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 Posted by dorayme on 04/09/07 04:56 
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<AEiSh.19700$PL.9488@newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net>, 
 "BootNic" <bootnic@bounce.earthlink.net> wrote: 
 
> > dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote: 
> > news: doraymeRidThis-3F37C7.12262309042007@news-vip.optusnet.com.au 
> [snip] 
> > Righto, I have now incorporated Bootnic's js into the design 
> > because it looked promising on Bootnic's url in Window IE. When I 
> > adapted it to my designs, it played up a bit with scroll bars 
> > mysteriously appearing at the bottom of the window but in 
> > addition to chrome ones in Safari. So I deleted the bits to do 
> > with overflow. I have no idea yet whether this has now mucked up 
> > its big saving grace for me, ie, working in Windows IE. This I 
> > have not tested. But it seems fine to me in all my Mac browsers. 
> > Mac IE is unfazed and ignores the centering js code. That's ok, 
> > at least it floats things right. 
>  
> Does not work in win IE 5 either, its the margin auto thing. 
>  
> If you're not using a border the it should be fine without the overflow, 
> or you could change it to hidden to remove the scroll bars. 
>  
> > But, interestingly enough, at least for me, was that it did not 
> > at all seem difficult to maintain or adapt. If you go to: 
> >  
> > http://tinyurl.com/2a434t 
> >  
> > you can see the efforts. The actual linked js has not been 
> > changed from page to page (there are three pages to demonstrate 
> > different format thumbnails and can be gotten to by the very 
> > bottom link on the above url). 
> >  
> > I would appreciate it to know if these pages look problmatic in 
> > IE on Windows 6 or 7. I can test on 6 later. 
>  
> You need to give #wrapper a border-width, can be 0, but it has to be 
> set to a number in px to avoid an error and script failure. With out being 
> set, IE sends Medium, which returns NaN and mucks up everything. 
>  
> alert(parseInt('Medium')) 
>  
> Give #wrapper a small padding, say 3px, without the padding at my  
> full screen (1280X800) IE 7 gives a horizontal scroll bar and hides just a  
> bit of it to the right. 
>  
> With them two items added to the css, it works fine on winxp sp2 IE 6, 
> IE 7, FireFox, Opera and SeaMonkey. 
 
OK, thanks, what about now that I have added: 
 
#wrapper {border: 1px solid #fff; padding:3px;} 
 
to the css? Can the border be simply border:0 or do "px" have to  
be mentioned for these popular browsers? 
 
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dorayme
 
  
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