A new html learner is here. Please help.
I write a two column web page. Their widths are both fixed.
The left one is a menu and the right one is mainly for content
display. I pasted a few lines as the following:
#leftcolumn{
background-color: white;
clear: left;
width: 176px;
margin-left: 3px;
margin-right: 3px;
float: left;
margin-top: 3px;
}
#rightcolumn{
background-color: transparent;
width: 560px;
float: left;
overflow: auto;
border-left: 1px solid #C3C3C3;
padding-left: 10px;
padding-right: 10px;
margin-top: 6px;
padding-bottom: 1em;
}
The web page is correct when the browser's window is wide enough;
it behaves incorrectly when the window is narrow. That is say the
right column automatically flushes to underneath the left column.
What property can be specified to lock the right column?
Thank you very much,
May 31 '07
13  2174 
David C. Stone wrote:
In article <5c************ *@mid.individua l.net>, Bergamot
<be******@visi. comwrote:
JD wrote:
>
If successful
websites are using fixed-width layouts, you can be pretty confident that
it doesn't send too many visitors away screaming.
Consider also that these big web sites, like BBC, are often successful
in spite of their sites, not because of them. Name recognition goes a
long way in tolerating a lousy site.
Yes, definitely. I hate the way the width of the page never expands
when you zoom the text size so you can actually read the stupid page...
I can mostly understand designers wanting to avoid having everything
horribly squished if the user makes the window too narrow, but why would
you not want your text content to be able to make the best use possible
of a window which is actually wider than 800 pixels, especially if the
user might very well want to enlarge the text size?
You'd think with the increasing number of boomers getting shortsighted
with age that some senior managers somewhere would actually be insisting
on this...
Well yes but.... It's not really the managers job to know what works
in a particular situation when it comes to items such as website
creation, although it does not help matters when the managers are
shown eather a print out of the website, or in the case of a number of
designers, they show the client an image of what the site will look
like in a PSD file.
--
Regards Chad. http://freewebdesign.awardspace.biz
In article <11************ **********@a26g 2000pre.googleg roups.com>,
Chaddy2222 <sp************ ***********@yah oo.com.auwrote:
David C. Stone wrote:
[snip]
I can mostly understand designers wanting to avoid having everything
horribly squished if the user makes the window too narrow, but why would
you not want your text content to be able to make the best use possible
of a window which is actually wider than 800 pixels, especially if the
user might very well want to enlarge the text size?
You'd think with the increasing number of boomers getting shortsighted
with age that some senior managers somewhere would actually be insisting
on this...
Well yes but.... It's not really the managers job to know what works
in a particular situation when it comes to items such as website
creation, although it does not help matters when the managers are
shown eather a print out of the website, or in the case of a number of
designers, they show the client an image of what the site will look
like in a PSD file.
Ah yes, I've run into that a couple of times: the "web site"
printed in glorious technicolour on nice, big pieces of paper.
But when you actually go and try to USE the stupid thing...
Chaddy2222 wrote:
David C. Stone wrote:
>In article <5c************ *@mid.individua l.net>, Bergamot
<be******@visi .comwrote:
>>JD wrote:
If successful
websites are using fixed-width layouts, you can be pretty confident that
it doesn't send too many visitors away screaming.
Consider also that these big web sites, like BBC, are often successful
in spite of their sites, not because of them. Name recognition goes a
long way in tolerating a lousy site.
Yes, definitely. I hate the way the width of the page never expands
when you zoom the text size so you can actually read the stupid page...
I can mostly understand designers wanting to avoid having everything
horribly squished if the user makes the window too narrow, but why would
you not want your text content to be able to make the best use possible
of a window which is actually wider than 800 pixels, especially if the
user might very well want to enlarge the text size?
You'd think with the increasing number of boomers getting shortsighted
with age that some senior managers somewhere would actually be insisting
on this...
Well yes but.... It's not really the managers job to know what works
in a particular situation when it comes to items such as website
creation, although it does not help matters when the managers are
shown eather a print out of the website, or in the case of a number of
designers, they show the client an image of what the site will look
like in a PSD file.
The manager who authorizes the work to be done and approves paying for
it must have some responsibility for the results.
Although my <http://www.rossde.com/internet/Webdevelopers.h tmlappears
to be a rant against Web developers who fail to adhere to standards, it
is actually targeted towards managers who arrange for Web pages to be
developed. That is why I explain HTML, CSS, etc in layman's terms and
why I discuss standards in the context of a busness's audience.
--
David E. Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>.
Don't ask "Why is there road rage?" Instead, ask
"Why NOT Road Rage?" or "Why Is There No Such
Thing as Fast Enough?"
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