Design Groups wrote:
> Why can't clients be smart, like you all on this list?  Why?

Luckily, with patience, we can make some of them smarter. ;-) But you 
have to pick your battles.

>
>>> Sure. Just give each <li> a width. :-)<<
>
> And this is where I prove that I'm not as smart as you all.  I read 
> this and went "DUH".
>
>>> I see that you've switched to a table for that nav bar, <<
>
> Actually, the thing I posted was an example of what I wanted it to do 
> - not what it's doing.  The actual site is just a list of <a> tags, 
> set to display:inline...I've been trying to avoid the table issue like 
> the plague. I wasn't putting them in a list (which is why I didn't 
> think of the li width thing), because they aren't dropdowns - just 
> single links.  But I'm going to run off and make it a list and see if 
> I can't get this thing to work right.

If you need to set widths on the list items, then float them instead of 
making them inline. Inline is best for horizontal lists where you want 
the width of the content itself to determine the widths of the list items.

Zoe

-- 
Zoe M. Gillenwater
Design Services Manager
UNC Highway Safety Research Center
http://www.hsrc.unc.edu


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