Sent by Rijk van Geijtenbeek on 9 July 2004 11:11
On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 10:00:32 +0100, Nic Rodgers
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> Unfortunately, when I switch from absolute (px) to relative (em) units I am
> having trouble with the containing width idea.
>
> Each list item has a width; padding; and left & right border.
>
> See my example at http://www.clockerz.net/~nic/listswidth.html
>
> Mozilla seems to display it perfectly.
> Safari, IE, Opera etc. all show different results.
>
> Is this because em's work differently across browsers? This was my original
> understanding, which is why I was trying to go along the width-independent
> route of using the clear method to break after certain items.
Maybe rounding errors come into play? 8 x 0.1 em might be different
from 0.8 em. If I set the width of the UL to 49em, it works as
expected in Opera.
> Note that I need to align the list to the right of the document (I'm using
> float) and so setting the width of the nav to anything wider than it should
> be results in an unacceptable border from the right edge.
It would depend a bit on the colors and layout whether that would be ugly.
--
Rijk, testing his gmail account
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