Tom Lancaster wrote:

> I've already lost a weekend to this problem, so I'm going to put it out 
> there in the hope that someone has encountered and slain this dragon 
> before, or failing that, can tell me why it's not a dragon, but only a 
> rabbit.

Its a rabbit with sharp claws.

> I've got one page (
> http://newhanoian.com/bars.php ) that still uses tables for layout, and 
> another ( http://newhanoian.com/details.php ) in construction that uses 
> CSS for both layout and for its top menu.
> 
> Both pages are using the same CSS definitions for the menu system, but 
> on the first, if you mouseover "Things to Do," you will see that "Opera 
> House & Theatres" correctly wraps. On the second it doesn't, and 
> stretches the bounding <li> and <ul> boxes.
> 
> Again the thing that baffles me is that it wraps appropriately on the 
> tables page using the same CSS definitions.

You are not linking smallads.css to the tables version, but to the 
second. So in effect, this rule

td, a, th     { white-space:nowrap; }

does only trigger the problem you've encountered on the tableless page.


-- 
http://www.satzansatz.de/css.html
______________________________________________________________________
css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d
List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/
Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/

Reply via email to