Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 01/12/08 01:31

NvrBst wrote:
> On Jan 11, 4:26 pm, "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4...@centralva.net>
> wrote:
>> NvrBst wrote:
>>> Ahh. Problem with the min-width would be my that it creates a vertical
>>> scroll (size of the largest width in *Data1*), when 99% of the time
>>> *Data1* is small -> would have to set it dynamically each time the
>>> data in *Data1* changes so that the scroll bar doesn't appear when its
>>> not needed (more work than its worth).
>> Why would a *vertical* scroll be created to the *width* of anything?!
>> From what you say and the meager scraps of what you show it seems that
>> you have no idea what you are doing...
>>
>>
>>
>>> The 3 table method, or the position absolute both work though so I'll
>>> fiddle around with those.
>> So I would say, most likely you are wrong and it *can* be done, but
>> since you are adamantly against providing a URL to what you are *trying*
>> to do...well good luck with that!

> LOL Typo. Horizontal Scroll Bar. If you want to see it yourself set
> the min-width to 200em and you'll see the scroll bar.

Of course! 200em is *extremely* wide! About 400 characters! Make is
smaller as I said in the comment in the CSS

<style type="text/css">
/* use 'em' adjust for min width without wrapping */
body { min-width: 20em; overflow: auto; }

Adjust the value to the min (minimum) needed to display without wrapping.

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Take care,

Jonathan
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