Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 07/16/06 12:56

Klaus Cammin wrote:
> Hallo Jonathan N. Little,
>
> Jonathan N. Little schrieb:
>> Do you mean the caption text for each flag or do you mean some other
>> text that follows the flag and caption DIVs?
>
> No, I don't mean "text orphans", but "element orphans".
> Well, here is a pic: http://www.klaca.de/orphans.gif
>
> It's IE who does that, with Mozilla Firefox your way looks fine.

1) Floating to the right is a bit odd. Most folks read from right to left.

2) IE, which is almost always a problem, may need you so set a height
for the floated block. It also has the benefit of keeping a consistent
'grid' look to the rows. I would adjust the height that would work to
accommodate the longest caption. I think you need to read up on CSS

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/cover.html

and practice a little bit first and get a handle on what certain
properties do.


>
>> No I meant among all the suggestions of how to create your captioned
>> thumbs which one are you test now...a URL will show us.
>
> Sorry for not understanding, already got dizzy with the whole crap.
> I uploaded it already, so you may use the URLs I posted before.
>
> http://home.pages.at/klaca/INDEX_EN.HTM
> http://home.pages.at/klaca/flaggen.css /* here are the CSS declarations */
>
> Nothing seems to work right, already thinking of giving up and return to my
> Tables. :-(

Might be best for you. Your current method has a problem with long
captions like "Islamic Federal Republic of the Comoros". But for the
record, what you wish to to can be done without relying on tables.

>
>> Windows is not case sensitive, but most
>> webservers on the Internet are therefore AFGHANIS.GIF and afghanis.gif
>> would not be the same file, nor Afghanis.gif.
>
> Yeah, I know, I tripped into that trap several times. :-(
> Cursing all along why a change did not take effect and then discovered that
> always the mispelled file was accessed ... With me at home everything was
> fine. ;-(
>
>> I would get in the habit of being constant with case of your
>> filenames and paths...
>
> Too good an advice not to be followed. :-)

Most come around after wasting countless hours debugging a website only
to find a letter case error!

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Take care,

Jonathan
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