Layers and ntscape

[Stuart]

Concerning <div> type layers

I have a page where text is wrote into a layer with a coloured background.
In IE if there is too much text for the size of the layer, the layer's hight
automatically adjusts to accomadte the text. In Netscape if there is too
much text, the text appears to come off the layer, wether this is due to the
layer not changing size or the background colour not expanding with the
layer I am not sure.

Is there a way to get the overall hieght of the text so as I can expand the
layer?
stuart

[David Dorward]

Stuart wrote:

I have a page where text is wrote into a layer with a coloured background.
In IE if there is too much text for the size of the layer, the layer's
hight automatically adjusts to accomadte the text. In Netscape
Netscape what? The very buggy 4.x series? The rather buggy 6.x series? Or
the pretty good 7.x series?
if there is too much text, the text appears to come off the layer, wether
this is due to the layer not changing size or the background colour not
expanding with the layer I am not sure.

Have you specified a height for the element? If so, this is a bug in IE.
"height" means "height" not "minimum height".

Use a hack along the lines of:

#element {
height: 20em; /* for the benefit of IE */
}

html>body #element {
height: auto; /* for the benefit of */
min-height: 20em; /* good web browsers */
}

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[Stuart]

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Stuart wrote:

I have a page where text is wrote into a layer with a coloured background. In IE if there is too much text for the size of the layer, the layer's
hight automatically adjusts to accomadte the text. In Netscape

Netscape what? The very buggy 4.x series? The rather buggy 6.x series? Or
the pretty good 7.x series?

if there is too much text, the text appears to come off the layer, wether this is due to the layer not changing size or the background colour not
expanding with the layer I am not sure.

Have you specified a height for the element? If so, this is a bug in IE.
"height" means "height" not "minimum height".

Use a hack along the lines of:

#element {
height: 20em; /* for the benefit of IE */
}

html>body #element {
height: auto; /* for the benefit of */
min-height: 20em; /* good web browsers */
}

--
David Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/>

height: auto; min-height: 20px;

Brilliant..........thank you