- From: Ray Merrell <Ray.Merrell@IESA.Co.UK>
- Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 11:40:10 +0100
- To: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
http://www.alarmist.org/news/2000/03/census.html is ugly in IE because IE nonstandardly shrink-wraps the box at the top of the page. (It should be as wide as the viewport.) <snip> IE4 does extend the box to the width of the main text body (100% of the parent container, in this case 75% of the screen width). IE5 however, does not. I have read somewhere (http://www.siteexperts.com/dhtmllib/intro3.asp) that the default behavior for this sort of thing has caused problems with absolutely positioned elements obscuring active elements beneath them (the div in question is absolutely positioned with no specified width). Is this a deliberate change in thinking from Microsoft (for whatever reason), or is this just an IE5 bug? BTW, NSCommunicator 4.7 shrink wraps it as well. IMHO, with the padding of the body set like it is and the fact that the div is absolutely positioned to the left edge of the screen, it looks pants with a width that stretches 75% of the way across the screen. In this case, the best results are obtained with a shrink-wrapped div, or a specified width of 100% of the body regardless of padding. Regards. Ray.
Received on Thursday, 6 April 2000 06:43:39 UTC