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Re: Suggestion on navtowith, please
I believe width values in HTML <table> and <td>
permit either % or no unit, and no unit is taken
to mean pixels.
Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street
Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060
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On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 03:06:29PM +0800, damar@netvigator.com wrote:
> 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
> > Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796
> > The SCO Group fax: (831) 429-1887
> > email: bobs@sco.com
> >
> >
>
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Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street
Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796
The SCO Group fax: (831) 429-1887
email: bobs@sco.com