I think the main requirement (that often get missed) is that the parent element must have a width and height set. Nathan Wells
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:58 AM, David Given <[email protected]> wrote: > > Nathan Wells wrote: > > I realize this example is rather naive, but I think we can use it as a > > starting point: > > > > http://nathanwells.net/work/cssTest.html > > > > Is that basically what you're looking for? I tested it in IE 8, 7 (via > > compatibility mode), Firefox, and Chrome. Everything looks fine to me. > > Again, for IE 6, some hacking may be necessary. > > Hmm. Very interesting. You're specifying both left: and right:. I tried > that, it didn't work, I checked the CSS spec, and saw that it wasn't > supposed to work, etc. > > Now I go back to the CSS spec to discover why your example works and > discover I misread it. I hate the CSS spec; it is second only to the > Javascript spec for sheer obscurity. > > That still doesn't explain why it didn't work for me. Possibly just a > mistake on my part, or possibly a rendering error in the hosted browser, > which has exceedingly dodgy rendering in places. > > I'll do some playing when I get home. Thanks. > > -- > ┌─── ｄｇ＠ｃｏｗｌａｒｋ．ｃｏｍ ───── http://www.cowlark.com ───── > │ > │ "They laughed at Newton. They laughed at Einstein. Of course, they > │ also laughed at Bozo the Clown." --- Carl Sagan > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
