[WSG] Borders in liquid layouts

2009-04-17 Thread Stevio
I have created a web site design, with a graphical border down the sides of 
the design (15px wide on each side).


To implement this using CSS would be quite simple if the design had a fixed 
width, but I am looking to implement a liquid layout.


Essentially I reckon it comes down to equal height columns in liquid 
layouts. Any suggestions on how to best accomplish this?


Thanks.
Stephen




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Re: [WSG] Borders in liquid layouts

2009-04-17 Thread Jason Grant
I would bet on there not being a proper solution for this unless you want to
start hacking around with some sort of JS based calculation solutions, which
will only work for users which have JS on.

I would go for the design with no borders basically.

Often a time design decisions are impacted by limitations imposed by what
web technologies are capable of doing.

This is one of the reasons why most sites are not liquid layouts, and the
ones that are have a very bland design by and large.

Hope this helps.

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Stevio redea...@freeuk.com wrote:

 I have created a web site design, with a graphical border down the sides of
 the design (15px wide on each side).

 To implement this using CSS would be quite simple if the design had a fixed
 width, but I am looking to implement a liquid layout.

 Essentially I reckon it comes down to equal height columns in liquid
 layouts. Any suggestions on how to best accomplish this?

 Thanks.
 Stephen




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Re: [WSG] Borders in liquid layouts

2009-04-17 Thread Frederick Matzen
I've used this several times with success. It may work for you as well:

Equal Height Columns (Project Seven)
http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/css/pvii_columns/index.htm

Frederick

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Jason Grant ja...@flexewebs.com wrote:

 I would bet on there not being a proper solution for this unless you want
 to start hacking around with some sort of JS based calculation solutions,
 which will only work for users which have JS on.

 I would go for the design with no borders basically.

 Often a time design decisions are impacted by limitations imposed by what
 web technologies are capable of doing.

 This is one of the reasons why most sites are not liquid layouts, and the
 ones that are have a very bland design by and large.

 Hope this helps.

 On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Stevio redea...@freeuk.com wrote:

 I have created a web site design, with a graphical border down the sides
 of the design (15px wide on each side).

 To implement this using CSS would be quite simple if the design had a
 fixed width, but I am looking to implement a liquid layout.

 Essentially I reckon it comes down to equal height columns in liquid
 layouts. Any suggestions on how to best accomplish this?

 Thanks.
 Stephen




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Re: [WSG] Borders in liquid layouts

2009-04-17 Thread Paul Novitski

At 4/17/2009 11:18 AM, Stevio wrote:
I have created a web site design, with a graphical border down the 
sides of the design (15px wide on each side).


To implement this using CSS would be quite simple if the design had 
a fixed width, but I am looking to implement a liquid layout.


Essentially I reckon it comes down to equal height columns in liquid 
layouts. Any suggestions on how to best accomplish this?



You could wrap the columns in a nested pair of parent containers that 
stretch naturally to contain the widest  tallest of their children, 
then apply one border to the left side of outer parent and the other 
border to the right side of the inner parent.


div id=parent-outer
div id=parent-inner
div id=column-1
/div
div id=column-2
/div
/div
/div

Regards,

Paul
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Juniper Webcraft Ltd.
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Re: [WSG] Borders in liquid layouts

2009-04-17 Thread David Hucklesby
Stevio wrote:
[...]
 
 Essentially I reckon it comes down to equal height columns in liquid 
 layouts. Any suggestions on how to best accomplish this?
 
There is this:
 
http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/equal-height-columns-cross-browser-css-no-hacks

Cordially,
David
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