WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: CSS sliding

for

From: Michael Moore
Date: Jun 16, 2005 6:46AM

The real problem that you are fighting is the the IE5 box model is
broken, so in reality you are dealing with a different width in IE5 than
you are other browsers. There are a variety of ways to mitigate this
problem. I would suggest you check out http://www.alistapart.com as a
starting point or just google box model.

Mike

HAA wrote:
> Even though I have used percentages rather than absolute widths in the
> floats? I try to avoid absolute settings where possible when it comes to
> text out of personal preferences.
>
> At 11:31 16/06/2005, Patrick Lauke wrote:
>
>> Without even looking at it, I'll say it's a float issue.
>> When there's not enough space for the two floats to sit side
>> by side, the second float drops down to accommodate. Older versions
>> of IE are notorious for it, particularly when the width of the
>> individual floats is too tight.
>>
>> Looking at your CSS now, no time to test, but I'd try making
>> the #leftnav just a tad smaller, and explicitly setting
>> padding of 0 for #leftnav, #contents, #innerdiv.
>>
>> Patrick
>> ________________________________
>> Patrick H. Lauke
>> Webmaster / University of Salford
>> http://www.salford.ac.uk <http://www.salford.ac.uk/>;
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>