Curvelicious/ragged float: interesting technique, but why chop up the image?

Better to leave it as a single positioned image (low z-index), and use 
transparent shims (remember those?) to push the text around. That way you still 
get the image in one piece when the page is viewed without CSS.

Geoff.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Behalf Of Chris Blown
> Sent: Friday, 13 May 2005 2:27 PM
> To: WSG
> Subject: RE: [WSG] Text flow and two bottom aligned floats?
> 
> 
> Thanks Geoff
> 
> I had that one in mind, I'll give it a go.. 
> 
> I had hope to get some CSS/P that would work across any page without
> having to modify the images or position it in the text.
> 
> I could chop the image horizontally ( see attachment ) a-la Meyer
> curvelicious [1]
> 
> Thanks
> Chris
> 
> [1] http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/raggedfloat/demo.html  
> 
> On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 13:11, Geoff Pack wrote:
> > Not sure if it's possible to do precisely. To get the text 
> to flow above and left means you will have to put the image 
> inline in the text, which means they will jump around a bit 
> depending on the font size and width of the text block. 
> > 
> > I got the following code to sort-of work by setting the 
> image heights to a multiple of the line-height, and setting a 
> fixed width. You have to fiddle with the placement of the 
> images in the text to make them line up at the bottom. Try 
> changing the text size in your browser - the images should 
> stay in the same place.
> > 
> > <div style="width:24em; font-size:1em; line-height:1.5em;">
> > <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, 
> > sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore 
> > magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. Stet clita kasd 
> > nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore
> > <img src="tall.gif" alt="" border="1" align="right" 
> style="float:right; width:6em; height:12em;"> 
> > et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero 
> > eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet 
> > clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est 
> > <img src="short.gif" alt="" border="1" align="right" 
> style="float:right; width:6em; height:6em;">Lorem ipsum dolor 
> sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, 
> > sed diam nonumy eirmod.</p>
> > </div>
> > 
> > 
> > cheers
> > Geoff.
> > 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Behalf Of Chris Blown
> > > Sent: Thursday, 12 May 2005 5:52 PM
> > > To: WSG
> > > Subject: [WSG] Text flow and two bottom aligned floats?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Just a quick question..
> > > 
> > > I am wondering what techniques people would use to layout a 
> > > paragraph of
> > > text with two right floated images and have the text wrap 
> around the
> > > images as shown.
> > > 
> > > The main thing is the two images need to both be bottom 
> > > aligned to each
> > > other ;) 
> > > 
> > > I have a couple of ideas, but they both seem quite a lot 
> of leg work
> > > just to do something quite simple as flow some text 
> around a couple of
> > > images.
> > > 
> > > eg
> > > 
> > >   Heading          
> > >                    +---+            
> > >   text text text   |   |
> > >   text text text   |   |
> > >   text text  +---+ |   |
> > >   text text  |   | |   |
> > >   text text  +---+ +---+
> > > 
> > > This one is easy
> > > 
> > >   Heading          
> > >              +---+ +---+            
> > >   text text  |   | |   |
> > >   text text  +---+ |   |
> > >   text text  text  |   |
> > >   text text  text  |   |
> > >   text text  text  +---+
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Chris
> > > 
> > > 
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