Got me beat...

K

KiwiBrian

On my page at http://www.hibiscuslink.co.nz/rbsl/ when viewed in IE6 there
is a desired dark brown border surrounding the horizontal menu.
When viewed in FF the border seems to only be displayed above the menu
instead of surrounding it.
I would love to know the reson why, and how to make the border display the
same in both browsers.
All CSS is embedded and/or inline.
Brian Tozer
 
A

Adrienne

On my page at http://www.hibiscuslink.co.nz/rbsl/ when viewed in IE6
there is a desired dark brown border surrounding the horizontal menu.
When viewed in FF the border seems to only be displayed above the menu
instead of surrounding it.
I would love to know the reson why, and how to make the border display
the same in both browsers.
All CSS is embedded and/or inline.
Brian Tozer

Give #navcontainer ul height and you will have your border.
 
K

KiwiBrian

Give #navcontainer ul height and you will have your border.

Thanks so much Adrienne.
The first time I have come across that particular gotcha.
Brian.
 
D

dorayme

From: Adrienne said:
Give #navcontainer ul height and you will have your border.

But what height? In pixels like width? In em? In %? It looks ok at a guessed
px height, true.

But it all breaks down when changing browser font sizes. And rather
dramatically where the rect border can be outside the links altogether. Is
there some fundamental reason to use tables? Yes? Fine! Then why mess about
with all this stuff of divs within and fancy css? If you are going to code
according to the idea of separating style from content and run this
difficult river, then do so without tables and then the disadvantages of
having it break down a bit at least can be balanced. If you use tables
anyway, you don't need these headaches. You don't need inline this, and
margins that, display this and lists for so simple a menu if you are going
to use table cells anyway.

These remarks are directed to the OP, in case there is any
misunderstanding...

dorayme
 
A

Adrienne

But what height? In pixels like width? In em? In %? It looks ok at a
guessed px height, true.

The OP is free to use whatever unit of height suits. When I was
experimenting I used 2ems.
But it all breaks down when changing browser font sizes. And rather
dramatically where the rect border can be outside the links altogether.
Is there some fundamental reason to use tables? Yes? Fine! Then why
mess about with all this stuff of divs within and fancy css? If you are
going to code according to the idea of separating style from content
and run this difficult river, then do so without tables and then the
disadvantages of having it break down a bit at least can be balanced.
If you use tables anyway, you don't need these headaches. You don't
need inline this, and margins that, display this and lists for so
simple a menu if you are going to use table cells anyway.
Agreed.


These remarks are directed to the OP, in case there is any
misunderstanding...

I knew that, and agree with it.
 

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