Floats cause just about the most cross-browser hassle I've come across yet.
Here's whats bugging me now;

When you have two block elements floating next to each other in a resizable
area, you shrink the window and eventually Right-Hand block gets shoved
under left.

Here it's the user/pass form and table next to it.
http://www.websitefoundry.co.uk/emos/second.html

Is there a way to stop this collapse and hang them side-by-side or just
plain no?

Cheers.

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dE|_ wrote:

> Here it's the user/pass form and table next to it.
> http://www.websitefoundry.co.uk/emos/second.html
>
> Is there a way to stop this collapse and hang them side-by-side or just
> plain no?

The problem is that 400px min-width isn't wide enough. 500px works.


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"Els" wrote...
> dE|_ wrote:
>
>> Here it's the user/pass form and table next to it.
>> http://www.websitefoundry.co.uk/emos/second.html
>>
>> Is there a way to stop this collapse and hang them side-by-side or just
>> plain no?
>
> The problem is that 400px min-width isn't wide enough. 500px works.

Yeah I've done that on 'third draft' but I dont want to rely on sizing like
that because the content will be different in each container. I can't put an
inline style on each tag because they'll be database generated each visit.

I really need the classed forms/tables to support themselves, but I'm
starting to think it is simply the nature of floating that they slip under
eachother and I can't over-ride it.

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dE|_ wrote:

> I really need the classed forms/tables to support themselves, but I'm
> starting to think it is simply the nature of floating that they slip under
> eachother and I can't over-ride it.

Well, there is of course the two-celled table row, and I've never seen
one cell go below the other, in any situation at all...
With regard to the flexibility of the page though, you may prefer the
stacking to having a table row sticking out of a page that is too
narrow for it. (and in IE6 that would even be worse - the whole
content column would then drop below the nav column).

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"Els" wrote...
>
>> I really need the classed forms/tables to support themselves, but I'm
>> starting to think it is simply the nature of floating that they slip
>> under
>> eachother and I can't over-ride it.
>
> Well, there is of course the two-celled table row, and I've never seen
> one cell go below the other, in any situation at all...

Looks like that would have to be the man here, but I have been brought in
specifically to take tables out of the page structure in every possible
area, make it CSS based and stretchy instead.

> With regard to the flexibility of the page though, you may prefer the
> stacking to having a table row sticking out of a page that is too
> narrow for it. (and in IE6 that would even be worse - the whole
> content column would then drop below the nav column).

I'm not sure what you mean, but I'm sure I'll bump into it.

Thanks for your input.

-dE|_---