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Posted by dorayme on 11/04/07 23:32
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<1194183406.413725.111200@z9g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
Ciaran <cronoklee@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, thanks for the replies on this. The way I've done it in the
> past is to group the elements into smaller categorised lists and float
> them left. As Dorayme mentioned earlier, I would arrange the lists
> shortest to longest to avoid ugly wrapping problems. The problem is,
> this technique only works when the order of the lists is not
> important.
>
> Another method I've used is Adrienne's solution of getting the total
> items and divide them up based on the space available. The problem is,
> it's messy to code and doesn't really cater for various screen
> resolutions.
>
> In my current case, I'd like to keep the lists in the original order
> where possible. I know there's no quick solution but I do this sort of
> stuff so often, I would be great to find any answer to the problem!
>
> I may as well give you the url I'm working on - It's a bit of a mess
> at the moment as I have the lists floated left and the containers they
> are in are shrinking to default height.
>
> http://www.scouttalk.ie/0pages/libraryindex.php
> Cheers
> Ciarαn
You will have read all the suggestions, you will appreciate the
messing about you could go to to get 'close to' your original
goal. But frankly, consider seriously not bothering and saving
yourself a lot of work and a lot of problems. Just have your
lists in one columns that needs to be 'linked into' or 'scrolled
through' or 'keyboard paged downed to'. In another column, you
can have other useful things, *especially* a menu that will be
visible when the page opens to link to the various lists you have
below under the headings: Song books, Ghost, Games etc.
Instead of battering away at a fixed idea of a layout and trying
to solve all the problems with that, question the idea itself and
think of things on the whole. In this case, consider seriously
the above suggestion and avoid yourself the headaches. I believe
your viewers would be advantaged on the whole too.
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dorayme
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