[WEB4LIB] CSS layout quandry

Charles Yates ceyates at stanford.edu
Thu Nov 7 15:59:58 EST 2002


If the min-height property was recognized by IE, that would fix it for
you.  But I guess that is asking to much :( (it does work in Gecko)

Charles Yates
Lane Medical Library

On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 12:39, Jimmy Ghaphery wrote:
> Gentle readers,
> 
> I'm stuck on trying to create a CSS layout for dynamic content.
> 
> For now, I'm only dealing with three elements:
> navigation (aligned left)
> content (to the right)
> signature (at the bottom of the page--full width of page)
> 
> Here is as close as I can get:
> http://www.people.vcu.edu/~jghapher/css/test1.htm
> 
> My problem is that when the content is not as long as the navigation, my
> signature bleeds under the navigation:
> http://www.people.vcu.edu/~jghapher/css/test2.htm
> 
> Both pages use the same CSS:
> http://www.people.vcu.edu/~jghapher/css/tables.css
> 
> I have validated all of the examples in advance.
> 
> Ideally I would like to define each of these in such a way that I could
> change the entire look solely through CSS. For example, if next week I
> want the signature to go in an upper right hot pink box, no sweat.
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
> --Jimmy
> 
> -- 
> Jimmy Ghaphery
> VCU Libraries
> 
> Box 842033, 901 Park Ave, Richmond Va. 23284-2033
> phone: 804-828-1103 fax: 804-828-0151
> email: jsghaphe at vcu.edu
> 





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