Jonathan, many thanks for taking a look...
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Looks OK in Safari 1.0, Firefox 1.0 and IE 5.2 (Mac OSX). The only problems occur when I try to reduce the width of the window - although it has to be a pretty dramatic reduction.That behaviour is, to a certain extent, the layout effect that I was trying to achieve. The two columns should 'drop down' when the browser window is narrowed, by utilising the 'min-width' property. The intention is to provide something usable/readable at almost any width. The two green columns WILL merge, as they're simply 'Faux Columns'[1]
Safari & Firefox both start to fall apart when the window gets to about 605px wide (minus chrome): firstly the text in the left column drops to the bottom, then the text in the middle column starts to overlap the green of the left column, then the text in the right column drops to the bottom, then finally the 2 green areas merge into 1.
In IE, the middle column gets narrower and narrower (but everything otherwise stays in its place) until about 500px wide: the text in the middle column starts to poke out into the right column green, eventually overlapping the right column's text. Finally, at about 425px, both 2 outer columns' text drop to the bottom.Hmmm, interesting... I wish I had a Mac to hand here to try and address that issue - unfortunately, I may have to live with it, at least in the short term!
I guess this would only really be an issue if you were browsing with a PDA. If I saw this happening when I resized my window down, I'd resize it back up again until it looked acceptable.PDA users wouldn't have to worry as (fingers crossed!) they would get a specific stylesheet with a 'handheld' media type.
Thanks again,
Stuart
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