Sent by Tribou, Eric on 24 February 2003 14:02
"fluid center" sounds like an advertisement for a new candy.
http://webhost.bridgew.edu/etribou/layouts/3col_footer_02/
Been futzin with this for a while. Backwards compatible to version 4 is the
goal and right now things just degrade "okay" in IE 4 but look pretty good
in Netscape 4. A bunch of hacks in the CSS, but I guess that's to be
expected.
Anyways, I'm looking for two things from those who check the layout. First
is compatibility issues. I know IE 4 has a case of double-borders between
columns as things don't line-up right. Are there any other awkward layout
bugs that anyone can find?
The other is suggested fixes for the border problem. The borders do not
carry down all the way if the right-hand column is longest. The border
problem occurs because of how I cheat to get the borders to carry all the
way down. I have each column generating a border then I overlap the two so
the longest one will carry down. In a two column layout this works great.
(see: http://webhost.bridgew.edu/etribou/layouts/2col_footer_04/)
In a three column layout, it doesn't work and I don't think this approach
can work. This is something I'm trying to work on, but if anyone has any
suggestions I'm all ears.
Cheers,
-Eric
