Sent by Eric A. Meyer on 22 December 2002 12:12
At 21:08 +0000 12/21/02, Alex Robinson wrote:
>However the tabs shown are dependent on the size of the text within them.
>Is there any way of getting the tabs to be a fixed size? In effect, is
>there a way of using css to set the width of an element within another
>element that has its display set to inline?
'width' doesn't apply to inline elements, and neither does
'height', as per CSS2.1:10.3.1
(http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html#q4). IE4/Win and IE5/Win
did improperly apply those properties to inlines, and IE6/Win will do
the same when in quirks mode. In standards mode, it won't, and
neither will other browsers.
Note that CSS2.1 introduces a new 'display' type called
'inline-block'
(http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#propdef-display) that allows
for an inline box to be treated sort of like a block-level element,
but without the "line breaks" to before and after. Unfortunately
browser support for inline blocks is not the best right now, so
relying on them is dicey.
--
Eric A. Meyer (http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone
"CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously."
-- Martina Kosloff (http://www.mako4css.com/)
