Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 07/15/06 18:18

Klaus Cammin wrote:
> HI Jonathan,
>
> Jonathan N. Little schrieb:
>>> produces 'Schusterjungen'.
>> What is 'Schusterjungen'????
>
> Orphans. There are window sizes in which the browser creates lines with only
> 1 or 2 elements, then a normal line again. This looks not good. The elements
> should wind like a snake through the available space and use as much line
> space as possible.

Well you have only two options, use a table and predefine the number of
columns where if the window is too narrow you get a horizontal scrollbar
(no really nice) or if the window is wider you get blank space on the
right (typical of static width layouts that also looks bad). Or use DIVs
as discrete units that automatically adjust the number of 'columns' to
fit both various window dimensions and text sizes that under certain
combinations may leave one or two orphaned flag and caption on your
bottom row. Personally I believe the latter is a better option because
it is more in the spirit of how the web is supposed to work for the user.

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Take care,

Jonathan
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