Michael Beaudoin wrote:
> Thanks for your help. I appreciate it.
>
> Two quick questions... 
>
> - in your css, you put #sidebar and #cap. I'm not sure what those do. 
> Can you do a quick explanation?
>
> - how can I get the left nav column to drop down when the content area 
> gets deeper?
>
> Thanks again, I'm learning a bunch.
>
> M
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> On Feb 26, 2009, at 1:50 PM, David Laakso wrote:
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>>>
>>> Cursory checked in Mac compliant browsers and XP IE/6.0 and 7.0.
>>> html
>>> <http://www.chelseacreekstudio.com/ca/cssd/mou.htm>
>>> css
>>> <http://www.chelseacreekstudio.com/ca/cssd/mou_files/moulin00.css>

The goofy colored borders are intentional-- helps both of us see what is 
where. Compare the color borders, the css, and the markup changes and 
things may be more obvious.

The page was changed to a simple two column layout so that the columns 
are independent of each other. Compare your page with mine at min-font 
size 32px in Opera and you'll see the difference it makes.
opera address bar>opera:config>min>font-size>32

#sidebar is the left column.  #content is the right column.
#sidebar is a narrow box enclosing #cap and your v-nav.
#cap resides inside, and at the top of, #sidebar. It encloses the left 
side (text side) of horiz_na.jpg. I did not take the time to crop it nor 
put its right side in the h-nav container.
Your v-menu resides in a box within #sidebar beneath #cap.
#content is the right column. It encloses your h-nav at the top, and 
your primary text beneath the -nav.

The colors of #sidebar can reach the footer regardless of which of the 
two columns is longest employing a repeated image to make a "faux 
column"[1]. Or it can be done using only CSS[2].

[1]<http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fauxcolumns/>
[2]See equal height columns, here:
<http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles/onetruelayout/>

Reply to the list so others can contribute their thoughts to your 
issues. There is more than one way to do anything and someone may have a 
better solution for you than mine.

Please also bottom post. It is not a list policy but is greatly 
appreciated for a lot of reasons including making it easier to search 
the list archives.

hth
~d






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