for browser-defaults at your end - your layout has no > flexibility. Not a good idea since that means your layout is doomed to > fail... > <http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_additions_37.html> > ...and I do not think you want that :-)
You're correct. I make changes and look at it with firefox. I'm aware it probably will not look the same in different versions of IE, Opera, etc, but I haven't figured out what to do to fix this. What would you recommend? > > You're also declaring a number of properties/values back to their > default-values. Although there's no harm in doing so, you get a lot of > unnecessary declarations in there. All those other declarations on the page are just junk. I started experimenting with an old CSS file from 2003. It's been years, but that is what happens when one has kids. LOL -- David M. ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] 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/
