[WSG] Opera Bug? (Table-displayed, left-floated, min-width content)

2006-08-01 Thread Joe D'Andrea
Greetings! Here's a puzzler. A bug? A feature? Animal? Vegetable? (Nevermind.) It has been filed with Opera as well as posted to css-d, but I thought it might be good to post here as well. Minimal Test Case: http://test.joesapt.net/opera Includes links to BrowserCam shots and a few more

Re: Re: Re: [WSG] Opera Bug? (Table-displayed, left-floated, min-width content)

2006-08-01 Thread Joe D'Andrea
On 8/1/06, Nick Gleitzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the advantage of trying to get a paragraph to display like a table? Forgot to mention - even if I do use a list, my desired style ultimately requires a centered set of links, each one with a minimum width and padding sufficient to show

Re: [WSG] Opera Bug? (Table-displayed, left-floated, min-width content)

2006-08-01 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Aug 1, 2006, at 8:40 PM, Joe D'Andrea wrote: Minimal Test Case: http://test.joesapt.net/opera Includes links to BrowserCam shots and a few more variations for good measure. Markup: pa href=#1/a a href=#2/a ... a href=#8/a/p Style: p { display: table; } p a { float: left;

Re: [WSG] Opera Bug? (Table-displayed, left-floated, min-width content)

2006-08-01 Thread CK
Hi, Thanks for saving me a few key strokes :) On Aug 1, 2006, at 8:06 AM, Nick Gleitzman wrote: A bug? A feature? ... Markup: pa href=#1/a a href=#2/a ... a href=#8/a/p Style: p { display: table; } p a { float: left; min-width: 16px; } (Presume the float is cleared afterward.)

Re: Re: [WSG] Opera Bug? (Table-displayed, left-floated, min-width content)

2006-08-01 Thread Joe D'Andrea
On 8/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of more interest to me is why you are trying to float an inline element ( a )? Another good Q! Seems redundant, yes? Let's back up a sec. What I'd really like to do (besides direct) is style a list of linked numbers such that: * The

Re: Re: [WSG] Opera Bug? (Table-displayed, left-floated, min-width content)

2006-08-01 Thread Joe D'Andrea
On 8/1/06, Philippe Wittenbergh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... If you put your series of links in a (one) real table-cell, and use the same styling (float), odds are that you'd see similar behaviour/ differences between browsers. ... [excellent explanation trimmed] Thanks! That helps my

Re: Re: Re: Re: [WSG] Opera Bug? (Table-displayed, left-floated, min-width content)

2006-08-01 Thread Joe D'Andrea
Another update. Philippe, et. al., we may have a winner[3] crossing fingers. I linked to everything else[1][2] to show the progression. To recap, I'm using a list of links vs. a paragraph of links, which is semantically healthier but, when devoid of style, seems too thin and awkward. (It's OK -

Re: Re: [WSG] Opera Bug? (Table-displayed, left-floated, min-width content)

2006-08-01 Thread Joe D'Andrea
On 8/1/06, CK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the following from the w3 specification, if not where is it from? You got it! Direct from the w3 spec. [1] This display: table solution for the outlined problem has me a little muddled. Agreed, it's taking some getting used on my part, but I think

Re: [WSG] Opera Bug? (Table-displayed, left-floated, min-width content)

2006-08-01 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Joe D'Andrea wrote: The latest iteration might be the winner though [2]. We'll see. [2] http://test.joesapt.net/cf/opera-ul-table Just to state the (more or less) obvious: 'width' = 'min-width' and 'height' = 'min-height' when we're dealing with CSS table elements that take dimensions.