Posted by Chris F.A. Johnson on 06/17/07 01:57

On 2007-06-17, Jon Slaughter wrote:
>
> A php comments app that I'm trying to finish up on is at
>
> http://www.abstractdissonance.com/PageComments.php
>
> I'm having trouble styling the divs so that I can fix the width of the
> comments but keep the right width justified instead of staggered as it is.
> (or atleast its staggered in FF but not in IE)

Like this? <http://woodbine-gerrard.com/testing/post.shtml>

> Right now I'm just trying to get the basic styling stuff worked out and will
> fix the other issues later. Just trying to get some idea of what I need to
> code to make it work(all the php/mysql stuff is finished luckily). (not
> worried about the source formatting at the moment so don't bitch that you
> can't read it)

Without being able to read it, it's hard to figure out what you
are doing.

> What I'd like to do is add some type of guides to the left of the messages
> sorta like in windows explorer for folders where there is the dotted lines
> that guide you to the nestings. Not sure if this is possible or not(atleast
> in an easy way)?
>
> Any other ideas to make it better would be appreciated too(I know the style
> that I'm presenting right now is not good but it was just something I put
> for now... I'll probably be adding a little graphical stuff to it to make it
> look better along with adding more formating to improve readablility. Right
> now I'm just trying to get over some of the major issues I'm having before I
> try to work on the superficial aspects).


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