Hey, Chad. Thanks for the input. You must have missed my last posting--I found that exact same property!
Thanks! David On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Chad Lundgren <chad.lundg...@gmail.com>wrote: > > On Dec 13, 2011, at 2:25 PM, David Odefey wrote: > > >> I was hoping there was a solution that allowed me > >> to keep both my percentage based widths as well as the static width > >> borders. > > Hi David, > > While you may or may not need this technique for your current layout, > there *is* a property that does what you describe. Depending on how > important IE6/IE7 compatibility is, you could use the box-sizing > property. Here's a good explanation: > > http://css-tricks.com/7323-box-sizing/ > > The nice part is that it even works in IE8. The first time I used > box-sizing: border-box, my comment was /* No, YOU do the math */ . > > Even if you do need IE7/IE6 compatibility, you could do a conditional > comment and lower the percentage for those browsers a bit and have it > look pretty similar. > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [css-d@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/ > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@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/
