Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 03/11/06 03:24

Damien Sawyer wrote:
> um...duh.
>
> From my original post....
>
> "Can someone please point me in the direction of a workaround?"
>
> It's really annoying when people respond to newsgroups questions to which
> they don't know the answer... :-(
<snip>

Top posters are also annoying because is jumbles the flow of the
conversation.

> "Neredbojias" <invalid@neredbojias.com> wrote in message
> news:MPG.1e7ac407c7473cc09897fc@news.isp.com...
>
>>With neither quill nor qualm, damiensawyer@yahoo.com.au quothed:
>>
>>
>>>I need it to be full width with less text for page layout and
>>>formatting.
>>>
>>>I would like to have a panel that displays at full width whether there
>>>is text in it or not. Sometimes there will be, sometimes there won't
>>>be. Surely the layout of the form/page shouldn't change if there is no
>>>text in it?
>>>
>>>
>>>>A url would help. Almost certainly, the solution to your real problem
>>>>is simple.

A URL can be helpful because some folks who are having problems and ask
questions not only do not know the answer but also may may know what to
include in their 'code example' and can make it difficult to locate the
problem

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>>Ie6 doesn't handle the following correctly:
>>
>> position:absolute;
>> left:100px;
>> right:10px;
>>
>>You need a workaround.
>>

Maybe what Neredbojias meant here is not so much of a 'workaround' but a
'rethinking of your strategy'. Of course it would help to understand the
purpose of this pixel-precision layout. You may have to let it hang and
what for the Redmond boys to follow the specs or do something different.
Remember it is a webpage not a magazine page.

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Take care,

Jonathan
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