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Posted by Adrienne on 06/03/05 19:27
Gazing into my crystal ball I observed dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au>
writing in news:BEC62704.12330%dorayme@optusnet.com.au:
>> From: Adrienne <arbpen2003@sbcglobal.net>
>
>> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "KiwiBrian"
>> <briantoz@ihug.co.nz> writing in news:d7oj46$bo9$1@lust.ihug.co.nz:
>>
>>> On my page at http://www.hibiscuslink.co.nz/rbsl/ when viewed in IE6
>>> there is a desired dark brown border surrounding the horizontal menu.
>>> When viewed in FF the border seems to only be displayed above the
>>> menu instead of surrounding it.
>>> I would love to know the reson why, and how to make the border
>>> display the same in both browsers.
>>> All CSS is embedded and/or inline.
>>> Brian Tozer
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Give #navcontainer ul height and you will have your border.
>
> But what height? In pixels like width? In em? In %? It looks ok at a
> guessed px height, true.
The OP is free to use whatever unit of height suits. When I was
experimenting I used 2ems.
>
> But it all breaks down when changing browser font sizes. And rather
> dramatically where the rect border can be outside the links altogether.
> Is there some fundamental reason to use tables? Yes? Fine! Then why
> mess about with all this stuff of divs within and fancy css? If you are
> going to code according to the idea of separating style from content
> and run this difficult river, then do so without tables and then the
> disadvantages of having it break down a bit at least can be balanced.
> If you use tables anyway, you don't need these headaches. You don't
> need inline this, and margins that, display this and lists for so
> simple a menu if you are going to use table cells anyway.
Agreed.
>
> These remarks are directed to the OP, in case there is any
> misunderstanding...
I knew that, and agree with it.
--
Adrienne Boswell
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