On 7/21/06 3:00 PM, "Gunlaug Sørtun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Liz wrote:
> 
>> link http://www.liztestsite.com/testsite/test2.html
> 
>> Problem 1)
>> 
>> my left nav include which is a flyout menu ends up being behind the
>> content. It shows up but you can read the content through it.  I
>> tried giving it a high z index (10) hoping that would help but it
>> didn't.  I want the center column to come first for the search
>> engines.
> 
> Easiest solution, change 'z-index' on #middleColumn to 'z-index: 0;'.
> 
>> Problem 2)
> 
>> I don't want any border there (or on any part of this layout) but
>> when I take out the 1 px border I end up getting a much larger than 1
>> px space above it.  I'm too new to css to understand why this is
>> happening.  How can I get rid of the border without having this large
>> space.
> 
> You're experiencing the effect of 'collapsing margins'[1].
> 
> Try replacing top and bottom borders with 1px paddings, to avoid margins
> on elements inside the containers from collapsing through their top and
> bottom edges.
> 
> regards
> Georg
> 
> [1]http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/box.html#collapsing-margins

That fixed both problems! Thanks so much

Regards,

Liz



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