Re: [css-d] Sidenotes v Footnotes

Hi Bob, If the sidenote was inserted like this: Some text11. This is a sidenote. that appears in the middle of a sentence. How would that be presented in a screen reader? What can we do to improve it? Thank you, Beau On 29-Jul-05, at 5:51 AM, Bob Easton wrote: John Gruber has an articl

Re: [css-d] Sidenotes v Footnotes

Hi Paul, Oops, there are no SMALL or SPAN tags in your example. You might have meant: No, the extra style is not needed at all. I had started with span/ small, but thought div/p was better. I forgot to remove the selector from my reply. It seems to me that your technique requires the au

Re: [css-d] Sidenotes v Footnotes

Paul, Gunlaug, Ben: thank you for your thoughtful replies. Gunlaug, that's an excellent idea. I had tried using relative widths (ems) to make this work, but that turned into a cross-browser mess. Your method is perfect. Paul, Ben: To address the issue of overlapping elements, and very lon

[css-d] Sidenotes v Footnotes

I thought of a way to build sidenotes in well-supported and valid CSS. I posted details on my log: Basically, I'm using absolute positioning to take a (or a ) out of flow, and to move it outside of some containing block where it can