[Thunar-dev] Fallback website

Fri Sep 9 12:59:36 CEST 2005

Jannis Pohlmann wrote:

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>>I'm just about finished the new layout pages using NO TABLES. I'm trying 
>>to choose the minimum web page width to minimize ugly overlap of page 
>>elements when the browser window is narrowed. Just out of curiosity why 
>>does the page have to fit into an 890x670 firefox window?  To set one 
>>mimimum width across all elements I have placed the entire <body> 
>></body> in a #container element. If I set the minimum width for this 
>>container to 890px will that be about right?
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>Don't use fixed sizes (px). It's almost as ugly as tables layouts.
>Instead, try using % and em.
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Jannis,

I have used the same layout and elements as before but entriely in a CSS 
file. The problem I have is this. The navigational sidebar is on the 
right side of the page and set to 20%. It contains some links. Benedikt 
doesn't like the links to wrap when the browser window is narrowed. If 
the links wrap there is no problem. If the sidebar's white-space is set 
to nowrap, the links don't wrap but this creates an alignment/painting 
problem. As the window in narrowed the page's elements decrease in width 
because they are set to: main area 80% and sidebar 20%, but the links 
don't wrap so they extend off the far right hand side of the sidebar 
exposing a different colored background, which just happens to be white. 
The right hand side of the page has 3 different colors that are the 
colors of the header and footer, the top navagational bar and the 
sidebar. So I can't just fudge it by picking one color. If I put the 
entire body in a container element and set the minimum width to 890 the 
page still looks good because the horizontal scrollbar appears before 
the sidebar links poke out off the right hand edge of the page exposing 
the background color.

What to do?
Jeff.