Re: FN-FORUM: CSS template check please

date posted 1st January 2004 11:02

On 28 Dec 2003 12:28:40 -0000, Luke Perman [EMAIL REMOVED]
wrote:

>
> hey tony
>
> yeah, having percentage / fixed heights has always been a problem, using
> tables or CSS or whatever...
>
> my workaround for this is to just not specify a height and let the
> content depict how tall something needs to be...
>
> and if I want the columns to have a colored background that stretches to
> the bottom of the screen, try popping a 1px tall bg image in the BODY
> that only stretches 100px (or whatever) wide and assign tile 'vertical'
> to it... that doesn't help your other column though! :-(
>
> luke


Aha!

I found a simple hack that gets you min-height working cross browser!
hurrah!

http://www.pixy.cz/blogg/clanky/cssunderscorehack/

and I tweaked my template to use it with a variation on the float/margin
layout from here:
http://www.positioniseverything.net/ordered-floats.html

what do you think:
http://localhost/template/index.htm

(not the style, but the underlying methods - pretty designs to come, now I
have a workable grid.)

Happy New Year one and all.


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