Posted by Bergamot on 07/20/07 21:50

Sean wrote:
>
> The basic idea with the two DIVs is that
> they are setup side-by-side and the one on the right is a fixed width
> with the CSS overflow property set to auto.

I've seen this attempted before, but it never works. It's too dependent
on maintaining the fake table row alignment, which can get horked very
quickly once the user changes their text and/or browser window size, or
even uses a different font. Zoom text up just a little and the delicate
alignment is broken, making the whole thing unusable. I should also
mention that the structure would be illogical if CSS (and/or JavaScript,
if that were part of it) were disabled.

I'm glad to hear you abandoned the idea, but hope whatever you decided
to do instead doesn't have those issues.

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Berg

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