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Posted by John Hosking on 09/05/07 14:25
Ralf wrote:
[without attributions AGAIN and with garbled quotes so cut it out]
> John Hosking wrote:
>> Ralf wrote:
>>> here's my URL: http://www3.telus.net/peaklong/test/intro.htm
>> IAC, have you tried taking away the width: 100%; from .content2?
> When I removed these declarations, all falls into place (even the bottom nav
> bar). what a learning curve.
Yes. It's easy to get tangled up in all the fiddly things one can do
with CSS, and lose sight of the bigger picture. I see a lot of pages
(mostly though these NGs) which are way overspecified. Simplify and improve.
> one further minor dilemma; in "cleaning up" my CSS, I removed the "negative
> padding" values for the paragraph declaration that had "snugged" the
> paragraphs a little closer together, as per my client's wish. How can I now
> go about shortening the spacing between paragraphs without resorting to a
> negative bottom margin or padding?
Well, I don't completely understand. I mean I don't understand why you
think you need negative margins when you haven't even tried zero values
yet. Here are your paragraph styles, with your crazy indents removed:
p.top-para { margin: 10px 0px 7px 0px;
padding: 0px; }
p.dent { text-indent: 2em;
margin: 10px 0px 7px 0px;
padding: 0px; }
Simply reduce the values for top- and bottom-margins from
margin: 10px 0px 7px 0px; to something like
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; (or, of course, margin:0;).
But having said that, I personally don't think the spacing between
paragraphs should be reduced at all. That's good spacing already, except
that it really ought to be in ems, not px. margin:.8em 0px .5em 0px; ?
And here's something I meant to include in a previous post, but forgot.
I don't see why you added the height: 40px; to the #header-graphic rule.
It used to fit nicely, but with the height specified (too small), the
header doesn't fit in its space. Simplify and improve.
>
> thanks all for your help ...
You're welcome. In future, please try to keep track of attributions and
quoted texts.
--
John
Pondering the value of the UIP: http://improve-usenet.org/
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