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Making a div with relative width?

Sent by Asle Ommundsen on 28 April 2006 13:01


* Gunlaug Sørtun:

>> Asle Ommundsen:
>> <p>Hjelp til å bygge den største katalogen på nettet redigert av
>> mennesker.</p>

> (Noen setter seg høye mål... :-) )

Hehe. Det er ikke mine personlige mål, det er dmoz.org sine mål. ;-)

>> Asle Ommundsen:
>> [..] Is it possible to make the width relative to the content of the
>> div so I don't have to specify any width any more? That is what I
>> want to do.

> The proper way to do it is to make that div imitate a table. That's not
> a problem in standard-compliant browsers, by adding...
>
> div.attribution {width: auto; display: table;}

Thank you! I have just finished testing it, and it works very well.

> However, IE/win doesn't understand 'display: table', so a width is
> needed for that browser, like the one you have...

That's not a problem, I have a hack that work for both IE6 and IE7.

It will take some time before we update the website, but I can post a link  
here when it is done.

Thanks!

-- 
Asle Ommundsen
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