Re: positioning problems

> 
> http://www.town.pelham.on.ca/council/council.htm
> exhibits some unusual positioning problems
> 1] The text in the right column of the table bleed into the
> left column. The left column is my navigation sidebar and 
> set to a specfic width in style  th {width:100px}   or so.
> The right column is what is left of a 780px width page....
> Tested on many browsers msie, opera, net4, gecko engine
> and all others did expeted. Amaya 6.1 (win98 binary) bleeds
> text into navbar background....
> Some other pages do not bleed but the clerk's page DOES.
> One common construct to offending pages seems to be 
> unordered lists .... may be pointer to where problem is.

I guess margins and paddings are not handled correctly by the table
formatter. We'll have a look at that problem.

> 
> 2] unusual positioning of bullet markers when a list is 
> aligned centered. This problem was reported several versions
> ago but not touched yet.  This 'real' page shows issue.

We know but we didn't find a satisfying solution yet.
Don't forget that sometimes things are harder to implement in an 
authoring tool than in a browser.

> John Russell, VE3LL@RAC.CA
> http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3ll (2 L's as in London)
> Be sure to check your HTML markup code by using
> http://validator.w3.org or
> http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/
> 
> 

Received on Monday, 17 June 2002 03:23:56 UTC