[Web4lib] Liquid Layout Problems

[Jonathan Bloy]

> Turner, Tiffany wrote:
>> I am attempting to use CSS exclusively...  and tried many
>>  techniques (e.g., using ems and playing with the margins and
>>  padding and using relative positioning) to no avail.
>>  The URL for the page is http://www.lib.utulsa.edu/testindex.htm
>>  and the CSS is http://www.lib.utulsa.edu/teststylish.css

Thomas Dowling wrote:
> Tables aren't bad, just frequently co-opted into jobs they weren't
> designed for.  They're still the appropriate markup for tabular data,
> and I'd say your four main "boxes" are legitimately a 2x2 table.

I don't mean to be a standardista, but doesn't tabular data have a
vertical and horizontal relationship?  I don't see how that information
is tabular.


Tiffany, I see both the markup and css do not validate:
<http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lib.utulsa
.edu%2Ftestindex.htm>

<http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css2&warning=2&uri
=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lib.utulsa.edu%2Ftestindex.htm>

Strange things can happen with invalid code.  You might want to fix the
errors and then see what the page looks like.

Also, I've had good luck using some of the templates at Position Is
Everything (in the Layout Demos section).
<http://www.positioniseverything.net/>

Good luck.

 - Jonathan

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Jonathan Bloy
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Edgewood College
Madison, Wisconsin
http://library.edgewood.edu/