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Good day,
I took the plunge and broke away from doing lay-out with tables and decided to experiment with layers. My coding has gone well and I like the results - except for one thing.
Can anyone offer a good resource for appropriate design techniques if a user decides to increase the size of the text in their browser?
I have this nice looking web page and everything goes to crap if it gets resized. Searches I have executed in Google don't seem to deal with the issue. The closest I have come to a solution is "...know your audience and plan for a size they will accept to begin with."
Thanks in advance.
I took the plunge and broke away from doing lay-out with tables and decided to experiment with layers. My coding has gone well and I like the results - except for one thing.
Can anyone offer a good resource for appropriate design techniques if a user decides to increase the size of the text in their browser?
I have this nice looking web page and everything goes to crap if it gets resized. Searches I have executed in Google don't seem to deal with the issue. The closest I have come to a solution is "...know your audience and plan for a size they will accept to begin with."
Thanks in advance.
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Try a search on google on
CSS Liquid Layouts.
I do not have much idea about that. But it is possible.
CSS Liquid Layouts.
I do not have much idea about that. But it is possible.
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Thanks for the idea on search terms.
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Is it possible to use div tags, using relative positioning, to have two columns so that the top line of two blocks line up?
I'm coding an online version of a c.v. Using a table scheme, I could achieve this with coding a row like this:
This would display the time served at a company in a new column, lining up with the top line of the first column.
In CSS I have the following code:
The desired result is 67% of what I want. The years display one line below the information provided in the description instead of at the top, but to the right where I want it.
I don't think positioning with absolutes is viable because the height of the blocks for describing a job will vary on the left. As well, there is text above this area that would make coding absolutes very difficult to achieve.
I'm coding an online version of a c.v. Using a table scheme, I could achieve this with coding a row like this:
html Syntax (Toggle Plain Text)
This would display the time served at a company in a new column, lining up with the top line of the first column.
In CSS I have the following code:
HTML Syntax (Toggle Plain Text)
The desired result is 67% of what I want. The years display one line below the information provided in the description instead of at the top, but to the right where I want it.
I don't think positioning with absolutes is viable because the height of the blocks for describing a job will vary on the left. As well, there is text above this area that would make coding absolutes very difficult to achieve.
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are you displaying tabular information ?
it very much looks like it.
one thing is tables are NOT bad. But are simply bad when using them for entirely different purposes than they were created for.
If you have tabular data use tables.
it very much looks like it.
one thing is tables are NOT bad. But are simply bad when using them for entirely different purposes than they were created for.
If you have tabular data use tables.
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Originally Posted by Fungus1487 
are you displaying tabular information ?
it very much looks like it.
one thing is tables are NOT bad. But are simply bad when using them for entirely different purposes than they were created for.
If you have tabular data use tables.
I think you need to look at my message again. Yes, I have table data in the message as an example of how I would code in tables what I am trying to achieve with CSS. I want to know if there is a way to achieve the same results using CSS.
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well i am almost certain you cant use relative positioning with the technique you are using but i have frequently used the opening div as a placeholder for inner relative elements.
E.g if you move your css into an outer div and wrap what you already have. (without moving the position:relative information) you get.
im still not 100% sure what your after. Hopefully that helps.
E.g if you move your css into an outer div and wrap what you already have. (without moving the position:relative information) you get.
<div style="float:right;width:20%;"> <div style="position:relative;background-color:blue;left:0px;top:5px;z-index:4;"> <p class="yrs">yyyy - yyyy</p> </div> </div> <div style="width: auto;margin-right:20%;"> <div style="position:relative;background-color:blue;left:0px;top:0px;z-index: 4"> <p class="c5">Company</p> <p class="c4">Job Title</p> <p class="c4">Description. (This can be quite long and is a key factor for making the height automatic since</p> </div> </div>
im still not 100% sure what your after. Hopefully that helps.
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