Layout tears apart when resizing text

tomasio

Dear NG,

years have passed and I am still more designer than programmer. I
build a new version of my website which has a few nasty bugs,
especially on my startpage: Resizing text brakes the dotted lines
which I use as visual border on the left and right edge of the page
layout and thus produces an unwanted white gap above the enlarged
text. Viewing the page with IE shows this behaviour even without
changing the font size.

My Idea was to create a containing block (#cont-dyn) for the two
arrows and the text centered within them with a background image which
should repeat along the x-axis when the text is resize. It seems to me
that this background image is not rendered in the browsers.

Below is a link to the affected page:
http://tomasio.at/index.html

The corresponding CSS can be found here:
http://tomasio.at/stylesheet3.css

Any hints will be very appreciated.

kind regards,
--
tomasio

Nov 8 '06 #1

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Ben C

On 2006-11-09, tomasio <da****@jan.etw rote:

Dear NG,

years have passed and I am still more designer than programmer. I
build a new version of my website which has a few nasty bugs,
especially on my startpage: Resizing text brakes the dotted lines
which I use as visual border on the left and right edge of the page
layout and thus produces an unwanted white gap above the enlarged
text.

My Idea was to create a containing block (#cont-dyn) for the two
arrows and the text centered within them with a background image which
should repeat along the x-axis when the text is resize. It seems to me
that this background image is not rendered in the browsers.

You're not seeing it because of margin-collapsing. The paragraph that
starts "Willkommen zur Homepage" has a top margin of 1.12em (assuming
the default stylesheet), and the margin therefore also gets bigger as
the text does (that's how em units work).

This margin "collapses" with the top margin of #cont-dyn since there is
no border or padding between them. In other words, after collapsing,
#cont-dyn has a top margin of 1.12em and the top edge of the p is
aligned with its top edge. That's why you can't see the background
image.

If you want to keep the margin on the paragraph and see your background
image, add "padding-top: 1px" to #cont-dyn. This will keep the p's
top margin contained inside #cont-dyn.

Alternatively you might prefer the effect of losing the top margin on
the p. If you set margin-top: 0 on .copy, you won't get such a big gap
when the text is resized and perhaps won't need #cont-dyn and the
background image at all.

Below is a link to the affected page:
http://tomasio.at/index.html

The corresponding CSS can be found here:
http://tomasio.at/stylesheet3.css

Nov 9 '06 #2

Gus Richter

Ben C wrote:

On 2006-11-09, tomasio <da****@jan.etw rote:
>Dear NG,

Resizing text brakes the dotted lines
which I use as visual border on the left and right edge of the page
layout and thus produces an unwanted white gap above the enlarged
text.

>My Idea was to create a containing block (#cont-dyn)
with a background image which should repeat
along the x-axis [actually y-axis] when the text is resize[d].
It seems that this background image is not rendered in the browsers.

You're not seeing it because of margin-collapsing.

That's why you can't see the background image.

The images will be visible only after the background declarations are
removed from div.copy since they hide/overlay the background of
div#cont-dyn. Then the background image extends when the text is
resized. I have no idea why background images are provided for both, the
div.copy on the x-axis and the div#cont-dyn on the y-axis, but the
div.copy one is not needed. Additionally, there is I believe an attempt
by the OP to cure this with z-index: 1; applied to div#cont-dyn which
does nothing and is not needed.

Only once the above is taken care of will the background image be
viewable and an unwanted white gap is (not so-) evident on resizing the
text. You are right on with collapsing margins causing this unwanted
white gap to the background image extension on resizing and with either
of your cures it is eliminated.

It certainly would have been easier to actually see the problem right
away, but that fine, faint yellow was really hard to spot. Time to relax
my eyes now.

--
Gus

Nov 9 '06 #3

tomasio

Hi Ben and Gus!

Thank you a lot for your helpful input. I finally managed to fix this
display bug and can leave the page online. have a luck on the fruits
of your advice: http://tomasio.at

Nov 11 '06 #4

tomasio

On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:42:28 +0100, tomasio <da****@jan.etw rote:

>Hi Ben and Gus!

Thank you a lot for your helpful input. I finally managed to fix this
display bug and can leave the page online. have a luck on the fruits
of your advice: http://tomasio.at

hrhm.. I meant "have a _look_".

Nov 11 '06 #5

Gus Richter

tomasio wrote:

On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:42:28 +0100, tomasio <da****@jan.etw rote:

>Hi Ben and Gus!

Thank you a lot for your helpful input. I finally managed to fix this
display bug and can leave the page online. have a luck on the fruits
of your advice: http://tomasio.at
hrhm.. I meant "have a _look_".

I still think that the faint yellow hurts my eyes, but in any case:
/* Des bringts. */

--
Gus

Nov 12 '06 #6

tomasio

On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:08:18 -0500, Gus Richter
<gu********@net scape.netwrote:

>tomasio wrote:
>On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:42:28 +0100, tomasio <da****@jan.etw rote:

>>Hi Ben and Gus!

Thank you a lot for your helpful input. I finally managed to fix this
display bug and can leave the page online. have a luck on the fruits
of your advice: http://tomasio.at
hrhm.. I meant "have a _look_".

I still think that the faint yellow hurts my eyes, but in any case:
/* Des bringts. */

Danke, Gus!

In the meanwhile I put up the complete homepage. Maybe I will change
the yellow sometimes, too ; )

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