If there's anyone that can help, I'd appreciate any suggestions with this issue: I created my site with an elastic layout, using all measurements in ems. However, the layout gets distorted when a user zooms in or out. The nav bar gets completely messed up, and on firefox when the option "zoom text only" is checked off, the entire site gets messed up.
Anyone have any idea what can be the problem? The url to the site is www.newstylesignsusa.com
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Jump to PostUse percentages, not ems (except as max-width or min-width).
Jump to PostTry adding min-width: 1000px to your body style rule. That might be a quick fix, but you should look into using some percentages instead of ems.
Here is a great site with …
Jump to PostThe 1000px min-width had no effect. Any other suggestions? Which elements should I change to percentages?
Hmmm it did when I tried it.
Did you replace the width:100%; on the body tag with min-width: 1000px;? I just tried it again and it works. When I resize the browser and …
Jump to PostYou do not, indeed cannot, know the width of your viewers' browser windows.
One viewer may have a window that it 20 ems wide; another may be 100 ems.
If you want to have 5 objects side by side across the entire browser window, you need to give …
Jump to PostThats why a standard practice is to design pages around 960 or 1024 that will accomodate MOST browsers and users screen resolutions.
Of course you can set your page to be 100% of whatever the users screen is set at, but if you dont design whats INSIDE that 100% …
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