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Re: Suggestion on navtowith, please
- From: damar at netvigator dot com
- To: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:06:29 +0800 (HKT)
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Suggestion on navtowith, please
Hi,
Thanks.
In the comment of novtowidth, it is specifically said that it is in pixel.
And in <xsl:attribute-set name="table.properties">, replacing 100% with
749 for the value of name="width" seems like interpreted as 749 pixel.
Further comments on this would be highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Damar
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Bob Stayton wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street
> Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060
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>
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