a few minor problems with website

[steven]

Hi,
I've got more or less the design I wanted (http://www.nenya.be/20041211/),
except for 2 details:

1. the menu's left border doesn't cover the full height of the menu if the
main div is higher than the menu's. How can I make it run down to the
footer?

2. currently the long description wraps and continues aligned with the
bullet. Is there a way to indent it so that the "second" is aligned with the
"long"?

TIA
Steven

(in case you're wondering: the woman in the picture is Audrey Hepburn)

[musicinmyhead]

> That part of your input is bogus enough to disqualify all the rest of

your writing in this post.

Seeing as you made no effort to answer the post yourself, and both
methods I've posted work perfectly fine, I'll be ignoring the rest of
your replies ;)

[Jan Roland Eriksson]

On 11 Dec 2004 18:19:25 -0800, "musicinmyh ead"
<mu***********@ hybrid-fusion.com> wrote:

That part of your input is bogus enough to disqualify all the rest of
your writing in this post.

...both methods I've posted work perfectly fine...

Javascript will not "work" if it's turned off or not supported.

HTTP_USER_AGENT is notoriously unreliable.

There is at least one other reliable[1] way to make IE evaluate style
info that is not evaluated by any other browser.

http://www.quirksmode.org/css/condcom.html

[1] "Reliable" today, what MS will do for the future can not be
predicted.

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[kchayka]

on 2004-12-11 steven wrote:

"musicinmyh ead" <mu***********@ hybrid-fusion.com> wrote in message
news:11******** *************@c 13g2000cwb.goog legroups.com...

For #2 it seems like the best idea would be to make the margin-left
less, and add a text-indent.

Also a simple idea, and that's maybe why I didn't think of it.

An even simpler solution is to correct your CSS so text wraps the way you
want without any added kludges:

#rightcol ul li {
list-style: disc url(../img/listmark.gif) inside;
}

Get rid of the "inside" value. See
<URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/generate.html#p ropdef-list-style-position>

BTW, the margin-left on that rule looks like another kludge. I don't know
what it's supposed to accomplish, but I'd bet there is a better way.

[steven]

"kchayka" <us****@c-net.us> wrote in message
news:xn******** *******@news.in dividual.net...

on 2004-12-11 steven wrote:

"musicinmyh ead" <mu***********@ hybrid-fusion.com> wrote in message
news:11******** *************@c 13g2000cwb.goog legroups.com...

For #2 it seems like the best idea would be to make the margin-left
less, and add a text-indent.
Also a simple idea, and that's maybe why I didn't think of it.

An even simpler solution is to correct your CSS so text wraps the way you
want without any added kludges:

#rightcol ul li {
list-style: disc url(../img/listmark.gif) inside;
}

Get rid of the "inside" value. See
<URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/generate.html#p ropdef-list-style-position>

OK.

BTW, the margin-left on that rule looks like another kludge. I don't know
what it's supposed to accomplish, but I'd bet there is a better way.

I don't know, but if I don't set the left margin the bullets appear way too
far to the right (almost in the middle of the column).
Could that be the default indent? I doubt it, since I had to move it 50
pixels to the left to get it more or less where I'd expect it in the first
place.
If there's a better way, please let me know.
TIA

Steven

[kchayka]

steven wrote:

"kchayka" <us****@c-net.us> wrote in message
news:xn******** *******@news.in dividual.net...

BTW, the margin-left on that rule looks like another kludge. I don't know
what it's supposed to accomplish, but I'd bet there is a better way.
I don't know, but if I don't set the left margin the bullets appear way too
far to the right (almost in the middle of the column).

That's probably from the default list indents. Various list elements
(dl, dt, dd, ul, li) have some default indent, but you're not accounting
for all of them in your stylesheet, only some. dd is probably adding a lot.
If there's a better way, please let me know.

Set both margin-left and padding-left on every list element and you'll
get more consistent results. You need to set both because some browsers
use margin for the indent, others use padding.

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