Mike, it was a combination of your first suggestion and modifications
suggested by Gunlaug that has worked in the end - as you can see from
http://www.biotext.com.au/test0205/testpage.html
By starting the border exactly where I want it on the right, and using the
white div to shift the left side
Maren Child wrote:
Okay, it works now, thanks very much for your help. But I don't quite
understand why it works the way it does and I would really
appreciate if you have the time to explain it to me.
It's a simple fake - as most CSS-trickery is, and you can see the
trickery by adding a
From: Maren Child
...green border under the 'topnavbar' div
I guess what I want to say is 'width = 100% minus 140 pixels' and
'margin-left = 30 pixels'.
So if you remove the width and just give it left and right margins
of 30 and 140 px what happens?
--
Peter Williams
Maren Child wrote:
I have fixed the problem I had with disappearing content (thanks
Ingo) but after several more versions still can't get the green
border under the 'topnavbar' div to stretch so it goes across to just
before the logo.
Think you've got it the wrong way around. The green
Okay, it works now, thanks very much for your help. But I don't quite
understand why it works the way it does and I would really appreciate if you
have the time to explain it to me. The whitebg div seems to push the navbar
across to the right, but it doesn't seem to push it over 160 pixels (the
