Robert Reed wrote:
1.) I tried to use the fixed width left column, fluid right column
system as described at A List Apart, with negative margins. After I
found out that the negative margins weren't doing anything, I removed
them. The idea was to go with a fixed 220px column on the left, and
a fluid right column. The problem is using margin-left on a
container with 100% width seems to immediately tell Firefox that
we're going to ignore that declaration.
If this is the solution you tried...
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/negativemargins
...than it's beyond me how you could make that fail, in any browser.
Consequently, the right container which has 100% width but a
margin-left request of 230px, doesn't adhere to the margin. It sits
pushed below the left column in its own little space, and needs to
come up.
I can't check what you have removed, but a properly applied 'negative
margins on floats' solution, as described in that ALA article, will
solve the problem you have now by isolating the columns from each other.
2.) The menu needs to come up to hang out on the same line with the
background. I've used clearing divs and it doesn't seem to do the
trick.
First: delete the nbsp; you have at the start of div id=menu in the
source code, and then add...
DIV#menu {float: left;}
UL#nav {background: transparent;}
The DIV#menu style makes all browsers expand to contain the UL#nav, and
the UL#nav style prevents IE's cover-up operation.
http://zwisp.owningthedot.net
regards
Georg
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