Posted by dorayme on 04/18/06 02:30

In article <r2koxcqgm02g.1xyoc815yjtzm.dlg@40tude.net>,
Els <els.aNOSPAM@tiscali.nl> wrote:

> dorayme wrote:
>
> [IE not coping with too wide fixed width objects in fluid width
> column]

> I don't use JavaScript, but I do give IE a min-width, using IE's own
> proprietary script stuff in the CSS file:
> http://www.svendtofte.com/code/max_width_in_ie/
>

Yes, this looks good, I will study this. Presumably you give
ordinary min-width for all the compliant browsers (as I often do)
and add the proprietary scripts (which are ignored, I take it, by
other browsers) for the elephant to behave.

> > There are various techniques discussed at
> > http://www.clagnut.com/blog/268/
>
> I'll read up on that one later, thanks :-)
>
> > Anyway, what are the methods you folks tend to prefer...
>
> I combine smaller images and min-widths on pages, but the real problem
> occurs when building a CMS site for a client. You don't know
> beforehand what size stuff the client is gonna put on the page.

Yes, I see, what a headache this would be...

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dorayme

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