Posted by richard d on 12/08/06 10:03

Thanks for the suggestion but it didn't work I'm afraid.

I think this is a sizing issue more than a positioning one.

The problem is that the serif font is taller than the mono font, even
though they are the same font-size, so the enclosing backgrounds are a
different size and don't match up when placed side by side (or one
inside the other).

One possibility could be to manually draw background boxes but I would
have to be able to determine how big to make them by somehow or another
finding out the size of a particular font on whatever browser it was
that I was running on.

Richard

Jonathan N. Little wrote:
> richard d wrote:
> > No, I need them next to each other, with the background boxes lined up.
> >
>
> Float the first DIV left. See
> http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#propdef-float
>
> --
> Take care,
>
> Jonathan
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