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Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 10/06/00 11:42
Damien Cymbal wrote:
> I've stripped this down from a larger page to make it as simple as
> possible. The relevant bits are supposed to represent a sort of context
> menu down the left hand side of the page. When I render this on IE and
> Opera and then shrink the browser window width, the strings in the menu
> display ok. When I render it in Firefox/Safari/Epiphany/Konqueror the
> strings start to overflow/overlap and just become a jumbled mess as I
> squeeze the window. Is there a cross-platform way to achieve the IE
> behavior?
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
1) Your in quirks mode!
> .menu li a
> {
> padding: 0 0 0 0.25em;
> display:block;
> height:1.5em;
^^^^^
2) you set the height for your links and and make them block elements
so I'd say Firefox and Safari
> text-decoration: none;
> background-color: #9E9EA2;
> color: #FFFFFF;
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Take care,
Jonathan
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