Michiel van der Blonk wrote:

>>Thomas Peklak [edit francky: must be: francky][/edit]wrote:
>>Happily, it goes straight forward with relative widths.
>>See testpage: 
>>http://home.tiscali.nl/developerscorner/css-discuss/liquidfish.htm 
>>No more problem!
>>
>>    
>>
> I beg to differ. The request was for a non-specified width, not a 
> relative width, and there are certainly situations in which you need 
> this. I had a similar situation with a menu that became too wide 
> because of the number of elements. Luckily there was no CMS, but in 
> case there was, and the menu could change, there's no way in telling 
> the width beforehand, and a really dynamic stretching of individual 
> elements is needed. This I have yet to see using CSS and no tables. In 
> fact, I haven't ever seen it done using tables, since even the width 
> of a table cell is either specified or relative to the table width 
> (i.e. percentage).
>
> I have seen an almost solution in this list a while ago, using 
> display:table-cell, but it's a single horizontal nav-bar, and that 
> doesn't mean it works in the suckerfish menus. Another one can be 
> found here http://dev.l-c-n.com/inline-block/inline-list.php (btw: 
> Philippe , shouldn't it be 'moz', not 'mox'?)
>
> Michiel

Indeed, now I read this, I should have said: "No more problem?" instead 
of "No more problem!". Thanks for correcting!
I tried the "really dynamic stretching of individual elements" in a 2nd 
testpage 
<http://home.tiscali.nl/developerscorner/css-discuss/liquidfish2.htm>. 
Mwoah!
francky

Off topic / translation in Dutch:
"Klerepietjes, geen flauw idee dat dit ook nog aan de hand kon zijn!"

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