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Are you a proponent of floating elements in your Web page designs? What are the benefits? What are the drawbacks?
simple, if your code isn't tweaked for ie =6, you get really bad layout issues with floats.
mozilla / netscape / gecko browsers have also had issues with layout around floating elements. the newer versions do address the issues.
the benefits, you can have advertisements in floating divs, if they are appropriate for the site, making them much easier to position for effect.
mozilla / netscape / gecko browsers have also had issues with layout around floating elements. the newer versions do address the issues.
the benefits, you can have advertisements in floating divs, if they are appropriate for the site, making them much easier to position for effect.
use fixed and float to generate site navigation positioning.
Stu Nicholls has two excellent demonstrations, including navigation links of variable lengths
floating fixed menu, transparent background so content scrolls UNDER it.
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/layouts/fixed.html
the floating left menu, both fixed width and variable width:
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/centered.html
Stu Nicholls has two excellent demonstrations, including navigation links of variable lengths
floating fixed menu, transparent background so content scrolls UNDER it.
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/layouts/fixed.html
the floating left menu, both fixed width and variable width:
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/centered.html
I believe this is one of the ideas behind CSS, but in my humble experience, the reality is that currently browsers support CSS very differently. Still, it is great for seperating layout from content, and hopefully browsers will follow the standards in the future.
I'd almost given up on Javascript and Css years ago, because of the incompatibility with different browsers. I blame the "Browser Wars" for the inconvenience. I never chose sides though. Instead I chose the "middle way" explained in Buddist Philosophy. Alot of good that did me ! Trying to code for a dozen different browsers is sometimes frustrating, as well as time consuming. I'm still waiting for Wars to end, or at least some Treaty or alliance among the combatants.
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