Posted by Bone Ur on 11/04/07 18:16

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:32:29
GMT Jonathan N. Little scribed:

>> Hehe, I had to go back and re-read the original post because I forgot
>> the stated goal.
>>
>> The OP doesn't _really_ want columns at all; he wants floating divs
>> of equal width which "columnize" in an aligned manner filling more of
>> the horizontal area of the page. At least that's what I get from the
>> message, and doing it is possible with j/s (except maybe for ie.)
>> Knowing the viewport size beforehand isn't necessary though the
>> floats will have to be widthed (in ems) beforehand with care.
>>
>> The technique has been addressed before on the newsgroup. As I said,
>> though, this is what I glean from the first post. Maybe I missed
>> something in the interim.
>>
>
> You might be right. Hard to say now. Sometimes the OP's "root"
> questions is hard to decipher.
>
> If it is just floating blocks, then work out a value for the width in
> ems of the UL to accommodate the longest LI entry, if you do not want
> line wrapping, and float with margins to taste! Easy...no scripting at
> all required.

Arghh!! Yeah, I meant "...it is possible withOUT j/s..."

Floating blocks would probably suffices (again, according to the text of
the orig. post.)

--
Bone Ur

When I was a young man I learned that having sex with a woman is fun until
you either get caught or married.

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