Posted by mvbart on 12/20/06 03:35

Thanks for your reply. Abslute positioning is now in 2b. My mistake. In
working with the files, I got the names confused and uploaded two with
relative positions. Let me work with your suggestions. Appreciate your help.

Michael

dorayme wrote:
> In article <45888eb0$0$17201$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>,
> "Michael Bartos" <mvbart@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
>
>
>>I have a web page in two versions of the same page. One uses absolute
>>positioning and the other relative positioning.
>>Both work very nicely in IE 6 but I'm having trouble with both in Firefox
>>and Netscape 7. It's the same problem for each version,
>>#container3, the main body of the web page doesn't "fit" correctly into its
>>slot in Firefox and Netscape.
>>
>
>
> Nor in Safari...
>
>
>>http://www.panamphoenix.com/index2b.htm
>>
>>and http://www.panamphoenix.com/index2c.htm
>
>
> Which one uses absolute?
>
> Use a validator and fix up the things it mentions, especially the
> doc type.
>
> I was able to fiddle with your dims to make it look "nice" in FF
> over a small range of font-sizes but then it breaks. These
> "fixed" size designs are quite brittle.
>
> Don't use mm for dims on borders for web sites.
>

[Back to original message]