Acceptable behavior of left column in two column layout

[chris ciotti]

Greetings -

After having received some feedback and some reading I reset a page using a
"liquid" two column design. I am curious to know what the proper behavior of
the left column is when the page is squeezed down. On Windows systems, IE6
"drops" it down while Firefox 1.0 squeezes everything together. The Win
Firefox behavior is also observed on my Mac (OS X 10.3.7) using Omniweb 5.1,
Opera 7 and Safari 1.

On the windows system, if I set the res down to 800x600, the column is
dropped out (full screen - 19in LCD) but begins to come back as I change res
and viewport size.

What is supposed to happen and what should /ideally/ happen? The page is
here: http://www.stereo-link.com/Test/Static/1200Desc.html and the
stylesheet here: http://www.stereo-link.com/Test/CSS/site-main.css

Thanks,

chris

[theo]

After having received some feedback and some reading I reset a page using a "liquid" two column design. I am curious to know what the proper behavior

of

Hi,
Go either all px or all % on your dimensions. Unable to resize, your
graphics are
causing things to wrap and wrap and wrap, all the way down...............to
where there
is enough room.

me

[theo]

"theo" <th**@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:gd********************@eatel.net...

After having received some feedback and some reading I reset a page

using a

"liquid" two column design. I am curious to know

http://wholives.com/temp/cssr.htm is very liquid, except for the graphic.
Shrink the window to nothing, any resolution, and nothing hardly wraps. I
didn't bother with the graphic, but could set it a % too, to resize.
me

[chris ciotti]

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 16:55:33 -0500, theo wrote
(in article <_v********************@eatel.net>):

"theo" <th**@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:gd********************@eatel.net...

After having received some feedback and some reading I reset a page

using

a

"liquid" two column design. I am curious to know

http://wholives.com/temp/cssr.htm is very liquid, except for the graphic.
Shrink the window to nothing, any resolution, and nothing hardly wraps. I
didn't bother with the graphic, but could set it a % too, to resize.
me

Thanks theo.

--chris

[Richard]

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 09:44:57 -0500 chris ciotti wrote:

Greetings - After having received some feedback and some reading I reset a page
using a
"liquid" two column design. I am curious to know what the proper
behavior of
the left column is when the page is squeezed down. On Windows systems,
IE6
"drops" it down while Firefox 1.0 squeezes everything together. The
Win
Firefox behavior is also observed on my Mac (OS X 10.3.7) using Omniweb
5.1,
Opera 7 and Safari 1. On the windows system, if I set the res down to 800x600, the column is
dropped out (full screen - 19in LCD) but begins to come back as I
change res
and viewport size. What is supposed to happen and what should /ideally/ happen? The page
is
here: http://www.stereo-link.com/Test/Static/1200Desc.html and the
stylesheet here: http://www.stereo-link.com/Test/CSS/site-main.css Thanks, chris

If you use a container division for the entire layout, the inner divisions
will not collapse.

[Uncle Pirate]

chris ciotti wrote:

On the windows system, if I set the res down to 800x600, the column is
dropped out (full screen - 19in LCD) but begins to come back as I change res
and viewport size.

What is supposed to happen and what should /ideally/ happen? The page is
here: http://www.stereo-link.com/Test/Static/1200Desc.html and the
stylesheet here: http://www.stereo-link.com/Test/CSS/site-main.css

This is why I eventually changed to float both columns left rather than
try left-right as you are doing. You'll need a different method to get
your central margin, you can set padding in one or both for that.

Also, your margin:auto doesn't do anything AFAIK when the element is
floated.

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[chris ciotti]

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 20:06:11 -0500, Richard wrote
(in article <cv*********@news4.newsguy.com>):

here: http://www.stereo-link.com/Test/Static/1200Desc.html and the
stylesheet here: http://www.stereo-link.com/Test/CSS/site-main.css

Thanks,

chris

If you use a container division for the entire layout, the inner divisions
will not collapse.

Thanks for the info. I'd tried that like so:
#container {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
}

and no luck.

--chris

[Steve Pugh]

chris ciotti <ch**********@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 20:06:11 -0500, Richard wrote
(in article <cv*********@news4.newsguy.com>):

here: http://www.stereo-link.com/Test/Static/1200Desc.html and the
stylesheet here: http://www.stereo-link.com/Test/CSS/site-main.css

If you use a container division for the entire layout, the inner divisions
will not collapse.

Thanks for the info. I'd tried that like so:
#container {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
}

and no luck.

Richard is an idiot. Ignore everything he says. For his suggestion to
work you would need to specify a fixed width for the container which
defeats the flexibility of your design.

Steve

--
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I never answer letters and you don't like my tie." - The Doctor

Steve Pugh <st***@pugh.net> <http://steve.pugh.net/>

[chris ciotti]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:43:37 -0500, Steve Pugh wrote
(in article <mn********************************@4ax.com>):

Thanks for the info. I'd tried that like so:
#container {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
}

and no luck.

Richard is an idiot. Ignore everything he says. For his suggestion to
work you would need to specify a fixed width for the container which
defeats the flexibility of your design.

Steve

I figured as much -- thanks for both bits of info.

--chris