Christian Heilmann wrote: >>... what is causing the annoying horizontal jumping when you mouse over >>the links to song lyrics on this page? >>http://www.rockfind.com/little_river_band/ >>Not my site, I just came upon it and was wondering ... >>I've only looked at it in FF 1.5 for Linux. > > The first thing to learn would be to use a subject that make sense > even when you don't know the content of the email. Imagine someone > looking in the archives for "links jumping on hover" - it'll be so > much easier to find the thread if that were the subject and not a > cryptic nothing like this here.
Thanks for the suggestion, I changed the subject so at least THIS note will be more readily findable in the archives. > The cause is that he uses bold on hover and normal style for links. > Then he uses all of those in a table without any measurements. Bold > text takes more space than normal weight text, this is why the width > of the table column changes when you hover over the links - and that > makes the whole lot shift around. > > So the learning is: If you use bold for hover, fix the size of the > containing element, too, else it'll expand and contract and give a > jumpy impression. Ah, ha! I was sitting there trying to figure out why hovering over something on the left side made the item on the right shift - didn't think of a table column's ability to automatically resize based on content. I've been so used to specifying widths for table columns, I never thought that someone might have left it out! -- David [EMAIL PROTECTED] authenticity, honesty, community ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
