I've created a layout for an Ajax side that is "single paged" in that
when the browser is resized, so is the page. The header is locked to
the top, the right panel is locked to the right side and the footer is
locked to the bottom leaving the main content area as a scrollable
resiable area in the centre of the window. This works as expected in
FF, Opera, IE7, but not in IE6.
the problem with IE6 is that positioning using left and right and/or
top and bottom doesn't work. You can use left with top/bottom and
right with top/bottom, which is crap.
A working version can be viewed here: http://codedump.archangeli.co.uk.
BTW, It's a PHP page which handles the XHTML stuff in the header.
Now, is there a way to force IE6 to handle this correctly? Possibly by
using JavaScript to set the width and height of the divs when the
browser window changes? This I don't mind as long as I can still have
the divs where I want and any effects on them doesn't cause any
problems?
I've searched for the entire day looking for answers only to find
nothing, so this is my last hope. I've posted the source below for
people to peruse.
Thanks,
Luke.
<?php
if ((stristr($_SER VER['HTTP_ACCEPT'],"applicatio n/xhtml+xml"))||
(stristr($_SERV ER['HTTP_USER_AGEN T'],"Validator" ))) {
header("Content-type: application/xhtml+xml");
echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>\n";
}
else {
header("Content-type: text/html");
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Test</title>
<link rel="stylesheet " type="text/css" href="styles.cs s"/>
<script src="scripts/js/mootools.v1.00. js" type="text/javascript"/
><script type="text/javascript">
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container" >
<div id="header">
Header
</div>
<div id="menu">
<div class="menuitem ">
Home
</div>
<div class="menuitem ">
Ada
</div>
<div class="menuitem ">
C++
</div>
</div>
<div id="columns">
<div id="client">
Client area
</div>
<div id="adverts">
Adverts area
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer">
Footer
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
@charset "UTF-8";
body {
font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: normal;
margin: 0px;
color: #ffffff;
}
#container {
position: absolute;
top: 10px;
bottom: 10px;
left: 10px;
right: 10px;
background-color: #ffbb55;
}
#header {
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
height: 100px;
background-color: #00bb55;
}
#menu {
position: absolute;
top: 100px;
left: 0px;
right: 0px;
height: 30px;
font-weight: bold;
padding: 2px;
background-color: #550000;
}
..menuitem {
text-align: center;
float: left;
width: 50px;
/* height: 28px;*/
/* height: 100%;*/
border: 1px solid white;
}
#columns {
position: absolute;
top: 134px;
bottom: 30px;
left: 0px;
right: 0px;
background-color: #44ff44;
}
#client {
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
right: 150px;
bottom: 0px;
height: 100%;
overflow: auto;
background-color: #009944;
}
#adverts {
position: absolute;
width: 150px;
height: 100%;
right: 0px;
overflow: auto;
background-color: #006699;
}
#footer {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0px;
width: 100%;
height: 30px;
background-color: #883300;
}
