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Re: Suggestion on navtowith, please
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 10:20:49PM +0800, damar thapa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This list was great help to me in creating my home page; thanks to all.
>
> One more issue came up with my site ie the width of the side menu.
> Seeing <xsl:param name="navtowidth">220</xsl:param> in param.xsl, I
> inserted a image of 220 pixel long at the left side of the header to
> align its edge (image's edge) with the edge of left menu beneath it. It
> worked fine, but not for all menu items. When I choose some items, the
> length of navtowidth goes crazy -- choosing some item produces more
> than 220, while others shorter than that. Some browsers are better than
> others (Mozilla-1.0 is better than netscape4.77, for example).
>
> Can some one on the list point me to right direction, please? Is it
> browser issue? CSS issue or some thing I have to do on xsl?
The tabular pages use an HTML table to lay out the webpages
as a one-row two-column table. The left column is the
navigational list, and the rest of the webpage content is
in the right column. The navtocwidth value is inserted as
a 'width' attribute in the left table cell element <TD>.
Since HTML tables are dynamically formatted, I think the
browser uses 'width' as a suggestion, rather than a fixed
value. The other content can affect the final width of
columns as they are drawn on the screen. And as you found,
different browsers handle it differently. I don't know
how you can control a column width absolutely in HTML
for all browsers.
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